U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will reportedly meet with Russia's top diplomat Thursday to discuss the crisis in Syria, a day after sources confirmed to Fox News Syria's military has mixed chemical weapons and loaded them into bombs in preparation for possible use on President Assad's own people. The Associated Press reports the surprise meeting between Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and mediator Lakhdar Brahimi in Dublin confirms talk of an easing of some of the acrimony that's raged between Moscow and Washington over how to handle Syria's violence and suggests a compromise between the two may be attainable. A senior U.S. official told Fox News Wednesday that Syrian forces had loaded bombs with components of sarin gas, a deadly nerve gas. They have 60 days to use these bombs until the chemical mixture expires and has to be destroyed. The sarin could be delivered in several ways but is believed to have been placed in fracturable canisters that can be dropped from planes, according to a senior US military source. "We think they have it in aerosol form," the source told Fox News. The U.S. military is making contingency plans should Assad leave suddenly. Various Middle Eastern countries are trying to find a place to give Assad asylum, according to Middle Eastern diplomatic sources. In Brussels earlier Wednesday, Clinton reiterated concerns that "an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical weapons" or lose control of them to militant groups. A senior Damascus official is accusing the United States and Europe of using the issue of chemical weapons to justify a future military intervention against Syria. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad on Thursday accused the United States and Europe of using the issue of chemical weapons to justify a future military intervention against Syria. He said that any such intervention would be "catastrophic." Mekdad says Syria would never use chemical weapons -- even if it had them -- against its own people, calling it "suicide." He spoke in an interview with Lebanon's Al Manar TV.