Syria air strikes: US and allies attack [alleged] chemical weapons sites...14 Apr 2018

[Cidersomerset]

The 'hot' line was going between Trump and Putin , it was only about chemicals
Boris denies all Russian counter theories that both Douma and Salisbury were set
up as would be expected by any cabinet member let alone the foreign secretary.
The object is not to intervene in the Syrian civil war and only Russia can influence
Assad. He's emphatic the Kremlin has its hands all over the Skripal case as you
would expect and a bit about Brexit . Both Trump and Boris were born in New York
and although they are opposites they do remind me of each other especially when
he was asked about Brexit and everything is going to be great and rosy...







Syria air strikes: Action showed enough is enough - Boris Johnson

15/4/18

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6j_gQ9fQguA

Primary purpose of Syria air strikes was "to say no to the use of barbaric weapons",
says Boris Johnson Air strikes in Syria were about saying "enough is enough" over
the use of chemical weapons, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said.

Mr Johnson said the action by the US, UK and France would not "turn the tide" of
the conflict and was not about regime change.But he said he hoped it would act as
a deterrent to more "barbaric" chemical attacks.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has questioned the legality of the action.He called for
new legislation to ensure MPs get a vote before future military action is taken, and
said he would only back intervention in Syria if the United Nations backed it.
Conservatives said this would never happen due to Russia using its veto at the UN.

read more....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43772719

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The urgency for May was that parliament was on Easter break and she needed
the attack to happen before Monday 16th when they go back...


Jeremy Corbyn: Launching Syria air strikes on humanitarian grounds
“legally debatable” - BBC News

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BmjaT_T_Bzs

Published on 15 Apr 2018
Jeremy Corbyn says Assad "or any other group" that carried out the Douma
attack must be confronted with "evidence"


Russian spy attack: Incontrovertible evidence needed on Russia - Corbyn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43774132

[Hervé]

Craig Murray: Just who's pulling the strings?

Craig Murray Craig Murray Blog
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:40 UTC

• March 4 2018 Sergei and Yulia Skripal are attacked with a nerve agent in Salisbury

• March 6 2018 Boris Johnson blames Russia and calls Russia "a malign force"

• March 7 2018 Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia arrives in London for an official visit

• March 13 2018 Valeri Gerasimov, Russian Chief of General Staff, states that Russia has intelligence a fake chemical attack is planned against civilians in Syria as a pretext for US bombing of Damascus, and that Russia will respond militarily.

• March 19 2018 Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia arrives in Washington for an official visit

• April 8 2018 Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia arrives in Paris for an official visit

• April 8 2018 Saudi funded jihadist groups Jaysh al Islam and Tahrir al-Sham and UK funded jihadist "rescue group" The White Helmets claim a chemical weapons attack occurred in their enclave of Douma the previous day - just before its agreed handover to the Syrian army - and blame the Syrian government.

• April 11 2018 Saudi Arabia pledges support for attack on Syria

• April 14 2018 US/UK/French attack on Syria begins.

I have always denied the UK's claim that only Russia had a motive to attack the Skripals. To denigrate Russia internationally by a false flag attack pinning the blame on Russia, always seemed to me more likely than for the Russians to do that to themselves. And from the start I pointed to the conflict in Syria as a likely motive. That puts Saudi Arabia (and its client jihadists), Saudi Arabia's close ally Israel, the UK and the USA all in the frame in having a powerful motive in inculcating anti-Russian sentiment prior to planned conflict with Russia in Syria. Any of them could have attacked the Skripals.

Today, Theresa May is claiming -astonishingly - that the UK attack on Syria is "to deter chemical weapons attacks in Syria and the UK". I don't think the motive for a Skripal false flag could be more starkly demonstrated.

We do not yet know how many children and other civilians have died so far in what the media always pretend are magically "pinpoint" attacks on Syria. Denying the "collateral damage" is part of the neo-con playbook. The danger is that they will not stop but continue to push, testing how far they can go in weakening Syrian government forces to promote their jihadist allies on the ground, before they spark a real Russian reaction. That way madness lies.

It is also worth noting that the most ardent supporters of this military action, outside Saudi Arabia and Israel, are the Blairites in the UK and the Clinton Democrats in the USA. The self-described "centrists" are actually the unhinged extremists in today's politics.

This attack on Syria is, beyond doubt, a huge success for the machinations of Mohammed Bin Salman. Please do read my post of 8 March which sets out the background to his agenda, and I believe is essential to why we find our nations in military action again today. Despite the fact the vast majority of the people do not want this.

SOTT Comment: It is the usual suspects, though for some reason Saudi Arabia and the UK seem to be playing more prominent roles than usual in the latest episode of this drama. It is interesting also that Russian Major General Igor Konashenkov stated right before the attacks:

Earlier, Russia had made numerous warns on all levels about provocations of chemical weapons use organized by insurgents in the Eastern Ghouta. Today, there are other evidences at the disposal of the Russian military department, which testify to the direct participation of Great Britain in organizing this provocation in the Eastern Ghouta.

Related:
All Russiagate roads lead to London: Evidence emerges of Joseph Mifsud's links to UK intelligence

[Hervé]

WikiLeaks reveals Saudi wishful thinking: "Overthrow the Syrian regime, but play nice with Russia"

Tyler Durden ZeroHedge
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:57 UTC

© WikiLeaks

Secret Saudi cable produced by WikiLeaks: Saudi Arabia "must seek by all means available and all possible ways to overthrow the current regime in Syria" even should the United States at any point show "lack of desire."

Hours after the overnight US-led missile strikes on Syria, WikiLeaks republished a crucially important diplomatic cable through its official media accounts confirming that Saudi Arabia's long term strategy in Syria has been to pursue regime change "by all means available."According to the leaked internal Saudi government document, this is the kingdom's proposed end-goal even should the United States at any point show "lack of desire" due to the threat of Russian response and possibility of a 'great power' confrontation.

With American lawmakers and media pundits already urging President Trump to escalate and sustain attacks against Syria, it must be remembered that close US allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia have long coordinated to create the conditions that might tip the US administration toward full military action resulting in regime change in Damascus. And more recently, fresh off his weeks-long tour of the US, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has both slammed previous proposals of US troop withdrawal in Syria and declared eagerness "to work with allies on any military response in Syria if needed."

It is also essential to recall that the al-Qaeda linked group which originated the claims of a government orchestrated chemical attack on civilians in the Damascus suburb of Douma, called Jaish al Islam (JAI), is and has always been state sponsored by the Saudi regime. The Guardian, among others, reported beginning in 2013 that Saudi Arabia founded and trained the group, spending millions.

Notably, as Russia as well as some Western counter-terror experts continue to point the finger at Jaish al Islam (and the "White Helmets") for staging the Douma "chemical attack" in order to provoke the US military response, it has emerged through past reporting that JAI itself had used chemical weapons against Kurdish militias in Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud district in 2016 (and it appears that the Saudi-backed group openly admitted to carrying out prior chemical attacks according to The Daily Beast).

Given this current context and the continued rapid unfolding of the crisis, the previously leaked 'secret' Saudi memo published by WikiLeaks takes on new significance and meaning: did the Saudis finally trigger their "by any means available" scenario (a 'chemical incident') at a moment when their proxies were collapsing in the face of overwhelming Syrian Army victory?

The below article and translation was originally authored by Brad Hoff in 2016 for WikiLeaks and Foreign Policy Journal, and is used here with permission.

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Secret Intel Memo: Overthrow the Regime "by all means available"
A WikiLeaks cable released as part of "The Saudi Cables" in the summer of 2015, now fully translated here for the first time, reveals what the Saudis feared most in the early years of the war: Russian military intervention and Syrian retaliation. These fears were such that the kingdom directed its media "not to oppose Russian figures and to avoid insulting them" at the time.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/985171468525940737

Saudi Arabia had further miscalculated that the "Russian position" of preserving the Assad government "will not persist in force." In Saudi thinking, reflected in the leaked memo, Assad's violent ouster ("by all means available") could be pursued so long as Russia stayed on the sidelines.

The following section of the leaked cable is categorical in its emphasis on regime change at all cost, even should the U.S. vacillate for "lack of desire":

"The fact must be stressed that in the case where the Syrian regime is able to pass through its current crisis in any shape or form, the primary goal that it will pursue is taking revenge on the countries that stood against it, with the Kingdom and some of the countries of the Gulf coming at the top of the list. If we take into account the extent of this regime's brutality and viciousness and its lack of hesitancy to resort to any means to realize its aims, then the situation will reach a high degree of danger for the Kingdom, which must seek by all means available and all possible ways to overthrow the current regime in Syria. As regards the international position, it is clear that there is a lack of 'desire' and not a lack of 'capability' on the part of Western countries, chief among them the United States, to take firm steps..."

Amman-based Albawaba News-one of the largest online news providers in the Middle East-was the first to call attention to the WikiLeaks memo, which "reveals Saudi officials saying President Bashar al-Assad must be taken down before he exacts revenge on Saudi Arabia." Albawaba offered a brief partial translation of the cable, which though undated, was likely produced in early 2012 (based on my best speculation using event references in the text; Russia began proposing informal Syrian peace talks in January 2012).

Russian Hardware, a Saudi Nightmare
Over the past weeks Saudi Arabia has ratcheted up its rhetoric on Syria, threatening direct military escalation and the insertion of special forces on the ground, ostensibly for humanitarian and stabilizing purposes as a willing partner in the "war on terror." As many pundits are now observing, in reality the kingdom's saber rattling stems not from confidence, but utter desperation as its proxy anti-Assad fighters face defeat by overwhelming Russian air power and Syrian ground forces, and as the Saudi military itself is increasingly bogged down in Yemen.

Even as the Saudi regime dresses its bellicose rhetoric in humanitarian terms, it ultimately desires to protect the flow of foreign fighters into Northern Syria, which is its still hoped-for "available means" of toppling the Syrian government (or at least, at this point, permanent sectarian partition of Syria).

U.S. State Department Confirmation
The U.S. State Department's own 2014 Country Report on Terrorism confirms that the rate of foreign terrorist entry into Syria over the past few years is unprecedented among any conflict in history:

"The rate of foreign terrorist fighter travel to Syria-totaling more than 16,000 foreign terrorist fighters from more than 90 countries as of late December-exceeded the rate of foreign terrorist fighters who traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, or Somalia at any point in the last 20 years."

According to Cinan Siddi, Director of the Institute for Turkish Studies at Georgetown's prestigious School of Foreign Service, Russian military presence in Syria was born of genuine geopolitical interests. In a public lecture recently given at Baylor University, Siddi said that Russia is fundamentally trying to disrupt the "jihadi corridor" facilitated by Turkey and its allies in Northern Syria.

The below leaked document gives us a glimpse into Saudi motives and fears long before Russian hardware entered the equation, and the degree to which the kingdom utterly failed in assessing Russian red lines.

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A full translation of the text:

THE BELOW is an original and authenticated translation of the WikiLeaks file published as part of "The Saudi Cables." Note: the cable as published in the SaudiLeaks trove appears to be incomplete. Its accompanying pages have yet to be located within the massive trove of leaked Arabic documents.

[...] shared interest, and believes that the current Russian position only represents a movement to put pressure on him, its goals being evident, and that this position will not persist in force, given Russia's ties to interests with Western countries and the countries of the Gulf.

If it pleases Your Highness, I support the idea of entering into a profound dialogue with Russia regarding its position towards Syria*, holding the Second Strategic Conference in Moscow, working to focus the discussion during it on the issue of Syria, and exerting whatever pressure is possible to dissuade it from its current position. I likewise see an opportunity to invite the head of the Committee for International Relations in the Duma to visit the Kingdom. Since it is better to remain in communication with Russia and to direct the media not to oppose Russian figures and to avoid insulting them, so that no harm may come to the interests of the Kingdom, it is possible that the new Russian president will change Russian policy toward Arab countries for the better. However, our position currently in practice, which is to criticize Russian policy toward Syria and its positions that are contrary to our declared principles, remains. It is also advantageous to increase pressure on the Russians by encouraging the Organization of Islamic States to exert some form of pressure by strongly brandishing Islamic public opinion, since Russia fears the Islamic dimension more than the Arab dimension.

In what pertains to the Syrian crisis, the Kingdom is resolute in its position and there is no longer any room to back down. The fact must be stressed that in the case where the Syrian regime is able to pass through its current crisis in any shape or form, the primary goal that it will pursue is taking revenge on the countries that stood against it, with the Kingdom and some of the countries of the Gulf coming at the top of the list. If we take into account the extent of this regime's brutality and viciousness and its lack of hesitancy to resort to any means to realize its aims, then the situation will reach a high degree of danger for the Kingdom, which must seek by all means available and all possible ways to overthrow the current regime in Syria.

As regards the international position, it is clear that there is a lack of "desire" and not a lack of "capability" on the part of Western countries, chief among them the United States, to take firm steps [...]

*[in the Arabic text: Russia, but this is a typo]

[Hervé]

How London and the White Helmets Staged the Douma "Chemical Attack"

Harrison Koehli Sott.net
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 23:27 UTC

Last year when the U.S. military launched a cruise missile attack on a Syrian airbase after allegations of a chemical weapons attack at Khan Sheikhoun, many commentators grasped the obvious implication: in the future, whenever so-called moderate rebel terrorists were being routed by the Syrian and Russian militaries, all that the terrorists would have to do is stage another "chemical weapons" attack and broadcast it via their White Helmets propaganda network. This would essentially act as a call for American air support.

U.S. government spokespeople even said that any future chemical weapons attacks would be automatically blamed on Syria and Russia. In the real world, that's called a blank check. Since any apparent chemical weapons attack will automatically be blamed on Syria and Russia, and will be responded to with a cruise-missile attack on Syrian military positions, Syria's enemies have a major incentive to give the appearance that civilians have suffered from a chemical weapons attack. It's not rocket science.

The Russian Ministry of Defense warned about precisely this scenario on March 13, less than a month before the Douma event. Two sets of videos were released after the alleged attack in Douma: the apparent discovery of many bodies in a home, allegedly killed by a chemical weapons attack; and a video of civilians and children being doused with water in a medical facility, allegedly after having come into contact with said chemical. The sources for the claims were the White Helmets and the Syrian American Medical Society (both of which have close ties to the jihadists, including al-Qaeda, in Syria), who claimed that 500 people had been exposed.

As for the first videos showing the dead bodies, there is no evidence they died from a chemical weapons attack. In fact, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (itself an "organization" known for atrocity stories designed to paint the Syrian and Russian militaries in a bad light) reported that "it could not confirm whether chemical weapons had been used". Instead, they provided this account:

...reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that some of the casualties and injured people had been subjected to suffocation due to the demolition of basements of houses as a result of the heavy and intense shelling of Douma city, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that 11 people at least including 5 children had suffocated, after bombardment by a warplane on an area near the old cemetery at the northern outskirts of Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta.

This appears to have been the site filmed by the White Helmets. As for the other video, today the Russian Ministry of Defense provided a credible account of its provenance, as well as an overall account of events that makes sense of all the data and contradictions so far. Major General Igor Konashenkov stated:

The Russian Ministry of Defence has overwhelming evidence that in Douma on April 7 there was a planned provocation in order to deceive the world community. Its original purpose was to provoke missile strikes by the USA against Syria. It is to be reminded that a video clip recorded at the Douma hospital where injured people were allegedly brought to is the key 'evidence' of all these accusations made by western countries. However, we managed to find those who directly had taken part in this footage, and to ask them questions. Today, Russian shows an interview with these people.

Citizens of Douma told how a staged clip had been recorded, in which episodes they had participated and what roles they had had. Besides, they showed shots with them in the clip. Both persons involved in the clip have medical degree and work in emergency department of the Douma Hospital.

According to them, those who had been brought to the hospital had no injuries caused by chemical agents. When civilians were receiving first aid, some unidentified people rushed in the hospital. Some of them had video cameras. These people started shouting, spreading panic, and dousing other people with water. They shouted that all people in the hospital were victims of chemical weapons use. Patients and their relatives started dousing each other with water. After the action was filmed, the unknown persons escaped immediately.

As it can be seen, these Syrians demonstrate themselves at the footage. It is to be noted that these people do not hide their names. These are not some impersonal messages on social networks or statements of anonymous activists. It is to be stressed once again that these are people who became direct participants in filming these footage. These facts are the evidence in the civilized world, and are not unfounded and irresponsible accusations spread with the aim of hanging labels and denigrating the leadership of other countries.

Earlier, Russia had made numerous warns on all levels about provocations of chemical weapons use organized by insurgents in the Eastern Ghouta. Today, there are other evidences at the disposal of the Russian military department, which testify to the direct participation of Great Britain in organizing this provocation in the Eastern Ghouta.

The Russian party knows for certain that from April 3 to 6, representatives of the so-called White Helmets were influenced by London for the speedy implementation of the provocation prepared in advance. The White Helmets received information that Jaysh al-Islam militants were to conduct a series of powerful artillery shelling of Damascus on April 3 to 6. This will promote a response from the government troops, which the White Helmets' representatives will have to use to carry out provocations with alleged chemical weapons.

The relevant section of the briefing starts at around 25:45 of this video and ends at 29:50, showing footage of the interview with the two Syrian medical personnel telling their side of what happened at the hospital.

Here are the Syrian medical workers' accounts:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AVswvR6G3go

This makes sense. Before the alleged attack on April 7, the Syrians and Russians had liberated most of Eastern Ghouta. Only Douma remained, occupied by the terrorist group Jaish al-Islam. On April 2, over 1100 militants left Douma under agreement with the Syrian Army. Evacuations followed on April 3 and April 4. During this time, Jaish al-Islam commanders still refused to negotiate their evacuation (leading to several reported executions and at least one defection to the Syrian government). On this same day, Putin held a press conference with Erdogan where he reiterated that Russian intelligence had "irrefutable evidence" that Syrian militants were planning chemical attacks.

More infighting among Jaish al-Islam terrorists broke out on April 5. On April 6, the Russian MOD once again cited sources that militants planned a chemical attack provocation, and after ongoing talks with Jaish al-Islam failed, the Russian air force heavily bombed their positions and the Syrian army began storming Douma to retake it by force and launched their own airstrikes. The JAI terrorists fired artillery shells into residential Damascus in response, wounding at least 16 and killing 1 civilian. Such shelling continued into the morning of the 7th. As fighting continued through the night Jaish al-Islam announced their willingness to resume negotiations (which were successful, leading to the full evacuation of Douma in the days after). On this same day came the White Helmets spurious and cynical allegation of a 'chemical weapon attack'.

So while the events of those days aren't as clear as Konashenkov states - even if the shelling was planned in advance, it was temporally after the offensive to retake Douma had begun - the logic is still clear. If negotiations failed, the offensive on Douma would be resumed. This would be followed (or preceded) by indiscriminate shelling of Damascus, which would be followed by even more airstrikes on Douma. In this context, all the White Helmets had to do was wait for a suitable site of death and destruction, frame it as a chemical attack, and produce "video evidence" to call in U.S. air support.

Fares Shehabi MP‏ @ShehabiFares

Again, this is one of the main pieces of evidence of the alleged #Douma chemical attack used by the US, UK, & French liars to justify the destruction of Syria..!

12:49 PM - 13 Apr 2018
15 replies 153 retweets 178 likes

The death by suffocation of several residents (cited above) was used as evidence of a chemical attack and a scene was staged at a local hospital to give the appearance that numerous Syrians had been exposed, when in fact they had not. After that, practically all Western media and most governments followed the script. But so far nothing has come of it. It looks like Russia has solidified its presence in Syria to the extent that the U.S. cannot risk another attack without potentially starting a war with Russia.

The hand of the UK in both the Skripal and Douma provocations is telling. Perhaps there's more to the following story than meets the eye: Syrian army arrests British and other Western forces embedded with terrorist groups in Eastern Ghouta - Local reports

But more telling is that the 'reality creators' powers are failing them. Staged provocations in Syria and elsewhere have worked in the past, but the transparently false nature of the most recent claims, combined with serious Russian push-back, may prove to have been a bridge too far for the faltering and increasingly desperate anglo-American empire.

[Kindred]

These two reports, by Michael Trimm and BPEearthwatch, I feel provide some very interesting perspectives about this attack... that it was to take out 'deep state' actors within Syria, and was coordinated with both the Russians and Syrians. I feel BPEarthwatch's observation that the 'deep state' is not solely relegated to the US, but is a long-term, world wide issue, that currently uses the power of the US hegemony as it's primary source of it's control over the world, is extremely valid.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MAy6jppE2bo

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mhajNTag5iM

In Unity, Peace and Love...

[Hervé]

Posted by Hervé (here)

Posted by Hervé (here)
[...]
Well, one of the immediate consequence is that any one thinking about providing their nation with some kind of "Iron Dome" will line up at the Russian war wares counters... efficient, effective, simple, cheap and locals-operated wares.
[...]

Of course, on the other side of the coin, as a corollary:

Pentagon: F-35 Can Achieve Missile Defense Capability if More Money Spent
[...]
In other words: "O, please! More money by the billions into our money pit! Urgent!"

Failed US attack: Assad impressed with 1970’s Soviet weapons

Fort Russ News
By Joaquin Flores On Apr 15, 2018
translated by J. Flores from Rusvesna

Bashar Assad noted the superiority of Russian weapons over the Western, said member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Sergei Zheleznyak.

“Assad spoke very positively about Russian weapons,” the deputy said after talking with a group of Russian parliamentarians with the Syrian president.

At the same time, Zheleznyak said that they did not discuss the supply of Russian air defense systems with the Syrian leader.

Earlier, the Defense Ministry said that Russia could return to consideration of the issue of deliveries of the S-300 SAM to Damascus.

Meanwhile, Assad criticized American armament.

“Yesterday we saw American aggression, and we repulsed it with rockets of 1970’s release … Since the 1990’s, American films have shown that Russian weapons are backward, and today we see who really lags behind,” the Syrian leader said.

His words were passed by another member of the delegation – the chairman of the patriotic platform of “United Russia” Dmitry Sablin.

On Wednesday, an official delegation of Russian parliamentarians arrived in Syria on an official visit. During the attack on Damascus, none of them suffered.

Missile strike on Syria
On Saturday night, the United States, Britain and France fired more than 100 missiles at civilian and military sites in Syria, injuring three people. Most of them Syrian air defense managed to bring down.

At the same time, there is no evidence of Damascus using prohibited substances. The attack occurred prior to the OPCW investigation. Experts of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPAP) last week visited the site of the alleged incident and found no traces of toxins.

In Moscow, the actions of Western countries were called “an impudent violation of international law”.

[ExomatrixTV]

Very Good Analyses:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MAy6jppE2bo

[Cara]

A view from China, from the editorial of the Global Times, which is a kind of “mouthpiece” for the official Chinese establishment:

Reckless strike on Syria a shameless act

Source:Global Times
Published: 2018/4/15 22:23:40

After US, British and French forces launched over 100 missiles at Syria, Washington quickly stated that it was satisfied with the effectiveness of the strike. US President Donald Trump tweeted "Mission Accomplished!" Will there be more military actions on Syria? The US said that will depend on whether Bashar al-Assad's regime will use more chemical weapons in the future.

According to these signals from Washington, most observers believe that this round of strikes against Syria by the US and its allies have come to an end. They have not actually weakened Syrian government forces or hurt Russia's military presence in Syria, but they conveyed a warning that Trump dares to strike.

As for what Trump wants in Syria, many people are confused. Does he really want to stop the Syrian government forces from using chemical weapons? In that case, it's simple, because there is no need at all for the nation's government forces, which already control the situation in Syria's battlefield, to use chemical weapons.

Using chemical weapons would only attract condemnation and attacks from the outside world. Hence, Assad's government has sufficient reason as it claims to keep away from chemical weapons.

Was Trump trying to turn the tables on the Syrian battlefield, where government forces are scoring victories while opposition forces are shrinking? Then 100 missiles are far from enough.

Was Washington attempting to humiliate Russia? Undoubtedly it embarrassed Moscow, but the strike avoided the region where Russian troops are stationed and the US issued a signal to stop the strike immediately afterward. Apparently, Washington restrained itself so as not to push the Kremlin into a corner and escalate the conflict.

Perhaps even Trump and his team have no clue what they want to do in Syria. They may want to showcase the might of the US and the West, send a warning to their potential opponents and boost the unity of the West. Washington may feel that it is no big deal to beat Syria up.

But the US severely underestimated the negative consequences of its reckless military action. It will inevitably stimulate hatred and make many countries and forces believe that the ultimate way to resolve conflicts and disputes can only be the use of force.

It can be foreseen that the military strike on Syria will have a negative impact on the upcoming talks between the two Koreas and the Trump-Kim summit.

One of the major characteristics of the Trump administration's diplomacy is willfulness and recklessness, as if the all-mighty US has the right to do everything.

However, the stronger a country is, the greater the responsibility it has to maintain world peace and order. The military actions of the US and its allies have breached the framework of the United Nations and violated the foundation of modern international relations. If the will of Washington and the West represents the will of all mankind and they can punish whoever they want, why do we need the UN, or international law?

Without UN authorization, the US, UK and France behaved like rogues. No matter how touching the excuses they find for themselves, they cannot change the fact that they were lynching Syria without due evidence.

It is worrying that the US may disturb Syria with yet more missiles from time to time, throwing yet more salt on an open wound of a country.

From here: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1098059.shtml

This seems fairly strongly worded for China; mostly they are more restrained with their statements.

[Jayke]

The Saker seems to think the airstrikes were a win for the AngloZionist empire, although I’m inclined to disagree. There were mixed reports coming from the US after the strikes, with one group claiming that no warning was given ahead of time to Russia, yet another group claimed they did give pre-warnings to Russia and Syria. It’s as if the left hand doesn’t realise the right hand is going behind its back and undermining its authority. To me it seems as though fault lines are splitting between deep state factions within the US. There’s an excellent summary of the event in the comments section of Sakers blog post whose analysis I agree with, username veritas semper vincit:

The WW III that never was :
1.AMERICA
-lost face ; again; America doesn’t even have a face anymore : it replaced it with the mask of death
– its mighty Armada and new ,shiny missiles did not frightened a 7 year war ravaged country
– it used a 1/4 Billion hammer to KO : a cancer medication producing center , an empty warehouse and a abandoned factory , bombed before by Israhell
-103 Tomahawks and only 32 proved to be semi- smart
-America declared victory , and sailed home ; for now
-Mission accomplished for his beautiful , strong army said the president , triggering painful memories
-The Pentagon insisted that all his missiles hit what ever was supposed to hit ,except America’s hubris and arrogance = this was left intact
-America didn’t learn to lose with grace
-America does not have Osama Bin Laden to kill for the 3rd time and save face ; who will replace him?
-cowboy diplomacy can only take so far after all, even if it is entertaining
2. RUSSIA
– Was so stunned by the collective IQ of 30 of the American weapons , that Mother Russia did not respond ; sometimes children need to learn on their own if they can
-never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake ; after all ,the Russians wrote “War and Peace” and studied Napoleon on the battlefield
-did not lose anything : no soldier , no weapons
-Russia’s warning was heard by America
– Paradoxically ,Russian air defense system gained prestige without firing: if old Soviet era can perform so well ,imagine what new ones can do ; thank you ,America ,they said
– Mr. Putin called for an adult , calm approach of the problems ; again; will he be heard this time ?
3. SYRIA
– stunned the world with its courage ; David against Goliath gained again with a few old Soviet era stones
-Mr. Assad turned out to be an animal , A LION protecting his cubs
-the Syrians celebrated in the street this great American failure
4. FRANCE
-proved how long and painful is the way from having DE GAULLE to having Macron plying Napoleon against Russia ;
-a bon entendeur ,salut !
5. BRITAIN
-Ah ,Britain ,used to prove in the past it was PERFIDIOUS ALBION
-lost even this honor
-an ex-empire ,still trying to play the pirates skulls an bones
– no Brexit , no Novichok found , no honor among thieves
-what a loser
6. ISRAEL
-it showed again how things are done : stay in the shadows , push in the front the big goyim with big guns
-if they lose , play the victim card
7. SAUDI ARABIA
-lost paper money again ; paid in full and no delivery
-the days of the petro-dollar winning are gone
8. EUROPE
– the verdict still not out
-some countries approved the American fiasco ; they remember the old America and the old Soviet ; but nobody can live in the past ; eventually and painfully,they’ll learn
-some smart countries positioned themselves for the new world : Austria, Hungary ; but not everybody is likely to have smart leaders in Europe
-some countries tried to be in the two diverging boats simultaneously : Italy ,Germany ; this can tear them apart , them have to choose
9. CHINA
– showed that Sun Tzu and Confucius were Chinese : The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting + The superior man understands what is right ; the inferior man understands what will sell
-China builds roads and international bridges -China learned; only the wisest and stupidest of men never change
-doing business is better than doing war , building silk roads ,paved with a shiny ,yellow bricks , is even better
10. THE WORLD
-sighed in relief and mostly was STUNNED
-stunned by the little Syria , with its big courage and honor
-There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
CONFUCIUS warned again
-the world was stunned to see that the civilized west chose ,AGAIN ,the third option

[Andre]

Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)
Very Good Analyses:

Yes, I agree with ExomtrixTV that Michael Trimm's video report is excellent! He's made a very lucid explanation of what's really going on behind the scenes.

[Cidersomerset]

.Interesting debate its political theatre , diversion , a cosmetic attack and playing to
the globalists.They also give the alleged facts and figures , how it does not add up
and much more....

CrossTalk Bullhorns: Syria attacked (Extended version)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pfaQGCT5zAU

Published on 16 Apr 2018
The U.S.-led attack on Syria is a gross violation of international law. Furthermore,
western publics still have not been presented with evidence the Syrian state used
any chemical weapons. A new phase of the Syrian proxy war has needlessly been
opened up. Another war of choice.

CrossTalking with Mark Sleboda and Dmitry Babich.

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The mainstream seem fully on board with this BS...Complete propaganda piece the
others are basically the same. Putin will now cosy up to North Korea , Iran etc, etc....

The funny thing is they all say once we defeated ISIS blah , blah, blah, like any
created 'terror' meme its easy to morph into something else as we have seen
since 9/11. Al Qaeda the data base of different armed groups in the allied intel
data base still exist and groups in Syria still have that tag, so this will not stop
until the various foreign mercenary groups are ordered or moved away and
stopped being paid.

The real freedom fighters , various rebellious national groups taking up arms
for regime change in any country are a different case and have been going on
since biblical times and before and has happened in virtually every country
over the centuries. They have a right to oppose governments even if it comes
to open rebellion as in Syria , that's why most civil wars are messy . The US was
born from rebellion and almost divided in a deadly civil war so knows this very well
as do most countries and is partly why the UN was set up. But the globalists and
their NWO are trying to keep control after the end of the cold war and seem like
trying to get the world back there in a new version of military stand off which
costs trillion $/£ but gives the few who run the world all the power behind the
scene with their deepstate minnions....


Assad warned about consequents of using chemical weapons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsR6hWjXLFs
Published on 16 Apr 2018..Fox
Will conflict in Syria lead to another cold war with Russia? Retired Gen. Anthony
Tata and Fox News national security analyst Dr. Walid Phares reacts on 'Fox &
Friends First.'


9/11 Truth - Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist ( 8 min seg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fjzzgzZJns


https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post992601


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Syria air strikes: Russia denies tampering with suspected chemical attack site


Russia's foreign minister says the only evidence of a chemical attack came from the
mediaRussia has denied interfering with evidence at the site of a suspected Syrian
chemical weapons attack that drew Western military retaliation.

In an interview for BBC's Hardtalk, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: "I
can guarantee that Russia has not tampered with the site."Concern about
tampering was raised by the US envoy to the international chemical weapons
watchdog.International inspectors are trying to reach the site in Douma, near
Damascus. The watchdog, the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons), has been meeting behind closed doors in The Hague to discuss the
alleged attack on 7 April.

Read more....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-43783427

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US, UK & France’s evidence against Syria questions their reliability – Lavrov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msyQe_5UKmU

Published on 16 Apr 2018
The US envoy to the OPCW says Russia might have tampered with the site of the
alleged chemical attack. Russia's Foreign Minister denies the allegations.

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Escalating tensions: US threatens Russia with new sanctions over Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udpvMko-PCw
Published on 16 Apr 2018
New sanctions follow a combined assault by America and its allies against the Assad
government. The US envoy to the United Nations said Russia will face new
restrictions over its support for Damascus. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/93bo

[Cara]

This might be related to further plans for a Syria attack.... It might also have been part of the plans for the just completed attack but something changed?

Thousands of US troops and Marines arrive in Jordan
By: Shawn Snow   2 days ago

As tensions come to a boil in Syria over an alleged chemical attack, thousands of U.S. troops and Marines will be gathering in neighboring Jordan for the start of a major training exercise.

Nearly 3,600 U.S. troops, including Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, will be in place Sunday for the start of a nearly two-week training exercise known as Eager Lion, military officials confirmed to Marine Corps Times.

It will be a rare display of allied firepower, which couldn’t come at a more tense time as U.S. Navy warships are steadily building a presence in the Mediterranean in preparation for what analysts presume will be a tomahawk cruise missile strike on Syria.

President Donald Trump has sent mixed messages about his plans for an attack on Syria, which the Pentagon is considering after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad allegedly used chemical weapons to attack the city of Douma.

Last year, Eager Lion was launched from the Zarqa Jordanian military base, located near the Syrian border and roughly 100 miles from the Syrian capital of Damascus.

The exercise has routinely been viewed as a pretext for an invasion of Syria by analysts and countries aligned with the Syrian regime.
...

From here: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/new...ive-in-jordan/

[Cara]

And Dr Farrell is not convinced either....

SECDEF MATTIS: WHERE’S THE PROOF?
Joseph P. FarrellApril 16, 2018

I'm old enough to remember the Cuban missile crisis. For those few days in 1962, the family dinner table was tense and the air - the attitude - in the country was surreal. People lived and went to work, as before, but hanging over every waking moment was the full conscious realization, of every second of every day during the crisis, of the possibility that civilization could go up in mushroom clouds of radioactivity. Years later, as the full story of the Cuban missile crisis was finally known and told, it became clear that the world had made it through the crisis largely because two men - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and American President John F Kennedy - had stood down their countries' respective "war hawks." The real life scenario had come uncomfortably close to Stanley Kubrick's black comedy, Dr. Strangelove.

I remember those days, and the feeling in the air around our dinner tables, the smiling but tense faces as people tried to pretend everything was normal. And I have not experienced that feeling in all the years since, until last week's latest "Syria crisis" and the irresponsible tweets of Mr. Trump about the missiles flying soon. Funny, I seem to have missed that part about Twitter having been designed as a thermonuclear geopolitics platform.

As I pointed out in last Thursday's News and Views from the Nefarium, the problem with the whole Syria narrative was and is the same as that with the whole Skripal narrative: there's little to no proof that Syria's Assad regime used poison gas at all. And lost in the shuffle has been the fact that Russia brokered a deal a few years ago - remember that - whereby Syria would turn over all its chemical weapons in favor of a Western stand-down in that country. Also lost in the shuffle were all those stories from the Obama era that documented the West's, and in particular the USA's, training of the Syrian "rebels" in how to use - here it comes - chemical weapons.

Finally, perhaps, some sanity may be prevailing in Washington, District of Corruption:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/u...ore-ipad-share

The problem, as outlined by this New York Times article, is exactly what I said it was: Lack of proof:

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sought on Thursday to slow down an imminent strike on Syria, reflecting mounting concerns at the Pentagon that a concerted bombing campaign could escalate into a wider conflict between Russia, Iran and the West.

During a closed-door White House meeting, officials said, Mr. Mattis pushed for more evidence of President Bashar al-Assad’s role in a suspected chemical attack (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/w...ack-douma.html) last weekend that would assure the world that military action was necessary.

There's an element of make-believe here that also disturbs:

“It’s too bad that the world puts us in a position like that,” he said. “But you know, as I said this morning, we’ve done a great job with ISIS,” Mr. Trump added. “We have just absolutely decimated ISIS. But now we have to make some further decisions. So they’ll be made fairly soon.”

Wait a minute... would that be the same ISIS that America and its allies helped prop up in Syria to use as cats' paws against the Assad regime? The same ISIS that Russia's intervention helped rout and defeat? The same ISIS that western groups and advisors trained in the use of chemical weapons?

Something about this whole story still stinks, and it stinks like the Skripal case: there's no proof, and as I put it last Thursday, the real problem is to explain why Mr. Assad would resort to such an attack at the very moment of his emergent victory. Why resort to an attack that will only re-inflame the West's involvement in his country? Mattis has stated the obvious: there's no proof, and here's the rub: there's not likely to be.

For that is exactly what has happened, and it's for that reason I still think this event is being manipulated to keep the West involved... it has that distinctive Riyadh-Tel Aviv odor to it...

From here: https://gizadeathstar.com/2018/04/se...res-the-proof/

[Cidersomerset]

The real message is to North Korea.....Steve Pieczenik is very experienced at all
these matters and this is a good segment it would of been better if Alex did not
interrupt so much....You can skip from 18 to 25 mins if you do not want to see
Alex talk about Steves picture behind him. They also talk about Cohen , Zach
is not in this segment other than a brief mention at the beginning when Steve
says he does not think Kushner is involved with the Syria attack.

The reason Alex is so angry and disappointed with Trump as he knows all this
is BS but has gone on with it for whatever reason.

STEVE PIECZENIK: ZACH? ALEX & STEVE BUMP HEADS!
- ALEX JONES INFOWARS

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=poU66bll4yo

Published on 16 Apr 2018

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Paul Craig Roberts has a different view that Trump was compromised and
maneuvered into the raids and its all fake, Alex shows some footage that is staged
and more.....

The Syrian Conflict Is Not Over And Will Continue To Get Worse Until Russia Has To Respond

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eHjQ5jruOew

Published on 16 Apr 2018
Paul Craig Roberts joins Alex Jones live via Skype to give his expert analysis of the
conflict in Syria and how he believes the exciting confrontation may come to a
deadly close.

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Ex-Pink Floyd Roger Waters condemned bombardment of Syria by the US and the allies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r2s9ppgCGA
Published on 15 Apr 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG9iMYrcFcY
Published on 16 Apr 2018..RT.
The strikes against Syria have been condemned by the former lead singer of Pink
Floyd, Roger Waters, during a concert in Barcelona. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/93cn

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'Accountable to whims of Trump': May faces grilling in Parliament after bypassing it
on Syria attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILLew1HjyZA
Published on 16 Apr 2018
The UK's Prime Minister, Theresa May, has been forced to justify her controversial
decision to join the US and France in striking Syria without seeking the approval of
MPs. The intervention against Assad's government has led to a lengthy and
impassioned discussion in parliament. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/93dz

[shaberon]

3,600 Marines going to Jordan will not amount to anything. Any attempted Western invasion would have to be much larger than that. Those Marines might be able to bolster a few camps of insurgents.

Same with this missile attack, which was the same as the previous one, a tremendous loss of munitions to 70s era Soviet defenses. It is an opportunity for the aggressor countries to brag themselves into irrelevancy.

[Hervé]

Syrian air defenses repel missile strike against Shayrat air base in Homs province – state media

RT
Published time: 16 Apr, 2018 22:17
Edited time: 17 Apr, 2018 02:14
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FILE PHOTO: Syrian air defense repels air strike in Damascus, April 14, 2018. SYRIA TV via Reuters TV

[video at: https://www.rt.com/news/424333-syria...-defense-homs/ ]

Syrian air defense systems have been activated in response to a missile attack targeting Shayrat Airbase in Homs province, and, according to state media, managed to take down all the incoming projectiles.

Up to 10 missiles were destroyed by the Syrian Armed Forces, a military source told Sputnik. The Syrian air defenses managed to intercept some of the projectiles, according to a SANA reporter. Meanwhile, the Al Mayadeen news outlet is claiming that all the projectiles were intercepted and inflicted no physical damage or casualties at the targeted Syrian base.

The Pentagon has denied initiating strikes or conducting any other military activity in Homs province. “There is no US military activity in that area at this time,” the Pentagon’s spokesperson told Reuters. The same information was also shared with TASS news agency by Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon.

The raid in Homs countryside reportedly coincided with another missile attack against a military airbase near Damascus. According to various Arabic media channels, three missiles targeted Al Dumayr airport, but they were all allegedly downed by the Syrian air defenses.

According to yet unconfirmed reports, the missiles entered Syrian airspace from Lebanon, which may indicate that the Israeli Air Force could have been involved, Al-Masdar News reports, citing a military source. The outlet’s reporter also published several videos allegedly showing the launch of interceptor missiles.

Israel, which hardly ever acknowledges its raids inside Syria, failed to comment on its alleged involvement. “We don’t comment on such reports,” an Israeli military spokesman told Reuters. The US Department of Defense spokesman, meanwhile, told Sky News Arabia that there are “a lot of players” in the region who could have carried out the Tuesday morning attack in Syria.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=t_UVIZKsOG4

While it remains unclear who launched the attack, the reported strike comes just days after Washington, London and Paris carried out a coordinated strike in Syria in the early hours of Saturday morning. It also comes roughly a week after two Israeli F-15 fighters targeted another Syria’s airbase in Homs province, Tiyas (also known as T-4 Airbase).


Related:
Israeli defense minister claims right of 'total freedom of action' in Syrian airspace

Real targets of US-led strike were Syrian airfields, not research centers – MoD

[Cidersomerset]

Syria chemical attack: Investigators allowed to visit site after delay
17/4/18

Five days after their arrival, chemical weapons inspectors in Syria will
be given access to an alleged attack site on Wednesday, Russia says.

The team has been in the country since Saturday but has been prohibited
from entering the town of Douma.US officials have raised concerns that
Russia may have tampered with the site while inspectors were denied access.

Syria and its ally Russia deny responsibility for the attack, with Russia
claiming that it was "staged".


read more...


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-43792120

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Macron under fire from French Parliament over Syria strikes

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y9vVmjbZTBc

Published on 16 Apr 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the US-led strike on
Syria was legitimate, but "history will judge" whether the operation
was justified".The military action has put President Emmanuel
Macron under pressure in French Parliament.

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Iran's UK ambassador on Syria - BBC Newsnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvjlOA-yTDo
Published on 16 Apr 2018
Iran's ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, speaks
to Emily Maitlis about chemical warfare and Syria.

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Syrian air defenses respond to missiles over Homs province – state media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpIawW2uyws
Published on 16 Apr 2018
Syria's air defence has just repelled a missile attack, in Homs Province,
according to the state media.The Pentagon has denied initiating strikes
or conducting any other military activity in Homs province.
Read more: https://on.rt.com/93f1

[Cidersomerset]

Sergei Lavrov makes it clear this is western manipulation to set up rebels to
create false chemical attacks to give the west an excuse to escalate on behalf
of their proxies and keep the fighting going...

He also talks about the Skripal case in the second part

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov - BBC HARDtalk rushes

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-zJ41whNgR0

Published on 16 Apr 2018
This is the full and unedited interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
speaking exclusively to HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur in Moscow 16th April 2018.
In recent days the world has been alarmed by the very real possibility of a direct
military confrontation between the United States and Russia. Syria is of course
where the current tensions are highest, and where missiles have been fired, but the
hostility is deep-seated on a number of fronts. We’ve had diplomatic expulsions,
sanctions, there’s talk of a new cold war. What is Russia’s next move?

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Topple: "Effectively we have a UK PM deciding foreign policy via social media"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyw09zTSUO0
Published on 17 Apr 2018..RT.
"Effectively we have a UK PM deciding foreign policy via social media" says Steve
Topple as Theresa May was grilled by MPs for bypassing UK Parliament on strikes.

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Coburn: "May's been railroaded into strikes and Trump too"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5tQcBHVFnI
Published on 17 Apr 2018..RT.
"Theresa May's been railroaded into strikes, they should stop and think" says UK
Independence Party (UKIP)'s David Coburn MEP as the PM faced off MPs over Syria
airstrikes.

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Williamson: All the strikes were depending on is social media and hearsay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjtH2yRzk24
Published on 17 Apr 2018..RT.
"All the strikes were depending on is social media and hearsay" says The Labour
Party's Chris Williamson MP after Theresa May's grilled by MPs for bypassing
Parliament over strikes.

[Hervé]

Posted by Hervé (here)

Posted by Hervé (here)
[...]
Well, one of the immediate consequence is that any one thinking about providing their nation with some kind of "Iron Dome" will line up at the Russian war wares counters... efficient, effective, simple, cheap and locals-operated wares.
[...]

Of course, on the other side of the coin, as a corollary:

Pentagon: F-35 Can Achieve Missile Defense Capability if More Money Spent
[...]
In other words: "O, please! More money by the billions into our money pit! Urgent!"

"Strikes" fallouts:

PM’s husband’s Capital Group is largest shareholder in BAE, shares soar since Syrian airstrikes

RT
Published time: 17 Apr, 2018 14:30
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Philip May, husband of the UK prime minister, works for a company that is the largest shareholder in arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, whose share price has soared since the recent airstrikes in Syria.

The company, Capital Group, is also the second-largest shareholder in Lockheed Martin – a US military arms firm that supplies weapons systems, aircraft and logistical support. Its shares have also rocketed since the missile strikes last week.

The fact has not gone unnoticed by some on Twitter, who agree that BAE Systems has done very well out of the UK-US-France allied airstrikes on Syria, which were sanctioned by Theresa May. It has been reported that the UK’s contribution to military strikes was to fire eight ‘Storm-Shadow’ missiles at an alleged chemical weapons facility, each of which cost £790,000 ($1.13 million) – totaling £6.32 million ($9 million). The missiles were manufactured by BAE Systems.

Theresa May’s husband has worked as a relationship manager for the research investment company Capital Group since 2005. The Tory-BAE links go even deeper, however. The former chancellor of the exchequer and present editor-in-chief at the Evening Standard, George Osborne’s other employer Black Rock is the fifth-largest shareholder in BAE Systems.

Figures revealed as of March 31, 2018 reveal that the Capital Group has amassed over 360,000 shares in the company, up over 11 percent on the previous quarter, which may have contributed to a hefty rise in BAE’s share price, which currently stands at around 600p.

Philip May’s Capital Group was linked to the Paradise Papers scandal in 2017. News and current affairs magazine, Private Eye, suggested at the time that Philip May's company used offshore law firm Appleby to devise investments in tax havens.

When asked at the time of the scandal about her husband's role, a spokesperson for the UK PM told reporters: "Mr May is involved in the development of Capital Group’s retirement solutions. He is not an investor but consults with other Capital associates on retirement products and solutions for clients.”

The latest news comes on the back of a recent deal agreed by BAE Systems and the Saudi government for the provisional sale of 48 Typhoon jets to the kingdom. The deal was welcomed by the relevant government officials from the UK and Saudi Arabia, who say it would help safeguard jobs. However, it was criticized by arms campaigners worried about the ongoing war in Yemen.

Companies profiting from war – not a new concept, but many may question how this all sits with Philip May, the PM’s supposedly ‘closet political ally.’

[Cidersomerset]

Russian military finds alleged chemical weapons lab in Douma

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0K5eDYssbTw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K5eDYssbTw
Published on 17 Apr 2018
An alleged chemical arsenal was discovered by Russian servicemen in the
basement of a high-rise apartment building in the Eastern Ghouta city of
Douma on Tuesday.A statement by the Russian Ministry of Defence reports
that chemicals such as chlorine, thiodiglycol and diethylamide were found.
Check out http://rt.com

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'US moves peace in Syria further away' - Russia's UN envoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQqWxfWUMkA
Published on 17 Apr 2018
Russia's envoy to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, has condemned
what he called acts of aggression in Syria.He was speaking at a UN Security
Council session, on the long-running humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country.

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Syria 'chemical attack': Investigators await UN green light on Douma

18/4/18

Experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons will visit the
site of an alleged chemical attack on Wednesday if the UN says it is safe to do so,
Syria says.OPCW experts have been in Damascus since Saturday. A UN security
team visited on Tuesday, Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari told the UN Security
Council.

read more...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-43792120

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Former Senior Military officer stating the obvious......

Syria False flag - Admiral Lord West Casts Doubt on Syria Attack Intelligence - BBC NEWS 16/04/2018

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rIA_dNkscsw

Published on 17 Apr 2018
Here is Admiral Lord West, former First Sea Lord, speaking to the BBC about his
thoughts on why he thinks the chemical weapons attack on Douma could have been
a false flag.