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This
is one of those days when I cannot keep up with the headlines. At
least one branch of the US government is determined to wage war
agaisnt Syria and break it up.
From the Voice of Empire.
US
warns Syria over 'potential' plan for chemical attack
BBC,
27
June, 2017
The
US says it has identified "potential preparations" for
another chemical attack in Syria, and issued a stark warning to the
Syrian government.
The
White House said the activities were similar to those made before a
suspected chemical attack in April.
Dozens
died in that attack and prompted President Donald Trump to order a
strike against a Syrian air base.
The
US statement warned President Bashar al-Assad of "a heavy price"
if another strike occurred.
It
said "another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime"
was likely to result "in the mass murder of civilians".
The
statement added: "As we have previously stated, the United
States is in Syria to eliminate the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
If, however, Mr Assad conducts another mass murder attack using
chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price."
Why
is there a war in Syria?
President
Assad has denied his forces were behind the suspected nerve gas
attack in the rebel-held north-western town of Khan Sheikhoun in
April.
Dozens
of civilians, including many children, died.
In
response, US Navy ships in the Mediterranean fired 59 Tomahawk cruise
missiles at Shayrat airfield, in western Homs province, which it said
was used to store chemical weapons.
Guided-missile
destroyer USS Porter fires a Tomahawk land attack missile on April 7,
2017 in the Mediterranean SeaImage copyrightGETTY IMAGES/US NAVY
The
US launched a cruise missile attack against a Syrian air base in
April
The
latest development comes amid increasing tension in the region
between the US and President Assad's ally, Russia.
The
Kremlin recently warned the US-led coalition that it would view its
aircraft as targets after the US shot down a Syrian military plane.
Syria's
six-year civil war has left more than 300,000 people dead and created
more than five million refugees.
Militant
Islamist groups including so-called Islamic State (IS) have used the
conflict to seize swathes of and.
Warplanes
from a US-led coalition are supporting an alliance of Arab and
Kurdish militias as they carry out an assault on the group's
stronghold of Raqqa.
And from Arab media
BREAKING:
US military threatens to bomb the Syrian Army again
AMN,
26
July, 2017
DAMASCUS,
SYRIA (6:50 A.M.) – Not long ago, the US military issued a brief
statement in which it threatened to bomb the Syrian Arab Army (SAA)
again if it were to carry out a chemical attack. Remarkably, the US
declined to specify where such an attack might happen or was being
prepared. Full statement on the matter:
With
tensions on the rise between Washington and Damascus, the US
ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said: “Any further
attacks done to the people of Syria will be blamed on Assad, but also
on Russia and Iran who support him killing his own people.”
It
is not yet known if the statement represents a false flag pretext to
attack the SAA or whether US intelligence agencies have information
backing up an alleged chemical attack in the making.
On
April 4, Donald Trump ordered the infamous strike on the Shayrat
airfield in Syria in reaction to what Washington said was a poison
gas attack by the Syrian government that killed at least 70 people in
rebel-held territory. Syria denied it carried out the attack.
Earlier
this month, the SAA
cut off a US garrison in southern Syria from its frontline with ISIS,
thereby rendering American presence in the border region obsolete in
terms of defeating the Islamic State.
Now read this from the National Interest
It's Time to Break Up Syria
Some
believe that the destruction of ISIS is the only thing standing
between peace and eternal crisis. It isn’t.
This comes a day after
this article from Sy Hersh
President
Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided
to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children. Seymour M.
Hersh investigated the case of the alleged Sarin gas attack
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