oldngray
nowhere special
An article from Jan. 2013' in the UK's Mail Online that was later deleted with no explanation causes me to step back and watch what develops from this alleged Sarin Gas attack that is blamed on Assad.
U.S. 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad's regime'
As to the deletion of the article, there are many reasons it could have been deleted, reasons that were justified but at the same time I still wonder is a long ago quote from someone who understands the use of gov't lies and deceptions a fact in any and all of this too.
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels
The tragic irony that Sarin gas was created in 1938' by the German company IG Farben.
Assad could well have done this but there are equal motives on the part of others to make it look like Assad did this too. Turkey seems to me was the first to make the Sarin gas claim and their hands are quite dirty in all of this.
There is real cause IMO to remain very skeptical of all sides and then see where this goes over time.
Russia is claiming a frame up and the chemicals weren't Assad's but as usual it is one of the situations where the public will never know exactly what happened.
I think it was Assad but I don't think there is any "good" side in that conflict.