Inside Syria: How life goes on in a besieged town
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpict ... 26378.html
1. The Petrodollar
2. John McCain and the MIC
3. Saudi Arabia and MbS
4. Israel
5. Cover up past and present American, Deep State false flags in Syria
6. Distract from Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels
Not only was Sharp unable to find a single resident in Douma who witnessed, heard, or knew about the chemical attack, he was unable to find any physical evidence whatsoever.
Not only did residents of Douma assert that there was no chemical attack, they went so far as to say it was staged by the rebels as a last ditch effort to get the Syrian Army off their backs in order to make their escape from the besieged town.
U.S. and French authorities have suggested that videos shared on the Internet by the U.S.-funded White Helmets organization were sufficient proof of the attack.
To date, the U.S. has presented no evidence of who was responsible or even whether an attack took place at all. Even right up to the U.S. missile strike, Defense Secretary Mattis said he was still looking for evidence.
In a Tweet just days ago, Rep. Thomas Massie expressed frustration that in a briefing to Congress last week the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense “provided zero real evidence” that Assad carried out the attack.
Either they have it and won’t share it with Congress, he wrote, or they have nothing. Either way, he added, it’s not good.
Washington’s outrage is very selective and often politically motivated. Where is the outrage over Saudi Arabia’s horrific three-year war against Yemen? Those horrors are ignored because Saudi Arabia is considered an ally and thus above reproach.
As Western journalists reporting from Douma are raising big questions about the official U.S. story of the so-called gas attack, Trump’s inclination to shoot first and ask questions later may prove to be his downfall.
Damon’s behavior “shows that she’s not worried about it at all,” claimed Brigida Santos, a journalist accompanying Dore’s show.
“I would not get anywhere near that backpack if I thought something was actually in it— I certainly wouldn’t stick my face in it and inhale it, if you’re talking about chemical weapons,” she added.
Fisk wrote that he met a doctor in the clinic who confirmed the widespread video depicting afflicted victims was authentic, but claimed that “the patients, he says, were overcome not by gas but by oxygen starvation in the rubbish-filled tunnels and basements in which they lived, on a night of wind and heavy shelling that stirred up a dust storm.”
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