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Von Seymour M. Hersh, Die Welt: Trump‘s Red Line
President Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children. Seymour M. Hersh investigated the case of the alleged Sarin gas attack.
On April 6, United States President Donald Trump authorized an early morning Tomahawk missile strike on Shayrat Air Base in central Syria in retaliation for what he said was a deadly nerve agent attack carried out by the Syrian government two days earlier in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun. Trump issued the order despite having been warned by the U.S. intelligence community that it had found no evidence that the Syrians had used a chemical weapon.
The available intelligence made clear that the Syrians had targeted a jihadist meeting site on April 4 using a Russian-supplied guided bomb equipped with conventional explosives. Details of the attack, including information on its so-called high-value targets, had been provided by the Russians days in advance to American and allied military officials in Doha, whose mission is to coordinate all U.S., allied, Syrian and Russian Air Force operations in the region.
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Update: Seymour Hersh: US Lied About Syrian Chemical Attack Then Bombed Them Anyway (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: Not everyone agrees with Seymour Hersh's story .... Will Get Fooled Again – Seymour Hersh, Welt, and the Khan Sheikhoun Chemical Attack (Eliot Higgins, Bellingcat). What's my take .... in regards to the chemical attack, we will not know the truth until after the Syrian war is over, and an independent investigation on the Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack can be done (I am doubtful that this will be done .... but you never know). As to how the Trump administration went about making the decision on striking Syria .... I am always sceptical of anonymous sources .... this blog has reported more than enough of them in the past 6 months, and many of these sources did not deliver. Case in point .... check out my CNN post in 1 1/2 hours (4:00 AM). As to Seymour M. Hersh's anonymous sources .... I am not in a position to say that his sources are good or not .... but someone is giving him information, and he feels comfortable with this intel to post it and to stand by it.
Hat tip to Jay for the above post.
3 comments:
Seymour Hersh has a pretty solid track record. I lean toward believing him. When Trump attack the airbase I was upset. I figured it was BS. Though I felt better after hearing Hillary that same day say she would have struck every Syrian airbase. Lesser of two evils.
Eliot Higgins should not be considered capable of credible analysis.
Higgins has no background or training in weapons and is entirely self-taught, saying that "Before the Arab spring I knew no more about weapons than the average Xbox owner. I had no knowledge beyond what I'd learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rambo."[1] Higgins does not speak or read Arabic.[4]
Source, with footnotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Higgins#cite_note-Shubert-4
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