Gas poison attack in Syria was staged

[hater]

But a number of intelligence sources have made contradictory assessments, saying the preponderance of evidence suggests that Al Qaeda-affiliated rebels were at fault, either by orchestrating an intentional release of a chemical agent as a provocation or by possessing containers of poison gas that ruptured during a conventional bombing raid.

One intelligence source told me that the most likely scenario was a staged event by the rebels intended to force Trump to reverse a policy, announced only days earlier, that the U.S. government would no longer seek “regime change” in Syria and would focus on attacking the common enemy, Islamic terror groups that represent the core of the rebel forces.

White House Infighting

In this telling, the earlier ouster of retired Gen. Michael Flynn as national security adviser and this week’s removal of Bannon from the National Security Council were key steps in the reassertion of neocon influence inside the Trump presidency. The strange personalities and ideological extremism of Flynn and Bannon made their ousters easier, but they were obstacles that the neocons wanted removed.

If changing the narrative was Trump’s goal, it achieved some initial success with several of Trump’s fiercest neocon critics, such as neocon Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, praising the missile strike, as did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The neocons and Israel have long sought “regime change” in Damascus even if the ouster of Assad might lead to a victory by Islamic extremists associated with Al Qaeda and/or the Islamic State.

Wagging the Dog

Trump employing a “wag the dog” strategy, in which he highlights his leadership on an international crisis to divert attention from domestic political problems, is reminiscent of President Bill Clinton’s decision to attack Serbia in 1999 as impeachment clouds were building around his sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky.

Similarly, now, Assad’s military has gained a decisive advantage over the rebels and he had just scored a major diplomatic victory with the Trump administration’s announcement that the U.S. was no longer seeking “regime change” in Syria. The savvy Assad would know that a chemical weapon attack now would likely result in U.S. retaliation and jeopardize the gains that his military has achieved with Russian and Iranian help.

The counter-argument to this logic – made by The New York Times and other neocon-oriented news outlets – essentially maintains that Assad is a crazed barbarian who was testing out his newfound position of strength by baiting President Trump. Of course, if that were the case, it would have made sense that Assad would have boasted of his act, rather than deny it.

But logic and respect for facts no longer prevail inside Official Washington, nor inside the mainstream U.S. news media.


https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/07/trumps-wag-the-dog-moment/

[hater]

We've been fooled :wow

[Quadzilla99]

Good to know

[Quadzilla99]

Thanks for tipping me to consortium news to. Looks like a great site.

[MultiTroll]

I think I'm going to have a piece of apple pie.

[hater]

Thanks for tipping me to consortium news to. Looks like a great site.

Welcome homie

Robert Parry he uncoverred Iran Contra scandal

Dude is a GOAT

[Clipper Nation]

http://i.imgur.com/NRNVo7V.jpg

[Reck]

And thus, another TSA level conspiracy is born. :lol

[mavsfan1000]

Fake news.

[hater]

:lmao Shitlery fans and Trump fans all united now :lol

Trump is a damn pimp :wow

[Quadzilla99]

Too much winning eh hater?

[Clipper Nation]

:lmao Shitlery fans and Trump fans all united now :lol

Trump is a damn pimp :wow
It's almost like functioning adults agree that conspiracy theories are retarded!

[hater]

It's almost like functioning adults agree that conspiracy theories are retarded!

Post proof to disprove my theory then.

Most likely scenario is as described by the writer as informed by Intelligence experts

Either this was a staged gas attack by rebels or it was a bombing of terrorist gas supply depot

[hater]

Too manh coincidences niggas

- bannon demotion
- days before Trump and his people said Assad could stay
- tiilerson was on his way to moscow
- the reaction of Trump and media was scripted
- NTY was just recanting from the 2013 gas attack reporting (was not assad after all)
- they didnt even send in an investigation team like they did in 2013 :lol. After any supposed chemical attack, international community sends in an investigation team. Where was the team this time?????

You might as well believe in the Easter bunny if you gonna believe Assad ordered a gas bombing tbqh

[hater]

Oh and just now Mark Levin the conservative radio host went on a 30 minute sermon he even pretended to tear up :lolabout doing whats moral and good and said Assad has been gassing his people for years :lol

This fat fuck is in the tank with the rest of the media

Its a Master Wag The Dog Job tbh

Props

Gotta respect the skills tbh. I guess Trump reality show experience is worth a lot

[clambake]

i like your style

[Pelicans78]

Too manh coincidences niggas

- bannon demotion
- days before Trump and his people said Assad could stay
- tiilerson was on his way to moscow
- the reaction of Trump and media was scripted
- NTY was just recanting from the 2013 gas attack reporting (was not assad after all)
- they didnt even send in an investigation team like they did in 2013 :lol. After any supposed chemical attack, international community sends in an investigation team. Where was the team this time?????

You might as well believe in the Easter bunny if you gonna believe Assad ordered a gas bombing tbqh

I agree that this served no purpose for Assad to do this. It only made his situation worse. I also wouldn't put it past a rogue general in his army ordering this attack. But I don't believe rebels would be capable of this.

[Pelicans78]

Trump employing a “wag the dog” strategy, in which he highlights his leadership on an international crisis to divert attention from domestic political problems, is reminiscent of President Bill Clinton’s decision to attack Serbia in 1999 as impeachment clouds were building around his sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky.

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/07/trumps-wag-the-dog-moment/

This quote is completely false. The Wag the Dog the theory applied after Clinton bombed Sudan and Afghanistan days after admitting to his affair in response to the attacks on the U.S embassy in Kenya and Tanzania.

[hater]

Both incidents were called wag the dog

Now which one should be more wag the dog than the other is moot

ow Clinton is toying with a more dangerous and costly scenario? intervention in the Serbian province of Kosovo to assist the ethnic Albanian majority in their efforts to gain Kosovo?s independence or autonomy. Bombing the Serbs, who have been portrayed as monsters who engaged in brutal ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and will do the same in Kosovo if they are not restrained, appears to be another no-win operation that will do nothing but enable the impeached President to pose as a bold, decisive leader.

[Adam Lambert]

gonna need tsas take on this one

[hater]

USAs sheeple population get FED lies and BS every day of their lives. They are so exceptional remember!!! Full of shit is more the truth, easy to BS and lie to, they suck-down crap, slop and propaganda like the chemical-laden sugary, fat, slop they call food

[Clipper Nation]

USAs sheeple population get FED lies and BS every day of their lives. They are so exceptional remember!!! Full of shit is more the truth, easy to BS and lie to, they suck-down crap, slop and propaganda like the chemical-laden sugary, fat, slop they call food
http://i.imgur.com/4yQnG3X.jpg

[Adam Lambert]

I'd bet it was a false flag.


you dont say

[SnakeBoy]

Post proof to disprove my theory then.

Most likely scenario is as described by the writer as informed by Intelligence experts

Either this was a staged gas attack by rebels or it was a bombing of terrorist gas supply depot

When Cosmored is agreeing with your theory, your theory has officially been disproved.

[Kim Jong-il]

USAs sheeple population get FED lies and BS every day of their lives. They are so exceptional remember!!! Full of shit is more the truth, easy to BS and lie to, they suck-down crap, slop and propaganda like the chemical-laden sugary, fat, slop they call food
https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder900/500x/73459900.jpg

[hater]

:lmao poster with the namenof Kim Jong is a globalist-neocon :lol

[Kim Jong-il]

:lmao poster with the namenof Kim Jong is a globalist-neocon :lol
No I really love conspiracy theories. They're usually so well thought out and reasoned.

Like the Popcorn vs Microwave industry beef. Why does every bag of microwave popcorn have a "do not use popcorn setting" warning? Did the Microwavers piss off some Big Popcorn executive? Is Big Popcorn in bed with Global Stovetops? Are the Microwavers purposely making the Popcorn setting shitty to punish Big Popcorn? Connect the dots and follow the money, that's all I'm sayin

[DMC]

USAs sheeple population get FED lies and BS every day of their lives. They are so exceptional remember!!! Full of shit is more the truth, easy to BS and lie to, they suck-down crap, slop and propaganda like the chemical-laden sugary, fat, slop they call food

The problem is that there are too many "whoduit" movies out where you have to guess the trick fuck, so you naturally look for it in everything. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[DMC]

No I really love conspiracy theories. They're usually so well thought out and reasoned.

Like the Popcorn vs Microwave industry beef. Why does every bag of microwave popcorn have a "do not use popcorn setting" warning? Did the Microwavers piss off some Big Popcorn executive? Is Big Popcorn in bed with Global Stovetops? Are the Microwavers purposely making the Popcorn setting shitty to punish Big Popcorn? Connect the dots and follow the money, that's all I'm sayin

And the hotdog vs bun manufacturers. Why do they not use the same number of buns per bag as hotdogs per pack? And why do we have so many problems? Don't we have technology? Just the other day I was reading about a plane crash in South America. Don't we have radar? Why are those still happening? Why isn't someone doing something about all the problems? We can get a man to the moon but we cannot get microwave popcorn to cook without burning. And all the deaths! We have laser surgery now, is anyone using it? Why are these new technology ideas just sitting around?

[hater]

:lol Bolivian ambassador trolls US with Cooin Powell 2003 picture :lol

https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_large/public/headlines/bolivia_un.jpeg?itok=oyjp-qKF

[hater]

I don’t know who is responsible for the chemical attack at Khan Shaikhoun, but there is an interesting interview on Thursday’s Scott Horton show that suggests that things may not be what they seem. In a 14 minute interview, former CIA officer and Director of the Council for the National Interest, Philip Giraldi, explains what’s happening behind the scenes in the Middle East where “military and intelligence personnel,” “intimately familiar” with the intelligence, say that the narrative that Assad or Russia did it is a “sham.”

Philip Giraldi– Okay. These are essentially sources that are right on top of the issue right in the Middle East. They’re people who are stationed there with the military and the Intelligence agencies that are aware and have seen the intelligence And, as I say, they are coming back to contacts over here in the US essentially that they astonished at how this is being played by the administration and by the media and in some cases people are considering going public to stop it. They’re that concerned about it, that upset by what’s going on.

[hater]

Scott Horton– So current CIA officers are thinking about going public right now?

Philip Giraldi– They are, because they’re that concerned about the way this thing is moving. They are military and intelligence personnel who are stationed in the Middle East and are active duty and they are seeing the intelligence the US government has in its hands about what happened in Syria, and the intelligence indicates that it was not an attack by the Syrian government using chemical weapons… There was an attack but it was with conventional weapons–a bomb– and the bomb ignited the chemicals that were already in place that had been put in there by the terrorist group affiliated with al Qaida.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/07/the-impending-clash-between-the-u-s-and-russia/

[hater]

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[hater]

fbEMlqrhlSg

Ron Paul unmasking the scam

That congressman is the samw congressman that shocked CNN 3 days ago by telling on live tv the gassing could possibly be done by the terrorists and not assad. Cnn bitch was so shocked she just cut the interview cold :lol

[hater]

Holy shit Tuksi Gabbard goes medieval on the neocon globalist cucks :lol

zOiLw3lJZJo

What a woman

If she runs for 2020 Im joining her campaign

[pgardn]

:lol Bolivian ambassador trolls US with Cooin Powell 2003 picture :lol

https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_large/public/headlines/bolivia_un.jpeg?itok=oyjp-qKF

Straight from RT news.
Outstanding. You even used close to the same headline.
Haley has asked Bolivia to produce evidence it was not from Assad or his thug warlords, the response...

Nada.

Another random swing from the Cosmo of foreign affairs, Hater.

[AaronY]

No I really love conspiracy theories. They're usually so well thought out and reasoned.

Like the Popcorn vs Microwave industry beef. Why does every bag of microwave popcorn have a "do not use popcorn setting" warning? Did the Microwavers piss off some Big Popcorn executive? Is Big Popcorn in bed with Global Stovetops? Are the Microwavers purposely making the Popcorn setting shitty to punish Big Popcorn? Connect the dots and follow the money, that's all I'm sayin
:lmao

[boutons_deux]

Pootin told Assad to gas his people,

then fog it up with LIE that it was a hit to a rebel gas storage depot.

Then Pootin tells Trash to run the harmless cruise attack while warning the Syrian army and Russian to take cover.

Trash's pro-forma attack does really nothing to Assad's capabilities.

Pootin says he's "so sad" about the attack, while Trash "looks" presidential by bombing a non-threatening foreign country, the press adores him, and

everybody forgets that Trash and his entire team is Pootin's bent-over, compromised boytoys.

[Trill Clinton]

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http://i64.tinypic.com/2w4fvk9.jpg

[pgardn]

Pootin told Assad to gas his people,

then fog it up with LIE that it was a hit to a rebel gas storage depot.

Then Pootin tells Trash to run the harmless cruise attack while warning the Syrian army and Russian to take cover.

Trash's pro-forma attack does really nothing to Assad's capabilities.

Pootin says he's "so sad" about the attack, while Trash "looks" presidential by bombing a non-threatening foreign country, the press adores him, and

everybody forgets that Trash and his entire team is Pootin's bent-over, compromised boytoys.

Lets all make up fairy tales...

[hater]

Probably the best explanation as to what really happened:

So what did happen in Khan Sheikhoun? The story actually may have started a couple of weeks earlier. On March 22, anti-government militants overran the government-controlled town of Khattab and kidnapped some civilians who were taken to the nearby opposition-controlled town of Khan Sheikhoun.

On March 30, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nicki Haley indicated that the removal of Assad was no longer a U.S. priority, instead the focus would be on defeating the Islamic State and other terror groups. Tillerson said Assad’s future should be settled by the Syrian people, and Haley said the Trump administration would not “focus on getting Assad out.”

Those comments brought harsh criticism from American neoconservatives, liberal interventionists, Israeli leaders and others obsessed over the past six years with “regime change” in Syria.

Then, on April 4, there were sketchy reports of children and other civilians killed by chemical poisoning in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, an area controlled by Al Qaeda-connected rebels. Assad was immediately blamed for bombing civilians with chemical weapons, but some initial accounts were contradictory. Some claimed that people smelled the gas; others claimed the gas caused immediate death like odorless sarin. All told, some 80 people reportedly died in the incident. [Photographs, videos, analyses and other sources are documented at “A Closer Look At Syria.”]

But there were problems in assessing what exactly happened at Khan Sheikhoun, including the unreliability of some sources. One video featured U.K.-born-and-raised Dr. Shajul Islam, who had his U.K. medical license suspended due to reports he was involved in the kidnapping in Syria of journalist John Cantlie, who was later freed but then taken hostage again in 2012 along with American James Foley, who was later beheaded by ISIS. Cantlie remains a hostage.

After a criminal case against Shajul Islam in the U.K. collapsed because Cantlie and other victims could not testify, Islam somehow made his way back into Syria and into Al Qaeda’s territory. After the chemical weapons incident, Islam was widely cited by Western news outlets as a key source of information.

[hater]

There are also curious features in the videos, which depict a scene set in a limestone quarry with apparent caves and storage depots along with flat-bed trucks with bodies scattered on the ground. Other videos show scenes in a medical clinic, while photographs show White Helmet “rescue workers” handling bodies without gloves, which is very strange if the people had died or were dying from chemical poison.

No gloves :lol

[hater]

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/10/how-media-bias-fuels-syrian-escalation/

[pgardn]

More Hater bizzarro world...

Straight from the Sandinista who loved Assad.
A tale of the power of Crystals in healing a broken heart.

[hater]

:lmao using a guy who joined ISIS and helped kidnap n kill a British citizen as main source of proof :lol

:lol CNN

[pgardn]

Wrong^

So much misunderstanding, so little time to rectify fairyland.

[hater]

Of course, this is simply guesswork on the part of the Times, which is not presenting any facts to counter doubts over the official story, but just responding to the doubts with more conjecture. The Times also seems to be cherry-picking some of former British ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, who told BBC Radio last week that there is “no proof that the cause of the explosion was what they said it was.”

It would not make sense for Assad to launch such an attack, Ford said, claiming that it would be “totally self-defeating.” He also objected to the veracity of claims made by eyewitnesses who claimed that they saw chemical bombs dropping from the air. “Well, you cannot see chemical weapons dropping from the air,” he said. “Such testimony is worthless.”

:lmao CNN l, NYat and WaPo printing that civilians were able to see the chemical bombs dropping :lmao

What joke organizations. You cannot tell a chemical bomb from a non chemical one with the naked eye :lol

[hater]

:lmao Rachel Maddows latest theory is that Putin orchestrated the chemical attack so Trump could bomb Syria and therefore kill the Russian-Trump collusion theory :lmao

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/12/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-sees-a-russia-connection-lurking-around-every-corner/

This bitch has gone full bizarro Glenn Beck :lmao

Crazy fucking kunt

[clambake]

thats what trumps son said too

[boutons_deux]

thats what trumps son said too

yep, he said Trash countering Pootin about the attack "proved" there has not been any collusion between the two assholes.

Pootin's playing a Long Game of chess, while ST rightwingnutjobs don't even realized there's a game at all.

Rexxon says Assad's time is limited, but Trash will do nothing serious about Assad, who is Pootin's long-time protege

[DMX7]

So the Syrian people were going to use the poison gas to attack Assaaaad???? :lol Get real.

[hater]

So the Syrian people were going to use the poison gas to attack Assaaaad???? :lol Get real.

Most Us intelligence officials believe an Al Nusra Chemical depot was hit

And actually yes, Al Nisra and other terrorists have been hitting Assads ppl with chemicals a number of times now in the last few years.

Most notably the famous invident in 2013

[pgardn]

So the Syrian people were going to use the poison gas to attack Assaaaad???? :lol Get real.

And Putin had no soldiers in Crimea or Ukraine... yes indeed.

The one thing it's seems we are in agreement with the Russians; No one knows for sure what Trump will do now that he has seen them for what they are. Possibly a strategy to keep Russia tied up in Syria. You guys decided to join the fun, well here is the fun, try and keep this guy propped up you poor (literally) bastards...
Welcome to the Middle East. Enjoy your stay.

[pgardn]

Most Us intelligence officials believe an Al Nusra Chemical depot was hit

And actually yes, Al Nisra and other terrorists have been hitting Assads ppl with chemicals a number of times now in the last few years.

Most notably the famous invident in 2013

No, no they don't.


Who are Assad's people?

[rjv]

syria is not about syria for the americans; it is about iran. for russia, it is part concern over chechen fundamentalist rebels operating in syria and the neo-nationalist postion of putin who is already peeved that russia has lost influence in the ukraine and lost libya as well. basically, the neocons from both parties in the U.S. poised against russian neo-nationalists.

[pgardn]

Putin and Tillerson agree that trust is at an all time low...

Go figure. We got blatant lying from both. With th US now taking the role of being unpredictable.

[pgardn]

syria is not about syria for the americans; it is about iran. for russia, it is part concern over chechen fundamentalist rebels operating in syria and the neo-nationalist postion of putin who is already peeved that russia has lost influence in the ukraine and lost libya as well. basically, the neocons from both parties in the U.S. poised against russian neo-nationalists.

Strategic naval base in Syria as well.

[hater]

syria is not about syria for the americans; it is about iran. for russia, it is part concern over chechen fundamentalist rebels operating in syria and the neo-nationalist postion of putin who is already peeved that russia has lost influence in the ukraine and lost libya as well. basically, the neocons from both parties in the U.S. poised against russian neo-nationalists.


Dont forget all the missile systems being deployed in sweden, poland and lithuania. Basically now US is minutes from nuking Moscow

It really boils down to being to nuke the other guy in the least amount of time to avoid counter attack

[pgardn]

Dont forget all the missile systems being deployed in sweden, poland and lithuania. Basically now US is minutes from nuking Moscow

It really boils down to being to nuke the other guy in the least amount of time to avoid counter attack


History son.
History...

Russia scares the F out of the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Scandavia. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia (the Baltic region) Go there and try to convince the people to invite the Russians back.

And no one wants to use nukes. You overstate this constantly. It would be nice if there could be some agreements on not making mistakes that could escalate tensions. It's your hero, Trump, that needs to understand this.

[hater]

:lmao white house just released a statement on the attack but withheld any evidence due to "security" :lmao

Going by the same old "trust us" approach :lol

The paper asserted that “we have signals intelligence and geospatial intelligence,” but then added that “we cannot publicly release all available intelligence on this attack due to the need to protect sources and methods.”

I’m told that the key evidence was satellite surveillance of the area, a body of material that U.S. intelligence analysts were reviewing late last week even after the Trump-ordered bombardment of 59 Tomahawk missiles that, according to Syrian media reports, killed seven or eight Syrian soldiers and nine civilians, including four children.

Yet, it is unclear why releasing these overhead videos would be so detrimental to “sources and methods” since everyone knows the U.S. has this capability and the issue at hand – if it gets further out of hand – could lead to a nuclear confrontation with Russia.


ZERO EVIDENCE. Once again

Wonder when they will dust off. Ollin Powell off the retirement home dress him up put a camera in his face so he can say "trust us" :lmao

[hater]

:lmao apparently all they have is satellite pictures and video as undeniable evidence but wont release it due to the high risk to our satellite sif we release it :lol

[Wild Cobra]

:lmao white house just released a statement on the attack but withheld any evidence due to "security" :lmao

Going by the same old "trust us" approach :lol

I don't trust it as fact just because they say so, but I understand them not being able to offer any evidence. Revealing hard to get evidence means revealing the fact of having spys or assets in key places. Just saying it's knows is bad enough, and it reveals the fact we are spying. To indicate a specific piece of evidence would most likely get an asset or spy jailed or killed.

[hater]

I don't trust it as fact just because they say so, but I understand them not being able to offer any evidence. Revealing hard to get evidence means revealing the fact of having spys or assets in key places. Just saying it's knows is bad enough, and it reveals the fact we are spying. To indicate a specific piece of evidence would most likely get an asset or spy jailed or killed.

Sure but 2 things:
- they cant expect us to go to war without putting up any evidence (or get a UN unanimous vote)
- apparently all the evidence they have is satellite imagery. There is absolutely no reason why displaying satellite imagery would be a security risk in this day and age imo. Syrians know they are being monitored 24/7

[hater]

Damn MIT scientist joins my badwagon on this Syria false flag with pure logic:
I have reviewed the document carefully, and I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the US government has concrete knowledge that the government of Syria was the source of the chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria at roughly 6 to 7 a.m. on April 4, 2017.

In fact, a main piece of evidence that is cited in the document points to an attack that was executed by individuals on the ground, not from an aircraft, on the morning of April 4.

This conclusion is based on an assumption made by the White House when it cited the source of the sarin release and the photographs of that source. My own assessment, is that the source was very likely tampered with or staged, so no serious conclusion could be made from the photographs cited by the White House.

http://www.unz.com/article/the-nerve-agent-attack-in-khan-shaykhun-syria/

[hater]

:lmao niggas going in raw on the white house "report"

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:lmao white house using ISIS allies and friends on the ground as their main sources :lol

[mavsfan1000]

Assad knows Putin has his back. We just gotta accept the atrocities in Syria. We do not want war with Russia.