French report claims Syria staged three chemical attacks

[Surya Gayatri]

http://www.france24.com/en/20130902-assad-three-chemical-attacks-french-report-syria


French authorities declassified an intelligence report on Monday which claims that the Bashar al-Assad regime has staged at least three chemical attacks in Syria since April, including an August 21 attack that killed hundreds.

The French government published a nine-page synopsis on Monday about Syria’s chemical weapons programme that cites at least three chemical attacks between April and August.

The report also alleged that nobody but the Bashar al-Assad regime could have carried out the August 21 chemical attack outside Damascus, which it said at least 281 deaths could be attributed to. The analysis based that count in part from dozens of videos culled by French intelligence services.

The figure was markedly lower than that provided by Washington, which spoke of at least 1,400 deaths.
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Hollande and Cie. are catapaulting the propaganda in favor of intervention. Are French intelligence experts any more credible that the NSA/CIA?

[dipsydoodle]

1. Sometimes intelligence is an oxymoron

The French are using evidence which they were given. The UN inspectors rejected such offers.

Let's wait for the UN report.

Notwithstanding the fact that 281 deaths are tragedy the US figures have been spun.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. "Given" by whom, that's the question. Syria being a former French

colony, certain factions may have "entrée" into the corridors of power at the Quai d'Orsay.