Video and photographs are flooding the world of yesterday’s incident in Ghouta. Dozens of bodies are shown in what rebels claim was a chemical weapons attack from the Syrian government. They claim death tolls of 1,300 to 1,600.
A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but while the pictures indeed suggest something happened in Ghouta, there is no real proof that it was a chemical weapon attack, or that the toll is anyone near that massive.
Russian officials yesterday and Syrian officials today say that the strike was actually caused by foreign fighters with a makeshift weapon, and that they are unsure what was released.
Fighting has continued in the area, and Syrian troops have bombed Ghouta again today in the course of the fighting. State Department officials say they are “unable to determine” what happened in Ghouta, and that seems to be the general consensus.
Are you freaking kidding me? NPR just interviewed one of the Syrian doctors responsible for treating the victims of this horrible attack. Please do more research before writing a very misleading op-ed
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor…
"And we had about 150 martyrs", Sorry but when a doctor uses expressions like this, then I doubt the legitimacy of this doctor.
I speak Arabic, and in the Arabic language using the word "martyr" is very common to describe someone who was killed, it does not imply that they were soldiers. All the doctor did was literally translate the Arabic to English.
And, so what if it came from NPR? They've done some pretty good programing in the past and hardly sound like they have a conservative agenda from what I've heard. I seriously doubt that they would stoop so low as to conduct fake interviews. But if you can prove it was a fake interview, I'd love to see your sources. And really what does it matter if NPR or CNN reported on it? Innocent civilians are being gassed, and its the civilians who are paying the price.
Why are you lying? No one uses "martyr" except is supporting the CIA terrorist gang. When NPR is interviewing a "doctor" or pose doctor, that person know who is NPR and whom NPR REPRESENTS. NPR is the propaganda media for US military to form the opinion of gullible people. So, the doctor in the target area most likely is AGAINST DR. BASHAR ASSAD who is fighting against the terrorists pose as 'rebels' and its supporters, the war criminlas Obama, Natanyhau and McCain. Therefore, NPR 'report' is either FAKE or biased.
NPR?? Seriously? You do realize that they've their own agenda, and that it might just include carrying the government's water, right? After all, NPR has been under the gun of the conservatives in Congress who want to defund it – kill it really – so to make themselves more tolerable they pass on a little propaganda – just a little, of course.
These are the same people who just days ago claimed the intentional slaughter of the Iraqis and reporters exposed by Manning was an "accident."
This genocide has been carried out by CIA trained terrorists in Syria and its funder Saudi Arabia. Dempsey’s latest talk on Syria that US has no interest in Syria is nothing but LIES. RUSSIA is cooperating with Obama on ‘chemical attack” probe that has intention to FRAME DR. ASSAD, so Russia COLLECT ITS CONCESSIONS, like in Libya. Everyone is thinking about their own interest including RUSSIA. Anyone knows Dr. Assad who is winning the war against Obama’s terrorists does not need to kill babies to stay in power, but OBAMA DOES. Is Russia going to EXPOSE OBAMA’S FALSE FLAG or will seek collecting concessions? This remains to be seen. The CIA trained terrorists have every single reason to stage A FALSE FLAG to fulfill their agenda. The United fascists of America staged 9/11, a FALSE FLAG, to kill Muslims to erect “greater Israel” so they know how it works. The world has a duty to expose Obama a Zionist puppet to protect Dr. Bashar Assad who is more popular than Obama, a liar. Expose Washington FALSE FLAG and show the world who is the true enemy of humanity.
US special operations and CIA teams, along with Israeli and Jordanian troops, have entered Syria to command members of the militant groups fighting against the Syrian government, according to a French newspaper.
The world must expose Obma's war crimes against humanity.
I have read endlessly about the threats we supposedly face from regimes with chemical weapons. Pushed into a rush to war when weapons of such horror are unleashed on innocent victims.
I have a question. One that I see no one asking. What happens inside one of our smart weapons when it is fired from a ship in the Persian Gulf towards a target in an Iraqi neighborhood? Is the rocket fuel that propels the war head a chemical process? Is the blast and concussion not a chemical reaction? What happens to the humans near the blast? Do they not die? Does it really matter if a gas chokes someone to death or if they are vaporized by a hell-fire missile? Are they not gone either way? Their families still feel the pain. Every weapon we fire is a chemical weapon and our military scrambles to build more and better types constantly.<!–more–>
As we allow our governments to march us into another major war in Syria I am again disheartened by the lack of resistance. Please do what you can to stop the coming war. The US has been funding the terror campaign against the Syrian people for the last two years already. The U.A.E. and the Saudis are also heavily invested in toppling another neighbor/competitor. However, if we allow NATO to engage in direct military action we are going to be responsible for the misery of millions more human beings.
Obama is a war criminal. He has been supporting terrorists. The same people that have been blowing up our boys in Iraq are being trained and armed in Syria. How pissed off I would be as a soldier if I had to help the bastards that killed my brothers last week, just to bring on another war of carnage next week. The same weapons we unleash to the Syrian "resistance" will be used on our us in the coming days.
It takes almost no thinking skills to figure out this is a terrible plan. There is no way Obama and his people do not understand these points. Which must mean that they want more death. That they want more terror. That they are the terror.
The wars have been coming home these last years. Events like 9/11 and the Bostons bombing are changing us. We are becoming more and more accepting of what our security state tells us. They want to shut down entire cities and they do. Do we really think this will make us safe? Take a look around you. To live in even a remotely free society we are open to massacres of this type. Unless we all choose to be monitored on nearly every level nearly all of the time, we are not going to prevent acts of terrorism with a few more cameras watching us or by killing more people in the middle east.
Who out there thinks one type of chemical weapon is any worse than another weapon made with chemicals? The worst terrorists wear suits and ties and do not pray to anything except money.
Didn't we hear a similar tale the last time chemical agents were supposedly used and later it appeared that the "rebels" were the very ones responsible? For what earthly purpose would Assad use them when he's winning on the ground? This "incident" is pure propaganda to stir the emotions and bring cover to further American and western machinations. An excuse for a no-fly zone. Imagine how many people would still be alive if the pro-jihadist American government would keep it's dick out of the picture.
It's on. NBC just reported air strikes or ship launched cruise missiles are likely. No one even mentions the UN previously believed the rebels were responsible for earlier chemical attacks. The rebel (CIA?) strikes were carefully designed to allow Obama to trigger his red line in the sand. With help form main stream media another war is being cooked up.