Posted on 08/22/2013 7:39:26 PM PDT by Nachum
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered local spy agencies to urgently probe claims that Syrian forces launched a horrific chemical attack on civilians, including children, aides said Thursday.
Officials said they could not yet be sure the deadly arms had killed as many as 1,300 people outside Damascus, as the rebels have claimed.
The Obama administration is facing rising political pressure for a tough response to the attack, which could have again infringed U.S. "red lines" against chemical weapons use by President Bashar Al-Assad's regime.
State Department spokesman Jen Psaki said that Obama had asked intelligence agencies to urgently evaluate claims by Syrian rebels about the attack.
"Right now, we are unable to conclusively determine CW (chemical weapons) use," Psaki said, according to the AFP news agency.
She added, however, that the administration had been focused continually since reports of the attack broke on Wednesday on efforts to "nail down the facts."
Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the incident with key counterparts, including Syria's main opposition leader Ahmad Assi Jarba and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
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how can you probe something that doesn’t exist? Staged attack, if the bodies were all real we’d heard horror stories about it now. Probably a few dead from regular attacks with people posing as dead alongside them to increase the effect. Typical, al qaeda/brotherhood has done it before.
Probe = Grind down any inquiries...
The Obama administration is facing rising political pressure for a tough response to the attack, which could have again infringed U.S. "red lines" against chemical weapons use by President Bashar Al-Assad's regime.
Well, yeah, he did draw a red line, but those mean nasty terrible awful dangerous scary Republicans in Congress must have erased it, or if they didn't, it must've been Bush. Yeah. That was it. Bush did it. Not his fault. Stop being such a bunch of ignorant racists.
Obama has ordered local spy agencies, Local to where? D.C., Chicago, Home Town USA?
But that was a no-show. She did some Tweets on Twitter over it though.
Ooooo, President Piss-His-Pants is doing something! We’re saved! We’re saved! Everyone rejoice!
Because the UN investigation that already has people in the theater is so beneath him and we so much money available to do a duplicate investigation.
Obama is truly evil.
Hopefully he will fly there in person and sniff around.
Thanks Nachum.
Hmmmm. I wonder what conclusion they will reach? I’m glad they will enter their investigation with completely open minds.
The USA is being duped into attacking the enemies of the mooselimb bro hood.
This will aid them insetting up a caliphate.
Wow!
The cause of the Syrian chemical attack is going to order a probe of himself?
Yes it is a big job and only he can do it. He should go immediately.
Something along the lines of that urgent evaluation of the attack at Benghazi .... right? /s
http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html
How PR Sold the War in the Persian Gulf
>>>In fact, the most emotionally moving testimony on October 10 came from a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only by her first name of Nayirah. According to the Caucus, Nayirah’s full name was being kept confidential to prevent Iraqi reprisals against her family in occupied Kuwait. Sobbing, she described what she had seen with her own eyes in a hospital in Kuwait City. Her written testimony was passed out in a media kit prepared by Citizens for a Free Kuwait. “I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital,” Nayirah said. “While I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where ... babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die.”83<<<
>>>At the Human Rights Caucus, however, Hill & Knowlton and Congressman Lantos had failed to reveal that Nayirah was a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family. Her father, in fact, was Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait’s Ambassador to the US, who sat listening in the hearing room during her testimony. The Caucus also failed to reveal that H&K vice-president Lauri Fitz-Pegado had coached Nayirah in what even the Kuwaitis’ own investigators later confirmed was false testimony.<<<
>>>Following the war, human rights investigators attempted to confirm Nayirah’s story and could find no witnesses or other evidence to support it. Amnesty International, which had fallen for the story, was forced to issue an embarrassing retraction. Nayirah herself was unavailable for comment. “This is the first allegation I’ve had that she was the ambassador’s daughter,” said Human Rights Caucus co-chair John Porter. “Yes, I think people ... were entitled to know the source of her testimony.” When journalists for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation asked Nasir al-Sabah for permission to question Nayirah about her story, the ambassador angrily refused.86<<<
They will find whatever they want to find, they will report whatever they want to report, and thus take whatever action they want. What a joke.
The probe will consist of 0bama & O.J. hunting for the perpetrators on the golf course...
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