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Chems (The Hoax #2 On April 4, 2017 in Kahn Shaykhun, there was another…

- - - - Statement by the President on the Completion by the
        M/V Cape Ray of the Destruction of Syria’s Declared
        Chemical Weapons Today we mark an important achievement in our ongoing effort to counter the spread of weapons of mass destruction by
        eliminating Syria’s declared chemical weapons stockpile. The most lethal declared chemical weapons possessed by the
        Syrian regime were destroyed by dedicated U.S. civilian and military professionals using a unique American capability
        aboard the M/V Cape Ray – and they did so aboard that U.S. vessel several weeks ahead of schedule. This is a major
        milestone in the international community’s efforts under the leadership of the Organization for the Prohibition of
        Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to rid the Syrian regime of its chemical weapons. It further advances our collective goal to
        ensure that the Asad regime cannot use its chemical arsenal against the Syrian people and sends a clear message that
        the use of these abhorrent weapons has consequences and will not be tolerated by the international community. :check:
        
        Jets Launch Raids from Syria Base hit by US: Monitor-AFP The runway wasn't destroyed. :check:
        
        The Grim Logic Behind Syria’s Chemical Weapons Attack-Anne Barnard BEIRUT, Lebanon — The diplomatic situation had been looking bright for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. With
        the help of Russia, he had consolidated his power, the rebels were on their heels and the United States had just
        declared that ousting him was not a priority. :check:
        
        But the denial, as well as a Russian assertion that a bomb hit a chemical weapons depot controlled by the rebels,
        seemed perfunctory, almost without regard to the facts, which Western governments said pointed to a Syrian
        government hand. :check:
  - - - In the last few days of March, Trump and two of his
        key national security aides – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley – had made statements
        acknowledging that, as the New York Times put it, the White House “has abandoned the goal” of pressuring Assad "to leave
        power, marking a sharp departure from the Middle East policy that guided the Obama administration for more than five years.” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told a press briefing on March 31 that “there is a political reality that we have to
        accept,” implying that Assad was there to stay. :check:
        
        "...The Adviser said...When we
        get a hot tip about a command and control facility,” the adviser added, referring to the target in Khan Sheikhoun, “we do what we
        can to help them act on it." “This was not a chemical weapons strike,” the adviser said. “That’s a fairy tale. If so, everyone
        involved in transferring, loading and arming the weapon – you’ve got to make it appear like a regular 500-pound conventional
        bomb – would be wearing Hazmat protective clothing in case of a leak. There would be very little chance of survival without
        such gear. Military grade sarin includes additives designed to increase toxicity and lethality. Every batch that comes out is
        maximized for death. That is why it is made. It is odorless and invisible and death can come within a minute. No cloud. Why
        produce a weapon that people can run away from?” The target was struck at 6:55 a.m. on April 4, just before midnight in Washington. A Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA) by the U.S.
        military later determined that the heat and force of the 500-pound Syrian bomb triggered a series of secondary explosions that
        could have generated a huge toxic cloud that began to spread over the town, formed by the release of the fertilizers, disinfectants
        and other goods stored in the basement, its effect magnified by the dense morning air, which trapped the fumes close to the
        ground. According to intelligence estimates, the senior adviser said, the strike itself killed up to four jihadist leaders, and an
        unknown number of drivers and security aides. There is no confirmed count of the number of civilians killed by the poisonous
        gases that were released by the secondary explosions, although opposition activists reported that there were more than 80 dead,
        and outlets such as CNN have put the figure as high as 92. A team from Médecins Sans Frontières, treating victims from Khan
        Sheikhoun at a clinic 60 miles to the north, reported that “eight patients showed symptoms – including constricted pupils,
        muscle spasms and involuntary defecation – which are consistent with exposure to a neurotoxic agent such as sarin gas or
        similar compounds.” MSF also visited other hospitals that had received victims and found that patients there “smelled of bleach,
        suggesting that they had been exposed to chlorine.” In other words, evidence suggested that there was more than one chemical
        responsible for the symptoms observed, which would not have been the case if the Syrian Air Force – as opposition activists
        insisted – had dropped a sarin bomb, which has no percussive or ignition power to trigger secondary explosions. The range of
        symptoms is, however, consistent with the release of a mixture of chemicals, including chlorine and the organophosphates used
        in many fertilizers, which can cause neurotoxic effects similar to those of sarin. so basically. A bomb was dropped on the Jihadis and that likely caused the chlorine symptoms. However there were secondary explosions. One was likely the bomb on the ground. From what it looks like, the Syrians dropped a bomb given to them by the Russians on the Jihadis. The other explosion might have been retaliation. :check:
        
        Five days later, the Trump administration gathered the national media for a background briefing on the Syrian operation that was
        conducted by a senior White House official who was not to be identified. The gist of the briefing was that Russia’s heated and
        persistent denial of any sarin use in the Khan Sheikhoun bombing was a lie because President Trump had said sarin had been
        used. That assertion, which was not challenged or disputed by any of the reporters present, became the basis for a series of
        further criticisms:
        
        The continued lying by the Trump administration about Syria’s use of sarin led to widespread belief in the American media
        and public that Russia had chosen to be involved in a corrupt disinformation and cover-up campaign on the part of Syria.
        
        Russia’s military forces had been co-located with Syria’s at the Shayrat airfield (as they are throughout Syria), raising the
        possibility that Russia had advance notice of Syria’s determination to use sarin at Khan Sheikhoun and did nothing to stop it.
        
        Syria’s use of sarin and Russia’s defense of that use strongly suggested that Syria withheld stocks of the nerve agent from the
        UN disarmament team that spent much of 2014 inspecting and removing all declared chemical warfare agents from 12 Syrian
        chemical weapons depots, pursuant to the agreement worked out by the Obama administration and Russia after Syria’s alleged,
        but still unproven, use of sarin the year before against a rebel redoubt in a suburb of Damascus. :check:
- - - - Obama’s ‘red line’ of chemical warfare has already been breached by the rebels on various occasions. One chemical weapons attack, for example, took
        place on 19 March in Khan al-Assal, near Aleppo. A UN investigation which included eye witness testimony concluded in May that sarin gas was used
        by rebels in the incident. Bu the American government, for some reasons, is not talking about that.
        
        AB: John Kerry says that whatever comes out of the UN investigation into the chemical attack in Syria is not going to make any difference to the US.
        Washington has made it clear that it is ready to go ahead with air strikes even before the inspection team discloses its findings. So the US administration
        has already decided what to do anyway?
        JC: UN inspectors are simply going to determine if a chemical weapons attack took place, not who is to
        blame for the attack. They are reduced to a ‘parody’ here since their reports have zero relevance whatsoever. The fact that the UN team was already
        inside Syria at the time of the attack is significant because it’s another indication that this attack did not come from Assad’s forces. We’re being asked to
        believe that Assad waited until UN inspectors were in the country, and two or three days later decided to launch a chemical weapons attack at about
        15mn away from where they were stationed in Damascus.http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-23843645/syria-chemical-attack-undeniable-john-kerry :check:
  - - - Navy Helps Destroy Gaddafi's Chmeical Weapon Stockpile to Keep it from Islamic State-Ben Farmer 8/31/2016 It took them more than three years to destroy the weapons. The FSA had been planning for a long time, and 3 years was more than enough time to get the chems espeically when Libyans and Libyan weapons were already being shipped to the FSA. :check:
        
        Libya’s new rulers offer weapons to Syrian rebels- Ruth Sherlock At the meeting, which was held in Istanbul and included Turkish officials, the Syrians requested "assistance" from the Libyan representatives
        and were offered arms, and potentially volunteers.
        "There is something being planned to send weapons and even Libyan fighters to Syria," said a Libyan source, speaking on condition of
        anonymity. "There is a military intervention on the way. Within a few weeks you will see."
        The Telegraph has also learned that preliminary discussions about arms supplies took place when members of the Syrian National Council
        [SNC] – the country's main opposition movement – visited Libya earlier this month.
        "The Libyans are offering money, training and weapons to the Syrian National Council," added Wisam Taris, a human rights campaigner
        with links to the SNC. :check:
        
        Top Journalist Says Hillary Approved Sending Sarin to
        Rebels Used to Frame Assad, Start Syrian War-Matt Agorist As Eric Zuesse explained in Strategic Culture, Hersh pointed to a report from British intelligence saying that the sarin that was
        used didn’t come from Assad’s stockpiles. Hersh also said that a secret agreement in 2012 was reached between the Obama
        Administration and the leaders of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, to set up a sarin gas attack and blame it on Assad so that
        the US could invade and overthrow Assad. Hersh didn’t say whether these ‘arms’ included the precursor chemicals for making sarin which were stockpiled in Libya,
        explains Zuesse in his report. But there have been multiple independent reports that Libya’s Gaddafi possessed such
        stockpiles, and also that the US Consulate in Benghazi Libya was operating a “rat line” for Gaddafi’s captured weapons into
        Syria through Turkey...Backing up Hersh in his claims is investigative journalist Christof Lehmann, who after the attacks discovered an evidence trail
        leading back to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi Intelligence Chief
        Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia´s Interior Ministry.
        As Lehmann explained, Russian and other experts have repeatedly stated that the chemical weapon could not have been a
        standard issue Syrian chemical weapon and that all available evidence — including the fact that those who offered first aid to
        the victims were not harmed — indicates the use of liquid, home made sarin. This information is corroborated by the seizure
        of such chemicals in Syria and in Turkey. :check:
    - - There is a growing and substantial amount of evidence that indicates direct U.S. and Saudi involvement in the chemical weapons attack. To begin
        with one merely has to answer the fundamental question “Who Benefits”, and the answer is definitely not “the Syrian government”.
        In fact, the Federal German Intelligence Service (BND) claims that it has intercepted phone calls between Syrian officers and the Syrian High
        Command. The BND is convinced that none of the Syrian forces have used a chemical weapon. Leaving alone any moral considerations, the domestic
        and international repercussions were foreseeable and there would not have been any strategic benefit for the Syrian Army or the government. :check:
        
        Foreknowledge – U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Martin Dempsey visit to Jordan.
        Another strong indicator of foreknowledge by top-U.S. Officials can be deducted from the visit of the United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
        Staff, Army General Martin Dempsey to Jordan and a statement he made prior to the Jordan visit.
        On 18 July, Dempsey said at a hearing at the U.S. Senate´s Armed Services Committee, that the Obama administration is preparing various scenarios
        for a possible U.S. Military intervention in Syria, and considering whether the USA should use “the brute of the U.S. Military, and kinetic strikes”.
        “The issue”, said Gen. Dempsey, “is under deliberation inside of our agencies of government”.
        Already on 7 July however, nsnbc international published a report, based on information from a Syria-based, Palestinian intelligence expert, who
        stated that the armed and political opposition, along with the international alliance behind it, is preparing a large political and military campaign in
        August – September.
        The report mentions specifically the chemical weapons use and the Jordanian city al-Mafraq, where U.S. Special forces train insurgents.
        Dempsey in Jordan only Days before Chemical Weapons Attack and while Saudi / U.S. Weapons Deliveries begin flowing across the Border from al-Mafraq.
        On 15 August 2013, the website of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) informed that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army
        General Martin Dempsey is visiting troops in Jordan. Dempsey’s visit came against the backdrop of major weapons deliveries to the Syrian
        opposition, including advanced weapons like the Konkurs anti tank missile.
        On the agenda in Jordan was, among other, the “Team Jordan”. The DoD informs, that “The team Jordan also includes liaison officers linking them
        to the services, special operation forces, the U.S. Embassy in Jordan, USAID, Britain, Canada and France. Its primary focus is planning for Syria”.
        It is inconceivable that U.S. Special Forces and the CIA would have given the green light for the use of chemical weapons – for example in a situation
        where the insurgents lose their hold on the Jobar Entrance – without the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the very least being informed about
        it. :check:
- - - - This strike will have lived—in Syria, by preventing Assad from daring to use chemical weapons again, and
        in unknown future conflicts where the losing side will be tempted to employ chemical weapons, and will
        think twice and not do it. Trump saved more lives in Syria by his action this week than Obama did in all
        his years in office.
  - - - America Must Respond to the
        Atrocities in Syria-Richard Haass What makes all this awkward and more is that the US essentially opted not to do anything when it became
        clear that the Syrian regime did use chemical weapons against its own citizens several months
        ago. :check:
        
        America Must Stick to a Course on Syria-Richard Haass states that Syria has chems DO NOT USE
        
        What effect would the fall of the Assad
        regime have on U.S. policy towards
        Syria?-Robert Danin The United States is primarily concerned about Syria's chemical weapons arsenal. Only the prospect of these
        materials becoming accessible to other countries or terrorist organizations could mobilize U.S. military action
        to ensure that these weapons are secured. DO NOT USE
        
        Aleppo's Sobering Lessons-Richard Haass At no point was this clearer than when the United States did not fulfill its threat to make Assad’s government
        pay for its use of chemical weapons. That proved to be a missed opportunity not only to alter the momentum of
        the conflict, but also to underscore the principle that any government that uses weapons of mass destruction will
        regret it. Enforcement, after all, is essential to the effectiveness of future deterrence. they are upset at Obama's inaction because it gets rid of the credibility of R2P :check: