From
the desk of
Bill Ramey
4/11/17
COMMENTARY & OPINION
Attack on Syria: The Truth Is Exposed!
Saturday, April 8, 2017 20:10
“In the coming days the American people will learn
that the [US]Intelligence Community knew
that Syria did not drop a military chemical weapon on innocent civilians in Idlib.”
Former
DIA Colonel Patrick Lang
Patrick
Lang — a former DIA Colonel — does not mince words about the US attacks on Syria.
Lang claims that Donald Trump’s decision to launch cruise missile strikes on a Syrian
Air Force Base was based on a lie. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
Patrick
Lang is truly a top expert on the Middle-East. The former DIA Colonel is highly
respected for his deep knowledge and absolute honesty.
[NOTE:
Many years ago, Lang helped me to understand a very ‘murky’ dossier regarding Libya.
I trust his analysis 100%. Last week — knowing full well that ‘the shit was going
to hit the fan’ — I asked him permission to reproduce his posts on my blog. Colonel
Lang kindly agreed.]
ANALYSIS
by retired Col. Patrick LANG
Donald
Trump’s decision to launch cruise missile strikes on a Syrian Air Force Base was
based on a lie. In the coming days the American
people will learn that the Intelligence Community knew that Syria did not drop a
military chemical weapon on innocent civilians in Idlib. Here is what happened.
1. The
Russians briefed the United States on the proposed target. This is a process that
started more than two months ago. There is a dedicated phone line that is being
used to coordinate and deconflict (i.e., prevent US and Russian air assets from
shooting at each other) the upcoming operation.
2. The
United States was fully briefed on the fact that there was a target in Idlib that
the Russians believe was a weapons/ explosives depot for Islamic rebels.
3. The
Syrian Air Force hit the target with conventional weapons. All involved expected
to see a massive secondary explosion. That did not happen. Instead, smoke, chemical
smoke, began billowing from the site. It turns out that the Islamic rebels used
that site to store chemicals, not sarin, that were deadly. The chemicals included
organic phosphates and chlorine and they followed the wind and killed civilians.
4. There
was a strong wind blowing that day and the cloud was driven to a nearby village
and caused casualties.
5. We
know it was not sarin. How? Very simple. The so-called “first responders” handled
the victims without gloves. If this had been sarin they would have died. Sarin on
the skin will kill you. How do I know? I went through “Live Agent” training at Fort
McClellan in Alabama.
There
are members of the U.S. military who were aware this strike would occur and it was
recorded. There is a film record. At least the Defense Intelligence Agency knows
that this was not a chemical weapon attack. In fact, Syrian military chemical weapons
were destroyed with the help of Russia.
This
is Gulf of Tonkin 2. How ironic. Donald Trump correctly castigated George W. Bush
for launching an unprovoked, unjustified attack on Iraq in 2003. Now we have President
Donald Trump doing the same damn thing. Worse in fact. Because the intelligence
community had information showing that there was no chemical weapon launched by
the Syrian Air Force.
Here’s
the good news. The Russians and Syrians were informed, or at least were aware, that
the attack was coming. They were able to remove a large number of their assets.
The base the United States hit was something of a backwater. Donald Trump gets to
pretend that he is a tough guy. He is not. He is a fool.
This
attack was violation of international law. Donald Trump authorized an unjustified
attack on a sovereign country. What is even more disturbing is that people like
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, CIA Director Mike Pompeo and NSA Director General
McMaster went along with this charade.
Front
line troops know the truth. These facts will eventually come out. Donald Trump will
most likely not finish his term as President. He will be impeached, I believe, once
Congress is presented with irrefutable proof that he ignored and rejected intelligence
that did not support the myth that Syria attacked with chemical weapons.
It
should also alarm American taxpayers that we launched $100 million dollars of missiles
to blow up sand and camel shit. The Russians were aware that a strike was coming.
I’m hoping that they and the Syrians withdrew their forces and aircraft from the
base.
Whatever
hope I had that Donald Trump would be a new kind of President, that hope is extinguished.
He is a child and a moron. He committed an act of war without justification. But
the fault is not his alone. Those who sit atop the NSC, the DOD, the CIA, the Department
of State should have resigned in protest. They did not. They are complicit in a
war crime.
Walter
Patrick “Pat” Lang, Jr. (born May 31, 1940) is a commentator on the Middle East,
a retired US Army officer and private intelligence analyst, and an author. After
leaving uniformed military service as a Colonel, he held high-level posts in military
intelligence as a civilian. He led intelligence analysis of the Middle East and
South Asia for the Defense Department and world-wide HUMINT activities in a high-level
equivalent to the rank of a lieutenant general. [WIKIPEDIA]
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