By Zerio Hedge: US Has "Strong Indications" Assad Used Chemical Weapons,

Russia Says Rebel False Flag. The US is back at it again. For a while it seemed as if the Egyptian situation would promptly escalate to all out war, and necessitate the US "liberation" of this or that interest or ideology and certainly putting the Suez canal under US-controlled lock-down until following a series of epically bungled missteps, Obama and John Kerry managed to alienate the Saudis and the Israelis who are firmly behind the new military counter-coup government in Egypt, while the US still has to admit a coup ever happened. Which means only Plan B for middle-east escalation remains: Syria. Sure enough, this morning we woke up to the horrible news that hundreds of people had died following the use of nerve gas in an area close to Damascus in an attack that the "democratic" media, and the Qatari mercenaries, scrambled to pin on the Assad regime. Just like in June the US "found" Assad had used chemical weapons, only for the UN and Russia to accuse the US of fabricating the data, and for the chemical weapon warehouse of the rebels to be uncovered shortly thereafter, which meant the Syria narrative would have to be put on hiatus for a few months: after all the lies were getting perilously close to those used by Bush in the Iraqi WMD fiasco. Well, the administration appears certain enough time has passed by and has relaunched the old "blame Assad" plot-line, with the WSJ reporting minutes ago that the US "sees strong indications" that Syria's government used chemical weapons in the attacks. What those are is unclear as the US does not actually have presence on the ground, and neither have any UN inspectors have been able to investigate. But why not go for round two of the false flag fabrication: maybe this time it will fly? Syrian authorities denied using chemical weapons in their renewed offensive on Wednesday, accusing
the opposition of fabricating claims or staging gas attacks themselves. "These claims are categorically false and completely baseless and are part of the filthy media war waged by some countries against Syria," a spokesman for Syria's armed forces said. U.S. officials disagreed on Wednesday. "There are strong indications there was a chemical weapons attack, clearly by the government," a senior administration official said. "But we do need to do our due diligence and get all the facts and determine what steps need to be taken." The United Nations Security Council, in an emergency meeting in New York, backed calls for a prompt investigation of the allegations, which came just days after a U.N. team arrived in Damascus to look into earlier claims of chemical-weapons use by both sides. In other words, the US had its mind made up already not only before the investigation, but mere hours after the news broke. The allegations, if verified, would represent the largest use of chemical weapons since the regime of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein attacked Kurdish and Iranian citizens with them in the late 1980s. Oh yes, remember all those Iraqi WMDs that were supposedly hiding in every bar and alley that served as the basis for "humanitarian" intervention and the liberation of the enslaved Iraqi oil wells? We do. Oh yes, remember all those Iraqi WMDs that were supposedly hiding in every bar and alley that served as the basis for "humanitarian" intervention and the liberation of the Iraqi oil wells? We do.