Israeli interception of Syrian communiqué clears Assad of involvement
What role, if any, did Obama play in this deception, carried
out by the radicals he supports?
This false flag event was set up in Turkey days before Aug. 21, and our Intel knew all about it. If this is exposed in the next 7 to 10 days, Barry's goose will be cooked. [H/T Jerry in Los Angeles for sharingr this!]
Verify chemical weapons use before unleashing the dogs of war - (Then be sure you accuse the right people!)
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/verify-chemical-weapons-use-before-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war/
The Obama administration has selectively
used intelligence to justify military strikes on Syria, former military officers
with access to the original intelligence reports say, in a manner that goes far
beyond what critics charged the Bush administration of doing in the run-up to
the 2003 Iraq war.
According to these officers, who served in
top positions in the United States, Britain, France, Israel, and Jordan, a
Syrian military communication intercepted by Israel’s famed Unit 8200 electronic
intelligence outfit has been doctored so that it leads a reader to just the
opposite conclusion reached by the original report.
The doctored report was leaked to a
private Internet-based newsletter that boasts of close ties to the Israeli
intelligence community, and led to news reports that the United States now had
firm evidence showing that the Syrian government had ordered the chemical
weapons attack on August 21 against a rebel-controlled suburb of
Damascus.
The doctored report was picked up
on Israel’s
Channel 2 TV on
Aug. 24, then by Focus
magazine in Germany,
the Times of
Israel, and eventually
by The
Cable in
Washington, DC.
According to the doctored report, the
chemical attack was carried out by the 155th Brigade of the 4th Armored Division
of the Syrian Army, an elite unit commanded by Maher al-Assad, the president’s
brother.
However, the original communication intercepted by Unit
8200 between a major in command of the rocket troops assigned to the 155th
Brigade of the 4th Armored Division, and the general staff, shows just the
opposite.
The general staff officer asked the major
if he was responsible for the chemical weapons attack. From the tone of the
conversation, it was clear that “the Syrian general staff were out of their
minds with panic that an unauthorized strike had been launched by the 155th
Brigade in express defiance of their instructions,” the former officers
say.
According to the transcript of the original
Unit 8200 report, the major “hotly denied firing any of his missiles” and
invited the general staff to come and verify that all his weapons were
present.
The report contains a note at the end that
the major was interrogated by Syrian intelligence for three days, then returned
to command of his unit. “All of his weapons were accounted for,” the report
stated.
The New York Times
reported
this morning that the White House is now backing off its claims to have a
“smoking gun that directly links President Bashar al-Assad to the
attack.”
The new argument is more deductive: since
the Assad regime has chemical weapons and chemical weapons were used in
Mouadhamiya, therefore the Syrian regime must have been the ones to use
them.
But even that line of reasoning falls down
when confronted with evidence known to the U.S. intelligence community, and
presumably, to Congress.
An Egyptian intelligence report describes
a meeting in Turkey between military intelligence officials from Turkey and
Qatar and Syrian rebels. One of the participants states, “there will be a game changing event on
August 21st” that will “bring the U.S. into a bombing campaign” against the
Syrian regime.
The chemical weapons strike on Moudhamiya,
an area under rebel control, took place on August 21. “Egyptian military
intelligence insists it was a combined Turkish/Qatar/rebel false flag
operation,” said a source familiar with the report.
The White House has gone to great lengths
to shut down any independent investigation of the facts.
A UN inspection team was on the ground in
Damascus on August 21 when the Moudhamiya attack occurred, where they were
awaiting authorization from the Syrian government to visit sites of earlier
alleged chemical weapons attacks.
Once word of Moudhamiya broke and the
inspectors announced they planned to refocus their investigation on the fresh
attack rather than the earlier ones, the White House was telling the UN to back
off from gathering the facts.
According
to Monday’s Wall
Street Journal, a senior administration official called UN Secretary
General Ban Ki Moon before the inspectors ever left Damascus, “telling him the
inspection mission was pointless and no longer safe.”
The inspectors attempted to visit
Mouadhamiya on Monday to examine victims, but were turned back by
sniper fire in the no man’s land between government and rebel positions on the
outskirts of Damascus. After replacing their bullet-ridden armored car, they
inspectors drove into Mouadhamiya for a hurried inspection of victims presented
to them by rebel forces.
But even that inspection turned out to be
inconclusive, which may be why the Obama White House didn’t want it to
proceed.
The UN Special Envoy for Syria, Lakhdar
Brahimi, was circumspect in speaking to reporters yesterday on what the
inspectors had actually found on the ground.
“With
what has happened on the 21st of August last week, it does seem that some kind
of substance was used that killed a lot of people: hundreds, definitely more
than a hundred, some people say 300, some people say 600, maybe 1,000, maybe
more than 1,000 people,” Brahimi said.
But he would not say that the substance was the deadly nerve agent Sarin, or describe how it was delivered.
But he would not say that the substance was the deadly nerve agent Sarin, or describe how it was delivered.
Earlier inspections by the United Nations
were also inconclusive. In May, a member of the United Nations commission
investigating chemical weapons in Syria said there was “strong, concrete
suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof” that sarin gas had been used in
Syria against civilians.
“What appeared from our investigation was
that it was used by the opponents, by the rebels,” said Carla DelPonte, a former
Swiss Attorney General and prosecutor with the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia.
“I was a little bit stupefied by the first
indications we got … they were about the use of nerve gas by the opposition,”
she
added.
Agents provacateurs are
as old as warfare itself. What better than a false flag attack, staged by al
Qaeda and its al Nusra front allies in Syria, to drag the United States into a
war?
The brutality of the Syrian regime’s
assault on its own people is indefensible. But given the inevitable backlash
from Iran and the possibility of spillover into Israel, we should gather the
facts before unleashing the dogs of
war. Israeli interception of Syrian communiqué clears
Assad of involvement
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