{"id":12356,"date":"2015-09-17T06:31:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12356"},"modified":"2015-09-17T06:31:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:31:12","slug":"was-turkey-behind-syria-sarin-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12356","title":{"rendered":"Was Turkey Behind Syria Sarin Attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Was Turkey Behind Syria Sarin Attack?<\/a><\/h3>\n

From the Archive:\u00a0As Washington pundits again demand\u00a0Syrian President Assad\u2019s ouster, a top talking point is that he \u201cgassed his own people\u201d in a Sarin attack\u00a0in 2013. But that rush to judgment was picked apart\u00a0by\u00a0investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and others, as Robert Parry reported in spring 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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In late August 2013, the Obama administration lurched to the brink of invading Syria after blaming a Sarin gas attack outside Damascus on President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s government, but evidence \u2013 reported by investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh \u2013 implicates Turkish intelligence and extremist Syrian rebels instead.<\/p>\n

The significance of Hersh\u2019s\u00a0report<\/u><\/a>\u00a0is twofold: first, it shows how Official Washington\u2019s hawks and neocons almost stampeded the United States into another Mideast war under false pretenses, and second, the story\u2019s publication in the London Review of Books reveals how hostile the mainstream U.S. media remains toward information that doesn\u2019t comport with its neocon-dominated conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n

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In other words, it appears that Official Washington and its mainstream press have absorbed few lessons from the disastrous Iraq War, which was launched in 2003 under the false claim that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was planning to share hidden stockpiles of WMD with al-Qaeda, when there was no WMD nor any association between Hussein and al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

A decade later in August and September 2013, as a new war hysteria broke out over Assad allegedly crossing President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cred line\u201d against using chemical weapons, it fell to a few Internet sites, including our own Consortiumnews.com, to raise questions about the administration\u2019s\u00a0allegations<\/u><\/a>\u00a0that pinned the Aug. 21 attack on the Syrian government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Was Turkey Behind Syria Sarin Attack? From the Archive:\u00a0As Washington pundits again demand\u00a0Syrian President Assad\u2019s ouster, a top talking point is that he \u201cgassed his own people\u201d in a Sarin attack\u00a0in 2013. But that rush to judgment was picked apart\u00a0by\u00a0investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and others, as Robert Parry reported in spring 2014. In late August […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,442,1426,561,584,655,7203,9101,5340,776,818,822,827,834,1920,4176],"class_list":["post-12356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-iraq","tag-misinformation","tag-neocons","tag-obama","tag-propaganda","tag-robert-parry","tag-sarin-gas","tag-seymour-hersh","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-un","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-media","tag-wmd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12357,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions\/12357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}