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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Sat May 4, 2013, 06:07 PM May 2013

'Israel May Be Behind Syrian Chemical Weapons Use'

A former senior official in the Bush administration said on Thursday the use of chemical weapons in Syria might have been a "false flag operation" of Israel, meant to implicate Syrian President Bashar Assad.

"We don’t know what the chain of custody is. This could’ve been an Israeli false flag operation, it could’ve been an opposition in Syria... or it could’ve been an actual use by Bashar Assad. But we certainly don’t know with the evidence we’ve been given. And what I’m hearing from the intelligence community is that that evidence is really flakey," retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff, told Cenk Uygur in an interview with Current TV.

Given this "flimsy evidence," Wilkerson doesn't believe a red line has been crossed in Syria, and that the US should not base its intervention in the war-torn country based on such evidence.

Wilkerson criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu harshly, saying there is a "geostratigically, geopolitical inept regime in Tel Aviv right now."

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http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israel-may-be-behind-Syrian-chemical-weapons-use-312051

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Kurska

(5,739 posts)
1. Except the headline at the Jpost was in quotes indicating they weren't claiming it
Sat May 4, 2013, 06:09 PM
May 2013

But that it was a former bush official claiming that (apparently with no evidence aswell).

Yours very clearly isn't. Funny how removing punctuation can completely change the context and meaning of a headline.

So no, that quite clearly wasn't actually the Jerusalem post's headline. It is rather duplicitous of you to claim it is if you are going to omit context changing punctuation.

Kurska

(5,739 posts)
4. Oh jeez, sorry for catching your mistake.
Sat May 4, 2013, 06:14 PM
May 2013

Did you accuse your grammar school teachers of whining when they corrected your spelling?

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
5. well that's crazy shit
Sat May 4, 2013, 06:19 PM
May 2013

Wilkerson complains about flimsy evidence and in the same breath with no evidence whatsoever, suggests that the Israelis may have mounted a false flag operation in Syria.

I just love cognitive dissonance writ large.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
9. Purveyor entered another OP from the JP a few mins ago...
Sat May 4, 2013, 06:33 PM
May 2013

interesting line in the article (emphasis added):

"...Israel allegedly attacked a Hezbollah-bound missile shipment in Syria.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022798995

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