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Former Iraqi PM on Syria attack: 'US only deals in force'


Sputnik
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 04:46 UTC
Former Iraqi PM Nouri al-Malik
© AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed
Nouri al-Maliki, former prime minister of Iraq and currently a vice president of the country, criticized this week's US missile strike against Syrian forces in a statement on his Facebook page.

In the April 7 statement, he said the US "deals with" rulers in the Middle East only "by force."

He criticized the US for not waiting for a complete investigation of Tuesday's alleged chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government, the ostensible reason for the US response, and for not waiting for international consensus.

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Jet3

Washington's attack on Syria fails to 'raise morale of US-backed terrorists' - Assad


Sputnik
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 15:10 UTC
destruction after syria chemical attack
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
Syrian President Bashar Assad said on Sunday that the US has failed to achieve the goal behind its attack on a military airfield in Syria, which is namely "raising the morale of the US-backed terrorist gangs."
The US has failed to achieve the goal behind its attack on a military airfield in Syria, which is namely "raising the morale of the US-backed terrorist gangs," Syrian President Bashar Assad said on Sunday, according to the country's news agency SANA.
The comments came in a phone conversation with Iranian President Rouhani who called the Syrian leader to voice his strong condemnation of what he called the "US' blatant aggression" on Syria.

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Chess

General McMaster corroborates Russian version of Syrian gas attack

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 15:06 UTC
National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster
President Trump's National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster contradicting British experts admits bombing chemical warfare storage facility can release sarin gas as Russians claim happened during Syrian air strike on Khan Sheikhoun.
Shortly after the alleged chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Syria the Russian Defence Ministry claimed that the release of chemical agents following the air strike happened because the Syrian air force struck a warehouse where the Jihadis were producing and storing stockpiles of chemical weapons.

This explanation was widely ridiculed, especially in Britain. A good summary is provided in this article on Counterpunch, with the comment by Bellingcat referred to in the article available here. I shall quote the relevant section from the first article in Counterpunch since it provides a good summary:
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Sheeple

Winner of 'best conspiracy theory' award: MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell claims Putin behind Syria attack, presents no evidence to support claim

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 02:40 UTC
Lawrence O’Donnell tin foil hat
O'Donnell sees it as a calculated move by Putin to help Donald Trump.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell has shown that for some, the 'Putin controls Trump' line still is being pushed. Not only was there never any evidence for this, but now Donald Trump has used the American military to bomb the air base of a Russian partner and ally in the war against terrorism.

But according to O'Donnell (no relation to Rosie), something much more conspiratorial is going on.

Comment: About as nonsensical as it gets.

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Bullseye

Boris Johnson backs out of Russia trip and gets trolled by the Russian Embassy


RT
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 16:50 UTC
Boris Johnson
© Alessandro Bianchi / ReutersBritain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
The Russian Embassy in the UK has come up with a "soft power response" to the British Foreign Secretary's decision not to travel to Moscow, citing "developments in Syria."

The last-minute cancellation, which has been described as "absurd" by the Russian Foreign Ministry, inspired the Russian diplomatic mission in London to play some Tchaikovsky for Boris.

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Newspaper

About-face: Trump is being lauded with bipartisan and media praise following Syrian bombing

Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 16:12 UTC
missile attack
© Ford Williams/U.S. Navy/Getty Images
IN EVERY TYPE of government, nothing unites people behind the leader more quickly, reflexively or reliably than war. Donald Trump now sees how true that is, as the same establishment leaders in U.S. politics and media who have spent months denouncing him as a mentally unstable and inept authoritarian and unprecedented threat to democracy are standing and applauding him as he launches bombs at Syrian government targets.

Trump, on Thursday night, ordered an attack that the Pentagon said included the launching of 59 Tomahawk missiles which "targeted aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistical storage, ammunition supply bunkers, air defense systems, and radars." The governor of Homs, the Syrian province where the attack occurred, said early this morning that the bombs killed seven civilians and wounded nine.

The Pentagon's statement said the attack was "in retaliation for the regime of Bashar Assad using nerve agents to attack his own people." Both Syria and Russia vehemently deny that the Syrian military used chemical weapons.

When asked about this yesterday by the Globe and Mail's Joanna Slater, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged an investigation to determine what actually happened before any action was contemplated, citing what he called "continuing questions about who is responsible":
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Bad Guys

Rewriting history: Politifact retracts story that US got chemical weapons out of Syria in 2014

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 08:12 UTC
syrian chemical attack children free thought project truth-o-meter
The United States, under the direction of President Donald Trump, attacked Syria directly for the first time since the Obama administration decided it was time for a regime change in Syria. Fifty-nine cruise missiles were used to target an airfield in the Syrian Idlib Province the U.S. says was used to stage a chemical weapons attack against innocent Syrian men, women, and children. While there appears to be evidence a chemical attack took place, there are conflicting reports as to who is responsible. Now, those organizations who declared chemical weapons were removed from Syria back in 2014, are retracting their stories.

Politifact retracted a story it published in 2014 titled, "Kerry: We got '100 percent' of chemical weapons out of Syria." John Kerry, then Secretary of State, told NBC's Meet The Press on July 20th, 2014, "we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out."

Comment: The "Assad used chemical weapons against his own people" is a nonsensical repeat of the original Iraq story that Bush and the neocons used to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq along with the subsequent slaughter of millions of Iraqis. Is history repeating? For more info:

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War Whore

Defence companies stocks soar after Trump's war crime

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:12 UTC
military industrial complex flag
Raytheon, the makers of the missiles used in the illegal attack, saw their numbers rise throughout the day.

While those who invest in morality and justice called Donald Trump a war criminal and condemned his illegal attack on Syria, those with vested interests in the military-industrial complex were celebrating as the stock market showed defence companies increasing their share prices.

The American company Raytheon, manufactures the Tomahawk Cruise Missiles used in Trump's attack on Syria.
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Rocket

A counter-productive and murderous gesture: Tillerson's and McMaster's reason for Syrian missile strike

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 16:00 UTC
Tillerson and McMaster
Tillerson and McMaster explain missile strike as a gesture, which however is more likely to enrage and provoke Moscow than deter Damascus.

The US missile strike on Syria's Sharyat air base provides a good opportunity to compare the sharply different approaches the US and the Russia have to the use of force.

The Russians use force sparingly as an instrument of state policy to advance what they see as their national interests. Every Russian military endeavour since the end of the Second Word War has been judged and carried out to further some concrete objective of the Russian state.
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Candle

Putin offers condolences to Egyptian president after blast in Tanta


TASS
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 16:03 UTC
Reports say about 21 killed in the blast in Tanta's church on Sunday

Putin
© Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS
Russia's President Vladimir Putin offered condolences to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi after the terrorist attack in Tanta on Sunday.

"The crime, committed on the religious holiday, strikes with cruelty and cynicism. Clearly, the terrorists seek not only intimidating people, but also showing discord between representatives of various faiths. However, I am convinced, they would not achieve the goals. By acting together, shoulder to shoulder with other responsible members of the international community, our countries would be able to repel for terrorist forces, to eradicate their unhuman ideology," the telegram reads.
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