{"id":13996,"date":"2015-10-31T07:57:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T12:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13996"},"modified":"2015-10-31T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T12:58:15","slug":"seymour-hershs-news-report-banned-in-u-s-is-finally-confirmed-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13996","title":{"rendered":"Seymour Hersh\u2019s News Report Banned in U.S., is Finally Confirmed in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2015\/10\/30\/seymour-hersh-news-report-banned-us-finally-confirmed-turkey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seymour Hersh\u2019s News Report Banned in U.S., is Finally Confirmed in Turkey<\/a><\/h3>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"middle\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"middle\">\n<div id=\"articlelistitem5\">\n<div id=\"annotation5\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2015\/10\/30\/s34345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\" border=\"6\" \/>The news-report that the famed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh could not find an American publisher for, and that was consequently published only in Britain, has now been publicly confirmed by a research study into the matter, a study whose findings were made public on October 21st by a committee of Turkey\u2019s parliament and published that day in\u00a0Turkey\u2019s leading newspaper,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_newspapers_in_Turkey\" target=\"_blank\">\u00abZaman\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The question being investigated here was who caused the sarin gas attack in Ghouta, Syria, on 21 August 2013, that killed over a thousand victims, and that U.S. President Barack Obama has used as his basis for going to war to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad?<\/p>\n<p>Hersh\u2019s article, in the\u00a0<em>London Review of Books<\/em>, on 17 April 2014, was titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n08\/seymour-m-hersh\/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line\" target=\"_blank\">\u00abThe Red Line and the Rat Line: Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdo\u011fan and the Syrian rebels\u00bb.<\/a>\u00a0Hersh found that (quoting here the key parts, and providing [in brackets], from me, the necessary clarifications so that the reader can more easily understand what Hersh was saying):<\/p>\n<p><em>A US intelligence consultant told me that a few weeks before 21 August he saw a highly classified briefing prepared for\u00a0<\/em>[Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin]\u00a0<em>Dempsey and the defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, which described \u2018the acute anxiety\u2019 of the\u00a0<\/em>[Turkish President Recep Tayyip]<em>\u00a0Erdo\u011fan administration about the<\/em>\u00a0[U.S.-Turkey-Saudi-Qatari-backed]<em>\u00a0rebels\u2019 dwindling prospects. The analysis warned that the Turkish leadership had expressed \u2018the need to do something that would precipitate a US military response\u2019.<\/em>\u00a0[In other words: Turkey\u2019s leader, Erdo\u011fan, \u2018expressed\u2019 to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, that they needed to do something that would \u2018precipitate a US military response\u2019 against the man Erdo\u011fan wanted to bring down, Assad. He was advising what\u2019s called by the intelligence-services a \u2018false-flag attack.\u2019 Erdo\u011fan wanted a false-flag attack, so as to enable U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seymour Hersh\u2019s News Report Banned in U.S., is Finally Confirmed in Turkey The news-report that the famed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh could not find an American publisher for, and that was consequently published only in Britain, has now been publicly confirmed by a research study into the matter, a study whose findings were made public [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[10370,10180,4394,296,10371,584,1026,694,9101,5340,8203,776,818,827,10369],"class_list":["post-13996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-al-assad","tag-chemical-attack","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-false-flag","tag-ghouta","tag-obama","tag-qatar","tag-russia","tag-sarin-gas","tag-seymour-hersh","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-zaman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13996","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=13996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13998,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13996\/revisions\/13998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}