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Such claims started circulating in the Western corporate media for the first time back in 2013. Back then the award-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh caught the Obama administration lying when it claimed that the Syrian government had used sarin poison gas. Back then the evidence Hersh provided confirmed that both the White House statements and fraudulent propaganda unwound by it in the media, pursued one goal - to create a pretext for armed intervention in Syria and replace the legitimate government of the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR) with their henchmen, and through this stunt take full control of the country.
During his investigation Hersh established that there was a direct tie between the Obama administration and the leaders of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar that signed a secret agreement back in 2012 to organize a chemical provocation, using sarin poison gas to push the blame on the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad later on.
However, the complete elimination of all Syrian chemical stockpiles in the areas controlled by the Syrian government that ended in January 2016 with the extensive amount of help provided by international organizations saved the people of Damascus from American bombs raining on their heads. However, this topic is still being used in the propaganda war that is being waged against the government of Bashar al-Assad. In a bid to please its masters in the White House, the corporate media sources repeat the same tune over and over again, they are being often followed by various international organizations, that are still willing to claim that Damascus is using chemical weapons.
The sad fact is that in the absence of any comprehensive results in the so-called War on Terror that the US-led coalition has been waging in Syria and Iraq, Washington's puppets launched a new wave of accusation against Damascus. In order to please its Western masters, the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced that it's going to investigate 9 cases of alleged chemical weapons use in Syria in order to identify the offenders. It's been reported that the Syrian government is being suspected of two attacks, while radical militants are believed to launch but a single attack. Against this background, American officials did not hesitate to call on Russia and Iran to "make Syria answer for its crimes." But isn't it a bit too early to allocate the blame? Are there any facts and have those been checked?
We must not forget that Washington has used such provocative accusations time and time again in order to achieve its objectives on the international arena. This fact is confirmed by the investigation published by Seymour Hersh. Moreover, there's been a case of US Secretary of State Collin Powell falsely accusing Saddam Hussein of possessing WMD to justify Washington's armed aggression against Iraq in front of the UN Security Council that we shouldn't forget.
It is impossible to disregard reports that radical militants have managed to start producing chemical weapons in the field. Thus, the radical terrorist group Jaish al-Islam admitted that it used prohibited weapons against Kurds in the Aleppo region last April, while ISIS militants launched a series of missiles armed with mustard gas against the Syrian town of Deir ez-Zor.
As it's been recently announced by Syria's permanent representative to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, hundreds of letters about chemical attacks in the Damascus outskirts back in 2013 were sent by the government authorities to the UN Security Council and other international bodies, but they were just ignored. Jaafari stated that the states that had a considerable amount of influence in the Security Council just turn those letters down or accused the Syrian government of unreliability. Syria's representative stated this kind of reaction was provoked by the fact that those who were behind the actual use of chemical weapons enjoyed the direct support of those influential countries.
Syria has acceded to the Convention on the Prohibition of the use of chemical weapons on October 14, 2013. In late October, all the declared pieces of equipment that could be used for the production of chemical substances was destroyed by Damascus. On January 4, 2016 the procedure of the destruction of all chemical stockpiles in Syria has also been completed.
Those behind the new wave of propaganda campaign against Damascus have clearly forgotten that in early reports featured in the Western media sources, the US President Barack Obama has even claimed that he was behind the initiative to destroy chemical weapons in Syria, even though this initiative came from Russia.
So it turns out that the chemical weapons haven't been destroyed and the statements made on this subject by Barack Obama and a number of UN representatives are just false? Or today's accusations made by certain media sources are false? What is more likely?
In the age of information warfare a properly drafted article can sometimes turn all the facts upside down. It is a well known fact that groups that control the neighborhood of the Iraqi Mosul as capable of producing chemical weapons (according to the latest data, the chlorine gas), even though the city lies in the American zone of responsibility. But the US does not accept even the slightest possibility of any coordination between the US-led coalition and a coalition of Syria - Russia - Iran. Therefore, we can hardly expect any attempts to destroy the rogue chemical stockpiles in the Iraqi Kurdistan. Instead of providing any real assistance in a bid to put an end to the civil war in Syria, the White House is engaged in promotion of various false accusations in vain hopes to achieve its own goals in Syria.
After all, as we all know that the United States - is an empire of lies!
Martin Berger is a freelance journalist and geopolitical analyst, exclusively for the online magazine New Eastern Outlook.
Comment: From the red line to the flat line...someone is crying wolf one too many times. US policy: Back up a lie with the same lie, even if it has been exposed.