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WHY IS NOBODY ASKING WHOSE SARIN IT WAS? By Leni and Dr. Jiri Valenta

April 12, 2017
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There is a question nobody is asking here and it surely should be. Who launched the sarin gas at civilians in Syria? Everyone in America -- even Fox News -- is absolutely, smugly certain that it’s Assad and they are wondering why the Russians haven’t done a better job of guarding his stockpile. Didn’t they agree to do that in 2013?

Are the media pundits not aware that the anti-Assad rebels have learned how to obtain and store their own sarin and know how to launch it too? And why have they advanced a silly theory that because Assad wasn’t punished by Obama, he thinks he can get away with murder now?

Here’s perhaps a better theory: First, this attack was launched as things were going Assad’s way. No doubt about it. Trump was interested in letting him stay in power for awhile until free elections could be held. There was U.S. accord with Assad's mentor, Russia. So why, unless he’s inexplicably , irredeemably and hopelessly stupid, would Assad do something so diabolic and disgusting that pictures of dead babies almost reduced our strong president to tears. And who had an interest in turning Trump from his designated path and inducing a U.S. invasion? The anti-Assad rebels perhaps?

Then, you recall, how in 2013 then Secretary of State John Kerry told the world that there was no doubt the sarin was launched by the Syrian army because of the trajectory of the rockets.

The problem is that Kerry’s 2013 unquestionable proclamation has been seriously trashed by the report of Richard Loyd and Theodore Pistol at M.I.T. It wasn’t the Syrian army says former U.S. weapons inspector Lloyd and his co-writer, Technology, and National Security Policy Professor Theodore Postol. It’s all outlined in their “Possible Implications of Faulty U.S. Technical Intelligence,” published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group.

But even more powerful than the Lloyd report in questioning who dunnit, are publications by two star reporters that may well have been censored in the U.S. --not by the government but the pro-Obama, loyalist liberal press. The first is Seymour Hersh, who couldn’t get his essay, “Whose Sarin?” published in America, except in his stalwart, the New Yorker. However. The London Review of Books gladly took it and much else he’s written. The second is Christophe Lehrmann, who used different deep throats than Hersh to arrive at some similar conclusions.

It seems that all sarin was not created equal. As Hersh explains, the Russians gave a sample of Assad’s sarin to MI6 [British intelligence] who had it analyzed at their Porton Down lab. Surprise! It didn’t match what was used on the Syrian civilians, a finding backed up by the U.S. Navy. At first Hersh thought it might have come from Libya, where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was secretly gun-running arms to the Syrian rebels.

In case you forgot or didn’t know, she was doing that from a U.S. mission in Benghazi misnamed a “consulate,” with the help of one Christopher Stevens. With four destroyers lined up and ready to take out Syrian air bases in 2013, the Joint Chiefs, then led by Martin Dempsey threw a monkey wrench into the planned attack. If Assad didn’t definitely do it, there was no justification for an attack-- war crimes were possible. The CIA, remembering the phony WMD used to justify the Iraq war, wasn’t happy either.

So the attack was called off, a deal was brokered through Russia to lock up Assad’s chemical WMD and the public shammed as usual. Meanwhile, Obama lost so much face that Putin, spitting in it with his Ukraine interventions, had to bend down and aim at his ankles.

That the true culprits were the anti-Assad rebels is claimed and elucidated chapter and verse by Christophe Lehrmann who explains who, why, where, when and how the rebels did it, and that it was backed by our faithful allies, the Saudis and Qatar. If this is a conspiracy theory, it will at least furnish bedrock for a Steven Spielberg spectacular, but it’s so detailed it does bear investigation.

To counter the blame being placed on the Russians for not guarding the Assad stockpile, the Russians need to prove once again, that it’s not Assad’s sarin. Then we need to check if it really was launched from the air base we attacked as now claimed. The Russians say it leaked from a rebel chemical cache that suffered a Syrian air force strike.

Meanwhile, we are glad the Russians present were warned to get out of harms way before the attack. We also may presume from a very measured and small attack, that Trump’s earlier plans for rapprochement with Russia are not completely moribund. Vladimir Putin needs to understand things from Trumps point of view, including the huge pressures of the Democrats trying to bring him down, low popularity polls although he’s right, and his need to show that “strategic patience” is over with U.S. foes.

Let cooler heads prevail. The only way the Syrian and Ukraine crises will be resolved is through Putin and Trump. Both have fortunately come to understand that if the dictator is killed before free elections can be held, then as in Iraq and Syria, the vacuum will be filled by ISIL. And if the Islamic terrorists of ISIL prevail in Syria, the secular Syria migrants in Europe will never return to their homeland. They will not want to live under Wahhabi-Salafi Saudi “paradise” and the draconian evils of sharia law.

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