Reuters is claiming tonight to have seen an unidentified and apparently secret list of Syrian government figures accused of being involved in chemical weapons attacks, and that this list included the name of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad under the “president’s circle” section.
Reuters does not directly identify the source of the list, but repeatedly makes mention of “international investigators” and in the article heavily references the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), a combined inquiry of the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. This appears meant to infer this is the source of the list.
Except it apparently is not, as JIM head Virginia Gamba is quoted later in the same Reuters report as insisting that JIM has not ever complied any sort of list naming individual people as part of the inquiry, nor is it even considering making any such list in the future.
This must then raise questions of whose list this actually is, where it comes from, and whether indeed it is even a real list representing the result of some real investigatory body, or simply a list of top ranking Syrian officials as a rather transparent attempt to get talk of Syria’s long-ago abandoned chemical weapons program going again.
Reuters has become a neoconservative activist medium for war.
Yes notice its a “secret” list.
in order words take their word for it….rriiiiiiiight!
Why would anyone believe the crap these folks are peddling.
Not this nonsense again. The corrupt establishment’s last efforts to demonize Assad?
Last? They are out of control of Washington now. We can’t think Obama approved some of the stuff they’ve already pulled.
Reuters is always a pro-war stenographer.
This is the begining .Next it would be repeated umpteenth times . Vocie of JIM will ricochet in the wilderness or in Syrain desert . The lying missive will find walls in CNN FOX WSJ NYT and WaPO at amplify the echo . Someone from MSM will ask the guests ,the politicians and the internet sites what “How we should respond ” as if it is their freaking God -given right to respond and Devil -given right to lie through the teeth
Reuters is one of the most powerful media in globalist elite possession.
Using its former reputation as news wire, the owners have shamefully exploited the brand — to the point of no return. Lies, deceptions, slick scene setting for placing their “information”, is literally sickening. No matter the topic — it is predictably programmed to sell the narrative no matter what. And the narrative will only change when the decisionmakers chart a new course. When the time came to talk badly about Iraq — the story changed. Not a minute eaier or later. The story of Aleppo is the eternal shame of all MSM, Reuters being one of the leaders. Eternal shame for human beings without conscience or mercy. Their story was to stick, they were to prevail — humanity be damned. The liberation of people being held hostage, abused, starved, tortured, killed — that was the day of mourning declared by MSM. No truth was to permeate their thick blanket of lies.
And had it not been for the abuse of the candidate Trump, and now Presudent Elect Trump — most people would be still swallowing their steady diet of lies. There is not one honorable to be found among them. They made a fatal mistake. Thinking themselves too smart and ordinary people too stupid. Arrogance amd overreach are their downfall. But fo not count on them doing any soul searching. They will double down — just to prove their supperiority over rubble. Hopefully they will not start a war somewhere to get us to march to their tune. Brainwashed, obedient in the name of patriotism. History is full of such follies and their tragic episodes.
Would be nice to know WHAT chemical we are talking about here.. Some chemicals are banned by international laws and ‘conventions’, and some are not….. Without the substances being identified, its just idle chatter…
This was proven to be a fabrication long ago. Award winning
investigative reporter Seymour Hersh exposed this with his 2 part essay
Whose Sarin? (Pt 1)
http://www.voltairenet.org/art…
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The Red Line And The Rat Line (PT2)
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http://www.voltairenet.org/art…
The secret list is most likely a lie but that’s no what is important. It’s only important that the American people come to recognize it as a lie. If that happened then we will have won over the propagandists.
So far it’s not even close. On the question it’s likely around 80% of the American people who believe Assad is responsible.
Can anyone show some evidence that I’m wrong with that estimate? A challenge!
luv from Canada.
Reuters is one of the news organizations that has replaced actual bureaus of reporters and editors with access journalism. Someone gave them this press release, and they passed it along. No checking. No real reporting at all. And no editor to say anything about it either.