For those of you buying the Sarin attack is a false flag
hoax, the Trump Administration is declassifying the evidence from whence sarin
was loaded at Shayrat Airfield on Su-22 fixed-wing aircraft. Flown over Khan
Shaykhun and released on the civilian residents.
There is even the appearance that – SURPRISE – Russia and
Iran has spreading disinformation about the sarin attack. This would be where
conspiracy theorists have picked up false flag data and then proceeded to
spread the Russian/Iranian propaganda.
“The U.S. has confirmed the
agent used in the attack was sarin, from testing on the victims and from
symptom reports as well as "leakage around the actual weapon that we think
the sarin came from." Emergency personnel suffered exposure symptoms from
coming into contact with contaminated victims.”
The above quote is from PJ Media article that I am
cross posting below.
JRH 4/11/17
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White House: 'Massive' Evidence Shows Sarin Came from
Assad Base
APRIL 11, 2017
WASHINGTON -- White
House officials said today that the U.S. has amassed a mountain of evidence
confirming that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used sarin against the town
of Khan Shaykhun last week, and indicated they're still trying to
determine if Russia knew about the attack beforehand.
A declassified summary of the
intelligence report on the attack that killed dozens and injured hundreds one
week ago today found that the Syrian and Russian assertion that the nerve agent
must have come from terrorist or rebel forces also has no basis in fact.
New information coming in
"continues to be clear and consistent with our understanding of the
attack," a senior White House official told reporters on background today.
The declassified information
was compiled from open-source materials ranging from videos to on-the-ground
accounts, geospatial intelligence, U.S. signals intelligence, and
physiological samples from attack victims.
The attack came from Su-22
fixed-wing aircraft out of the Shayrat airfield hit in subsequent U.S. strikes,
the report says; the planes were in the Khan Shaykhun area for 20 minutes
before the first report of a chemical attack came in, and left soon after. The
administration also has "information that suggest that personnel
historically associated with the chemical weapons program were at Shayrat
airfield in late March preparing for this attack," and these people were
there again on the day of the attack.
The U.S. has confirmed the
agent used in the attack was sarin, from testing on the victims and from
symptom reports as well as "leakage around the actual weapon that we think
the sarin came from." Emergency personnel suffered exposure symptoms from
coming into contact with contaminated victims.
A hospital treating attack
victims was struck by conventional weapons about six hours after the chemical
attack.
On hoax theories, the White
House official said the "absolute massive data we have in all the
different vehicles -- we've gotten it from open-source videos, to victim
accounts, to imagery, to signals intelligence, is just too massive for really
any -- any intelligence organization to fabricate in that short a period of
time; we just think that's not a feasible explanation." Intel agencies have
confirmed that videos distributed of the attack were filmed at the time and in
the locations claimed.
"Across the board
starting in 2013 [with the Ghouta sarin attack] and then since, we've seen both
the Russians and the Syrians have a very clear campaign to try to obfuscate the
nature of attacks, the attackers, and what has happened at any particular
incident," the official said.
"They've thrown out a
bunch of potential agents, a bunch of potential responsible or accountable
parties. And often their own information is inconsistent with their own
narrative. They certainly have dismissed the allegations of a chemical attack
in Khan Shaykhun. They called it a 'prank of a provocative nature.' But again,
we don't think it's remotely possible for the Syrians or the Russians to have
fabricated this much information so fast and so consistently on this
attack."
The official added that the
Russian theory that a conventional regime strike hit a chemical weapons depot
is "inconsistent" with the facts, stressing terrorist groups or
rebels are not known to have sarin and "we don't see a building,
again, with that chemical residue we would expect if the Russian narrative was
true." The chemical weapon landed in the middle of a street.
It's "quite clear to us,
that in this case, this is not a terrorist holding of sarin, or a terrorist use
of sarin, but we do know that the Syrian regime has sarin," the official
said.
Another official said the
White House is "still looking into what we think the
intelligence-community assessment or other is about Russian knowledge of,
involvement, etc."
The official said there's
"not a consensus on our side" yet "about the extent or how to
interpret the information that we have and continue to get," adding that
historically and especially in the past two years of conflict Russia and Syria
are two militaries that "operate very closely, even down to an operational
and a tactical level."
"And so considering the
fact that there were Russian forces co-located with Syrian forces at the
Shayrat airfield in addition to many other installations -- many other Syrian
regime installations around the country," the official added. "We do
think that it is a question worth asking the Russians about how is it possible
that their forces were co-located with the Syrian forces that planned,
prepared, and carried out chemical weapons attack at the same installation and
did not have foreknowledge."
"...We don't know the
tactical intentions of the Russians on that day, on any operations that they
may have been involved in."
The officials would not
comment on the existence of any U.S. signals intelligence that would indicate
collusion between the Russians and Syrians or a direct order from Assad to
attack the town.
The first White House
official said they "take very seriously the possibility that Syria may
have additional agents elsewhere" and are "working with our
intelligence community to understand every piece of information they have about
where such munitions might be located, who might be a hold of them."
"And I can tell you that
that's going to be part of what we try to figure out, where we go from
here."
Officials theorized that the
chemical weapons strike was conducted because, even though a civilian
neighborhood was the target, Khan Shaykhun was one of the support areas in the
rear of the opposition front lines advancing on Hama since March. The city
includes a key airbase for Assad's forces.
"At that point, the
regime, we think, calculated that with its manpower spread quite think trying
to support both defensive operations and consolidation operations in Aleppo and
along that north-south spine of western Syria, and also trying to support
operations which required it to send manpower and resources east toward
Palmyra, we believe that the regime probably calculated at that point that
chemical weapons were necessary in order to try to make up for the manpower
deficiency," an official said.
"...We believe certainly
that there were -- there was an operational calculus that the regime and
perhaps its Russian advisers went through in terms of the
decision-making."
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