ERIC ZUESSE | 28.04.2016 | WORLD
Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Sarin to Syrian Rebels
The great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in two previous articles in the London Review of Books («Whose Sarin?» and «The Red Line and the Rat Line»)
has reported that the Obama Administration falsely blamed the
government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad for the sarin gas attack that
Obama was trying to use as an excuse to invade Syria; and Hersh pointed
to a report from British intelligence saying that the sarin that was
used didn’t come from Assad’s stockpiles. Hersh also said that a secret
agreement in 2012 was reached between the Obama Administration and the
leaders of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, to set up a sarin gas attack
and blame it on Assad so that the US could invade and overthrow Assad. «By
the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi
Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for
getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria». Hersh
didn’t say whether these «arms» included the precursor chemicals for
making sarin which were stockpiled in Libya, but there have been multiple independent reports that
Libya’s Gaddafi possessed such stockpiles, and also that the US
Consulate in Benghazi Libya was operating a «rat line» for Gaddafi’s
captured weapons into Syria through Turkey. So, Hersh isn’t the only
reporter who has been covering this. Indeed, the investigative
journalist Christoph Lehmann headlined on
7 October 2013, «Top US and Saudi Officials responsible for Chemical
Weapons in Syria» and reported, on the basis of very different sources
than Hersh used, that «Evidence leads
directly to the White House, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi Intelligence Chief
Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia´s Interior Ministry». And,
as if that weren’t enough, even the definitive analysis of the evidence
that was performed by two leading US analysts, the Lloyd-Postal report, concluded that, «The US Government’s Interpretation of the Technical Intelligence It Gathered Prior to and After the August 21 Attack CANNOT POSSIBLY BE CORRECT». Obama has clearly been lying. http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/04/28/seymour-hersh-hillary-approved-sending-libya-sarin-syrian-rebels.html
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