Did Al Qaeda Dupe Trump on Syrian Chemical Attack?

Buried deep inside a new U.N. report is evidence that could exonerate the Syrian government in the April 4 sarin atrocity and make President Trump look like an Al Qaeda dupe.

Robert Parry
By Robert Parry
President Donald Trump walks from the podium after speaking at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, April 6, 2017, after the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria. (AP/Alex Brandon)

(Analysis) -- A new United Nations-sponsored report on the April 4 sarin incident in an Al Qaeda-controlled town in Syria blames Bashar al-Assad’s government for the atrocity, but the report contains evidence deep inside its “Annex II” that would prove Assad’s innocence. Still, the Joint Investigative Mechanism [JIM], a joint project of the U.N.

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UN Claims Syrian Gov’t Behind Chemical Attacks — But Where’s The Motive?

Considering respected experts have disputed the claim that the Syrian government launched the chemical weapons attack, the question of motive is an important one.

Darius Shahtahmasebi
By Darius Shahtahmasebi
Photograph of men in Khan Sheikhoun in Syria, allegedly inside a crater where a sarin-gas bomb landed.

Analysis -- A new report from the U.N. has concluded Syrian government forces are to blame for a chemical weapons attack in April of this year in Khan Sheikhoun. The report from the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) says the investigators are “confident that the Syrian Arab

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State Dep. Admits Syrian Rebels Possess Chemical Weapons

The use of chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun, a town in Idlib province, was previously blamed on the Syrian government and used to justify the launch of 59 tomahawk missiles on a Syrian airbase by the United States.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
al-Qaida-linked fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham walk inside the Syrian village of Abu Dali in Idlib province, after they captured it from Syrian troops, Sunday, Oct 8, 2017. (Ibaa News Agency, via AP)

Russia's Defense Ministry stated that the U.S. State Department admitted that Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a rebranded al-Qaida group in Syria, has and uses chemical weapon in Syria. "The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group (HTS), linked to Jabhat al-Nusra, which uses 'small and heavy arms, improvised explosive devices, and chemical weapons', operates

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Have We Been Deceived Over Syrian Sarin Attack?

A closer look at the evidence suggests the official narrative is based on a crudely staged deception.

Gareth Porter
By Gareth Porter
Close up photograph of the crater that has been shown in numerous mainstream media publications that the White House alleges is proof that the source of the nerve agent attack was the Syrian government.

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria issued a report this September that reinforced the official narrative that the Syrian air force dropped a bomb containing nerve gas sarin on the insurgent-controlled town of Khan Sheikhoun, Syria on April 4. That conclusion comes several weeks after the Organization for

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Russian Foreign Minister Slams OPCW For Failure To Investigate Syrian Chemical Attack

Two months after the alleged chemical attack in Syria, OPCW inspectors show no hurry inspecting the scene of the attack or the location from which attack was allegedly launched.

Alexander Mercouris
By Alexander Mercouris
Photograph of men in Khan Sheikdoun, Syria, allegedly inside a crater where a sarin-gas bomb landed on April 4, 2017.

Two months after the alleged chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Syria and the US cruise missile strike on Al-Shayrat air base from where the alleged chemical attack was allegedly launched, the OPCW investigators charged with investigating the alleged chemical attack have failed to inspect either location. This has provoked an angry and

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Trump’s On Attack Syria Trampled Many Laws

Exclusive: As the U.S. mainstream media hails President Trump’s missile strike on Syria, there has been almost no attention to either the truth about its justification or the myriad of laws violated in its execution, writes Marjorie Cohn.

Marjorie Cohn
By Marjorie Cohn
A protest against the US missile strike against Syria during a rally in New York on Friday, April 7, 2017. (AP/Andres Kudacki)

With 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles, each armed with over 1,000 pounds of explosives, Donald Trump went from scoundrel-in-chief to national hero, virtually overnight. The corporate media, the neoconservatives and most of Congress hailed Trump as strong and presidential for lobbing bombs into Syria, reportedly killing seven civilians and wounding

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