Members of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons are starting the process of verifying and eliminating Syria's chemical weapons.<br/> <br />In Damascus, the group of experts was seen leaving their hotel in a convoy of United Nations vehicles.<br/> <br />This group arrived in the country on Tuesday in what has become a familiar scene for Syrians: another international organization coming to investigate the use of chemical weapons.<br/> <br />This mission is part of a U.S-Russian deal to remove and destroy around 1,000 tons of sarin, mustard and other nerve agents believed to be held in Syria.<br/> <br />Even without those weapons, Syrian parliamentarians say they believe the country has other means of defending itself.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SYRIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN, KHALED AL-ABBOUD, SAYING:<br/> <br />"In the last few years, I think that a new legal weapon has turned the scale and this weapon is not the chemical one that was used in a specific historic period. But now there is a new weapo
