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[From 2013] Syrian rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad’s regime: U.N. official(2013)
Washington Times ^ | 5/6/2013 | Shaun Waterman

Posted on 04/07/2017 6:00:58 AM PDT by markomalley

Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.

Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.

But she said her panel had not yet seen any evidence of Syrian government forces using chemical weapons, according to the BBC, but she added that more investigation was needed.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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This article is from 2013

However, we're in 2017 now. I would really like to see the evidence Mr. Trump saw that condemned Assad and exonerated the "rebels."

1 posted on 04/07/2017 6:00:58 AM PDT by markomalley
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makes no difference to MSM it is from 2013..... they will run with it and democrats and liberals will scream about it and demand impeachment.


2 posted on 04/07/2017 6:09:22 AM PDT by DOC44 (Have gun will travel.)
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You don't get it. If Assad is allowing terrorists to run around Syria with chemical weapons he deserves to get bombed. He is either complicit or incompetent.
3 posted on 04/07/2017 6:09:25 AM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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The message in 2017 is that your Russian, Iranian and other friends cannot protect you from America now. You cross us in a way that pisses off the Don and you will pay regardless of who is there helping you. I guarantee everyone got that message yesterday.


4 posted on 04/07/2017 6:10:09 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: markomalley

Which Obama used as justification to prolong a civil war that resulted in refugees flooding into Europe.


5 posted on 04/07/2017 6:10:16 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Uncle Sam 911
I guarantee everyone got that message yesterday.

Except for the pearl clutching, neo-con accusing, hysterical banshees that were pouring out of the woodwork last night.

6 posted on 04/07/2017 6:16:55 AM PDT by dragonblustar (I love reading Trump tweets in the morning.)
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To: markomalley

I’d not be totally surprised if rebels used munitions that were nominally Assad’s. The problem is the gas munitions. This is like a stash of ill guarded matches in the presence of pyromaniacs.


7 posted on 04/07/2017 6:18:31 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Helicondelta

Perhaps incompetent here.


8 posted on 04/07/2017 6:19:36 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: markomalley

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

video of Amir Tsarfati saying Israeli intelligence is positive it was Assad


9 posted on 04/07/2017 6:26:52 AM PDT by txgirl4Bush (Impeach obama)
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To: Helicondelta

Agree, and if he allows them to use airbases for that purpose, he is complicit.


10 posted on 04/07/2017 6:31:07 AM PDT by ~Pandora
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>video of Amir Tsarfati saying Israeli intelligence is positive it was Assad

I watched that video, his explanation of why Assad would use chemical weapons is laughable. Dur Dur he wants to kill all the Sunni civilians by using weapons that about as 1/10th as effective as regular bombs.


11 posted on 04/07/2017 6:31:36 AM PDT by RedWulf (#purge the nevertrumpers)
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video of Amir Tsarfati saying Israeli intelligence is positive it was Assad

Israeli intelligence was positive the USS Liberty was an Egyptian Destroyer Escort attacking Israel in a war initiated by Israel, and they repeatedly attacked Liberty for a full day.

12 posted on 04/07/2017 6:40:01 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

A big message that says, I’m not Obama. I don’t draw lines in the sand.


13 posted on 04/07/2017 6:44:55 AM PDT by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: markomalley

So this time the Turkish Independent UN observers said it was Assad. Never forget that the point person for the Administration in 2013 was, the ever truthful, Susan Rice and that she and John Kerry soon confirmed that all Gas had been removed from Syria even though it might have been those pesky rebels who needed to be relocated to Europe and the US.

It looks like trump found an orifice to insert an enema and the world is having a minor reset on acceptable dictator behavior.


14 posted on 04/07/2017 6:57:22 AM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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It looks like trump found an orifice to insert an enema and the world is having a minor reset on acceptable dictator behavior.

I certainly hope that this is the case.

15 posted on 04/07/2017 7:00:36 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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With what we know how can we assume the MSM was right then when they lie to us all the time?


16 posted on 04/07/2017 7:01:34 AM PDT by tiki
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To: dragonblustar

You forgot the Drama Queens.


17 posted on 04/07/2017 7:02:38 AM PDT by tiki
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To: markomalley
Assad helped kill our Soliders in Iraq. Assad and his pansy Russian boyfriends do nothing against ISIS.
18 posted on 04/07/2017 7:02:44 AM PDT by BeadCounter ( The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness -)
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Assad is the main reason for the refugee problem coming out of Syria at least, I don’t know about the rest of region, Assad’s a bigger killer than ISIS.


19 posted on 04/07/2017 7:04:23 AM PDT by BeadCounter ( The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness -)
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USAF saw them drop these barrel bombs... that’s why we are sure the Syrian regime did it. I will try to find that article and post it.


20 posted on 04/07/2017 7:13:16 AM PDT by BeadCounter ( The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness -)
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