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SYRIA Man Struggles For Air, Chemical Weapons Kill 650 In Damascus: Suspicious Timing
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Rockets with toxic agents were launched at the suburbs of the Ghouta region early on Wednesday as part of a major bombardment on rebel forces, they say.
The Syrian army says the accusations have been fabricated to cover up rebel losses.
The main opposition alliance said that more than 1,000 people were killed by the attacks.
BBC. “Syria conflict: ‘Chemical attacks’ kill hundreds.” August 21, 2013.
BBC correspondent Frank Gardner comments on the suspicious timing of the alleged attack — why now? — but also the horrifying and likely authentic extent of the suffering witnessed.
Without press freedom, privilege, and security in the world’s combat zones, their darkness fades to a plain and evil black.
Search string “Ghouta chemical attack” seems to work.
At the top of my list at the moment: Al Arabiya. “Syrian opposition: 1,300 killed in chemical attack on Ghouta region.” August 21, 2013.
I would want to know whether any of the the satellite-enabled and watching military organizations involved worldwide have recorded data of the rockets delivering the chemical warheads involved.
If not, how was this crime — still being checked out — committed?
Did it happen?
Did Assad do it?
Is it a false flag designed to enlarge the war on the rebel’s behalf?
Whatever you answer, prove it.
I can’t.
I’m not sure about what I’m looking at.
As most of you do, I see what’s reported, although perhaps I give the overview a little more time with attention to comparison and corroboration and spin.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry, citing its sources, said that a homemade rocket carrying unidentified chemical substances had been launched from an area controlled by the opposition.
“A homemade rocket with a poisonous substance that has not been identified yet – one similar to the rocket used by terrorists on March 19 in Khan al-Assal – was fired early on August 21 [at Damascus suburbs] from a position occupied by the insurgents,” Lukashevich said.
RT. “Russia suggests Syria ‘chemical attack’ was ‘planned provocation’ by rebels.” August 21, 2013.
Turn the matter of the Hague, says I, for without an independent investigation by an an accepted neutral authority, whether detective or journalist, the little boys doing the fighting and the Big Bothers watching them and may, can, and will lie like hell in their own interests.
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Jim,
I have pondered all of the the same questions, the primary one being whether this is a false flag operation and who are the secondary beneficiaries from such an act. That being said, the clinical picture which presented on a video with a small child in tremendous respiratory distress was a compelling view of lungs trying to survive some manner of extrinsic (and most likely) chemical assault. As a registered nurse and individual who has learned the chem-bio aspect of warfare (I have military publications on my shelf) what I have observed on line does seem to have a chemical footprint.
I am less sure of who is producing the script for public consumption.
Tammy Swofford
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Tammy — Syria, at the moment, is the “black hole” of the Islamic Small Wars: it sucks in this kind of energy, let’s nothing get out, and it’s so dark in there we can witness evil without being able to put together a coherent, reliable, and valid story about it. RT’s already shouting “false flag!” and Qatar aligned elements want the fingers pointing at Assad. What I wonder is what the global competing intelligence communities were watching on “satellite tv” at the time.
Notably, Syria’s London-based watch group for casualties — Syrian Observatory for Human Rights — reported about 100 deaths early on, a figure far off the headlines, so all of us on the “second row seat to history” (and, all things considered, possibly thankful for it) have a way to go with the watching of this incident in the still unfolding tragedy that has set secular despotism against Shiite ambition and Sunni Islam’s aims aided by and integrated with tremendous wealth in western investment and trade.
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Also, looking at the photographs at this URL — http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398691/Syria-Nerve-gas-attack-near-Damascus-kills-1-300-including-women-children.html — some of the behavior photographed seems not congruent with a WMD-involved attack. Who was killed? Who was spared? How? Why? A lot of dimensions of the reporting need investigation.
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