President Bashar Assad’s regime has plans to use chemical weapons against its own people and has also considered transferring chemical weapons to Hizballah in Lebanon, the former head of Syria’s chemical arsenal told The Times, Ynet reported Wednesday, September 19. Major-General Adnan Sillu, who defected three months ago, was quoted by the British newspaper as saying on Tuesday that he had been party to top-level discussions about the deployment of chemical weapons against rebel fighters and civilians in Syria’s second largest city, Aleppo. General Sillu, who is now in Turkey, said Assad’s regime has also considered handing over chemical weapons to Hizballah. “It was for use against Israel, of course,” he told The Times. “Now, if they have nothing to lose why not share these weapons? If a war starts between Hizballah and Israel it will be only good for Syria.”