AlQa'dah 25, 1434, Oct 1, 2013, SPA -- An advance group of international inspectors arrived in Syria Tuesday to begin the task of overseeing the destruction of President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons program. Twenty inspectors crossed into Syria from neighboring Lebanon on their way to Damascus, to begin their mission of finding, dismantling, and ultimately destroying an estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal. The experts have about nine months to complete the task, which has been endorsed by a U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for Syria's chemical stockpile to be eliminated by mid-2014.
