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Syrian people should decide Assad's fate, Tillerson tells US media

Syrian people should decide Assad’s fate, Tillerson tells US media 

"Rex Tillerson has said the Syrian crisis can only be solved through a political process, claiming it's not regime change but the defeat of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group that Washington is seeking in Syria.
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"Our strategy in Syria, our priority is first to defeat ISIS," the US official said in an interview with ABC's "This Week" host, George Stephanopoulos, which was aired Sunday. ...."

https://www.rt.com/usa/384142-tillerson-syria-regime-change-isis/

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The Latest From Stockholm [Updated]

The Latest From Stockholm [Updated]

Source: Powerlineblog.com

".......UPDATE: Reports from Sweden indicate that the Uzbek terrorist was denied asylum in January but lingered in Sweden anyway. He also is said to have a “double identity.” This is from Sweden, using an internet translation program:

According to a credible source the 39-year-old Uzbek citizen had a double identity, something that is typical of terrorists.

According to the source, the man having been rejected for asylum in January this year, but have thus been able to linger in the country as “paperless”.

He should be on Facebook have expressed sympathy for the Muslim terror group Islamic State.

Further, according to the source, paraphernalia found in the truck that is suspected to be a type of IED (from the English improvised explosive device). It is believed that it was the same man who also carried out the attack."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/04/the-latest-from-stockholm.php

 

 

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Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya's Sarin To Syrian Rebels

Found this headline in a video.

Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya's Sarin To Syrian Rebels

Source:ZeroHedge  May 1, 2016 10:00 PM

Authored by Eric Zuesse via Strategic-Culture.org,

"The great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in two previous articles in the London Review of Books ("Whose Sarin?" and "The Red Line and the Rat Line") has reported that the Obama Administration falsely blamed the government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad for the sarin gas attack that Obama was trying to use as an excuse to invade Syria; and Hersh pointed to a report from British intelligence saying that the sarin that was used didn’t come from Assad’s stockpiles. Hersh also said that a secret agreement in 2012 was reached between the Obama Administration and the leaders of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, to set up a sarin gas attack and blame it on Assad so that the US could invade and overthrow Assad.

"By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria."

Hersh didn’t say whether these 'arms' included the precursor chemicals for making sarin which were stockpiled in Libya, but there have been multiple independent reports that Libya’s Gaddafi possessed such stockpiles, and also that the US Consulate in Benghazi Libya was operating a "rat line" for Gaddafi’s captured weapons into Syria through Turkey. So, Hersh isn’t the only reporter who has been covering this. Indeed, the investigative journalist Christoph Lehmann headlined on 7 October 2013, "Top US and Saudi Officials responsible for Chemical Weapons in Syria" and reported, on the basis of very different sources than Hersh used, that:

"Evidence leads directly to the White House, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia´s Interior Ministry."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-01/seymour-hersh-says-hillary-approved-sending-libyas-sarin-syrian-rebels

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