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US officials suppressed internal assessments that Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing had an “advanced” sarin production cell even as the US publicly blamed the Assad government for a 2013 chemical weapons attack, a report reveals. Leaked documents obtained by The Grayzone show a shadowy British intelligence contractor helped sell the story that Assad was responsible – and nearly triggered Western intervention. On September 13, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) appraisal detailing the chemical […]

Two US ambassadors – Nikki Haley, the US’s ambassador to the UN, and John Huntsman, the US’s ambassador to Russia – have confirmed that the US Treasury Department will be unveiling further sanctions on Russia tomorrow in retaliation for Russia’s continued support for President Assad.

To anyone who has followed the Syrian war the news today sounds all too depressingly familiar.
After a series of advances the Syrian army has gained control of around 90% of the former Jihadi enclave of East Ghouta.  The last remaining part of the enclave still under Jihadi control – the town of Douma – is now entirely surrounded by the Syrian army save for a single humanitarian corridor, and the position of the Jihadis there has become militarily hopeless.

US Air Force personnel testing chemical weapons (Photo: Robin Cresswell. Source: Wikicommons)

Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire

Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire 

Medical volunteers attend to a civilian casualty of the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants, at the the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital, in Bartella, Iraq, March 23, 2017. (AP/Tomislav Skaro)
Here is a chemical attack that occurred on Sunday that the mainstream media will sparsely report.
Why? Because this attack was a confirmed chemical weapons attack conducted by ISIS.
And, for those still not in the know…ISIS is backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey…and the USA.

21st Century Wire says…
Following Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Theodore Postol’s direct challenge to evidence released regarding the alleged chemical weapons attack in the Idlib province of Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov states that the event was ‘orchestrated.’

21st Century Wire says…
It’s been over a week now since the alleged chemical attack out of Khan Shaykhun, Syria and the US government has yet to provide definitive proof of its claims.

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On Wednesday 12th April 2017 Russia for the eighth time exercised its right to veto a Western proposed Resolution concerning Syria in the UN Security Council.  One other country – Bolivia – voted with Russia, and three others – Kazakhstan, China and Ethiopia – abstained.