SYRIA Is Using Chemical Weapons On It's Own People......It Is The Next Theater Of Ops

[Hardrock69]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/01/report-state-department-believes-assad-used-chemical-weapons-syrian-people/61045/


In a leak that could signal a crossing of President Obama's "red line" on the increasingly deadly conflict in Syria, the State Department has investigated and concluded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his military forces used poison gas in a deadly attack on the city of Homs last month, Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin reported Tuesday evening. Rogin, whose State sources are rarely questioned on the Foggy Bottom beat, got his his scoop from classified department cables:

The cable, signed by the U.S. consul general in Istanbul, Scott Frederic Kilner, and sent to State Department headquarters in Washington last week, outlined the results of the consulate's investigation into reports from inside Syria that chemical weapons had been used in the city of Homs on Dec. 23.

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An Obama administration official who reviewed the document, which was classified at the "secret" level, detailed its contents to The Cable. "We can't definitely say 100 percent, but Syrian contacts made a compelling case that Agent 15 was used in Homs on Dec. 23," the official said.

That December 23 date is significant, because on Christmas Eve there were hazy reports from Syrian rebels that "poisonous materials" had been dropped on the Western city of Homs, near the Lebanese border. This State Department cable — and Rogin's reporting that the chemical was not Agent 15 or tear gas but definitely a chemical weapon — would seem to lend more credibility to those claims.

But big picture-wise, the chemical attack is very significant — President Obama has specifically said that the use of chemical and biological weapons would cross his "red line" in the region and perhaps affect American policy and involvement in the country. Obama stated on August 20:

We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.

Earlier Tuesday, Syrian rebels blamed Assad military jets for bombing Aleppo University, where upwards of 80 were feared dead.

[ELVIS]

And if anyone believes this, Softcock's mom has a room for rent...

[Hardrock69]

Pot
Kettle

Tin Foil

[ELVIS]

Tinfoil

Softcock

Mom's bedroom

[Hardrock69]

Tin Foil Trailer Trash

Nya Nya Nya

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[ELVIS]

Internet geek who can't embed a video says what ??

[BigBadBrian]

I think the Russians will have something to say about us getting directly involved in Syria.

[ELVIS]

Yeah, they will correctly point out that the CIA staged it!

[BigBadBrian]

Yeah, they will correctly point out that the CIA staged it!

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[Nickdfresh]

Curious that the mainstream media, that was all over the possibly use of chems, hasn't picked this up? Could it be.......bullshit?

[ELVIS]

So, if the Welfare State run media doesn't tell you about it, it's bullshit ??

[jhale667]

:rolleyes:

[Nickdfresh]

So, if the Welfare State run media doesn't tell you about it, it's bullshit ??

Well, it would kind of be retarded to imply the CIA was behind some "black op" to use chems in order to justify NATO involvment in Syria--and no one reports on it? right?

And if you paid attention to my post, dummy, you remember the "state run media" was all aflutter with WMD talk on Syria late last year. So why would they ignore it? Try making sense for once. The De-flourinated water you drink is actually making you more "special"...

[ELVIS]

So, you don't think the US government has it's hands in there meddling with the Syrian conflict ??

[FORD]

So, you don't think the US government has it's hands in there meddling with the Syrian conflict ??

I think that's over-simplifying it.

While it's obvious that NuttyYahoo desperately needs a PNAC puppet regime in Syria before he can get what he really wants - complete access to attack Iran - that doesn't make Assad any less of a flaming hemorrhoidal asshole.

I don't know what to do about Syria, honestly

[ELVIS]

Leave it alone...

[Nickdfresh]

So, you don't think the US government has it's hands in there meddling with the Syrian conflict ??

What do you mean? They've pretty much admitted the CIA was aiding some rebel groups, and trying to keep track of weapons...

[ELVIS]

Obama administration complicit in war crime ??


Paul Joseph Watson
January 28, 2013 (http://www.infowars.com/hack-reveals-washington-approved-plan-to-stage-chemical-weapons-attack-in-syria/)

Alleged hacked emails from defense contractor Britam reveal a plan “approved by Washington” and funded by Qatar to stage a chemical weapons attack in Syria and blame it on the Assad regime, fulfilling what the Obama administration has made clear is a “red line” that would mandate US military intervention.

The leaked emails, obtained by a hacker in Malaysia, feature an exchange between Britam Defence’s Business Development Director David Goulding and the company’s founder Philip Doughty;

Phil

We’ve got a new offer. It’s about Syria again. Qataris propose an attractive deal and swear that the idea is approved by Washington.

We’ll have to deliver a CW to Homs, a Soviet origin g-shell from Libya similar to those that Assad should have. They want us to deploy our Ukrainian personnel that should speak Russian and make a video record.
Frankly, I don’t think it’s a good idea but the sums proposed are enormous. Your opinion?
Kind regards

David

The fact that the plan involves delivering a CW (chemical weapon) that is “similar to those Assad should have,” clearly suggests that the idea is to stage a false flag chemical weapons attack that could be blamed on Assad by Gulf states like Qatar and NATO powers.

If the claim that such as plot was “approved by Washington” can be verified, then the Obama administration is complicit in a war crime.

According to Cyber War News, which details the process of how the emails were hacked and includes screenshots of the leaked documents, the hack also uncovered, “extremely personal information,” including copies of passports of Britam employees, some of whom appeared to be mercenaries.


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[LoungeMachine]

"approved by Washington"???

:gulp:

The fuck you say......

[ELVIS]

JERUSALEM (http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20130127_ap_israelwarnsofattackonsyrianchemicalwea pons.html) - Israel could launch a pre-emptive strike to stop Syria's chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah or al-Qaida inspired groups, officials said Sunday.

The warning came as the military moved a rocket defense system to a main northern city, and Israel's premier warned of dangers from both Syria and Iran.

Israel has long expressed concerns that Syrian President Bashar Assad, clinging to power during a 22-month civil war, could lose control over his chemical weapons.

Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom said Sunday that Israel's top security officials held a special meeting last week to discuss Syria's chemical weapons arsenal. The fact of the meeting, held the morning after a national election, had not been made public before.

Shalom told the Army Radio station that the transfer of weapons to violent groups, particularly the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah, would be a game changer.

"It would be crossing a line that would demand a different approach, including even action," he said. Asked whether this might mean a pre-emptive attack, he said: "We will have to make the decisions."

Israel has kept out of the civil war that has engulfed Syria and killed more than 60,000 people, but it is concerned that violence could spill over from its northern border into Israel.

Israel deployed its Iron Dome rocket defense system in the northern city of Haifa on Sunday. The city was battered by Hezbollah rocket fire during a war in the summer of 2006. The military called the deployment "routine."

Iron Dome, an Israel-developed system that shoots down incoming short-range rockets, was used to defend Israeli cities during a round of hostilities with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, on Israel's southern flank, last November.

Yisrael Hasson, a lawmaker and former deputy head of Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency, said Israel was closely following developments in Syria to make sure chemical weapons don't "fall into the wrong hands."

"Syria has a massive amount of chemical weapons, and if they fall into hands even more extreme than Syria like Hezbollah or global jihad groups it would completely transform the map of threats," Hasson told Army Radio.

"Global jihad" is the term Israel uses for forces influenced by al-Qaida. Syria's rebels include al-Qaida-allied groups.

Syria has rarely acknowledged possessing chemical weapons.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to threats from Syria and Iran at a Cabinet meeting Sunday. Iran is Syria's main regional ally.

"We must look around us, at what is happening in Iran and its proxies and at what is happening in other areas, with the deadly weapons in Syria, which is increasingly coming apart," he said.

Israel views Iran as an existential threat because of its nuclear and missile programs and support for violent anti-Israeli groups in Lebanon and Gaza, as well as repeated references by Iranian leaders to Israel's destruction. Iran denies it is seeking to build atomic weapons, insisting its nuclear program is for civilian purposes.

On Friday, Israeli Channel 2 TV broadcast an interview with a former Iranian diplomat who defected to the West in 2010. He warned that if Tehran gets nuclear weapons, it would use them against Israel. He did not provide evidence.

Part of Mohammad Reza Heydari's job was to draft foreign scientists to work on Tehran's nuclear program and he brought many from North Korea into Iran, the report said.



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[ELVIS]

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[Nickdfresh]

It's on the internetz, so it MUST be TRUE!!! Elvis, how can you be such a gullible dipshit?

[Kristy]

Not good enough. Let's bring Iran into this.

[FORD]

Not good enough. Let's bring Iran into this.

That is exactly what NuttyYahoo is doing. Everything that terrorist bastard does is about his sick obsession with Iran.