Seymour Hersh: Trump Knew Assad Did Not Deploy Sarin Before Missile Strike.

Seymour Hersh: Trump Knew Assad Did Not Deploy Sarin Before Missile Strike.


Pulitzer Prize and George Orwell Award winning journalist Seymour Hersh has written an in depth article for German Publication Welt that affirms what some of us suspected, that Trump’s Cruise Missile Attacks on a Syrian airbase in April were aimed to boost political, and not military objectives.



“The available intelligence made clear that the Syrians had targeted a jihadist meeting site on April 4 using a Russian-supplied guided bomb equipped with conventional explosives. Details of the attack, including information on its so-called high-value targets, had been provided by the Russians days in advance to American and allied military officials in Doha, whose mission is to coordinate all U.S., allied, Syrian and Russian Air Force operations in the region.

Some American military and intelligence officials were especially distressed by the president's determination to ignore the evidence. "None of this makes any sense," one officer told colleagues upon learning of the decision to bomb. "We KNOW that there was no chemical attack ... the Russians are furious. Claiming we have the real intel and know the truth ...”




The article makes it clear that the deadly gas produced in the attack resulted from destruction of fertilizer and chlorine stored in the targeted building. Deploying Sarin produces no explosive effect.

And also makes clear Trump’s ultimate objective.



“After the meeting, with the Tomahawks on their way, Trump spoke to the nation from Mar-a-Lago, and accused Assad of using nerve gas to choke out “the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many ... No child of God should ever suffer such horror.” The next few days were his most successful as president. America rallied around its commander in chief, as it always does in times of war. Trump, who had campaigned as someone who advocated making peace with Assad, was bombing Syria 11 weeks after taking office, and was hailed for doing so by Republicans, Democrats and the media alike. One prominent TV anchorman, Brian Williams of MSNBC, used the word “beautiful” to describe the images of the Tomahawks being launched at sea. Speaking on CNN, Fareed Zakaria said: “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States.” A review of the top 100 American newspapers showed that 39 of them published editorials supporting the bombing in its aftermath, including the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.”


https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905578/Trump-s-Red-Line.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/27/1675646/-Seymour-Hersh-Trump-Knew-Assad-Did-Not-Deploy-Sarin-Before-Missile-Strike