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Förberedde sig hur, och för vad? USA-rapporten är väldigt luddig på den punkten. Läs vad Gareth Porter skriver om detta:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18559-how-intelligence-was-twisted-to-support-an-attack-on-syria
Låt oss närmare se vad Gareth Porter skriver:
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Another obvious case of a misleading description of intelligence in the summary involves information from US geospatial and signals intelligence purporting to show that the Assad regime was preparing for a chemical attack in the three days prior to August 21. The intelligence summary describes the intelligence as follows: "Syrian chemical weapons personnel were operating in the Damascus suburb of Adra from Sunday, August 18 until early in the morning on Wednesday, August 21 near an area that the regime uses to mix chemical weapons, including sarin."
That seems like damning evidence at first glance. However, despite the use of the term "operating," the US intelligence had no information about the actual activities of the individual or individuals being tracked through geospatial and signals intelligence. When administration officials leaked the information to CBS news last week, they conceded that the presence of the individual being tracked in the area in question had been viewed at the time as "nothing out of the ordinary."
Yet, after the August 21 event, the same information was suddenly transformed into "evidence" that supports the official line. The summary refers to "streams of human signals and geospatial intelligence that revealed regime activities that we assessed were associated with preparations for a chemical attack." Thus the same information that provided no indication of "preparations" was now presented as though it included knowledge of some "activities" somehow related to getting ready for chemical warfare.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18559-how-intelligence-was-twisted-to-support-an-attack-on-syria
Jaha, och vad är det konstiga med det? USA ser aktivitet på platsen tre dagar innan attacken men anser då att det inte är något utöver det vanliga. När attacken äger rum så lägger de ihop bitarna och först då inser de att aktiviteten dagarna innan var kopplat till attacken senare.
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A senior U.S. official told Fox News that although the intelligence was obtained up to three days prior to the attack, the bits of intelligence gathered only made sense once the attack had been executed, meaning the U.S. knew of no advance warning of the chemical strike.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/30/kerry-says-clear-evidence-chemical-weapons-used-in-syria-as-intelligence/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies did not detect the Syrian regime readying a massive chemical weapons attack in the days ahead of the strike, only piecing together what had happened after the fact, U.S. officials say.
One of the key pieces of intelligence that Secretary of State John Kerry later used to link the attack to the Syrian government — intercepts of communications telling Syrian military units to prepare for the strikes — was in the hands of U.S. intelligence agencies but had not yet been "processed," according to senior U.S. officials.
http://news.yahoo.com/us-spies-missed-signs-aug-21-syrian-wmd-200204969.html
Porter fortsätter och säger att "On August 21, a Syrian regime element prepared for a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus area, including through the utilization of gas masks", som det står i
rapporten, också kan betyda det motsatta, d.v.s. att regeringen förberedde sig för en kemisk attack som rebellerna skulle utföra. Saken är ju att det inte går att tolka det på annat sätt än att USA anser att regimen planerade för en attack mot rebellerna. Och läser man följande så ser man att det är vad de menar i rapporten:
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But the Obama administration only uncovered the evidence after Syrians started posting reports of the strike from the scene of the attack, leading U.S. spies and analysts to focus on satellite and other evidence showing a Syrian chemical weapons unit was preparing chemical munitions before the strike, according to two current U.S. officials and two former senior intelligence officials.
http://news.yahoo.com/us-spies-missed-signs-aug-21-syrian-wmd-200204969.html
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Det är i vart fall en seriös journalist som jobbat många år i Mellanöstern som skrivit artikeln. Men, visst, den är ännu inte bekräftad av någon annan källa.
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Clarification: Dale Gavlak assisted in the research and writing process of this article, but was not on the ground in Syria. Reporter Yahya Ababneh, with whom the report was written in collaboration, was the correspondent on the ground in Ghouta who spoke directly with the rebels, their family members, victims of the chemical weapons attacks and local residents.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/
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Dock har vi också de syriska kurdernas högste ledare Saleh Muslim som säger att han inte tror på det uppmålade scenariot, utan misstänker att det kan handla om någon slags false-flag operation. Varför säger han det? Vet han något som vi inte vet? Kurderna har ju försökt hålla sig utanför striderna, och har kontakter med både regimen och FSA.
Det bör påpekas att PKK ligger i förhandlingar med Turkiet, så det ligger knappast i deras intresse att reta upp turkarna just nu, vilket uttalandet ovan riskerar att göra.
Att han "misstänker att det kan handla om" är en intressant omformulering för Saleh Muslim säger ju rakt ut att han tror det var iscensatt, vilket gör att han hamnar i foliehattsfacket:
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Mr Muslim believed that the chemical attack was "aimed at framing Assad and provoking an international reaction". He said that "some other sides who want to blame the Syrian regime, who want to show them as guilty and then see action" is responsible for the chemical attack. The US was exploiting the attack to further its own anti-Assad policies and should the UN inspectors find evidence that the rebels were behind the attack, then "everybody would forget it. Who is the side who would be punished? Are they are going to punish the Emir of Qatar or the King of Saudi Arabia, or Mr Erdogan of Turkey?"
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/503880/20130905/syria-al-assad-chemical-attack-strike.htm#.UikUcz-W1q8
