The US regime should be held accountable for falsely accusing the Assad regime and concealing intelligence that pointed to the culpability of foreign-backed jihadi death squads in Syria. Ample reporting and open source-evidence backs this up. #noimpunity
https://twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1429075990706331653
Sy Hersh reported in LRB that US intel knew that Syrian insurgents acquired sarin from Turkey; UK tests found Syrian gov't stockpile didn't match the sarin used in Ghouta; Al Qaeda had a sarin production cell. (lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/…) (lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/…)
MIT's Ted Postol and ex-UN inspector Richard Lloyd found that the range of the Ghouta rockets was outside of Syrian gov't-controlled territory. (nytimes.com/2013/12/29/wor…) (s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentclo…)
In Harpers, a former US ambassador to Mideast told Charles Glass that Obama's "‘red line’ was an open invitation to a false-flag operation."
Of course it was: for "rebels" fighting Assad, the red line gave them every incentive to trigger US intervention.
Of course it was: for "rebels" fighting Assad, the red line gave them every incentive to trigger US intervention.
Even Obama had to acknowledge that US intel on Ghouta was not "slam dunk" -- a deliberate choice of words, invoking Iraq WMDs. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
A recent open-source study traces the trajectories of the rockets in Ghouta back to one small area located within "rebel"-controlled territory. No one has refuted this study, because they can't. rootclaim-media.s3.amazonaws.com/syria2013evide…
The implausibility of a Syrian government chemical attack was so obvious that even mainstream sources had to acknowledge it, e.g.: dw.com/en/is-assad-to…
In Turkey, Al Qaeda members were caught acquiring sarin, which the government -- a major player in the Dirty War on Syria -- then covered up.
(counterpunch.org/2015/10/23/her…)
(latimes.com/world/worldnow…)
(belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-new…)
(counterpunch.org/2015/10/23/her…)
(latimes.com/world/worldnow…)
(belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-new…)
A UN investigator acknowledged that the "rebels" had used sarin gas in a previous attack: reuters.com/article/us-syr…
And of course, when the OPCW, for the first time, got a mission on the ground to investigate an alleged chemical attack in Douma 2018, they found no evidence of regime guilt, and ample evidence that it was staged. Unfortunately, their probe was covered up under US pressure.
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