Bild am Sonntag cites high-level German surveillance source suggesting Syrian president was not personally behind attacks
Simon Tisdall and Josie Le Blond in Berlin
theguardian.com, Sunday 8 September 2013 12.46 EDT
President Bashar al-Assad did not personally order last month's chemical weapons attack near Damascus that has triggered calls for US military intervention, and blocked numerous requests from his military commanders to use chemical weapons against regime opponents in recent months, a German newspaper has reported , citing unidentified, high-level national security sources.
The intelligence findings were based on phone calls intercepted by a German surveillance ship operated by the BND, the German intelligence service, and deployed off the Syrian coast, Bild am Sonntag said. The intercepted communications suggested Assad, who is accused of war crimes by the west, including foreign secretary William Hague, was not himself involved in last month's attack or in other instances when government forces have allegedly used chemical weapons.
Assad sought to exonerate himself from the August attack in which hundreds died. "There has been no evidence that I used chemical weapons against my own people," he said in an interview with CBS.
*** Strange times indeed: it seemed as if the German CIA counterpart the
BND (BundesNachrichtenDienst) the propagators/facilitators/propagandists of the "
Curveball" Iraq Invasion 2.0 false flag lie, are flipping their own initial script, from accusing Assad, to now doubting it; check out the difference a little changing zeitgeist in 'acceptable public political discourse' and mounting public angst & pressure can have, in a mere week, in the age of the internet:
[Note, the eagerness of the French Govt, American Govt/MSM & the Likudnik pressitutes to propagandize an Assad-biased a-priori guilt]
Matthias Gebauer of SPIEGEL, 09/03/2013, 01:39 PM:
Gas Attack: Germany Offers Clue in Search for Truth in Syria
German intelligence agrees with other Western agencies that the Assad regime was behind the Aug. 21 poison gas attack in Syria. One important clue was provided by a telephone conversation intercepted by German agents.
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[Yup, because a philosophy major, who still has partisan kiss-ass mental blocks, is the person to go to for up-to-date geopolitical analysis]
Michael earned a BA in philosophy from Northwestern University and a master's degree in journalism from Medill.
During college he studied Buddhism for four months in India, and worked as a high school sports reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times.
[One 'good' thing about neoCons? They don't hide what they're about: wars/murders & corporatism. Iran is the goal! He says as much!
Ian Bremmer is just another statist Keynesian war-whore NeoCon wanker. Related to
Paul Bremmer? Not sure, but may as well be, seeing as how they're both neoKooks; apparently he thinks Iran will go nuclear "in 10 days...in 1~2yrs"! Yes, and his job is a 'risk' analyst! LOL! Where, do they find these goons??]
*** Check out Biz Insider's shift in coverage, from blatantly PRO-War, to one of caution:
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And, now...
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*** Considering it's the 'liberal' Guardian, Glenn Greenwald's employer, will this news be the final nail in oBUSHma & neoLib & neoCon/RINO War-WHORES' False Flag-Con Coffin?
Stay tuned, like this entire week, to find out more...