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jlf1961 -> RE: U.S. Attacks Syria (4/7/2017 5:54:00 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Kirata
Syrian fixed-wing aircraft dropped chemical weapons on civilians in Idlib earlier this week, two U.S. military officials told NBC News. The U.S. military saw the aircraft on a radar and watched them drop the bombs, the officials said. ~Source
Yeah, no. Radar would not detect that the munitions were chemical. That's a conclusion after-the-fact.
Well, K, it is possible that the US is using its new ultra secret Starship Enterprise sensors coupled with its ulra secret radar with smell capabilities.
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ORIGINAL: Kirata
Russia on Wednesday blamed the poisonous gas contamination that activists say killed about 100 people — including 25 children — on a leak from a chemical weapons cache hit by Syrian government air strikes . . . "Syrian aviation made a strike on a large terrorist ammunition depot and a concentration of military hardware in the eastern outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun," he said in a video statement, referring to the rebel-held town in northern Syria where the deaths occurred Tuesday. ~Source
This strikes me as a more plausible explanation. But then the question becomes, did the Syrians know that the target included a chemical weapons cache? If they knew, and bombed it anyway....
K.
Well, considering that the only chemical agents found after the coalition invasion of Iraq were shells that were inert, and thus harmless, and in the years prior to the invasion, Hussein had decent diplomatic relations with Syria, it is plausible (if not highly likely) that a good deal of viable agents were moved to Syria in order to keep UN weapons inspectors from finding them.
It is known that Syria does not have facilities to produce such weapons (if they had, they would have either used them against Israel or Israel would have bombed them) then any chemical agents used by the Syrian military would have had to originate outside the country.
So, it comes down to one of two possibilities.
1) The Syrians knew the weapons were there and bombed them for the simple reason of setting off a sympathetic explosion and dispersal
Or
2) the rebels found an cache moved from Iraq prior to the invasion and had planned to use the agents themselves.
Now, in recent years, accusations against the Assad regime have included statements about the Syrian military using white phosphorus munitions (outlawed by the UN/Geneva conventions,) and even (from some of the infowars theories) mini nukes (whatever the hell those are.)
The simple truth is that if chemical agents are being used by the Syrian military, they did not originate in Syria. This means that they are either a) munitions moved from Iraq or b) supplied by a country with known chemical weapons manufacturing facilities with strong ties to Syria.
What strikes me as funny is that, in threads were I openly attacked some of the excesses of the current presidency (namely the increased cost and impact of security for Mrs. Trump at Trump tower) you have criticized my stance and had the support of an individual who has recently labeled you as a member of the 'alt left.'
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