Seymour Hersh: US Knew Assad Didn’t Have Chemical Weapons
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
YourNewsWire.com
June 27, 2017
American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claims that the U.S. knew that Assad didn’t use chemical weapon on his own people before launching a Tomahawk strike on Syria.
The Pulitzer prize winner told German newspaper Die Welt that Trump ordered a cruise missile strike on Syria Shayrat airbase, despite the fact that his administration knew that the Syrian military didn’t possess or use chemical weapons in the Idlib town of Khan Sheikhoun.
Geopoliticsalert.com reports: Hersh told Welt that he had been in contact with sources inside US intelligence operating in Syria that informed him that they had contacted Washington with reports that the Syrian military wasn’t behind an alleged chemical weapons attack on April 4th of this year. These reports were apparently ignored by Trump; who instead informed his decision to launch 59 cruise missiles from the Mediterranean based on reports by the US imperialist media.
Hersh claims that starting from the beginning, the Syrian government was open about their operations in Idlib that day – even broadcasting details of the bombing run on Khan Sheikhoun in English through the deconfliction channels established by the US and Russia. This seems possible since the targets of the bombing were several mid level members of Tahrir al-Sham (formerly the al-Qaeda affiliate, Jahbat al-Nusra), should have been agreeable to all sides. There is little doubt this area was controlled by Tahrir al-Sham at the time since all the evidence of the use of sarin gas came from the “humanitarians” in the White Helmets – a group with known ties to the jihadist group.
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