Last April, in one of the Trump
administration's first "diplomatic" ventures, the US fired 59 Tomahawk missiles on Syria, in stated
retaliation for the latest alleged chemical attack by the Assad regime, the
same "false flag" excuse which was used by the US to officially enter
the conflict back in 2013 when military tensions between the US and Russia
nearly resulted in a regional war.
Well, it appears that Assad is a relentless
glutton for punishment, because not even a year later, the WaPo reported two weeks ago that the US is
considering a new military action against Syria for - what else - retaliation
against Assad's latest chemical attack, which took place several weeks earlier.
How do we know Assad (and apparently,
Russia) was behind the attack? We don't: in fact, former Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson, in a moment of bizarre honesty, admitted that he really doesn't know much at
all about "whoever conducted the attacks." But hey: just like it
is "highly likely" that Russia poisoned the
former Russian double agent in the UK - with no proof yet - so it is
"highly likely" that a clearly irrational Assad was once again behind
an attack which he knew would provoke violent and aggressive retaliation by the
US, and once again destabilize his regime.
And so we now wait for that flashing, red
headline saying that US ships in the Mediterranean have launched a missile
attack on Syria, just like a year ago. Only this time Russia - which is allied
with the Assad regime - is not planning to be on the defensive, and according
to Russia’s Defense Ministry, "US instructors" are currently
training militants to stage false flag chemical attacks in south Syria, i.e.,
the catalyst that will be used to justify the US attack on Assad. The
incidents, the ministry said, will be used a pretext for airstrikes on Syrian
government troops and infrastructure.
“We have reliable information at our
disposal that US instructors have trained a number of militant groups in the
vicinity of the town of At-Tanf, to stage provocations involving chemical
warfare agents in southern Syria,” Russian
General Staff spokesman General Sergey Rudskoy said at a news briefing on
Saturday.
According to the Russian, "early in
March, the saboteur groups were deployed to the southern de-escalation zone to
the city of Deraa, where the units of the so-called Free Syrian Army are
stationed."
"They are
preparing a series of chemical munitions explosions. This fact will be used to
blame the government forces. The
components to produce chemical munitions have been already delivered to the
southern de-escalation zone under the guise of humanitarian convoys of a number
of NGOs."
And, using the exact same worn out
narrative as last April, and every prior "chemical attack by the Assad
Regime", the "planned provocations will be widely covered in the
Western media and will ultimately be used as a pretext by the US-led coalition
to launch strikes on Syria", Rudskoy warned.
"The provocations will be used as a
pretext by the United States and its allies to launch strikes on military and
government infrastructure in Syria."
Confirming the WaPo's report from early
March, it now appears that an attack is imminent.
“We’re registering the signs of the
preparations for the possible strikes. Strike groups of the cruise missile
carriers have been formed in the east of the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf
and Red Sea.”
Rudskoy also warned that another false flag
chemical attack is being prepared in the province of Idlib by the “Al-Nusra
Front terrorist group, in coordination with the White Helmets.” The
militants have already received 20 containers of chlorine to stage the
incident, he said.
Moscow and Damascus have repeatedly warned
about upcoming chemical provocations, and have highlighted that banned warfare
agents have been used by the militants. Of course, none of that matters to the
Western press which has its marching orders to expose the bloodthirsty killer
Assad as an irrational despot who will use the exact same military method month
after month and year after year, knowing well the response he will get from the
US.
Meanwhile, just a few days ago, Syrian
government forces reportedly captured a well-equipped chemical laboratory in
Eastern Ghouta. Footage from the facility has been published by the SANA news
agency.
The installation contained modern
industrial-grade hardware of foreign origins, large amounts of chemical
substances as well as crude homemade munitions ad their parts. It was unclear
if the chemical lab was capable of synthesizing the novachok nerve gas used in
the attempted murder of the Russian agent in the UK that has resulted in the latest
diplomatic scandal involving Russia and the west.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-17/russia-claims-us-training-syrian-militants-false-flag-chemical-attack-justify
