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Accident Theory in Syria Attack 'Fanciful': Experts
Al Monitor ^ | April 6, 2017

Posted on 04/06/2017 2:46:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Chemical weapons experts have thrown doubt on Russian claims the attack that killed more than 80 civilians in rebel-held Syria could have been caused by an air strike on a "warehouse" containing toxic agents.

The Syrian regime's ally Russia has sought to deflect an international outcry aimed at Damascus by claiming that Syrian air strikes had hit a warehouse where "toxic substances" were stored and that they were released by the explosion.

Olivier Lepick, a French expert with decades of experience of chemical weapons, told AFP on Thursday that the theory advanced by the Russians was "completely fanciful".

(Excerpt) Read more at al-monitor.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: assad; assoff; chemicalweapons; syria
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1 posted on 04/06/2017 2:46:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Maybe he could explain why onscene videos (many now removed) show people walking around the “sarin” scene in bare feet and handling “victims’ with no CW protective gear and doctors with time to tweet

and no mothers of the children to be seen


2 posted on 04/06/2017 2:54:15 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf

I was wondering that same thing...any information on this???


3 posted on 04/06/2017 2:59:37 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: nickcarraway
Yeah, this op has the hallmarks of Paliwood Productions Green Hat media circus snuff film
4 posted on 04/06/2017 3:00:03 PM PDT by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ...)
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To: rdcbn

This has the hallmarks of Soros doing an emergency false-flag to get Susan Rice the hell off the front pages.


5 posted on 04/06/2017 3:02:40 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: nickcarraway

But according to the big O we got 100% of chemical weapons out of Syria.


6 posted on 04/06/2017 3:03:06 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: nickcarraway

We are going to blow Assad’s ass off. :)


7 posted on 04/06/2017 3:04:21 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: nickcarraway

Damascus must come to ruin...

This won’t sway trump, so Assad will have to gas damascus


8 posted on 04/06/2017 3:15:36 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: nickcarraway

Prophecy says that Damascus must be completely destroyed before the return of Jesus Christ. Lwrs and the Globalists are determined to level Damascus and kill Assad. Seem they want the end of the world to come faster than Christians or Jews.......


9 posted on 04/06/2017 3:18:37 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: nickcarraway; Kaslin

Big question, no one seems to be asking: Where did those Chemical Weapons come from?

Obama Lied About Removing All Chemical Weapons from Syria
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | April6, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 4/6/2017, 2:28:24 PM by Kaslin

Obama Lied About Removing All Chemical Weapons from Syria
Apr 6, 2017

RUSH: There’s a fact-check outfit out there called PolitiFact, and it’s like all the other fact-check outfits. The Washington Post has one; the AP has one. These fact-check outfits exist only to discredit and impugn Trump. Well, the PolitiFact has had to retract a story they categorized as “mostly true” three years ago, and this story is big. Three years ago, Barack Obama and his Regime were an abject disaster. But they were claiming success after success after success, particularly in the Middle East.

One of the things that the Obama administration was celebrating was that they had completely removed chemical weapons from Syria. Obama drew that red line and the Syrians and everybody else realized the bad actor they were dealing with, and they cowered in fear, and they did remove 100% of their chemical weapons. There’s a problem now, though. Those chemical weapons were just used in an attack in Syria on Syrian citizens. So how could the Obama administration have gotten rid of all of these? The Obama… You know what the claim was? They claimed they gave all of that chemical weapons stock to the Russians.

Oh, yeah! Yeah, folks! The Obama administration — now the dire enemy of the Russians, victimized by the Russians — gave the chemical weapon stocks in Syria to the Russians.

Which means the Russians probably gave it right back to the Syrians. But the PolitiFact story retracts a 2014 article that said it was “mostly true” that the Obama administration “helped broker a deal that successfully removed 100% of chemical weapons from Syria.” So a story that was a lie backed up by PolitiFact for three years has been retracted, and the upshot is the Obama administration did not succeed in successfully removing all of Syria’s chemical weapons, as we now know because those weapons were used recently.

For full article go to the link below:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3541780/posts


10 posted on 04/06/2017 3:21:33 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The Democrat Party is the action arm of the Establishment Media. Thanks to Mark Twain for this!)
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To: txhurl

The timing of Syria chemical exposure and exposure of Rice is not coincidental.


11 posted on 04/06/2017 3:22:39 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: antidemoncrat

But according to the big O we got 100% of chemical weapons out of Syria.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3541792/posts?page=10#10


12 posted on 04/06/2017 3:23:09 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The Democrat Party is the action arm of the Establishment Media. Thanks to Mark Twain for this!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
We are going to blow Assad’s ass off. :)

Who's this we you speak of? Last time I heard of a German blowing anyone's ass off it was East Germans blowing unarmed women and children's asses off as they sprinted across the border to freedom in the West. Won't be quite that easy blowing Assad's ass off. Gonna have to get through a few well armed Russians and a lot of pissed off Syrians first.
13 posted on 04/06/2017 3:25:08 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: nickcarraway
As per a Republican Senator our intelligence shows the poison gas was released after two air strikes by Syrian aircraft.

Three possibilities

1) Poison gas stored in ISIS weapons depot released from damaged storage containers or gas shells after air strike

2) Syrian forces poison gas attack- with or without Assad OK

3) ISIS release of gas or faking of gas deaths during or shortly after attack

14 posted on 04/06/2017 3:26:09 PM PDT by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ...)
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To: rdcbn

Correct answer is number 3.

3) ISIS release of gas or faking of gas deaths during or shortly after attack.

Odd is it not that the vast majority were innocent civilians?
Where are the dead men with guns? Isis in the past has shown absolutely no compunction not to use civilians as shields and political ploys in their deaths.

I smell “False Flag.”


15 posted on 04/06/2017 3:35:47 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. CONSTITUTUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: nickcarraway
...The expert said the way the agent was dispersed, according to witnesses...

Great investigation techniques there Frenchy.

16 posted on 04/06/2017 3:40:51 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: nickcarraway

Did the “expert” look at an photos, write ups or any other information, or does his “expert” opinion of no specific context point with this specific incident. A general refutation of a claim is not worth much if no evidence is reviewed.


17 posted on 04/06/2017 3:40:53 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: rdcbn

4) Someone else wanting to get us into a war, which it appeared that we would not enter.


18 posted on 04/06/2017 3:44:38 PM PDT by FreeInWV
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To: McGruff

Reading the article, there are dueling experts. Other experts say the “accident” theory is plausible.


19 posted on 04/06/2017 3:47:18 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Having the French as a resource is like having a banjo on a fishing trip.


20 posted on 04/06/2017 3:55:00 PM PDT by Huebolt (The FBI used to be the untouchables.ous.)
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