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Thread #152067 Message #3559962
Posted By: Jim Carroll
20-Sep-13 - 02:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Did CIA lunch the Sarin missile in Syria
Subject: RE: BS: Did CIA lunch the Sarin missile in Syria
What a sorry bunch Insanitary, who has been insisting on the possibility of Assad's innocence in the use of chemical weapons. Face Ache, who has been arguing that it is nuffin' to do with us because "Syria or any of the 'Arab Spring' protestors have no interest in” the good ol' British take on democracy. And Keith, who has insited as far back as forever that everything Britain does is OK with him and to criticize trade with terrorist and despotic states is "aniti-British" – it doesn't matter anyway as, "everybody is doing it", so why pick on poor old Britain?" Good to be back among those who know what's and who all have their hearts set at righting the world's wrongs! Jim Carroll
From the Times over the last couple of days.
"NO DOUBTS, BUT ASSAD CAN CARRY ON KILLING Anthony Loyd Commentary The Syrian war's mid-term future and the survival of the Assad regime has been decided as much by the timing of yesterday's UN report into the chemical attack in Damascus as by its contents. Though stopping short of decisively laying blame for the attack on the regime, in its every detail the report suggests beyond reasonable doubt that sarin nerve agent was used and that the regime was responsible. Yet had the finding been released in time to influence Britain's parliamentary debate on intervention— itself a fulcrum event that shaped President Obama's hesitation in launching strikes — punitive military action might have already occurred. The report's timing has instead dealt a new hand to every player at the diploiiiatic table, though at the expense of Syrian civilians. President Assad's survival has been guaranteed, for the while at least, and an continue to wage war using the same conventional weapons that have killed the vast majority of the 100,000 dead so far. Russia, Iran and China can feel relief that their ally—whose continued tenure of power is now a default necessity by which to implement the Geneva deal—has bounced back in strength. In the meantime, Israel, America and Europe, deeply worried as much by the possibility that Syrian chemical weapons might fall into the hands of Islamic radicals as that they may be used again by the regime, may now address those concerns. The strength of wording in the Security Council resolution being drafted to back the Geneva plan will decide the strategies of each of these players. What it will not influence, though, is the emerging strategic threat posed by thousands of al-Qaeda-Iinked militants in the country, possibly the greatest conglomeration of radical militants since Afghanistan in the Taleban era. Nor is it likely to affect the fate of Syria's population, who will continue to face the ravages of war, the rockets, missiles and bullets that allow them to be killed each day in the conventional way."
GASSING OF SYRIAN CIVILIAN Syria Will Pavia New York Gruesome new evidence of a chemical weapons attack in Syria proved that the 1,400 civilians it killed were victims of a war crime, the UN Secretary- General Ban Ki Moon said yesterday. UN inspectors reported "clear and convincing" evidence of a large-scale rocket attack releasing sarin gas on suburbs in Damascus last month, the incident that almost triggered punitive military strikes from the US. The keenly awaited report stopped short of blaming President Assad in per¬son for the gassing. However, France, Britain and the US said it left no doubt that his regime was responsible. Russia, which has so far blamed the Syrian rebels for the outrage, gave no immedi¬ate response. The report — and Mr Ban's impassioned plea for the UN Security Council to impose "consequences" on the Assad regime if it fails to disarm its chemical arsenal — could change the dynamics of a crucial 72 hours of diplomacy in New York.