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A detailed independent report by Mother Agnes Mariam, a Greek Melkite Catholic nun that is the mother superior of the St. James Monastery in Qarah, and the International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria (ISTEAMS) makes some important observations about what happened in the Damascene suburb of East Ghouta on August 21, 2013. The independent ISTEAMS study contradicts the assertions of the Obama Administration and the entire US Intelligence Community—a gargantuan network of sixteen different intelligence agencies that includes the standalone Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the US Depart of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), and the Pentagon’s National Security Agency (NSA)—through simple observations of the video material that has been put forward as evidence by the United States. - See more at: www.boilingfrogspost.com... .dpuf
1) Most the footage is of children.
(2) There is almost a total absence of adult corpses next to the bodies of the children.
(3) There is almost a total absence of parents, especially mothers, coming to claim the bodies of the dead children.
(4) There is virtually an absence of the sound of ambulances in the background of the videos.
(5) The testimonies being used against the Syrian government include those of individuals claiming to have smelled the chemical that was used whereas sarin is an odorless gas.
(6) The testimonies that most the victims were found in their homes are at odds with the claims by the same people that most the victims could not be identified.
(7) The same footage is used for videos with different scenarios.
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There's no denying that some videos over the last couple of years have been staged, but it looks like this article is geared only towards East Ghouta. In the meanwhile, the official U.S. report says that intelligence has viewed over 100+ videos taken from 12 different locations in which chemical attacks have taken place, not just this one.
The US is now openly supporting terrorists ..... who use Sarin ......
www.rawstory.com...
“Just a fraction of an ounce of this stuff, of sarin, on your skin could potentially be fatal,”
“It can be absorbed across the skin, it can be absorbed into the lungs, across the eyes. It’s pretty gruesome stuff.”
I hope folks understand why some of us have pretty much 0 faith in the US Intelligence community as capable, competent or accurate on much of anything. Especially if it's self serving in even the slightest way.
The US is now openly supporting terrorists ..... who use Sarin ......
fnpmitchreturns
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Then of course when Turkey caught AL Nursia with cannisters of homemade Sarin gas in May 2013 in a house near the Syrian border ...... again to the US they didn't have any ..... ....and when the UN found that the rebels had used poison gas in January 2013 ... Obama did nothing, said nothing and even claimed how could the rebels use it when they don't have any ???? any child can see it is all a pack of lies ......
We are all aware that instead of being interpreted in an objective manner, these results could easily be interpreted according to the requirements and agendas of certain major countries. Certainly, we expect Russia to block any interpretation that aims to serve American and western policies.
The children were Alawite Christian, Assad is Alawite Christian. Like he would kill his own supporter's children? Obviously its all a pack of lies.
www.alarabiya.net...
The Alawite religion is often called “an offshoot of Shi’ism,” Islam’s largest minority sect, but that is something like referring to Christianity as “an offshoot of Judaism.”
www.theamericanconservative.com...
The Alawite religion, according to Worth, is “a strange, mystic blend of Neoplatonism, Christianity, Islam and Zoroastrianism.”
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fnpmitchreturns
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Then of course when Turkey caught AL Nursia with cannisters of homemade Sarin gas in May 2013 in a house near the Syrian border ...... again to the US they didn't have any ..... ....and when the UN found that the rebels had used poison gas in January 2013 ... Obama did nothing, said nothing and even claimed how could the rebels use it when they don't have any ???? any child can see it is all a pack of lies ......
I'm not saying the so-called rebels didn't use some form of chemical agents, just that the photos I saw showed people handling the bodies without protective gear, which if its true, they also would be dead.
You know its a pack of lies but you believe what Turkey says? Who's side are they on, after all? Did the Turks get up close and personal with the canisters and have proof that it was sarin? If so, why didn't they hand it over to the UN? And why should anybody believe the UN anyway, first they claimed to be investigating 14 chemical weapons attacks in Syria then a sniper shoots at the investigators and the investigation gets suspended indefinitely? Who is the UN working for?
The children were Alawite Christian, Assad is Alawite Christian. Like he would kill his own supporter's children? Obviously its all a pack of lies.
Doctrinal Differences: Alawites practice a unique but little known form of Islam that dates back to the 9th and 10th century. Its secretive nature is an outcome of centuries of isolation from the mainstream society and periodical persecution by the Sunni majority.
Sunnis believe that succession to prophet Mohammed (d. 632) rightly followed through the line of his most able and pious companions. Alawites follow the Shiite interpretation, claiming that succession should have been based on bloodlines. According to Shiite Islam, Mohammed’s only true heir, imam, was his son-in-law Ali bin Abu Talib.
But Alawites take a step further in the veneration of Imam Ali, allegedly investing him with divine attributes. Other specific elements such as the belief in divine incarnation, permissibility of alcohol, celebration of Christmas and Zoroastrian new year makes Alawite Islam highly suspect in the eyes of many orthodox Sunnis and Shiites.