(Reuters) Dan Williams - Israel believes Syria has retained caches of combat-ready chemical weapons after giving up raw materials used to produce such munitions, a senior Israeli official said Thursday. Summarizing Israeli intelligence estimates that were previously not disclosed to avoid undermining the Syrians' surrender of their declared chemical arsenal, the official said they had kept some missile warheads, air-dropped bombs and rocket-propelled grenades primed with toxins like sarin. He said the Syrians maintained "a significant residual capability." "There are a number of questions here that still have to be clarified, still have to be looked at very closely" by international inspectors, the official said.
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