What US intel?? to what facts are you referring by US intel? I know of none. Give them to us. I dont want conclusions or conjecture— just the facts upon which they base them but I know of no conclusions based on anything but rank wishful speculation. Do you?
You have the Russian intel, what further proof do you need?
Your comment is interesting since, you, without facts other than the statements of one of the players, are accepting their version. Who knows what happened. Also, as Joe Blow citizen, you will never be privy to what our intel really knows and how it knows it. It is telling however that you are so willing to accept as truth/fact something from regimes who have everything to gain by making it the fault of someone else. Don’t know how old you are, but you may not remember the cold war, where Russian and it’s puppets took this same tact constantly. I’d also ask if this is true, why has Syria, Russia and Iran not let in outside international observers — we only have their word.