British Intelligence Planning Fake Chemical Attack in Syria - US Senator

So, it appears Senator Black got his information from Assad, and therefore has questionable validity.

On the other hand, it makes no sense for Russia or Syria to warn the world in advance if it was they who were going to perpetrate a chemical attack. 

Remember, Douma was a false-flag operation and Ghouta was most likely as well.

U.S. Senator Richard Black walks with Syrian government negotiator Bashar Ja'afari (C), Damascus, Syria April 28, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Virginia State Senator Richard Black has claimed UK intelligence was planning a chemical attack in Syria, which they would then blame on the Syrian government. Black made the claim after a meeting with President Bashar Assad.

“Around four weeks ago, we knew that British intelligence was working towards a chemical attack in order to blame the Syrian government, to hold Syria responsible,” Black said on the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen news channel.

Black later clarified that he meant the British were not planning to carry out the attack themselves, rather they intended to direct rebel forces to do so or stage a fake attack, with actors playing victims.

Russia, for over a month, has been warning that the surrounded rebels in Idlib province are preparing a false-flag attack to frame Damascus and trigger a US led-coalition intervention.

In turn, US Marine General Joseph Dunford says he's involved in “routine dialogue” with Donald Trump to keep him informed about “military options” for retaliation in case “chemical weapons are used.” In April, the US led a series of strikes against the Syrian government, avowedly in response to the Douma chemical attack which they blamed on Assad.

According to Black, previous alleged chemical attacks on the Syrian rebel-held area were also fakes concocted by the UK alongside the so-called ‘White Helmets,’ a group of first-responders who face numerous accusations of being linked to Syria’s Jihadist opposition.

There is a good probability that the White Helmets involved in the false-flag chemical attacks were actually impostors. On the other hand, they clearly are anti-Assad.

“From what I can tell, they have been planning a fake attack, not a genuine one, but one where they actually move people out of a town and they have trained people to portray victims of a gas attack,” Black told The Washington Post.

“And the plan is to use the White Helmets who have always been involved in these notorious deceptions, to portray an attack.”

Black’s assertion of British plotting, flies in the face of both the Obama and Trump administration’s claims that Assad has used chemical weapons against the Syrian people.

Respective claims from Russia and the US about planned chemical attacks, the latter accusing Assad of planning to use chlorine, come as Syrian forces are preparing to retake Idlib province, the last rebel-held stronghold. Three million people are thought to live in the area, which is controlled by various rebel groups, including Al-Qaeda linked Jabhat Al-Nusra, and remnants of Islamic State cells.

Despite Russia's warnings for more than a month, no Mainstream Media outlet has run the story. Nor are they interested in covering the Douma false-flag operation. MSM is clearly aligned with the war-mongers of the west.

The comments came after Black’s second visit to Syria. Explaining his visit in 2016, Black praised Assad for protecting Syria against Islamic fundamentalists.

As bad as Assad is, he is a thousand times better than IS, al-Nusra, or al-Qaeda. The west doesn't seem to realize this and appears determined to turn Syria into another Libya. 

On his recent visit, Black said of Assad: “There was sort of a spring in his step and a sense of joy and optimism, and looking out to the future and bringing the nation together.”

Media Complicit in the Madness Over Syrian Chemical Attack

Sky News cuts off top British general after he asks

‘Why would Syria launch a gas attack now?’

It's not bad enough that very few news media are questioning the sanity of attacking Syria over the Douma chemical attack, but from this video it would appear they are not only silent but, in fact, force silence upon anyone who questions the madness. In the video below, the presenter cuts-off Major-General Jonathan Shaw, formerly one of the British Army’s most senior officers, in mid-sentence when he dared to question Syria's motive for launching a chemical attack now.

Tucker Carlson, who's show I don't watch, and who's network I don't watch seems to be the only American journalist who is sensible enough to wonder why Syria keeps shooting themselves in the foot in a determined effort to sabotage their own victory. 

Piers Morgan may be asking similar questions in the UK, but this girl, Samantha Washington, on Sky News is not only not asking questions, she's determined not to allow anyone else to.

Watch this hardly believable bit of anti-journalism:

There's no excuse for stopping an interview cold like that. They certainly wouldn't have begun an interview on a complex topic like that when there was a hard commercial scheduled just one-minute later. That's ridiculous! The video is just one minute and 7 seconds! I'm quite sure General Shaw was not aware he had less than a minute to respond.

It's very disturbing how willing the media is to jump behind what is unquestionably an illegal action without any proof of the accusations. All proofs attaching blame to Assad are presumptuous at best and often fall back on statements like - he's a monster who keeps doing this to his own people. That he's a monster, I have little doubt, but there is still no proof that he was responsible for the Khan Sheikoun episode last year - at least according to General Mattis. 

In 2014, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported on opposition forces' ability to use chemical weapons. In an article for the "London Review of Books," Hersh obtained documents from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon's own spy organization. They suggested that the Nusra Front, a Syrian offshoot of al Qaeda, had access to the sarin nerve agent. A chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta in August 2013, which was blamed on Assad, was carried out by rebels, according to Hersh's article. They wanted Washington to presume Assad had crossed Obama's "red line" and draw the US into a war.

Nevertheless, Assad is blamed for all three chemical attacks with each accusation building on the other. Here's the thing: Assad's enemies are the only ones to gain from the use of chemical weapons. It is clear that they have gained in each of the first two mentioned above and stand to gain greatly from Douma.

It's hard to believe that the governments of 3 major democratic countries, and 99% of the media in those countries are too stupid to see that. It's one thing to want to get rid of Assad; it's a whole 'nuther thing to want the war in Syria to continue into the unforseeable future. That is what will happen if the west seriously weakens Assad; the war will drag on for years more where it could potentially be over by summer. 

Furthermore, if Assad is weakened, Iran and Russia will increase their presence. If Assad is taken out - nothing good can come out of it. Look at the messes we've created in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. 

I believe there are many Syrians living in Europe right now who would love to go home. This insane, knee-jerk reaction will rule out that possibility for many years to come.

So, again I ask, are our governments really that stupid, or is there something else at play? Are there people who are determined not to allow peace to break out in Syria? Nothing is as it seems in global politics and when countries join together to insist that everything is as it seems - well, that's when we really need to start worrying.

US Will Act Against ‘Monster’ Assad With or Without UN ‒ Haley

USA - Sucked-in Again?

United States envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley addresses the Security Council, April 9, 2018. © Brendan McDermid / Reuters

The US will act against the Syrian government with or without a UN blessing, US envoy Nikki Haley told the Security Council, blaming Russian “obstructionism” for allowing the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria and beyond.

“We are beyond showing pictures of dead babies. We are beyond appeals to conscience. We have reached the moment when the world must see justice done,” Haley declared to the Security Council on Monday, accusing Russia of backing the “monster” [Bashar] Assad, who was murdering children with chemical weapons.

“The Russian regime, whose hands are all covered with the blood of Syrian children, cannot be ashamed by pictures of its victims. We’ve tried that before,” Haley said, adding that “no civilized government would have anything to do with Assad’s murderous regime.”

Moscow has challenged claims, made by the Western-backed NGO ‘White Helmets’ and Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam) militants, that the Syrian government conducted a chemical attack against civilians in the Damascus suburb of Douma. Russia’s envoy to the UN Vassily Nebenzia called it “fake news,” noting that no traces of the alleged attack were found in the area after Syrian troops liberated it from the militants.

Haley, however, spoke of the attack as if it and the Syrian government’s culpability were proven facts. If the UN refused to follow Washington’s lead and intervene in Syria due to “Russia’s obstructionism,” Haley said, the US will go it alone.

“History will record this as the moment when the Security Council either discharged its duty or demonstrated its utter and complete failure to protect the people of Syria. Either way, the United States will respond​​​,” she said.

Nobody has vested you with the power to act 

like the world’s policeman, or to act 

like the prosecutor, judge, and executioner 

Earlier in the meeting, Nebenzia had warned the US and its allies of the possible “grave consequences” of unauthorized military action against Syria, where Russian troops have been legally deployed at the invitation of the country’s internationally recognized government.

“What [the] military misadventures of the West bring about is well known, as shown by the examples of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya. Nobody has vested you with the power to act like the world’s policeman, or to act like the prosecutor, judge, and executioner either,” he said.

The US cited humanitarian concerns to launch NATO attacks on Yugoslavia in 1999 and in Libya in 2011. The latter began as the UN mandate to establish a no-fly zone and, within days, turned into a “regime change” operation. In 2003, the US invaded Iraq without UN authority, claiming the threat of Iraqi nuclear and chemical weapons of mass destruction (WMD). No such weapons were ever found.

It is so blatantly obvious that every time Trump starts musing about pulling out of Syria, there is a chemical attack on civilians. 

Analysis of the 2013 attack in Ghouta revealed that it was not of the same chemical composition as that used by Syria at the time. 

No-one has investigated the Khan Sheikoun attack at ground level and taken samples for themselves. All samples were taken from NGOs like the White Helmets which are decidedly anti-Assad. Those samples could never have been verified as genuine. Will anyone from the OPCW actually enter Douma and take samples? We have documented White Helmets complicity in producing fake news in Syria.

Who benefits from the use of chemical weapons in Syria? Certainly not Assad! Only those who do not want the USA to pull out; that would be any of the rebel groups and Saudi Arabia. But the USA has no business in Syria - ISIS is routed and they should depart and stop using false flag excuses to remain. 

Without proof of complicity by Assad, there is no moral imperative to attack, just because you can. In fact, the moral imperative is to wait for proof and to do everything possible to verify the findings. Otherwise, you are being played for fools.