Kerry accuses Syria of using chemical agents; US preparing to release evidence
 

Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday accused Syria of using chemical weapons against its people, and U.S. officials told NBC News that they would release intelligence evidence to prepare the public for a possible military response.

President Barack Obama hasn't made any decision on whether wage strikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Monday. But other U.S. officials told NBC News that the administration could begin laying the groundwork by disclosing the evidence as early as Tuesday.

The officials said an attack isn't imminent, because it will take time to make all the information public, and preparations must be coordinated with allies including Britain, France and Turkey. The U.S. is also unlikely to attack while a U.N. weapons team remains in Syria ? and it isn't scheduled to leave until Sunday.

The officials reiterated that any military action would be limited and not targeted at Assad because its goal would be to respond to the use of chemical weapons. Targets would be command and control bunkers, airfields and artillery.

Kerry used unusually forceful language in a brief statement to reporters Monday, saying images that have emerged from Syria in the past week ? of entire families' being killed without shedding a drop of blood, of bodies' contorting in spasms ? "shock the conscience of the world."

He said the evidence was "undeniable" that the Syrian regime had used chemical agents. And he said Obama feels there must be accountability for those who use "the world's most heinous weapons."

Kerry spoke hours after the U.N. team trying to look into claims of a poison gas attack in a Syrian suburb was turned back by sniper fire. At the podium in Washington, Kerry spoke in pained personal terms, as a father, of watching and rewatching video of the aftermath of chemical attacks.

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i don't believe a word

believe this :helpme they are going to attack

it was certain from the day one
even the most brainwashed warmongers should be embarrassed by this cliché by now

Britain and France are already amassing forces on their Cyprus base (100 miles from Syria). Jet fighters, AC-130s, transport planes.

Syria is fucked.

we all are :2 cents: they are backed by russia which means china and north korea :helpme well this may be the 3rd world war

Chechen radical Muslim terrorists support anti-Assad "rebels". Read more here: http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/cont...25/18201.shtml

bless you, i've found somebody with a more boring life than mine. i need to learn how to embrace a fantasy world i can escape into, would you tutor me?

Not anymore. Saudi Arabia is threatening Russia to back down and Russian ships are already leaving the Syrian port of Tartus.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...ops-Syria.html

finish your site then we will talk :1orglaugh

There is no right side to be on, there rarely is in the Middle East. If the US has incontrovertible evidence Assad used chemical weapons then the US will the support of the world should commence bombing of military targets.

The real solution for the betterment of the entire planet is for the US, Russia and China to seize every oil field in the Middle East, divide them between themselves and their allies. Freeze all their assets held in foreign banks. Let nature take its course, let them destroy each other and don't look back.

Iran and Lebanon will quickly get sucked in, after that's happened Russia and China could easily end up getting dragged in too. If you've got WWIII in the Middle-East there'll also be some False Flag attacks in the West to get us 'behind our troops'

While it's just Syria Vs (NATO + Rebels) I have no doubt that Russia will do what it can to covertly help Syria in any way possible, this is going to be a long war, not like Libya. The majority of the Syrian citizens will fight for Assad; they have not fallen for the propaganda.

so kill the economy? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh we need gas to travel to ship goods food water etc... :helpme

I said seize their oil, what do you think they're going to do about it if the world's superpowers in concert want their oil and no more of their bullshit?

remember when this all started in kuwait? the terrorist set the oil on fire and they could not put it out. that would be 10 times worse :Oh crap

Nope Russia have allready said they will not get involved with military action

Thanfully for us Russia, China are not war mongers like GB, FR and the US

Russia and China have little direct history in the Middle East, the English, French and US have lots of it. Russia is playing this for all its worth for themselves.

Only idiots believe that Asad did it. If Russians don't do anything, they are officially biggest world pussies as I am concerned from now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22424188

It will be very interesting to see what Russia do, they will be aware that they themselves are on the hit-list after Syria, Iran and North Korea :2 cents:

Russia wont do anything They dont want to get involved with any military action over this

"Asked if Russia was going to join in the potential conflict on either side, Lavrov said ?We have no plans to go to war, but we hope that others think of long-term interests.?

http://rt.com/news/lavrov-syria-press-conference-003/

They are on hit list for decades back. Step by step, it will come to them. As usually, it won't be open war like it is not anywhere, but pressure and terrorists support to make problems inside and weaken country. (like in Libya, Serbia,Syria now, etc). Not acting is showing weakness. NATO basically don't have support from most of people in own countries, and they need to this fast as possible and get out until terrorists don't finish job. Asad is winning war, NATO knows that and this is their last chance to destroy Syrian equipement from far, and let terrorists to resume their attacks without much fear.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...3fGqmJZ8OffjlA

Cut & paste speech for the war mongers ...

They should have used White Phosphorous or Napalm ... those are OK :upsidedow

Agreed.

Why would Assad do it now, of all times, when he's finally starting to win his civil war?


One need only know which side Al-Qaeda is on to smell the origin of the gas.

I just want to ask about the point of the article which was the masses of dead people with no evident external injuries. Please talk about that.

All faked for US and Western media consumption? Would you need to be in the room assisting a coroner as they test for chemical agents, or still just say they were killed on purpose to justify war?

i think we will go down as the weakest generation in history.
i mean the coalition of the willing.

we are pathetic

we are all getting the government we deserve

it's truly bizarre how many of you seem like you are hoping for war/wwiii, etc. anything that happens on an international level automatically has surreptitious usa motivation and design and implementation. russia is portrayed as itchy trigger fingers ready to go to. china is ready to throw it's best customer under the bus so it can attack it.

it's all a big gfy warmonger fantasy. i would wager many of you are just itching to say i told you so about a fucking world war. that's truly bizarro.

i get that feeling also...no matter what some people here are pro war
they dont care at all...shred of evidence...we are in..thats it.

war..lets cart off some 18 year old kids to die..or come back and be all fucked up.
they can go and decimate people trying to protect their homes and label them terrorists.


Reality is no one here knows what is going on over there..Maybe some guys from Turkey could offer a real opinion, everyone else is just blowing chum

it's even more weird because that pro-war sentiment is couched in anti-american rhetoric.

it's the ultimate in double-speak.

I want no wars ever again on Earth.

What I DO want is for there to be some kind of logic here. They come out and report this story of dead people, whole crowds of them, with no apparent external injuries, seizures, contorted bodies... and nobody seems to SIMPLY wonder what in the fuck is the cause of that? Seriously? It's either "It's a fake story to go to war" or "you sick fucks just want to go to war".. WTF.

If those dead people have evidence of chemical or other agents that killed them.. what would YOU do is the question.

Kerry calls apparent chemical attack in Syria a 'moral obscenity'

http://www.latimes.com/world/middlee...,1792498.story

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/0...th-20k-troops/

a fantasy ....

obviously, this is way over your brain grade :2 cents:

see, this is the other truly bizarre part, you gfy war fantizers really need all the rest of us to buy your war fantasy. it's your fantasy, it's your link that goes nowhere, not mine.

evidence of chemical weapons.
who is doing it?
who has the most to gain from the attacks.
it sure as hell isn't the Syrian government.

Obviously you can't seem to address the simple reality of a situation.

So, are you saying that even if there is evidence found that many dead people were exposed to chemicals that killed them, it is meaningless because it was done on purpose to bring the West into war?

there is no question if chemical weapons were used

the question is who used them

edit: sorry that should be: 'the question' is who used them

honestly, i could see either side, even both sides using them to bring usa into this on their side. there doesn't seem to be any other reason to use them like they did on that neighborhood. i can't think of any other motivator for either side to use them other than that.

Of course; better yet, the West did it so we could get involved.

So there should be a third faction arguing here that we should go in there and take the whole fucking place over, denying both 'sides' the prize of ruling the country in the end.

On the one hand there are the war mongers who are said to be capable of lying about anything just for more wars.

On the other hand are the conspiracy theorists who say no matter what is presented, it is false and their country should not go to war.

Really.. there's barely a difference.

Why would you think the west would want to get involved?

Syria doesn't even have that much oil. no heroin. no pipeline.
As far as i know there is no real pressing need for the West to be involved.

Except for stopping children from being slaughtered. So i think the real question is who benefits the most from getting the higher powers involved, and what would the outcome be?

i.. what?

it's the guys who have been caught committing war crimes the entire time. Its the guys who just did this a few months ago, the same guys that have been receiving arm shipments from nato countries.

there was just a leak by a security company where the saudis were attempting to hire them to pose as russians to 'attack something' and be filmed.

Has the US ever found or "released" any evidence of wrongdoing by the rebels?

I personally have a hard time believing news sources anymore.
I have traveled the world quite a bit, i am in asia right now in fact.
I have met people from everywhere, from both sides of the equation.
Our side is told this or that, their side is told this or that. Who knows what is the truth anymore? Rarely has a story added up the way the news outlets make it seem.

Action will be taken i am sure, i just hope it is the right one.

I follow your adventures with some envy as you travel around.

Both sides are equally convinced that no matter what is presented, it's faked by the opposition. That's why it begs the question what would it take to convince then. What would people need to be presented with, or is everything false unless it supports their side.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh right

I used to hang out with a guy getting his PHD in history, he was fascinated by world war 2.
He was a late child, his father actually fought in world war 2. For germany.
Anyway, his big paper was about germany, and he was trying to find out where the money came from.

Anyway to cut it short. It has been said many times in the past.
History is written by the victors.

These days the news is written by the powerful

so many people have their minds already made up about it and usa, i doubt that even the most incontrovertible facts would not prove to them the truth of the situation.