Bharat Rakshak

With the attack by Takfiri infidels on the ancient Aramaic city of Ma'loolaa, the signs cannot be doubted any longer. John Kerry, a closet-Jew Zionist, a servant of the Antichrist, continues to spout his venom in the hope that innocent Americans will be distracted from the abominations of the Arabians, the Turks and their own president. It is only through the manipulation of man that the Devil can arise to his throne atop an earth denuded of everything human and devoid of all things but the droppings of flies. For that is the mission of Barack Obama. Unless we can stop him.

Asked why Russia is boosting its task force in the region, Sergei Ivanov said: "They [the warships] are intended for possible evacuation of Russian citizens," Ivanov said.

Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said earlier on Thursday that the country's increased presence in the Mediterranean is a "legitimate, natural and predictable reaction to the situation developing" in the region.

"Our actions are in strict compliance with international law and the UN Charter," he stressed, adding that the Mediterranean Sea is "quite close to Russia's borders."

However, he stressed that Russia's naval presence in the Mediterranean Sea does should not be interpreted as an indication that the country plans to take an active role in any regional conflict, he said.

"Our warships are a guarantee of regional stability, an attempt to restrain other forces that are ready to launch military operations in the region," Antonov said.

Britain has "growing" evidence that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons, Prime Minister David Cameron said at the G20 summit in St Petersburg.

"We have just been looking at some samples taken from Damascus in the Porton Down laboratory in Britain which further shows the use of chemical weapons in that Damascus suburb," he said, referring to the alleged chemical weapons attack of August 21.

The evidence against Assad was "growing all the time," he said.

A national debate is raging on Twitter. Tweets and statements from members of Congress – both Democrat and Republican – show tremendously strong opposition to President Obama’s call for an air strike on Syria:

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., tweeted, “Calls and emails from my constituents is 100 to 1 AGAINST getting involved in Syria. The American people are speaking.”

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said 99 percent of the calls his office oppose an attack.

Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., said, “Constituents who have contacted my office by phone or mail oppose action in Syria 523-4 so far.”

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., tweeted, “My phones are blowing up, and an overwhelming amount of constituents oppose U.S. military intervention in Syria.”

Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., tweeted, “Syria constituent calls 489-2 against.”

Rep. Shelley Capito, R-W.V., said of “about 1,000 calls to my office, maybe 5 are for.”

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., said calls and emails to his offices are 600 to 9 against striking Syria.

Contact Congress and let your lawmakers know how you feel about authorizing President Obama to strike Syria.

Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark., tweeted, “FYI: Received 75 calls/emails from constituents today so far on Syria. All 75 opposed to military action.”

Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, said he is getting swamped with phone calls and on-the-street comments from constituents telling him to oppose a strike on Syria.

Rep. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said, “I’m told the phone calls are 9 out of 10 against a strike in Syria, from my constituents in Kentucky.”

Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas: “I have received hundreds of calls and letters from constituents expressing strong opposition.”

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., tweeted, “My office has been inundated with constituent phone calls and emails about Syria. Virtually unanimous opposition to military intervention.”

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, tweeted, “So far about 500 emails regarding Syria. 499 say NO and 1 say YES go to war” and “Hundreds of calls to our Provo and Washington, D.C., office. So far not a single call in favor of bombing Syria.”

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., tweeted, “The phones in my office are ringing off the hook and mail is flowing in. Almost all of the people are opposed to intervention in Syria.”

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, tells WND his office is hearing the same overwhelming opposition to intervention.

Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., said, “I don’t know a member of Congress whose e-mails and phone calls are in favor of [bombing Syria.]”

Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla., said 96 percent of his emails and phone calls are from constituents who want to express their opposition to military action. He said, “Overwhelmingly, we are hearing pushback from our citizens against military intervention in Syria.”

Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., said he’s heard no support from his constituents for striking Syria: “I have not had a single person, not a single person, in over 92 Facebook posts just a little while ago in a question we posed, having a single constituent or a South Carolinian saying let’s go to war in Syria.”

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said “a very high percentage” of the constituents contacting his office have been against U.S. involvement in Syria. He estimated that 90 percent of more than 1,000 calls and emails from Americans have been urging him not to support intervention.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said, “I can tell you that in my office, the phones are bopping off the hook there. And almost unanimously people are opposed to what the president is talking about.”

Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., told the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing he and his constituents say “not just no, but heck no!” to Syria intervention.

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., tweeted, “I’ve been hearing a lot from members of our armed forces. The message I consistently hear: Please vote no on military action against Syria.”

According to the London based World Energy Council (WEC), a leading global energy forum with stakeholders in 93 countries, Israel most likely possesses the world’s third largest reserves of shale oil: around 250 billion barrels. Only the US, with around one billion barrels of potentially extractable shale oil, and China with about a third of that, possess more. Most of this oil treasure is in the approximately 250 square kilometres large Shfela Basin between Jerusalem and Gaza – that is according to international law the oil is in the state of Israel, not the occupied Palestinian territories..
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If WEC’s estimates for Israel stand, the economic balance of power between the Jewish state and surrounding Muslim countries will shift dramatically. According to the US based IDT Corporation, which holds the exploration rights in the Shfela Basin together with the domestic Israeli Energy Initiatives (IEI), there is even more shale oil below Israel’s surface, perhaps twice as much as the reserves of Saudi Arabia.

As if this was not enough, very large gas deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean have been discovered and extraction started by Israel and others. The so called Levantine Basin, which the until now fossil energy poor Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Gaza all make claims on, holds a virtual gas Eldorado below the seabed which the US Geological Survey estimate to at least 120,000 billion cubic feet. Of that, some 8,500 billion cubic feet are calculated to be in the Tamar field outside Israel’s northern coast and some 20,000 billion cubic feet in the Leviathan field out at sea, which borders or is partly within Lebanese territorial waters. In April, the first commercially produced gas was delivered from the Tamar field for further distribution on the market.

ramana wrote:Looks like France and UK want to support the US strike plans for "credibility of their regimes "status in the world pecking order.What else?
Looks like India has to go for alternative energy and bolster internal security no matter

Singha wrote:I think Syria's best bet at a dying sting in tail would be CW strikes into the northern rim of the mediterranean and israel. damascus to rome is only 2000km...well within the range of a crude IRBM class with light CW warheads.

the regime will surely reliaze after iraq and libya there is no honourable escape for them - either they will be killed right after capture or they will put on a show trial and face the firing squad manned by eager jihadi types who take over next.

habal wrote:Obama, an African American with muslim heritage, implementing Zionist agenda in mid-east, attacking Christian heritage sites ...

vishvak wrote:The oil ministry had complaints about import lobbies! Imagine minister complaining!

ramana wrote:matirmc,
I think the British lion has turned out to be a jackal egging the eagle to suicide so they can revive the old empire.

Acharya wrote:

vishvak wrote:The oil ministry had complaints about import lobbies! Imagine minister complaining!

This is admitting loss of sovereignty.
No country allows lobbies to run the national security

Sept. 5, 2013
Paul Joseph Watson

China has reportedly sent warships to the coast of Syria to “observe” the actions of US and Russian ships as tensions build in preparation for a potential military strike on Syria which could come as soon as next week.

According to the Russian news outlet Telegrafist.org, the People’s Liberation Army dispatched the Jinggangshan amphibious dock landing ship and the vessel was seen passing through the Red Sea towards the Suez Canal, the waterway in Egypt that leads to the Mediterranean Sea and waters off the coast of Israel, Lebanon and Syria.

According to the report, the ship has not been sent to engage in any aggressive actions but is merely there to “observe” the actions of Russian and US warships. However, the Jinggangshan is equipped for combat, is armed with missiles, and was utilized as part of a “show of force” in maneuvers aimed at defending the South China Sea earlier this year.

Russian sources have confirmed that the Russian heavy missile cruiser Moskva has been sent to the eastern Mediterranean. China, for its part, is sending its amphibious dock landing warship, the 19,000 metric ton Jinggangshan, a 689-foot-long warship can carry 1,000 soldiers, helicopters, armored fighting vehicles, boats and landing craft. – Vineyardsaker
The report states that additional PLA warships have also been sent to the region but that their identity is unknown.

Yesterday it was reported that Russia was sending three more ships – two destroyers and a missile cruiser – to the eastern Mediterranean to bolster its forces which already include three other warships dispatched over the last two weeks.

Earlier this week, Russia criticized the United States for sending warships close to Syria, with Russian Defense Ministry official Oleg Dogayev remarking, “The dispatch of ships armed with cruise missiles toward Syria’s shores has a negative effect on the situation in the region.”

Five U.S. destroyers and an amphibious ship are currently positioned in the eastern Mediterranean awaiting strike orders. The USS Nimitz and three other warships are also stationed in the nearby Red Sea.

In a related story, China today toughened its rhetoric on Syria, warning President Barack Obama that, “Military action would have a negative impact on the global economy, especially on the oil price – it will cause a hike in the oil price.”

The Global Times, a newspaper described by Foreign Policy Magazine as “hyper nationalistic” and an “angry Chinese government mouthpiece, also published an editorial yesterday which slammed Obama for failing to prove that last month’s chemical weapons attack was the work of the Syrian government, charging that Washington’s “geopolitical interests” in the region were behind the military build-up.

The editorial, which also complains of the total lack of media coverage in America concerning reports that Syrian rebels admitted responsibility for last month’s chemical weapons attack, accuses the White House of “ignoring logic as it beats war drums.”

KrishnaK wrote:

Acharya wrote:[quote="vishvakThe oil ministry had complaints about import lobbies! Imagine minister complaining!
This is admitting loss of sovereignty.
No country allows lobbies to run the national security
What is democracy if not a collection of lobbies ? The smart ones allow them a legal and open framework for them to engage.

ramana wrote:Looks like France, UK want support the US strike plans for "credibility of their regimes "status in the world pecking order.

France, UK and US(FUKUS) want to strike Syria.

BTW chemical weapons were added to the WMD pile to deter Saddam from using them against the Desert One strike. So called expanded deterrence. Earlier he had used them in the Iran-Iraq war without any condemnation. Then against rebels in Iraq. And US people would not have tolerated their soldiers being gassed due to the silliness of their leaders credibility. And the OICW was already in force banning chemcial weapons and stockpiles to be destoryed by a certain date.


So lets list the outcomes for India.
- No matter the outcome price of oil will go up. Major impact to creaking Indian economy. Rationing etc back in full force.
- Syria plunges deeper into civil war
1) Assad removed after weakening from strike
- Syria becomes Sunni majority state and reinforces the recalcitrant KSA and GCC jihadis
- Iran is further isolated
- Leads to KSA leading a new ghazawa on Iran to finish the Shia power for ever
2) Assad survives the strike
- Iran and others rush support to Assad regime
- Rallies to finish the jihadis mobs
- Jihadis go back and turn on their masters including Indian passprt holding jihadis
- Oil goes up more!!!
- ME becomes a Shia bastion

What else?
Looks like India has to go for alternative energy and bolster internal security no matter

the fighters travelled to Turkey from India before entering Syria. “Some of them have been killed, some have been caught alive,” he said, adding, “One of them has been shown on Syrian TV, caught with an Indian passport.”

Putin is particularly skilled at keeping his opponents off balance. And there is no question that Obama is Putin’s opponent on the issue of Syria. All along, Putin’s goal has been to stop the United States from attacking the Syrian regime -- not to protect Assad but to protect Russia. Putin wants a strong leader in Syria who can keep things under control. He wants to make sure that terrorist groups with ties to extremists in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region do not turn from operations in Syria to strikes against Russian targets. Putin also has some experience to draw on to achieve his goals.

He counts on being underestimated and discounted -- dismissed as the slouchy “bored kid at the back of the classroom” (as Obama described him in a news conference on August 9). This is an image Putin has cultivated for a very long time. As a bored kid in Leningrad in the 1960s and 1970s, Putin skulked at the back of classrooms but was energized in his free time by his pursuit of judo. He became extremely accomplished in the sport -- competing with distinction at the regional and national levels. Putin frequently underscores how much he benefitted from the qualities of judo. Naturally hotheaded and scrappy, the young Putin learned discipline through studying judo; it taught him self-restraint. His training focused on how to leverage his opponents’ strengths against them, and how to wait for the right moment to capitalize on their missteps. The real skill in judo is keeping the opponent perpetually off balance, not roughly pushing him down to the mat. Finesse, not force, earns points with the judges. This ability was a valuable asset once Putin joined the KGB and needed to, literally, stand and watch quietly in the shadows, waiting for someone to screw up.

Putin knows what he is doing. He stands back while others blunder in and act in the heat of the moment. He needles and riles his opponents so they trip themselves up and do his work for him. Putin intends to win this particular round of his sparring match over Syria on points. A decision against using force in Syria, an embarrassed Obama, the prospect of a unilateral U.S. intervention launched without even the imprimatur of the U.S. Congress -- all that can be spun as a Russian victory if Putin keeps his cool. Against the backdrop of the G-20 summit, the international community will be the judge of whether Putin or Obama has made the most skillful moves.

By Alexandra Zavis
Los Angeles Times

As world leaders gathered Thursday for a G-20 summit in Russia, Pope Francis urged them to pursue a negotiated end to Syria’s civil war and abandon the “futile pursuit of a military solution.”

“It is regrettable that, from the very beginning of the conflict in Syria, one-sided interests have prevailed and in fact hindered the search for a solution that would have avoided the senseless massacre now unfolding,” the pope said in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is hosting leaders of the Group of 20 major economies in St. Petersburg.

“To the leaders present, to each and every one, I make a heartfelt appeal for them to help find ways to overcome the conflicting positions and to lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution.”

I think ultimately the Russians are going in to save the Americans from themselves. There will be an anniversary held later this year in New York to elaborate the anniversary of when Tsar Nicholas sent Russian ships to New York and San Francisco to prevent the British and the French from intervening in America's "civil war" (it was not a civil war) during 1861 to 1864 in which roughly 600,000 Americans were killed.

On September 24, 1863 the Russian Baltic fleet began to arrive in New York harbor. On October 12, the Russian Far East fleet began to arrive in San Francisco abruptly cutting off the Anglo-French plan to bombard Boston and New York.

I think when this is finally concluded concerning Syria Americans with any sentient ability remaining need to begin seriously cutting their love affair with the Anglo-American sphere which is in many respects at the heart of America's current dysfunctional system of government (privatized) and influence in the world.

A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin “packing their suitcases” and to fly to Libya to share in the reconstruction of the country and exploit an anticipated boom in natural resources.

Yet now Libya has almost entirely stopped producing oil as the government loses control of much of the country to militia fighters.

Mutinying security men have taken over oil ports on the Mediterranean and are seeking to sell crude oil on the black market. Ali Zeidan, Libya’s Prime Minister, has threatened to “bomb from the air and the sea” any oil tanker trying to pick up the illicit oil from the oil terminal guards, who are mostly former rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi and have been on strike over low pay and alleged government corruption since July.

As world attention focused on the coup in Egypt and the poison gas attack in Syria over the past two months, Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi two years ago. Government authority is disintegrating in all parts of the country putting in doubt claims by American, British and French politicians that Nato’s military action in Libya in 2011 was an outstanding example of a successful foreign military intervention which should be repeated in Syria.

In an escalating crisis little regarded hitherto outside the oil markets, output of Libya’s prized high-quality crude oil has plunged from 1.4 million barrels a day earlier this year to just 160,000 barrels a day now. Despite threats to use military force to retake the oil ports, the government in Tripoli has been unable to move effectively against striking guards and mutinous military units that are linked to secessionist forces in the east of the country.

Libyans are increasingly at the mercy of militias which act outside the law. Popular protests against militiamen have been met with gunfire; 31 demonstrators were shot dead and many others wounded as they protested outside the barracks of “the Libyan Shield Brigade” in the eastern capital Benghazi in June.

The Interior Minister, Mohammed al-Sheikh, resigned last month in frustration at being unable to do his job, saying in a memo sent to Mr Zeidan that he blamed him for failing to build up the army and the police. He accused the government, which is largely dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, of being weak and dependent on tribal support. Other critics point out that a war between two Libyan tribes, the Zawiya and the Wirrshifana, is going on just 15 miles from the Prime Minister’s office.

"...The GCHQ listening post on Mount Troodos in Cyprus is arguably the most valued asset which the UK contributes to UK/US intelligence cooperation. The communications intercept agencies, GCHQ in the UK and NSA in the US, share all their intelligence reports (as do the CIA and MI6). "

"...Israel has repeatedly been involved in the Syrian civil war, carrying out a number of illegal bombings and missile strikes over many months. This absolutely illegal activity by Israel- which has killed a great many civilians, including children - has brought no condemnation at all from the West. Israel has now provided “intelligence” to the United States designed to allow the United States to join in with Israel’s bombing and missile campaign.

The answer to the Troodos Conundrum is simple. Troodos did not pick up the intercepts because they do not exist. Mossad fabricated them. John Kerry’s “evidence” is the shabbiest of tricks. More children may now be blown to pieces by massive American missile blasts. It is nothing to do with humanitarian intervention. It is, yet again, the USA acting at the behest of Israel."

Unwieldy For Weapons Use In
Syria, Sarin Is A Bogeyman

By Yoichi Shimatsu
9-1-13


The prime cause for agonizing over Syria, sarin is the bogeyman of chemical warfare because it is odorless, lethal and vaporizes without any dispersant, yet it is too cumbersome and risky for use in street combat in a low-tech battlefront like Syria. Much like a child’s worst nightmare, this chemical warfare agent is a low-probability threat, if at all, especially in areas without refrigeration support systems and personnel with extensive training in handling toxic chemicals. Sarin makes for splendid propaganda, but is practically useless in ground combat for or against guerrillas, which is why it has rarely, if ever, been used for tactical purposes.

The last time that sarin was allegedly dispersed for mass murder was in the Tokyo subway gassing of March 1995. As the only journalist present with training in chemistry, I covered that case for more than a year as head of the investigation team for The Japan Times Weekly and consultant to the Takarajima-30 magazine, the only two publications that dared challenge the official government cover-up. To put it bluntly, sarin was not used against the subways, and if anyone did try to unleash it in Syria, it would likelier kill the would-be assailant than his enemies.

For the laymen without highly specialized training, opening a container of sarin is suicide. Recent reports from Gouta indeed indicate that rebels unwitting opened a cylinder of sarin shipped by Saudi intelligence agency without instructions, killing themselves and civilians in the vicinity. Had the Syrian armed forces fired binary artillery shells that burst over target sites, many more thousands of people would died in Gouta. One micro-drop of sarin exposure on the skin, much less through respiration, will kill the victims. Therefore, the video clips of civilians fleeing from buildings with handkerchiefs over their noses are a sign of panic. Anyone who was exposed to the accidental release would have died quickly. Sarin does not wound, it kills.

Exploding Media Myths

The first myth that had to be exploded in Tokyo was the Japanese government’s claim that sarin was used in the rush-hour attack on 200,000 commuters traveling underground. The Weekly was the only press to interview the chemical warfare unit of Japan’s Self-Defense Force. These fearless soldiers descended into the subway stations with detection gear (NATO standard, U.S. made). Their air sampling indicated that the toxic agent was mustard gas (chlorine). In fact, the symptoms of profuse bleeding from mouth and nose were consistent with mustard gas and not sarin. (No such symptoms of bleeding have come out of Syria.)

Only later in hospitals did physicians detect in a minority of patients the effects of a weak organophosphate chemical with symptoms similar to those from sarin, apparently caused by one packet of insecticide.

One of SDF soldiers climbed back to the street and announced his team’s finding to a circle of reporters. Then, in the first sign of a cover-up, a bureaucrat with the Tokyo Police press club stepped forward and ordered the reporters to strike the soldier’s comments from their notes. The press officer then said: “The gas is sarin.” With those words, the battle was on, journalistically speaking, which eventually resulted in the silencing by imprisonment of a high-ranking politician on vaguely related charges.

Branded as a Nazi

Sarin, a weapon of mass destruction invented in Nazi Germany, is a “trigger word” that can invoke press censorship among all NATO-allied countries, including Japan. Trigger words are a key to information control and protection of clandestine operations from exposure during a crisis. Once again, in the current Syria crisis, the bogey word “sarin” is being deployed to prevent the international press from reporting on the complexity of a political conflict involving state-sponsored terrorism and religious sectarianism, two other legacy taboos from the postwar denazification era. Predictably pushing buttons of guilt and hysteria, the Israel intelligence service Mossad and its Zionist supporters in Washington have been manipulating the Syrian sarin claim in an attempt to equate the Baathist regime with the Nazi party.

As stated in 1995 by one Russian toxicologist, after watching the broadcasts from Tokyo, “if sarin had been used, hundreds of thousands of commuters would have died immediately, and so the gas could not have been sarin.” The same can be said about the Damascus suburbs. A missile load of sarin should have wiped out the entire neighborhood, leaving few if any survivors. If sarin was indeed the agent, then the poisoning had to be self-inflicted, due to the inability of the rebels to properly handle the highly volatile material. As for the earlier reports of poisoning across Syria, the science-based conclusion is the same as in the Tokyo subway case: Less lethal pesticides were used.

The flaw in sarin, from a military point of view, is that it decomposes too rapidly. Whatever so-called experts might claim to the media, dilute or “weak” sarin is nonsense. Once decay begins, the entire batch soon loses its punch. The organophosphate agent has to be frozen to prevent its breakdown into lesser fluoride and sulfide components. Power blackouts across Syria ensure that any heating of sarin gas will soon kill those who possess it.

This inherent chemical instability means that sarin has to be stored and delivered as two separate precursor liquids and mixed en route to target. Sarin is thereby produced quite literally in midair, requiring an explosion of a binary artillery shell or rocket with its precursors divided into two compartments.

The other method of mix-and-spray nerve gas is a canister with flap doors, dropped like a bomb from an aircraft. This type of long canister was discovered at an Iraqi arsenal at Balad Air Base by a U.S. National Guard squad, as told to me by its medical officer, with markings that indicated it was the organophosphate VX produced by ConocoPhilips and shipped from Houston after the First Gulf War. The covert delivery of nerve gas to Saddam Hussein after his first defeat to bolster deterrence against Iran revealed the leading role of the U.S. government in proliferation of chemical weapons worldwide.

In the recent Damascus case, the poisoning victims heard the whoosh of a rocket, but missiles move too quickly for mixing the precursors by aerial dispersal. If sarin has indeed been smuggled into Syria by Qaela-linked guerrillas, as claimed by local residents, then the main danger was to their own lives. The handling of sarin is much too complicated for layman, and just by opening a container of liquid or trying to mix a binary formula, the insurgents would kill themselves and nearby civilians. That is a probable cause of why so few deaths, less than 400 fatalities according to doctors, were reported inside a small radius. By comparison, aerial dispersal by rocket would have taken thousands of lives.

As the White House gardeners spray aphids in the Rose Garden, President Obama preaches about the threat of “sarin” between free-trade talks that would enable Dow Chemical and Monsanto to ship their chemical weapons to every farm and backyard around the globe. Meanwhile, a White House apology has never been given for the 16,000 deaths by gassing, and injuries to 40,000 Indians in the Bhopal industrial gas accident. The culprit Union Carbine was not bombed with Tomahawk cruise missiles and never hit with sanctions. On the contrary, Washington protected the U.S. chemical corporation from extradition and prosecution.

Anant wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/world ... ted=2&_r=0

I only hope and pray this is true. It's high time that smug ___ Assad and bare chested Putin got their just desserts. No matter how you slice the pie, gassing your own countrymen, women and children is unacceptable and the only reward for such actions is the ole' Saddam. And it doesn't matter 2 bits whether the Rebels did it or not. If you support the hypothesis that Assad is all powerful, then his forces should have prevented this barbaric act. If his forces aren't all powerful, then they are the cowards who did the gassing. Yet, on this board, some rich conspiratorial sources have been rolled out to support Assad. Maybe I am a minority here but I will rejoice Assad's death.

eklavya wrote:

brihaspati wrote:You can laugh and rotfl - but you were caught out napping in noticing your own quote excusing in small print "short of confirmation".

you are clutching at straws my friend to defend the indefensible. You know very well Assad gassed his people, but you are having trouble acknowledging it for reasons best known to you. I am not in the napping business, as you know well, and nor am I in the business of making excuses for war criminals that have committed grotesque crimes against humanity.