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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWHEW...President Obama Almost Missed His G-20 Flight Over This Syria Shit...
Fortunately, he was able to get Ban Ki Moon to pull the Inspectors a Day Early.....
Ban Ki-moon has said the UN weapons inspectors investigating last week's suspected chemical weapons attack will leave Syria on Saturday, one day ahead of schedule.
The announcement deepened anticipation over imminent air strikes. Under an agreement with the Syrian government, the UN team had until the end of Sunday to complete their investigation.
If they leave a day early, they will not be able to carry out the three other site inspections from earlier suspected chemical attacks they had initially intended to complete.
The move is reminiscent of similar hasty departures of UN weapons inspectors from Iraq over a decade ago, after receiving a tip-off from western intelligence agencies that US air strikes against Saddam Hussein's regime were imminent.
Ban called on western powers to refrain from taking action until the UN inspectors had produced a report, but he added to the growing sense of urgency by saying the inspection team would report to him as soon as they left the country. UN officials, however, noted that a proper analysis of the chemical agents involved would take a lot longer. The inspectors had so far sent none of the samples they had collected out of the country for tests, but would be carrying the samples with them when they left. Laboratory work would only begin once they had left Syria.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/29/un-inspectors-leave-syria-early
As Pepe Escobar puts it, "we bomb a country like dialing a pizza delivery":
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A proverbial, anonymous senior administration official even stressed the desire to get it done before the president leaves for Russia next week.
Thats it; we bomb a country like dialing a pizza delivery, and then we go to a G20 summit with the worlds emerging powers hosted by no less than Russias president, Vladimir Putin. Just because we need to prove that the president of the United States meant what he said: chemical weapons are a red line. And to hell whos responsible for deploying them.
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The evidence points to rockets launched from a Syrian army post near Damascus which Finnish researcher Petri Krohn, currently conducting a meticulous investigation, conclusively placed as occupied by the rebels since June. (scroll down to Qaboun rocket launches)
Add to it the Defense Ministry in Baghdad, one month ago, dismantling an Al-Qaeda cell in Iraq that was planning to launch attacks in Iraq and abroad, as in Syria, using chemical weapons.
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So here we have all the elements of a sophisticated false flag operation. Jabhat al-Nusra jihadis, mostly mercenaries, connected to al-Qaeda in Iraq, but with no connection with Syrian civilians, including women and children, use an area formerly occupied by the Syrian army to launch a chemical attack perhaps using chlorine under the cover of a Syrian offensive (admitted by the government). The offensive was codenamed Operation City Shield. Damascus had solid intel about scores of rebels trained by the CIA and the Saudis in Jordan converging to the area and planning a massive attack on the capital.
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http://rt.com/op-edge/war-chemical-weapons-obama-syria-120/
BTW: The whole Pepe Escobar article is a good read....
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)be ultimately incorrect.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Also, Escobar's false flag conjecture is pretty creative--he must be reading infowars these days.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)But, outside the US and Israel, many, many suspect false flag on this one.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)kinds of crazy shit.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)kinds of crazy shit. Bought and sold Media and all.
Israel actually has a more skeptical public. Unfortunately, they're in a decided minority lately.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)is infowars not Haaretz.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)Where did THAT come from?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)mean 'the Jews did it.'
Tradition goes back over a thousand years.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)you would have read;
So here we have all the elements of a sophisticated false flag operation. Jabhat al-Nusra jihadis, mostly mercenaries, connected to al-Qaeda in Iraq, but with no connection with Syrian civilians, including women and children, use an area formerly occupied by the Syrian army to launch a chemical attack perhaps using chlorine under the cover of a Syrian offensive (admitted by the government). The offensive was codenamed Operation City Shield. Damascus had solid intel about scores of rebels trained by the CIA and the Saudis in Jordan converging to the area and planning a massive attack on the capital.
Then there is Saudi intel tsar Bandar bin Sultan, aka Bandar Bushs threat to President Putin in their notorious four-hour meeting earlier this month: The military solution is the only one left for Syria. Bandar, a master of the dark arts, is in charge of winning Syria to the House of Saud by all means available, chemical or otherwise.
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he does blame some of the Israeli media...
Tel Aviv's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, as I reported earlier, badly wants Washington to attack Syrias chemical weapons sites regardless of possible, horrible, collateral damage, not to mention the possibility of al-Qaeda-linked jihadi outfits taking control of some of them.
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But no mention of Mossad. Overt or implied.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Earlier today the Mossad theorists were out. Apologies for the mistake.
delrem
(9,688 posts)Since you're hell bent on protecting al-Qaeda.
Response to delrem (Reply #7)
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delrem
(9,688 posts)The answer has nothing to do with Obama. That Obama supports them? Yes, that has 100% to do with Obama.
Now get back to your kool-aid, it's free, it's abundant, and PNAC is serving.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Just like a Freeptroll, only dumber and crazier.
Scratch an Obama-hating left loon, and find a Teahadist.
P.s. neither I nor Obama support Al Qaeda, so you're a fucking lying little pissant as well as a crazy one.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)has used AQ to destabilize countries which weren't friendly to Western businesses.
Needs to stop.
delrem
(9,688 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)The rebel jihadists are principally composed of al-Nusra Front and al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. Obama knows that, as do *you*. Now you can *deny* it in your hellbent rush to ramp up the PNAC war, but you can't refute it.
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)PTB and the people?