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Syria / Who used chemical weapons?



http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/wmd-syria-un-accuses-syrian-insurgents.html
UN accuses Syrian insurgents of chemical weapons use
Syrian rebels have made use of the deadly nerve agent sarin in their war-torn country's conflict, UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte has said.

In-depth Report: SYRIA: NATO'S NEXT WAR?

According to a report in Turkey’s state media agency Zaman, agents from the Turkish General Directorate of Security (Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü) seized 2 kg of sarin gas in the city of Adana in the early hours of yesterday morning. The chemical weapons were in the possession of Al Nusra terrorists believed to have been heading for Syria.


http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/the-big-lie-about-syrias-chemical.html
The big lie about Syria's chemical weapons: won't get fooled again?
09 December 2012
Robert Fisk & Alex Thomson


http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/massachusetts-institute-of-technology.html
MIT Report: Obama Used Bogus Intelligence to Push Syria War

Former United Nations weapons inspector Richard Lloyd and MIT Science, Technology, and National Security Policy Professor Theodore Postol. Among other major concerns, the two experts in the field found that despite official claims and “intelligence,” the August 21 nerve-agent attack in East Ghouta “could not possibly” have come from the center or even the Eastern edge of regime-controlled territory.



Whose sarin?
Seymour M. Hersh
Monday, 09 December 2013 
Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts. Most significant, he failed to acknowledge something known to the US intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin, the nerve agent that a UN study concluded – without assessing responsibility – had been used in the rocket attack. In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity. When the attack occurred al-Nusra should have been a suspect, but the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.
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http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/plan-to-frame-syria.html

HACKERS EXPOSE U.S. FALSE FLAG TO FRAME SYRIA
FEBRUARY 13, 2013 

By Richard Walker
Hacked emails from a British mercenary company were posted online, leading to claims Washington was backing a dirty war against Syria in which a chemical attack on Syria could be blamed on the Syrian regime, thereby strengthening the case for immediate intervention on the part of the United States military.