Posted on April 10, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | 26 Comments
"President Trump should make his case in front of the American people and allow their elected representatives to debate the benefits and risks of further Middle East intervention to our national security interests." Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)What we know to be FACTS:
1. On April 4, 2017, the town of Khan Shaykhun in Syria's Idlib province was struck by a heavy airstrike, followed by massive civilian chemical (allegedly, sarin nerve gas) poisoning, including children.
2. At the time of the attack, the town was under the control of Tahrir al-Sham, formerly known as the al-Nusra Front – a Sunni Islamist terrorist organization fighting against Syrian Government forces in the Syrian Civil War, with the aim of establishing an Islamist state in the country.
3. President Donald Trump, the U.S. Pentagon, and the UK (in the person of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson) blamed the attack on the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Russian and Syrian governments said it was caused by the Syrian Air Force's destruction of a nearby rebel-operated chemical weapons warehouse.
4. In the early morning hours of April 7, 2017, the Trump administration fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles from a U.S. destroyer in the Mediterranean Sea, at Shayrat Air Base in Syria, said to be the location from where the Assad government allegedly had launched the April 4 chemical attack.A couple of points to keep in mind:
• At the time of the alleged chemical attack, things were going well for the Assad government in its efforts to combat the Syrian "rebels," among whom is the al-Nusra Front. In other words, there was no reason for the Assad government to launch a chemical attack against the "rebels."Two former U.S. intelligence officials are speaking out about what they know and believe about the April 4 "chemical attack" on the town of Idlib. They are:
• From 2013, when Obama and Congress had agitated to attack the Syrian government because of the latter's alleged deployment of chemical weapons, Assad knows well the U.S. would go berserk if he were to launch a chemical attack.
1. Walter Patrick "Pat" Lang, Jr., 76, a former U.S. Army officer who left the army with the rank of Colonel, then worked as a high-level civilian intelligence analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at the equivalent rank of a lieutenant general, specializing in the Middle East and South Asia. Lang is now a commentator on the Middle East, private intelligence analyst, and author.
2. Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst from the administration of John Kennedy to that of George H.W. Bush, who prepared the President's Daily Brief for Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. He is a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
Both Lang and McGovern maintain that:
• On April 4, the Assad government undertook a conventional (not chemical) air strike at a rebel-held weapons/explosives depot in Idlib.
• The Assad government had notified the Trump administration of its intended strike.
• Unbeknown to the Assad government, the weapons depot contained deadly chemicals – organic phosphates and chlorine (not sarin).
• The explosion of the depot released the chemicals into the air, which was carried by a strong wind to a nearby town, Khan Shaykhun, and killed civilians.Below are the respective analyses of Lang and McGovern, originally published on Intel Today, a website that is less than a year old, founded last July. My guess is Intel Today is a forum of retired and/or active "white hat" U.S. intelligence officials.
Analysis by former DIA Intelligence Analyst Col. Patrick Lang
Donald Trump's decision to launch cruise missile strikes on a Syrian Air Force Base was based on a lie. In the coming days, the American people will learn that the Intelligence Community knew that Syria did not drop a military chemical weapon on innocent civilians in Idlib. Here is what happened:
1. The Russians briefed the United States on the proposed target. This is a process that started more than two months ago. There is a dedicated phone line that is being used to coordinate and deconflict (i.e., prevent US and Russian air assets from shooting at each other) the upcoming operation.
2. The United States was fully briefed on the fact that there was a target in Idlib that the Russians believed was a weapons/explosives depot for Islamic rebels.
3. The Syrian Air Force hit the target with conventional weapons. All involved expected to see a massive secondary explosion. That did not happen. Instead, smoke, chemical smoke, began billowing from the site. It turns out that the Islamic rebels used that site to store chemicals, not sarin, that were deadly. The chemicals included organic phosphates and chlorine, and they followed the wind and killed civilians.
4. There was a strong wind blowing that day, and the cloud was driven to a nearby village and caused casualties.There are members of the U.S. military who were aware this strike would occur, and it was recorded. There is a film record. At least the Defense Intelligence Agency knows that this was not a chemical weapon attack. In fact, Syrian military chemical weapons were destroyed with the help of Russia.
5. We know it was not sarin. How? Very simple. The so-called "first responders" handled the victims without gloves. If this had been sarin, they would have died. Sarin on the skin will kill you. How do I know? I went through "live agent" training at Fort McClellan in Alabama.
This is Gulf of Tonkin 2. How ironic. Donald Trump correctly castigated George W. Bush for launching an unprovoked, unjustified attack on Iraq in 2003. Now we have President Donald Trump doing the same damn thing. Worse in fact. Because the intelligence community had information showing that there was no chemical weapon launched by the Syrian Air Force.
Here's the good news. The Russians and Syrians were informed, or at least were aware, that the attack was coming. They were able to remove a large number of their assets. The base the United States hit was something of a backwater. Donald Trump gets to pretend that he is a tough guy. He is not. He is a fool.
This attack was a violation of international law. Donald Trump authorized an unjustified attack on a sovereign country. What is even more disturbing is that people like Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, CIA Director Mike Pompeo and NSA Director General McMaster went along with this charade. Front-line troops know the truth. These facts will eventually come out. Donald Trump will most likely not finish his term as President. He will be impeached, I believe, once Congress is presented with irrefutable proof that he ignored and rejected intelligence that did not support the myth that Syria attacked with chemical weapons.
It should also alarm American taxpayers that we launched $100 million dollars [Note: the cost is more likely $114.5 million, based on the per-unit cost of the Tomahawk cruise missile] of missiles to blow up sand and camel shit. The Russians were aware that a strike was coming. I'm hoping that they and the Syrians withdrew their forces and aircraft from the base. Whatever hope I had that Donald Trump would be a new kind of President, that hope is extinguished. He is a child and a moron. He committed an act of war without justification. But the fault is not his alone. Those who sit atop the NSC, the DOD, the CIA, the Department of State should have resigned in protest. They did not. They are complicit in a war crime.
Analysis by former CIA agent Ray McGovern
Syrian aircraft "knew" there was a weapons cache in this particular rebel-held area. That was correct, and the Syrian aircraft bombed it.
What seems not to have been known was the existence nearby of a large storage facility for chemicals. That too was damaged, releasing a cloud of chemicals that the wind blew south and that poisoned those villagers.
Here is what most likely happened:
The Russians briefed the United States on the proposed target. This is a process that started more than two months ago. There is a dedicated phone line that is being used to coordinate and deconflict (i.e., prevent US and Russian air assets from shooting at each other) the upcoming operation.
The United States was fully briefed on the fact that there was a target in Idlib that the Russians believed was a weapons and explosives depot for Islamic rebels.
The Syrian Air Force hit the target with conventional weapons. All involved expected to see a massive secondary explosion. That did not happen. Instead, smoke, chemical smoke, began billowing from the site. It turns out that the Islamic rebels used that site to store chemicals, not sarin, that were deadly. The chemicals included organic phosphates and chlorine, and they followed the wind and killed civilians.
There was a strong wind blowing that day and the cloud was driven to a nearby village and caused casualties.
We know it was not sarin. How? Very simple. The so-called "first responders" handled the victims without gloves. If this had been sarin, they would have died. Sarin on the skin will kill you.
See also:
• 3 reasons why the latest Syrian chemical attack attributed to Assad is a false flag~Eowyn
• Trump admin. updated Israel "in real time" on Syria missile strike
• Look who support Trump's missile strike on Syria
• Russia's reaction to Trump's missile attack on Syria
• Congress told U.S. military not ready to respond to an enemy attack, but Trump threatens Syria with war
https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2017/04/10/former-us-intelligence-officials-assad-did-not-drop-chemical-bomb/
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It is important to analyze carefully everything in this interview on Fox News two days ago with Lt. Gen H.R. McMaster. In the context of the material published above, it is imperative that H.R. McMaster push the false representation that it's the "Assad regime", the Syrian government "is committing mass murder of its own population", that this international criminal conspiracy against Syria is somehow a "civil war", the Syrian government "is using the most heinous weapons available", and that "Russia is supporting this murderous regime".
The answer to that last quoted statement is simple. Russia is preventing further catastrophe in Syria like what is happening in Libya and Iraq. The only conclusion drawn from this interview is that H.R McMaster is pushing hard for a ground invasion in Syria and that last thing in his mind is somehow that a "political solution" is even remotely possible. What is particularly disturbing and not only false, is that Chris Wallace accuses Bashar al-Assad of "killing babies".
So, what they are trying to achieve here with absolutely no evidence or investigative integrity, is to indict Bashar al-Assad with all these alleged heinous crimes including H.R. McMaster falsely charging the Syrian government of "a pattern of use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in his mass murder attacks on innocent civilians", to pave the way for a U.S. military invasion of Syria.
ANNA news clip of the damage caused at the Shayrat Air Base in Syria when $100 million worth of Raytheon Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched off two US naval assets parked in the Mediterranean:
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