By Adnan Khan On Monday October 9th, the US Department of Defense confirmed that a team of US military planners were in Jordan in order to deal with Syria's chemical weapons. The team, led by special operations forces and comprising about 150 troops, mainly from the US army, is constructing a headquarters building in Amman from which operational planning and intelligence gathering will take place. " We have been working with Jordan for a period of time now ... on a number of the issues that have developed as a result of what's happened in Syria ," US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a news conference in Brussels. Panetta said those issues included monitoring chemical weapons sites " to determine how best to respond to any concerns in that area. "[1] Syria is not a signatory to either the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) or the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). As a result, Syria began developing chemical weapons in the 1970’s and mad
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