By Anna Jaunger
June 28, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Having ordered the attack on the al-Shayrat air field near the western Syrian city of Homs, U.S. President Donald Trump knew that the Syrian government hadn’t used any chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun. At the same time the current U.S. administration was making every effort to develop an information campaign against Damascus.
This was reported by Welt am Sonntag, a German Sunday newspaper. An American investigative journalist and political writer Seymour Hersh stressed that actually the Syrian Air Force had targeted a two-story building, where extremists from various terrorist groups held meetings. According to Hersh, a bomb, dropped by the Syrian aircraft in Khan Shaykhun, caused a number of detonations. The explosion led to the formation of a cloud of noxious vapour. Washington was knowledgeable about that.
The attack became an ideal occasion for the U.S. to make further accusations against Damascus. After a short time, the world media started to spread staged footage and photos from Khan Shaykhun. Those materials showed injured people, who were allegedly dying in a suspected sarin chemical attack.
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Permanent representatives of a number of
Western countries to the UN also made every
effort to put all responsibility for the
incident on the Syrian government, headed by
President Bashar al-Assad. Thus, Nikki R.
Haley, the United States ambassador to the
United Nations, at a Security Council
meeting even showed photos, allegedly
proving the ‘crimes’ of the Syrian
authorities against Syrians.
In addition, the U.S., France, Britain
proposed the UN SC draft several resolutions
on the Syrian gas attack. The documents were
aimed to provide an international
investigation with flight plans and logs,
the names of all helicopter squadron
commanders and to provide access to air
bases where investigators believe attacks
using chemicals were launched.
It also should be mentioned that despite
Syria’s readiness to cooperate with the
specialists from the Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an
official investigation into the incident in
Khan Shaykhun has not been launched yet.
Moreover, Western countries continue to
expand sanctions against Syria to escalate
the economic situation in the country and
drag it into an endless war.
Seymour Hersh, referring to information
received from a senior adviser in the U.S.
intelligence services, reported that
Washington had no evidence that the Syrian
Army used sarin gas. The CIA also informed
the White House that no poisonous substances
were found in the al-Shayrat air field, and
al-Assad had no reason to commit political
suicide.
According to many Syrian experts, it is possible that the world will soon become aware of the United States’ participation in other major scandals and incidents in Syria.
This article was first published by Dissident Voice -