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Post by cjm on Apr 13, 2017 19:45:43 GMT
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Post by cjm on Apr 13, 2017 19:51:22 GMT
Video: Nikki Haley Torches Russia Over UN Security Council Veto on SyriaFormer South Carolina Governor and current United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has emerged as a powerful voice of moral clarity at that institution, unapologetically standing up for American interests, defending Israel against hopelessly selective international calumny, and hammering both the barbaric Syrian regime and its craven protectors in Moscow. During Wednesday's UN Security Council vote on a resolution in response to Assad's horrific chemical weapons attack on his own people, Russia once again wielded its veto power to defeat the measure. Against clear evidence, the Kremlin dismissed Assad's culpability in the murderous act -- a denial that comes on the heels of US intelligence sources releasing an assessment that the Russian government was complicit in the attack. Following a statement from the UK's representative at Turtle Bay, Haley unloaded on the Russian delegation. Leah wrote up some of the remarks yesterday, but the video is worth watching, especially to see Haley blasting the Russians and Syrians to their faces. Skip ahead to the seven minute mark: ... Trump administration unveils intelligence discrediting Russia’s claims on chemical attack in Syria... Officials said their case against the Syrian government included signals and aerial intelligence — combined with local reporting and samples taken from victims of the attack — that showed a Russian-made, Syrian-piloted SU-22 aircraft dropped at least one munition carrying the nerve agent sarin. The declassified findings formed part of a coordinated broadside against Russia from the White House, State Department and Pentagon. The choreographed critiques appeared to show a desire to impose order on what has been the administration’s chaotic, often contradictory public stance on national security matters. ...
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Post by cjm on Apr 14, 2017 10:42:26 GMT
per the Jerusalem PostSyria's Assad says Idlib chemical attack a 'fabrication' ... The Assad regime agreed to dismantle the country’s chemical weapons stockpiles in a 2013 deal brokered by the United States and Russia following the deadly regime attack on East Ghouta near the capital of Damascus where over 1,400 people were killed, including 426 children. While the regime did comply with destroying many of the stockpiles as well as the infrastructure to produce them, removing over 1,290 metric tons of chemical weapons – including sarin, VX and sulfur mustard, a precursor to mustard gas – according to former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon, Israel is under the impression that the regime cheated international inspectors and kept residual amounts of sarin. ...
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Post by cjm on Apr 15, 2017 7:45:40 GMT
The OPCW: ridding the world of chemical weapons... In 2014, a fact-finding mission of scientists and experts was set up to investigate persistent allegations of chemical weapons attacks. It has deployed "numerous" times to Syria and uses "investigative methods to determine if chemical weapons have been used", according to the OPCW. After an OPCW team hit a home-made roadside bomb in Syria in early 2014, experts can no longer travel outside of Damascus for their own safety. Instead, the OPCW "interviews witnesses and obtains environmental and biomedical samples and physical evidence for analysis" in OPCW-designated labs. The reports of the fact-finding mission are sent to a joint UN-OPCW team known as the JIM, set up by the UN Security Council in 2015 to determine "to the greatest extent feasible" who is behind the attacks. It has so far found the Syrian military to blame for at least three chemical attacks in villages in 2014 and 2015. And it has said the so-called Islamic State group was behind a 2015 mustard gas attack.
- What about the April 4 attack? -
The OPCW has an "ongoing" investigation into the April 4 attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun, in Idlib province, which killed 87 people.
At a special OPCW meeting in The Hague on Thursday, Uzumcu said technical experts had analysed available information "and their preliminary assessment (was) that this was a credible allegation".
Britain told the meeting its scientists had analysed samples which "have tested positive for the nerve agent sarin, or a sarin-like substance".Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told AFP the reports were "100 percent for us a fabrication" to justify a US military strike on a Syrian air base. The fact-finding mission is hoping to complete its work in the next two to three weeks. "Our experts are fully aware of the significance of the task they are expected to fulfil and I am confident that they will do it in a professional and impartial manner using all available technical means," said Uzumcu.
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Post by cjm on Apr 17, 2017 7:04:31 GMT
Susan Rice is a liar. Now even the liberal media is starting to admit it... The Washington Post gave Rice four Pinocchios (out of four) in the paper’s liars scoreboard for bogus claims about removing Syria’s chemical weapons. The Post criticized her for comments she made during a Jan. 16, NPR interview. It looks bad for Rice that a paper so blatantly anti-Trump as the Post would criticize her for such willful deceit. The paper’s Fact Checker called Rice’s statement “problematic” before spending 1,400 words proving she lied. “She did not explain that Syria’s declaration was believed to be incomplete and thus was not fully verified — and that the Syrian government still attacked citizens with chemical weapons not covered by the 2013 agreement. That tipped her wordsmithing toward a Four,” wrote Glenn Kessler. The article cited several examples where Syria had continued to use chemical weapons. “Kerry’s “exit memo” to Obama, released 11 days before Rice’s remarks on NPR, acknowledged that Syria continued to use ‘undeclared’ chemical weapons,” emphasized Kessler. ...
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Post by diebottoebantoe on Apr 17, 2017 12:38:29 GMT
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Post by diebottoebantoe on Apr 18, 2017 10:23:09 GMT
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Post by diebottoebantoe on Apr 23, 2017 7:48:13 GMT
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Post by cjm on May 2, 2017 7:28:41 GMT
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Post by cjm on Jun 30, 2017 7:48:02 GMT
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Post by cjm on Aug 22, 2017 7:41:24 GMT
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