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Syria's government was supposed to have gotten rid of its chemical weapons in 2014. What happened?
LA Times ^ | April 6, 2017 | Matt Pearce

Posted on 04/07/2017 4:59:43 AM PDT by detective

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Full title: Syria's government was supposed to have gotten rid of its chemical weapons in 2014. So what happened?

There’s a mystery at the heart of an apparent chemical weapons attack in Syria this week: Syria’s government, suspected of carrying out the attack, was supposed to have gotten rid of all its chemical weapons in 2014.

A year earlier, President Obama said Syria had crossed a “red line” by allegedly using sarin gas near Damascus and Aleppo, killing at least 100 to 150 people. But rather than take military action, Obama agreed to a Russian deal to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons program.

Syria’s foreign minister has denied that the country’s forces use chemical weapons in its battle with opposition rebels and Islamic State militants, both of whom seek the overthrow of President Bashar Assad. But the effectiveness of the Obama deal is now under new examination.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Syria
KEYWORDS: assad; bho44; chemicalweapons; obama; trumpsyria; un; wmd
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"Investigators have accused both the Syrian government and Islamic State of using chemicals in the fight."

Where did these chemical weapons come from?

Were chemical weapons given to ISIS and other "rebels" the Obama administration was arming and funding?

1 posted on 04/07/2017 4:59:43 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

https://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/breaking-the-obama-administration-promised-there-were-no-more-syrian-chemical-weapons-today-children-are-dying-attacked-without-warning-heres-what-we-know/


2 posted on 04/07/2017 5:06:56 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: detective

Where did these chemical weapons come from?

That is easy. Syria either lied and kept them, or made more.


3 posted on 04/07/2017 5:07:56 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: detective
Hillary gave rebels Libyan Sarin
4 posted on 04/07/2017 5:08:17 AM PDT by SC DOC
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To: detective

What did Assad stand to gain from using chemical weapons here in contrast to what would be certain to be an international outrage?


5 posted on 04/07/2017 5:11:01 AM PDT by conservativeimage (NEWS! (it might not be true))
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To: conservativeimage.com

Assad thought Trump was a sissy like Obama. Assad was wrong.


6 posted on 04/07/2017 5:11:58 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: detective

What Happened? 0bama was in charge.


7 posted on 04/07/2017 5:12:00 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: marktwain

Read this for another view. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-06/evidence-calls-western-narrative-about-syrian-chemical-incident-question
People are forgetting that before the rebelt inVader with Obama’s help, The people—including Christians, lived in peace in Syria. Syrian Christians begged us to leave Bashar alone. He kept terrorists in check and left then in peace. Obama wanted instability in all of the Middle East.


8 posted on 04/07/2017 5:15:20 AM PDT by GOP_Thug_Mom (Iibera nos a malo (Obama, aka: malum vir per puteulanus labiae))
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To: marktwain
Where did these chemical weapons come from?

That is easy. Syria either lied and kept them, or made more.

It wasn't the Syrian government. The SAA and Russia were making huge gains against the Islamist rebels and then their is a staged (Chlorine?) attack in broad daylight with all the children (w/o their mothers) pictured.

9 posted on 04/07/2017 5:20:31 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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To: marktwain

Or Hillary Clinton’s favorite rebels had them. Why did you leave that out of possibilities?


10 posted on 04/07/2017 5:24:06 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: detective
Where did these chemical weapons come from?

Don't care.

11 posted on 04/07/2017 5:25:06 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: detective
All the more reason to be suspicious about the incident.

Who, or what group really perpetrated the attack?

Who had something to gain from the attack and who had something to lose?

‘False Flag’ — Ron Paul Says Syrian Chemical Attack ‘Makes No Sense’

Ron Paul claimed on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Liberty Report” that all signs point toward Tuesday’s chemical attack in Syria being a false flag operation.

“Before this episode of possible gas exposure and who did what, things were going along reasonably well for the conditions,” the former Texas congressman stated. “Trump said let the Syrians decide who should run their country, and peace talks were making out, and Al Qaeda and ISIS were on the run.”

“It looks like, maybe, somebody didn’t like that so there had to be an episode, and the blame now is we can’t let that happen because it looks like it might benefit Assad.”

​“It makes no sense, even if you were totally separate from this and take no sides of this and you were just an analyst, it doesn’t make sense for Assad under these conditions to all of the sudden use poison gasses,” Paul continued. “I think it’s zero chance that he would have done this deliberately.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/false-flag-ron-paul-says-syrian-chemical-attack-makes-no-sense/5583844


12 posted on 04/07/2017 5:26:08 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best long term prep for conservatives: Have big families & out-breed the illegals & muslims.)
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To: SC DOC

This should be a ‘must read’.


13 posted on 04/07/2017 5:32:17 AM PDT by happytrumper
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To: GOP_Thug_Mom
The globalist puppet masters aren't Christian and they are precisely defined by their denial of Christ. Sadly, they've made Trump a puppet in under 100 days. Trump and our country bombed the guys protecting Christians from rape and slaughter and persecution. Syria is just another country on the neocon hit list. Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Russia, white Christians and Christian culture in the U.S. and Europe,...Then the puppet masters should feel non-threatened.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm

14 posted on 04/07/2017 5:32:21 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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To: conservativeimage.com

He’s been using chlorine bombs for quite a while now with very little foreign outrage, so why not?
Not that it matters...they weren’t building that reactor at al Kibar with North Korean help because they just wanted electricity.


15 posted on 04/07/2017 5:38:00 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Ron has common sense — not so common these days.


16 posted on 04/07/2017 5:40:54 AM PDT by happytrumper
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To: detective
The Neo-Cons, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and ISIS give the attack a Thumbs-Up.


17 posted on 04/07/2017 5:41:01 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best long term prep for conservatives: Have big families & out-breed the illegals & muslims.)
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To: happytrumper

Ron Paul is the voice of reason here


18 posted on 04/07/2017 5:47:44 AM PDT by vooch
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

>>>Who, or what group really perpetrated the attack? Who had something to gain from the attack and who had something to lose?

This was a Trump operation from the start. He had the CIA plant the gas so that he could have a show of strength while dining with the Chinese Premier. The target was not Assad, but Xi. Hey, it is as plausible as all the other deep state conspiracies being thrown around.


19 posted on 04/07/2017 5:48:03 AM PDT by oincobx
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To: GOP_Thug_Mom

He kept terrorists in check?
really?
Both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad openly run offices in Damscus.
When wanted terrorist Imad Mugniyeh, the militant leader of the terror group Hezbollah and the guy responsible for blowing up a couple hundred US Marines, torturing the CIA chief Buckley and a US Colonel to death, the brutal killing of Navy diver Robert Stetham on board a hijacked airliner, and more recently involved in terror attacks in our hemisphere - was finally killed in 2008 in a car bomb, it was in Syria, shortly after one of his numerous meetings with Syrian officials.
Since when are terrorists “kept in check” by treating them as contractors?


20 posted on 04/07/2017 5:48:57 AM PDT by piasa
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