In the long-running nightmare of the Syrian civil war, the attack at Douma was a déjà vu atrocity with big consequences in Washington. On April 7, 2018, a working class neighborhood in greater Damascus suffered a chemical attack that killed at least 43 people. Six days later, President Trump ordered a cruise missile attack on...
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False Flag Watch: Leaked OPCW Memo Questions Syria Chemical Attack
A leaked memo about a deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria in April 2018 differs from the official finding of the UN chemical inspections watchdog that the government of Bashar al-Assad was responsible. The sixteen-page document does not refute the official UN finding, published in March, that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe, that the...
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Syrian Media Blames Israel’s Mossad for Assassination of Chemical Weapons Chief
In his recent book “Rise and Kill First,” journalist Ronen Bergman lays bare one of the distinctions of Israeli’s intelligence: a program of targetted assassination that has no rival. While the Russian FSB has record of using poison and the American CIA uses drones neither is as prolific in killings its perceived foes as Israel’s...