Syria — President Bashar al-Assad: “The chemical attack story is a fabrication”

Posted on April 14, 2017 by L

“Our impression is that the west, mainly the United States, is hand-in-glove with the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack.”

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during an interview with AFP’s Beirut bureau chief Sammy Ketz in the capital Damascus, on April 12, 2017. / AFP / Syrian Presidency Press Office / Handout

In an interview with Agence France-Presse news agency (AFP), Syrian President Bashar al-Assad claims that the story of the deadly gas attack in Syria is a complete fabrication. In his first interview since the incident, President Bashar al-Assad explains what he thinks really happened. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CIA Director Mike Pompeo delivers first public speech at CSIS

Posted on April 14, 2017 by L

“WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. It has encouraged its followers to find jobs at CIA in order to obtain intelligence. It directed Chelsea Manning in her theft of specific secret information. And it overwhelmingly focuses on the United States, while seeking support from anti-democratic countries and organizations.It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is – a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.”

CIA Director Mike Pompeo

Mike Pompeo waits to be sworn in as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 23, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

On April 13 2017, CIA Director Mike Pompeo  delivered his first public speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Pompeo denounced WikiLeaks as a “hostile intelligence agency.” Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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MIT Professor debunks National Security Council “evidence” on Sarin attack

Posted on April 13, 2017 by L

“What I can say for sure herein is that what the country is now being told by the White House cannot be true and the fact that this information has been provided in this format raises the most serious questions about the handling of our national security.”

Theodore Postol — Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy – MIT

Figure 2 — Close up photograph of the crater that has been shown in numerous mainstream media publications that the White House alleges is proof that the source of the nerve agent attack was the Syrian government.

President Trump’s National Security Council has released a declassified four-page ‘white paper’ detailing the evidence of the alleged sarin attack. MIT Professor Theodore Postol has concluded that the assessment contains absolutely no evidence that this attack was the result of a munition being dropped from an aircraft. Here is the analysis by Professor Postol. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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President Trump’s National Security Council releases White Paper on Syria-Sarin Evidence

Posted on April 13, 2017 by L

“What I can say for sure herein is that what the country is now being told by the White House cannot be true and the fact that this information has been provided in this format raises the most serious questions about the handling of our national security.”

Theodore Postol — Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy – MIT

Close up photograph of the crater that has been shown in numerous mainstream media publications that the White House alleges is proof that the source of the nerve agent attack was the Syrian government.

President Trump’s National Security Council has released a declassified four-page ‘white paper’ detailing the evidence of the alleged sarin attack. MIT Professor Theodore Postol has concluded that the assessment contains absolutely no evidence that this attack was the result of a munition being dropped from an aircraft. Here is the four-page ‘white paper’. The analysis by Professor Postol will be posted soon. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Ex-UK Ambassador: “Assad was not behind the chemical attack”

Posted on April 13, 2017 by L

“It’s not going to end here … because Trump has just given the jihadis a thousand reasons to stage fake flag operations.”

Peter Ford — Former British Ambassador to Syria

 

Former British Ambassador to Syria Peter Ford says those calling for intervention in Syria are likes “dogs returning to their own vomit”. Peter Ford says he believes it is “highly unlikely” that Russia or the Assad regime was behind the attack in Idlib. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_Today Continue reading →

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Trump ‘Special Envoy’ plans to partition Libya into three

Posted on April 12, 2017 by L

“This is like a litmus test of how much you know about Libya. If the only thing you know is that it was cut into three, then it shows you are clueless about the situation in Libya.”

Mattia Toaldo — Libya expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations

On September 15 2016, INTEL TODAY suggested that “somebody has decided that such division of Libya was the best that could be managed at this point”. The Guardian just confirmed this information. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Veteran Intelligence Professionals: “Trump Should Rethink Syria Escalation”

Posted on April 11, 2017 by L

“We write to give you an unambiguous warning of the threat of armed hostilities with Russia – with the risk of escalation to nuclear war. The threat has grown after the cruise missile attack on Syria in retaliation for what you claimed was a “chemical weapons attack” on April 4 on Syrian civilians in southern Idlib Province.”

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)*

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern

Two dozen ex-U.S. intelligence officials urge President Trump to rethink his claims blaming the Syrian government for the chemical deaths in Idlib and to pull back from his dangerous escalation of tensions with Russia. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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When the Washington Post rewrites History

Posted on April 11, 2017 by L

“President Ronald Reagan didn’t seek congressional approval when he bombed Libya in retaliation for a bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland.”

Amber Phillips — Washington Post

On the 14th of April 1986, Ronald Reagan ordered an air raid on Libya.

In a piece published by the Washington Post on April 7 2017, Amber Phillips writes that President Ronald Reagan’s bombing raid on Tripoli and Benghazi was retaliation for the attack on Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie. This is — of course — NONSENSE. But this Freudian slip is nevertheless interesting. Let us take a quick look back at  the official disinformation US program against Libya in 1986. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: “The Syrian chemical attack story is a hoax.”

Posted on April 10, 2017 by L

“Assad’s military has gained a decisive advantage over the rebels and he had just scored a major diplomatic victory with the Trump administration’s announcement that the U.S. was no longer seeking ‘regime change’ in Syria. The savvy Assad would know that a chemical weapon attack now would likely result in U.S. retaliation and jeopardize the gains that his military has achieved with Russian and Iranian help. (…) But logic and respect for facts no longer prevail inside Official Washington, nor inside the mainstream U.S. news media.”

Robert Parry

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson — Former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell — does not believe the official narrative of the ‘Syrian chemical attack’. Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi agrees and describes the story as nothing short of a “sham”. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern debunks the alleged Syria ‘Chemical Attack’

Posted on April 9, 2017 by L

“A source told me that Pompeo had personally briefed Trump on April 6 about the CIA’s belief that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was likely not responsible for the lethal poison-gas incident in northern Syria two days earlier — and thus Pompeo was excluded from the larger meeting as Trump reached a contrary decision.”

Robert Parry – Consortium News

Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern

Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern explains what he has learned from his sources about how the Syrian “chemical attack” actually went down. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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