UK intelligence spun 2013 Syria chemical attack, leaked docs show - The Grayzone
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US officials suppressed internal assessments that Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing had an “advanced” sarin production cell even as the US publicly blamed the Assad government for a 2013 chemical weapons attack, a report reveals. Leaked documents obtained by The Grayzone show a shadowy British intelligence contractor helped sell the story that Assad was responsible – and nearly triggered Western intervention. On September 13, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) appraisal detailing the chemical […]
  • OrnluWolfjarl
    23·
    2 years ago

    It’s despicable that Aaron Mate has been investigating this for 8 years now, has testified to the UN about it, and the UN has taken action on his testimony, yet mainstream news has been wholly silent about it

    • sous-merdeBanned
      7·
      2 years ago

      Yep, here
      They also got this list of signatories there

      To know more

      Scott Ritter also comes to mind during the 90s in Iraq, a long list probably exist somewhere, and isn’t finished since our journalists won’t stop their lies and there’s no opposition apart from them(, Internet perhaps, but they’re putting laws on it).

    • Camarada ForteA
      8·
      2 years ago

      why did lemmy ban my question marks? 😔

      if you write a lot of question marks, it gets reduced to 3:

      ???

        • redtea
          8·
          2 years ago

          Those question marks are shadows on the cave wall. We’ll never know how many there really are until we get free, comrade.

      • ShinhoshiEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        why did lemmy ban my question marks?

        I think it’s for the same reason a lot of periods turns into a normal ellipsis.

        But is a lot of question marks better??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

  • Shrike502
    161·
    2 years ago

    How many people have been murdered over this lie?

  • Effort0499
    3·
    2 years ago

    US meanwhile: Please just ignore all the chemical weapons we’ve used not just in Vietnam but in that very same conflict in Syria when we used white phosphorus against entire populations of cities to fight ISIS occupy Syria’s oilfields.