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Assad: US blocking investigations in Syria gas attack to maintain lies over false flag


Sputnik
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:54 UTC
Assad
© REUTERS/ SANA
Western countries are blocking attempts to investigate the Idlib chemical incident because in the event of a probe it will be established that the "attack" was a false flag and lie, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Sputnik.

The United States and other Western countries block any attempts to launch an impartial investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Sputnik.

"We formally sent a letter to the United Nations, we asked them in that letter to send a delegation in order to investigate what happened in Khan Shaykhun," Assad said in an interview.

"Of course till this moment they didn't send, because the West and the United States blocked any delegation from coming, because if they come, they will find that all their narratives about what happened in Khan Shaykhun and then the attack on Sha'irat airport was a false flag, was a lie," Assad stressed.
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Bad Guys

US seeks increased intervention in Yemen - a policy of managed chaos

Thomas C. Mountain
Intrepid Report
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
violence in Yemen
The USA, according to Defense Secretary "Mad Dog" Mattis, he who ordered the use of chemical weapons in Fallujah, Iraq, is about to take a major step towards direct intervention in support of Saudi Arabia's war on the Yemeni people.

According to Jeffrey St. Clair, editor of CounterPunch, this war has already seen 90,000 Saudi airstrikes on Yemen, or one every 12 minutes, 123 a day for two years now. With direct US military involvement, it will only get worse for the USA has been limiting its involvement to fueling, arming and target selection for the Saudi military.

The UN and the international media claim only 12,000 or so deaths in Yemen but this just doesn't add up. If there have been 90,000 airstrikes that means that only one Yemeni is killed for every 8 strikes? They must take us for idiots, or more likely, just too ignorant and brainwashed to know better.
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Heart - Black

Israeli settler mows down Palestinian girl with his car after alleged West Bank rammer killing


Sputnik
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:40 UTC
Palestinian flag
© AP/ Bernat Armangue
An Israeli settler ran over a Palestinian girl Thursday near the city of Bethlehem, local media reported, citing a security source.

The 13-year-old girl was sent to the hospital, the WAFA news agency said, adding she was in moderate condition.

The incident comes just a day after Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian national after he allegedly rammed into Israeli civilians, also near Bethlehem.

Earlier in the day, Palestine's Foreign Ministry condemned the killing of the alleged rammer, identified as 21-year-old Sohaib Mashahreh, and described him as "a victim of the Israeli army's death game they play against Palestinians."

Tensions between Israel and Palestine have continued to escalate through the years. Currently, Palestinians seek to create an independent state in the West Bank and for the withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian territories it occupied after the Six-Day War in 1967.
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ISIS sympathizer gets life sentence after trying to buy bomb from federal agents


RT
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:09 UTC
Handcuffs
© KRON4
Florida resident Harlem Suarez was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction obtained from undercover federal agents, and for providing material support to Islamic State.

"The offense is such a serious offense that people need to know that you can't do that," Judge Martinez said in the Key West district court after an hour-long sentencing hearing, imposing the life sentence on Tuesday, according to the Miami Herald. "He was talking the talk. He was walking the walk and was in possession of what he thought was a weapon of mass destruction," added the judge.

Suarez's lawyer had asked for a more lenient sentence but Judge Martinez agreed with prosecutors that Suarez should get the maximum term. The 25-year-old was convicted at a trial on January 27 of buying a bomb and plotting to blow up a Florida Keys beach, in allegiance to Islamic State (IS formerly ISIS/ISIL).

Comment: The FBI has a long history of instigating and manufacturing such incidents. If they really wanted to tackle pro-terrorist propaganda, they should investigate the Washington establishment and the lap-dog media, which are much more dangerous terrorist sympathizers.

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Info

South Front: Baghdadi captured in northern Iraq? Assad says nope (VIDEOS)


South Front
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:18 UTC
south front
On April 18, a number of media outlets reported that ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may has been captured in northern Syria. The reports referred to an article appeared at the desiagency.eu website ("European Department For Security And Information") arguing that Baghdadi was captured as a result of the joint efforts of the Syrian and Russian intelligence. Earlier this week, Iraqi Ministry of Defense said in a statement that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and staying in Syria. Despite the media jitters conducted by the story, the report lacks details and looks questionable.


Comment: Assad responded to these rumors today:
"That's not true. Anyway, those borders are under the control of [Daesh] till this moment, it's neither Syrian nor Russian, not even Western or American or any other one; it's only [Daesh] who's controlling those borders, so it's safe for al-Baghdadi to be in that area," Assad said.

A number of media outlets earlier reported that al-Baghdadi had been detained in Syria near the border with Iraq. This information has not been officially confirmed.


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Pistol

Russian MoD: Russian military adviser killed in assault on Syrian govt camp


RT
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:01 UTC
Russian military
© Ali Hashisho / Reuters
A Russian military adviser has been killed in a militant assault on a Syrian government forces camp, the Russian Ministry of Defense has said. The officer, Major Sergey Bordov, was training a Syrian Army unit and was part of a group of Russian advisers.

During the militant attack, Bordov helped establish the defense line and direct the actions of the Syrian Army soldiers, a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense said.

"During the militants' attack, the Russian officer directed the actions of the Syrian soldiers, thus successfully preventing the terrorists from breaching the defenses and entering the camp," the ministry noted. It added that "in the course of the fighting, the officer sustained fatal injuries."

The major will be awarded a decoration posthumously.
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Footprints

Manhunt in progress for CIA 'traitor' who leaked 'Vault 7' to WikiLeaks


RT
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:49 UTC
Vault 7
© Samuel C. SpitaleThe Release of Vault 7
The FBI and CIA are investigating hundreds of possible suspects in one of the biggest security breaches in CIA history, CBS News reports. The WikiLeaks "Vault 7" release, which contained thousands of top-secret documents, revealed the agency's hacking tools. A joint investigation and manhunt by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency into the source of WikiLeaks' "Vault 7" dump last month has begun, CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues reported Wednesday evening.

The release last month brought to light the CIA's digital arsenal for hacking into computer systems and smart devices such as phones and televisions. Thousands of top-secret classified files that had previously been guarded within a "highly secure section of the intelligence agency," as CBS News sources described it, were made available to the world for free by WikiLeaks.

The source of the leak, the FBI and CIA reportedly believe, was one of the hundreds of agents or contractors who had physical access to the material, not an outside hacker. That suspicion seems to align with what WikiLeaks said in their press release announcing the Vault 7 release on March 7. "The archive appears to have been circulated among former US government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive," the pro-transparency group said.


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Question

Russian military questions watchdog's swift ID of sarin in Syria chemical incident


RT
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:41 UTC
SkullcrossbonesSyria
© The Nation
The Russian military has questioned the swift conclusion of chemical weapons watchdog the OPCW, which has reported identifying sarin in samples related to an alleged attack in Syria on April 5.

The Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) convened in the Hague on Wednesday for an update on the investigation into the reported chemical weapons attack in the town of Khan Shaykhun. Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü told members that four OPCW designated laboratories have studied samples collected from three victims of the alleged attack during their autopsy and seven individuals undergoing treatment after surviving the incident. He said analysis of all samples indicated exposure to sarin or a sarin-like substance.

"While further details of the laboratory analyses will follow, the analytical results already obtained are incontrovertible," the official said.

The OPCW statement didn't explain how exactly the samples were collected. The inspectors have yet to visit Khan Shaykhun, which would allow the collection of samples on the ground to confirm contamination from a chemical agent. The site is located in a rebel-controlled territory in the Idlib province. Üzümcü said such a visit would depend on the security situation and cited an attack on an OPCW fact-finding mission in May 2014.

Comment: As in all false flags, there is a rush to judgement to sway public opinion. If that works, there is no need for facts. If there is no need for facts, there is no need for an investigation.

Sputnik adds the following:
"Most importantly, this hasty declaration by Uzumcu strongly undermines the credibility of the whole OPCW," Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov stressed. "If there really was sarin in Khan Shaykhun, how can the OPCW explain White Helmets charlatans jumping in sarin vapor without protection means? Everyone has seen it. I would like to receive from [OPCW chief Ahmet] Uzumcu distinct answers to all the questions as soon as possible," he added.

Mikhail Uliyanov, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control (DNAC) said earlier on Thursday that the OPCW inaction over chemical weapons incident could damage its credibility as there are no facts that OPCW representatives have visited the Khan Shaykhun area.
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Attention

North Korea warns of 'super-mighty pre-emptive strike' and threatens to turn US 'to ashes'


RT
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:31 UTC
Pyongyang, April 15, 2017
© Damir Sagolj / ReutersPyongyang, April 15, 2017
North Korean state media has warned Washington of a "super-mighty pre-emptive strike" which would "reduce the US to ashes." It comes after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Washington is looking to pressure Pyongyang over its nuclear program.

"In the case of our super-mighty preemptive strike being launched, it will completely and immediately wipe out not only US imperialists' invasion forces in South Korea and its surrounding areas, but the US mainland and reduce them to ashes," Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, wrote on Thursday, as quoted by Reuters.

It comes just one day after Tillerson, as part of President Donald Trump's hardline stance against North Korea, said the US is exploring ways to put pressure on Pyongyang.

"We're reviewing all the status of North Korea, both in terms of state sponsorship of terrorism as well as the other ways in which we can bring pressure on the regime in Pyongyang to re-engage with us, but re-engage with us on a different footing than past talks have been held," he told reporters on Wednesday.

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Beaker

New York Times mocks skepticism of Syria-Sarin claims

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
the gas guy
© In Terris
The New York Times and other major media have ruled out any further skepticism toward the U.S. government's claim that Syrian President Assad dropped a sarin bomb on a town in Idlib province, reports Robert Parry. In the old days of journalism, we were taught that there were almost always two sides to a story, if not more sides than that. Indeed, part of the professional challenge of journalism was to sort out conflicting facts on a complicated topic. Often we found that the initial impression of a story was wrong once we understood the more nuanced reality.

Today, however, particularly on foreign policy issues, the major U.S. news outlets, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, apparently believe there is only one side to a story, the one espoused by the U.S. government or more generically the Establishment. Any other interpretation of a set of facts gets dismissed as "fringe" or "fake news" even if there are obvious holes in the official story and a lack of verifiable proof to support the mainstream groupthink. Very quickly, alternative explanations are cast aside while ridicule is heaped on those who disagree.

Comment: That there was no questioning, no intellectual curiosity, no fact finding...was Trump's reward for following the official script and bombing Syria. He received the un-factual backing his un-investigated stunt deserved. The deep state story going forward has been set. The lie is locked in, a testament to whatever standards were bought and paid for.

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