by Tony Cartalucci: 5 Lies Invented to Spin UN Report on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack!

As predicted days before the UN's Syrian chemical weapons report was made public, the West has begun spinning the findings to bolster their faltering narrative regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks on August 21, 2013 in eastern Damascus, Syria. The goal of course, is to continue demonizing the Syrian government while simultaneously sabotaging a recent Syrian-Russian deal to have Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles and disarmed by independent observers. Image: 107mm rocket shells frequently used by terrorists operating within and along Syria's borders. They are similar in configuration and function to those identified by the UN at sites investigated after the alleged August 21, 2013 Damascus, Syria chemical weapons attack, only smaller. A barrage of suspiciously worded headlines attempt to link in the mind of unobservant readers the UN's "confirmation" of chemical weapons use in Syria and Western claims that it was the Syrian government who used them. Additionally, the US, British, and French governments have quickly assembled a list of fabrications designed to spin the UN report to bolster their still-unsubstantiated accusations against the Syrian government. The BBC's article, "US and UK insist UN chemicals report 'blames Syria'," again states unequivocally, emphasis added: The UN report did not attribute blame for the attack, as that was not part of its remit. However, that did not stop UK Foreign Secretary William Hague who claimed: From the wealth of technical detail in the report, including on the scale of the attack, the consistency of sample test results from separate laboratories, witness statements, and information on the munitions used and their trajectories, it is abundantly clear that the Syrian regime is only party that could have been responsible. And US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power who stated: The technical details of the UN report make clear that only the regime could have carried out this large-scale chemical weapons attack. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius is also quoted as saying: When you look at the findings carefully, the quantities of toxic gas used, the complexity of the mixes, the nature, and the trajectory of the carriers, it leaves absolutely no doubt as to the origin of the attack. The Washington Post went one step further, and perhaps foolishly, laid out a detailed explanation of each fabrication the West is using to spin the latest UN report. In an article titled, "The U.N. chemical weapons report is pretty damning for Assad," 5 points are made and explained as to why the UN report "points" to the Syrian government. 1. Chemical weapons were delivered with munitions not used by rebels: This claim includes referencing "Syria watcher" Eliot Higgins also known as "Brown Moses," a UK-based armchair observer of the Syrian crisis who has been documenting weapons used throughout the conflict on his blog. While Higgins explains these particularly larger diameter rockets, 140mm and 330mm have not been seen by him in the hands of terrorists operating within and along Syria's borders, older post of his show rockets similar in construction and operation, but smaller, most certainly in the hands of the militants.

By Anthony Gucciardi: As Navy Yard Shooting Distracts, France Fuels Syria War Machine!

French report fuels military action in Syria as news cycle focuses on Navy Yard shooting. Amid the turmoil over the recent Navy Yard Shooting in DC, France is now greasing up the wheels of the international war machine by using the latest UN report on the August 21 Syrian chemical attack to claim there is 'no doubt' that Assad's government used the weapons to kill innocents. In what was the top story before the shooting occurred, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius went on record in saying there was 'no doubt' that Assad's government carried out the chemical attacks in Syria. This comes after top Syrian officials say they also submitted evidence showing that the rebels carried out the attacks with the aid of the United States and France. In fact, minister that the US and France aided the rebels in the chemical attacks was reported by Reuters in a piece irrelevantly entitled 'Syria says terrorist's will strike Europe with chemical weapons'. In the article, in which the Syrian official does indeed discuss how the same terrorist groups funded by the US and France will ultimately carry out attacks within their own nations, the deputy foreign minister states: "We repeat that the terrorist groups are the ones that used (chemical weapons) with the help of the United States, the United Kingdom and France, and this has to stop," he said. "This means these chemical weapons will soon be used by the same groups against the people of Europe," he added. French Foreign Minister Laureent Fabius, Courtesy CC Wikimedia. The official also went on record saying that the Syrian government provided the U.N. evidence that 'armed terrorist groups' had utilized sarin gas in the attacks. Assuming that these statements are even remotely true, and certainly we know top analysts agree that it would really make no sense for Assad to carry out the attacks, then it means that France and the US are now continuing to grease up the war machine over the very same chemical attacks they helped to fund and push. And even with the British Parliament failing to sound the war drums due to extreme backlash, France has picked up the torch and is continuing to place the blame on Assad over the attacks. Meanwhile, even Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul have come out with others and revealed how the attacks absolutely show signs of a classic false flag event. Here's a breakdown on the Syrian official's statements from my August 28th appearance on the Alex Jones Show: Full story on Storyleak.com. Article printed from Infowars: http://www infowars.com/ as-navy-yard-shooting-distracts-france - officially-pegs-syria-chemical-attack-on assad/.          

By Paul Joseph Watson: Media Buries Psychiatric Drug Connection to Navy Shooter!

Despite every indication that Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis was on SSRI drugs that have been linked to dozens of previous mass shootings, the mainstream media has once again avoided all discussion of the issue, preferring instead to blame the tragedy on a non-existent AR-15 that the gunman didn't even use. We now know that Alexis "had been treated since August by the Veterans Administration for his mental problems." As Mike Adams points out, "This is proof that Aaron Alexis was on psychiatric drugs, because that's the only treatment currently being offered by the Veterans Administration for mental problems. Alexis' family members also confirmed to the press that he was being "treated" for his mental health problems. Across the medical industry, "treatment" is the code word for psychiatric drugging." Alexis also suffered from PTSD, blackouts and anger issues, all of which are treated with SSRI drugs. The most common form of treatment for PTSD is Paroxetine, which is listed as the number 3 top violence-causing drug by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). The Navy Yard shooter was clearly on some form of psychiatric drug, but the media has shown no interest in discovering its identity. Despite it being reported that prescription drugs were found in the apartment of 'Batman' shooter James Holmes days after the Aurora massacre, it took nine months to find out exactly what those drugs were. Like Columbine killer Eric Harris, Holmes had been taking Zoloft, another SSRI drug linked with violent outbursts. The length of time it took to find out that Holmes was on Zoloft was partly because the media habitually shows interest in pursuing the link between anti-depressants and violence. As the website SSRI Stories profusely documents, there are literally hundreds of examples of mass shootings, murders and other violent episodes that have been committed by individuals on psychiatric drugs over the past three decades. The number of cases is staggering. Why is the corporate media so disinterested in pursuing this clear connection? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the pharmaceutical giants who produce drugs like Zoloft, Prozac and Paxil spend around $2.4 billion dollars a year on direct-to-consumer television advertising every year. By running negative stories about prescription drugs, network risk losing tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue. While failing to ask questions about what SSRI drugs Aaron Alexis was taking prior to his rampage, the media instead blamed the shooting on assault rifles, even after it had been confirmed that no AR-15 was used by Alexis during the massacre. FBI assistant director Victoria Parlve stated at a press conference on Tuesday that authorities, "do not have any information at this time that Alexis had an AR-15in his possession," Despite there being no evidence that an AR-15 was used, the New York Daily News ran a front page headline yesterday morning entitled, "Same Gun Different Slay," next to a picture of an assault rifle. Hours after the FBI stated that no AR-15 had been used, MSNBC's Alex Wagner, who previously blamed the Boston bombings on Alex Jones, continued to use an animated graphic depicting Alexis carrying an assault rifle during the massacre.  

BBC News Middle East: Russia will give UN 'proof' of Syria rebel chemical use!

Russia will give the Security Council evidence implicating Syrian rebels in a chemical attack ob 21 August, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. Syrian officials supplied the evidence, which Mr Lavrov has not yet seen. A UN report released on Monday concluded the nerve agent sarin was used in the attack in Damascus, which the US blames on the Syrian regime. Russia has called the report one-sided and biased. The UN has hit back, saying its findings are "indisputable". The UN report did not apportion blame for the attack, which sparked diplomacy that culminated in a deal for Syria to hand over its chemical arsenal by mid-2014. The UK, France and the US now want the disarmament deal enshrined in a UN resolution backed by the threat of military force. But Russia, which has repeatedly cast doubts on whether the regime carried out the attacks, has objected to any resolution authorizing force. Meanwhile, fighting is continuing across Syria: Rebel groups are fighting each other in a town near the Turkish border, with al-Qaeda linked jihadists gaining the upper hand in a battle with the Free Syrian Army. Unconfirmed video footage shows parts of Damascus being hit in air strikes. The UK- based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops were battling rebels near
the motorway leading to Damascus airport, and Kurdish gunmen had forced jihadists from a village in the north. Mr Lavrov said there was plenty of evidence that pointed to rebel involvement in chemical attacks, including the Damascus assault. "We will discuss all this in the Security Council, together with the report which was submitted by UN experts and which confirms that chemical weapons were used. "We will discuss all this in the security Council, together with the report which was submitted by UN experts and which confirms that chemical weapons were used. "We will discuss
all this in the Security Council, together with the report which was submitted by UN experts and which confirms that chemical weapons were used. We will have to find out who did it," he said. Russia is Syria's most important international ally, and has three times blocked resolutions criticising the regime over the civil war in which the UN says more than 100,000 people have died. Earlier Mr Lavrov's deputy, Sergei Ryabkov, said he had been given the evidence during a trip to Syria. He said it needed to be anaysed, and gave no details of its content. Mr Ryabkov criticised the UN report, saying it was "distorted" and "one-sided". "The basis of information upon which it is built is not sufficient, and in any case we would need to learn and know more on what happened beyond and above that incident of 21 August, he said. "We are disappointed, to put it mildly, about the approach taken by the UN secretariat and the UN inspectors, who prepared the report selectively and incompletely." The UN inspectors were originally mandated to go to Syria to investigate three alleged chemical weapons attacks, at Khan al-Assal, Sheik Maqsoud and Saraqeb. But they were later ordered to shift their focus to the Damascus incident, which was the most deadly chemical assault. They are due to return to Syria "within weeks" to complete their inquiry into the other attacks, and a report is due in October. Chief UN weapons inspector Ake Selldtrom, who wrote the report, told the BBC he thought Russia was not criticising the report itself but the process.
    

By Julie Wilson: Navy Yard Shooting: SWAT Team Ordered to "Stand Down!"

Elite tactical team responsible for defending DC Capitol complex were reportedly ordered to leave the scene. According to a BBC report, one of the most heavily armed police teams, assigned with the task of protecting the Capitol complex and responsible for responding to threats of terrorism, was ordered to stand down in response to Monday's shooting at the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building in D.C. The Containment and Emergency Response Team (SERT), is highly trained and equipped with the best gear on the market. The team consists of four men and is responsible for safeguarding the Capitol complex. The specialty unit is the department's elite tactical team assigned with the task of "dealing with the rise in terrorist actives being directed at the US and its citizens," according to the SpecWarNet.net. "Since there won't be time to call for assistance in the event a terrorist is able to execute an attack against the Capitol, their CERT primary mission consists of rescuing Congressional members, their staff, and visitors who have been taken hostage by terrorists. "Secondary missions include, countering threats made against dignitaries, responding to critical incidents and providing security for major events, such as the Presidential Inauguration,"says the website. Reports confirm that although the team arrived on the scene shortly after news spread of an active shooter situation at the Navy Yard, several Capitol Police team members say they were told by a watch commander to leave the scene. The sources spoke anonymously to BBC in fear of repercussions. The leader of the officers' union, Jim Konsczos, said the whole purpose of the CERT Team is to respond to and handle active shooter situations. The officers, who are specifically trained to be expert marksmen, arrived fully dressed in their tactical gear and armed with HK-416 assault weapons around 9:00 a.m. Monday morning. BBC's report reveals that an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) told the CERT team they were the "only police on the site equipped with long guns and requested their help stopping the gunman." However, shortly after the CERT team arrived, they were reportedly told to leave. "I don't think it's a far stretch to say that some lives may have been saved id we were allowed to intervene," said one Capitol Police source. "Odds are it might have had a different outcome,"said Konczos. "It probably could have been neutralized."One Capitol Police officer who supposedly overheard the request for CERT to stand down felt frustrated by the command. Spokeswoman for the MPD responded to the allegations saying there were "not true." The Capitol Police officer who supposedly overheard the request for CERT to stand down felt frustrated by the command. Spokeswoman for the MPD responded to the allegations saying they were "not true," The Capitol Police announced Wednesday they are investigating the allegations and plan to pull radio logs from Monday's incident. Senate Sergeant-at Arms Terry Gainer, overseer of the US Capitol Police Department, had the following response: "It's a very serious allegation and inference to indicate that we were on scene and could have helped and were told to leave. It crushes me if that's the case."

UPDATED: "Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition" by Joel Gehrke

President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to clear the way for the U.S. to provide military assistance to "vetted" opposition groups fighting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.  Some elements of the Syrian opposition are associated with radical Islamic terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, which was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., in 2001. Assad's regime is backed by Iran and Hezbollah.  The president, citing his authority under the Arms Export Control Act, announced today that he would "waive the prohibitions in sections 40 and 40A of the AECA related to such a transaction."  Those two sections prohibit sending weaponry to countries described in section 40(d): "The prohibitions contained in this section apply with respect to a country if the Secretary of State determines that the government of that country has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism," Congress stated in the Arms Control Export Act.
"For purposes of this subsection, such acts shall include all activities that the Secretary determines willfully aid or abet the international proliferation of nuclear explosive devices to individuals or groups or willfully aid or abet an individual or groups in acquiring unsafeguarded special nuclear material," the law continues.

The law allows the president to waive those prohibitions if he "determines that the transaction is essential to the national security of the United States.

Under section 40(g) of the AECA, the Obama team must also provide Congress — at least 15 days before turning over the weapons — "the name of any country involved in the proposed transaction, the identity of any recipient of the items to be provided pursuant to the proposed transaction, and the anticipated use of those items," along with a list of the weaponry to be provided, when they will be delivered, and why the transfer is key to American security interests.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., endorsed providing military assistance to the Syrian opposition during an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday.
"Our intelligence agencies, I think, have a very good handle on who to support and who not to support," Corker said. "And there's going to be mistakes. We understand some people are going to get arms that should not be getting arms. But we still should be doing everything we can to support the free Syrian opposition."

National Security Council spokesman Caitlin Hayden issued the following statement concerning the president's actions with regard to waiving certain controls on military aid in the Syrian crisis:
"This action will allow the U.S. Government to provide or license, where appropriate, certain non-lethal assistance inside or related to Syria. This includes: 1) chemical weapons-related personal protective equipment to international organizations, including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, for the conduct of their operations; 2) chemical weapons-related life-saving assistance for organizations implementing Department of State or U.S. Agency for International Development programs to strengthen local Syrian health care providers’ ability to prepare for and respond to any use of chemical weapons; and 3) defensive chemical weapons-related training and personal protective equipment to select vetted members of the Syrian opposition, including the Supreme Military Council, to protect against the use of chemical weapons. This action is part of longstanding and ongoing efforts to provide life-saving chemical weapons- related assistance to people in need in Syria."

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By F. Michael Maloof: Kerry's Claim About Assad's Sarin Challenged!

Washington, Although U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said "we know from what Syrian military unit and from a hilltop chemical weapons were fired Aug. 21 into the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, U.S. military sources tell WND otherwise. At his recent news conference, Kerry suggested the intelligence the Obama administration had could identify precisely the origin of the sarin chemical weapons attack that killed, by some estimate, some 1,429 people, including 400 children. However, Kerry never revealed what the content of the intelligence was, nor how it was obtained, suggesting a level of vagueness so that even Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded more details. But they never were revealed, even during a subsequent meeting between Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama two weeks ago at the G20 meeting. A U.S. military source told WND, however, that there was no intelligence reporting on the Syrian government firing the artillery armed with poison gas. "We don't have anything," he said. "On 21 August, there was no reporting on Bashar's boys doing anything," the U.S. military source said. In referring to "Bashar's boys," the source was referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "And there isn't any up to right this minute, meaning that nobody collected any intelligence via 'INT' that said he was indeed having his troops use the stuff, " the source said. The "INT" to which the source refers is the means of intelligence collection either through HUMINT, imagery intelligence, ELINT, or electronic intelligence, and MASINT, a variety of electronic specialties in gathering and interpreting intelligence. In a separate move the U.N. release its reports on the Syrian sarin allegations, and found that sarin was used, but it did not assign blame. "Unless this is reporting that is at a higher level, even the signals people report at a lower level. They have to, since commanders need the information usable at the ground level, meaning something would have been reported," the source said. "We've been eyeballing Syria for over a year," he said, "watching Bashar al-Assad, move weapons and units around, as well as their skirmishes ans rocket launches. "So, I would say that the community politicians cobbled together an extrapolation that made the boss happy, but there's nothing pointing to Bashar in the time frame that we're talking about," he said. "There's a possibility that the highest level collection platforms are only collectibg certain things and only reporting it on the higher channels but I doubt it." This source also had revealed to WND a classified document that showed that the National Ground Intelligence Center, or NGIC, had identified sarin production by al-Qaida elements associated with the Syrian opposition in Iraq and Turkey. The document reveals that sarin was confiscated earlier this year from members of the Jabhat al-Nusra Front, the most influential of the rebel Islamists fighting in Syria. The document, disseminated in August 2013, revealed that sarin from al-Qaida in Iraq had made its way into Turkey and while some was seized, more could have been used, in an attack in the major Syrian city of Aleppo.