The military had stormed 601 houses, seized 7 weapons storehouses, confiscated 203 vehicles and captured 10 tons of explosives, he said.
But such poisonous frogs have always been thought to be more weapons storehouses than factories, not synthesizing the toxic alkaloids but accumulating them from the insects they eat.
It says that the mosques it has destroyed were weapons storehouses and that the Islamic University, which it has hit repeatedly, housed explosives factories.
Military officials said the remote-controlled planes had identified Taliban fighters, monitored their weapons storehouses and their routes in and out of the area, and mapped where they were planting roadside bombs.
Should it strike Syria's chemical weapons storehouses, as it did a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, or would that strengthen Mr. Assad's hand by uniting the Arabs?
"Why all of a sudden do the sabers start to rattle?" The administration has, in fact, discussed whether to attack training camps, safe houses and weapons storehouses inside Iran that intelligence reports say are being used by the Quds Force to train fighters, according to two senior administration officials.
Blackwater personnel appear to have gone to exceptional lengths to obtain weapons from U.S. military weapons storehouses intended for use by the Afghan police.
However one feels about America's policy towards Syria, we should all agree that the carnage and death in Syria would be far, far worse if Syria's chemical weapons had remained in Assad's hands, or worse, fallen into Daesh's hands as they almost assuredly would have done as they overran numerous previous chemical weapons storehouses not long after the weapons were removed.
The hospital is under construction, and during the Americans' siege of the city, which lasted for most of April, it served as a storehouse for weapons, medical and food supplies, and sandbags.
Israel dropped leaflets warning Gazans to stay away from facilities used by Hamas to store weapons and accused Hamas of using civilians as human shields by setting up such storehouses in residential neighborhoods.
