"Was Turkey Behind Syrian Sarin Attack?" Robert Parry Reports on Sy Hersh's New Revelations!
Anyone remember the leaked Turkish Telephone call realing the False Flag Operation planned by Turkey to involve Syria in taking out the Muslim Shrine to provoke US action? According to Sy....Turkey has been involved in other plotting with the terrorist groups and other dissidents---------
Published on Monday, April 7, 2014 by Consortium News
Was Turkey Behind Syrian Sarin Attack?
Journalist Seymour Hersh has unearthed information implicating Turkish intelligence in last summer’s Sarin attack near Damascus that almost pushed President Obama into a war to topple Syria’s government and open a path for an al-Qaeda victory
by Robert Parry
Last August, the Obama administration lurched to the brink of invading Syria after blaming a Sarin gas attack outside Damascus on President Bashar al-Assad’s government, but new evidence – reported by investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh – implicates Turkish intelligence and extremist Syrian rebels instead.
The significance of Hersh’s latest report is twofold: first, it shows how Official Washington’s hawks and neocons almost stampeded the United States into another Mideast war under false pretenses, and second, the story’s publication in the London Review of Books reveals how hostile the mainstream U.S. media remains toward information that doesn’t comport with its neocon-dominated conventional wisdom.
President Barack Obama speaking to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24, 2013. (UN photo)
In other words, it appears that Official Washington and its mainstream press have absorbed few lessons from the disastrous Iraq War, which was launched in 2003 under the false claim that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was planning to share hidden stockpiles of WMD with al-Qaeda, when there was no WMD nor any association between Hussein and al-Qaeda.
A decade later In August and September 2013, as a new war hysteria broke out over Assad allegedly crossing President Barack Obama’s “red line” against using chemical weapons, it fell to a few Internet sites, including our own Consortiumnews.com, to raise questions about the administration’s allegations that pinned the Aug. 21 attack on the Syrian government.
Not only did the U.S. government fail to provide a single piece of verifiable evidence to support its claims, a much-touted “vector analysis” by Human Rights Watch and the New York Times – supposedly tracing the flight paths of two rockets back to a Syrian military base northwest of Damascus – collapsed when it became clear that only one rocket carried Sarin and its range was less than one-third the distance between the army base and the point of impact. That meant the rocket carrying the Sarin appeared to have originated in rebel territory.
There were other reasons to doubt the Obama administration’s casus belli, including the irrationality of Assad ordering a chemical weapons strike outside Damascus just as United Nations inspectors were unpacking at a local hotel with plans to investigate an earlier attack that the Syrian government blamed on the rebels.
Assad would have known that a chemical attack would have diverted the inspectors (as it did) and would force President Obama to declare that his “red line” had been crossed, possibly prompting a massive U.S. retaliatory strike (as it almost did).
Plans for War (Continued)
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/07-6
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The Long Detailed Read of Hersh's article is at:The Red Line and the Rat Line
Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/04/06/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
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but decided to do a search first. I could have known 
I'm happy there's people "in the know" on DU. Thanks, KoKo.
and it Went from There searching to see who else was reporting. Amy picked it up on"Democracy Now" and Parry managed to do a great this good condensed post on Sy's article for those who don't have time to read all of Sy's Looooong Post during the weekday...and it sort of got going. Credit to Parry for picking out Sy's mainpoints and Amy for the interview and London Review of Books for the original article...which is a Bookmark, imho, for those who don't have time to get into his whole article which reads like spy thriller.
The more it's posted in different Forums...the better, imho..? (I understand about GD...thought it would get lost there...because who remembers Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter Sy Hersh in DU "GD," these days? Some...but, not many.
Interesting thing is...that if this had been posted by Sy even 10 years ago...folks would have cared.
Interesting times we live in.....hey.....
Thanks for the Read and Rec! 
influences in his Government that are not Informing Him.
He is navigating through the BUSH LEGACY of NEO-CON WARS FOREVER. That's what I got from this. It took great courage for Obama to pull back from Bombing the HELL OUT OF SYRIA... and Sy is connecting the dots about how we escaped another WAR in the ME.
So give it a read...!