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MIT expert claims latest chemical weapons attack in Syria was staged
International Business Times ^ | April 12, 2018 | Tareq Haddad

Posted on 04/12/2018 10:13:44 AM PDT by WisconsinRep

A leading weapons academic has claimed that the Khan Sheikhoun nerve agent attack in Syria was staged, raising questions about who was responsible.

Theodore Postol, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), issued a series of three reports in response to the White House's finding that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad perpetrated the attack on 4 April.

He concluded that the US government's report does not provide any "concrete" evidence that Assad was responsible, adding it was more likely that the attack was perpetrated by players on the ground.

Postol said: "I have reviewed the [White House's] document carefully, and I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the US government has concrete knowledge that the government of Syria was the source of the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria at roughly 6am to 7am on 4 April, 2017.

"In fact, a main piece of evidence that is cited in the document point to an attack that was executed by individuals on the ground, not from an aircraft, on the morning of 4 April.

"This conclusion is based on an assumption made by the White House when it cited the source of the sarin release and the photographs of that source. My own assessment is that the source was very likely tampered with or staged, so no serious conclusion could be made from the photographs cited by the White House."

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: bas; chemicalattacks; khansheikhoun; mit; postol; propagandist; syria; syrianwar; tedpostol; theodorepostol
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To: kaktuskid
His daddy leveled a city in Syria just because its inhabitants were against him

Lincoln leveled a city (Atlanta) just because its inhabitants were against him.

81 posted on 04/12/2018 12:29:16 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Magnum44
And he was there I am sure

As were you? Wisdom comes when it dawns on you that no matter how honest federal employees are, the government lies to the people.

Look at flight 93 crash site pictures, and show me any part at all of an airplane or an engine part.

Same for pentagon, no proof what so ever that an airplane struck the Pentagon other than they said so. Where are the airplane engines that surely parts of would have survived?

Maybe you remember how Janet Reno had to kill all the children at Mt. Carmel in order to save them.

Maybe you know what happened to Libya's gold after Hillary's intervention there?

82 posted on 04/12/2018 12:30:21 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Magnum44
We wont go to war over subjective evidence.

Which is why Pearl Harbor had to happen.

83 posted on 04/12/2018 12:32:31 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: WisconsinRep

In Syria, “we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out.”

— John Kerry on Sunday, July 20th, 2014 in comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press”


84 posted on 04/12/2018 12:33:41 PM PDT by McGruff (We are watching a coup attempt. In our own country.)
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To: itsahoot

Good God, you are a 911 disbeliever? Don’t waste my time.


85 posted on 04/12/2018 12:37:24 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44
The professor is not privy to any evidence.

If you are privy to any more evidence than the Professor them I suspect you are breaking several laws by commenting at all on this topic.

86 posted on 04/12/2018 12:44:44 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Magnum44
No one stood to gain from the attack, except Assad, who was sending a message to his enemies. Tin pot dictators are not known for thinking about the consequences of their actions.

Now you are deploying a total lack of knowledge. Assad had a lot less to gain than a certain Pipeline builder.

87 posted on 04/12/2018 12:46:21 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
have tested positive for chemical weapons, two U.S. officials familiar

Comey and Mueller?

88 posted on 04/12/2018 12:47:55 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Magnum44
Don’t waste my time.

You don't have any time to waste you say? Then why are you here claiming that you have access to classified information that other people don't?

89 posted on 04/12/2018 12:51:40 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: itsahoot

I don’t confirm or deny. I try to explain process. Its dumb asses like you who sit here and demand proof that if provided would be a breach, but then you still wouldn’t believe it because its not what you want to believe. Now go away.


90 posted on 04/12/2018 12:53:51 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44
Good God, you are a 911 disbeliever?

No one knows what happened on 911 in its entirety but a lot more went on than we have been told. The absolute proof that the Government lies makes your position pretty dumb to take.

Examine the photos your self and just prove I am wrong by showing all the parts they recovered. While your at it look up the The sinking of the Lusitania.

91 posted on 04/12/2018 12:59:06 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: WisconsinRep
A leading weapons academic has claimed that the Khan Sheikhoun nerve agent attack in Syria was staged, raising questions about who was responsible.

When did this morph from alleged chlorine gas cylinders being dropped from helicopters to an alleged "nerve agent attack"?

92 posted on 04/12/2018 1:22:57 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: R_Kangel

Excellent. Nothing more needs to be said.


93 posted on 04/12/2018 1:25:29 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: poinq
Those tanks can explode just by cutting off the electricity to the factory or shooting them by mistake.

No they can't. Chlorine gas is not explosive unless it is mixed with something like ammonia.

Chlorine is a poisonous, heavier than air, gas, and it will kill you, but it will not blow you up.

94 posted on 04/12/2018 1:29:29 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: WisconsinRep

Really worried that Trump is being misled by the Deep State.


95 posted on 04/12/2018 1:29:35 PM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: WisconsinRep

Love it!


96 posted on 04/12/2018 1:30:39 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Captain Compassion
Why would people not be moving if they were in a chlorine gas cloud? It does not kill instantly.
97 posted on 04/12/2018 1:32:56 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Lazamataz
Really worried that Trump is being misled by the Deep State.

Yes, the usual neocon suspects are beating the war drums at a fever pitch.

98 posted on 04/12/2018 1:32:57 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: Morpheus2009

“Of course there isn’t. What would Assad hope to gain by doing so? Why would he do that when that invites other players against him to help the jihad against him?”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Douma_chemical_attack

“Aftermath[edit]

The day after the alleged chemical attack, all rebels controlling Douma agreed to a deal with the government to surrender the area.[36]


99 posted on 04/12/2018 1:35:24 PM PDT by Justa
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To: itsahoot
Same for pentagon, no proof what so ever that an airplane struck the Pentagon other than they said so.

I have a friend who actually watched from an upper floor in an office building in Arlington (9th or 10th - none of the buildings in that city are very tall). He was in a meeting in a conference room with nothing but windows along one wall and the plane flew by very close to the building and pretty much at eye level. He, and the other seven or eight people in the room, stopped what they were doing and watched as it collided with the pentagon several blocks away. I talked to him about it that same day. He is not a liar.

100 posted on 04/12/2018 1:39:14 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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