Initial Western intelligence finds Syrian forces used chemical weapons

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Initial Western intelligence finds Syrian forces used chemical weapons

By Mark Hosenball and Matt Spetalnick
WASHINGTON | Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:30pm EDT

(Reuters) - U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have made a preliminary assessment that chemical weapons were used by Syrian forces in an attack near Damascus this week, likely with high-level approval from the government of President Bashar al-Assad, according to American and European security sources.

The early intelligence finding could increase pressure for action by President Barack Obama, who made clear that he planned to tread cautiously even as his aides sought to narrow their differences in debate over possible military responses to the Syrian government.

The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, cautioned that the assessment was preliminary and, at this stage, they were still seeking conclusive proof, which could take days, weeks or even longer to gather.

But with a mounting international outcry over the apparent mass poisoning of hundreds of people, the issue appeared to have taken on a sense of urgency for the Obama administration.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/23/us-syria-crisis-obama-idUSBRE97M0E420130823

[Junkdrawer]

1. So Assad waits until UN inspectors are on the ground, THEN....

he lets loose with the gas?

The false flag guys aren't even trying hard anymore.

[kentuck]

2. Are these the same ones...?

That found Saddam Hussein had used poison gas on his people??

[burnodo]

3. "according to American and European security sources"

Therefore untrue.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Lest we forget ...

This war criminal.




Sorry for all the edits, kinda spastic tonight.

[leveymg]

5. Can you imagine the CIA actually considering who else might benefit from such a thing?

Or, the Pentagon moving forces off the coast of Saudi Arabia or Qatar, who have the most to gain from this sort of atrocity?

Can you imagine a world in which on the face of it those who have the most to gain and the greatest motive might actually be treated as the prime suspects?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Did Western Intelligence find the evidence in the Gulf of Tonkin?

[David__77]

7. "mounting international outcry?"

Give me a break. There is no such "outcry," mounting or not. Only in a few think tanks and other ivory towers in those cesspools like D.C., London, and Paris. The people have no such outcry, and certainly do not want military intervention.

Any idiot contemplating a "Kosovo"-type scenario had better think twide: Assad is not Milosevic, and Syria is not Yugoslavia. Russia is not the total mess it was in 1999 either. This is a sectarian fault line. Stay out, totally!