Successfully goaded by Israel and warmonger John Bolton, after what any moron can see was yet another false flag Deep State/Al Qaeda chemical attack in Syria, POTUS Donald Trump has now said that he will decide on potential actions against Syria within 24-48 hours.
Despite President Trump adopting his harshest rhetoric yet to condemn Russia and the government of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for an alleged chemical attack in rebel-held eastern Ghouta, a missile strike carried out overnight on a Syrian airfield was not the US’s doing.
According to Syrian rebel sources, amplified by the usual suspects in the propaganda campaign against Syria, the Syrian Army launched a chemical assault on the Douma pocket in Eastern Ghouta on Saturday. However, it was widely predicted that Jaish al Islam, cornered and facing imminent defeat, would launch such a provocation in order to provide […]
According to Syria’s TV channels, there has been an “aggression on T4 airfield with several strikes, likely to be by the US”.
Meanwhile Pentagon officials deny any US involvement.
Zerohedge reports…
SENIOR U.S OFFICIAL SAYS NO TRUTH TO REPORTS OF ANY U.S. STRIKES AGAINST ASSAD BASES IN SYRIA
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.
One of the many unsubstantiated claims of “Napalm attack” made by the UK/US created propaganda construct, the White Helmets in Eastern Ghouta.
Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
Smoke rises above Mleha yesterday in Eastern Ghouta. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley)
Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
The battle of East Ghouta appears to be almost over, with news that thousands of Jihadi fighters previously holed up in the town of Douma – the last Jihadi stronghold in East Ghouta, the rest of which has been almost entirely recaptured by the Syrian army – have been withdrawing from Douma under Russian military police escort.
The fight for East Ghouta took a dramatic but inevitable turn earlier today when the Syrian army, continuing its advance, capturing the town of Mesraba inside the enclave, and splitting the enclave into three separate pockets.
The latest advances mean that the Syrian army now controls more than 70% of the territory of the former Jihadi enclave of East Ghouta.
Here is a map provided by the Al-Masdar news agency which shows the present situation in the enclave
Aug 21, 2015, Counter Punch
-by Eric Draitser
