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What the UN inspectors are doing in Syria? Time to recollected their mission in Iraq…What changed between 2003 and 2013?
Posted on: August 27, 2013
What the UN inspectors are doing in Syria? Time to recollected their mission in Iraq…What changed between 2003 and 2013?
Is it true that Russia has declared that it will not intervene against the Western preemptive strikes on Syria?
Many believe that the meeting in Jordan is to put the final touch on Geneva 2 conference to resolve politically the civil war in Syria, and to defuse any military strikes.
Like striking what targets? Not chemical depots as you might surmise.
The strikes will target communication facilities, power production and transmission facilities, headquarters of central commands, infrastructures for producing even shells and bullets…
The strikes are not interested in the weapon depots, just facilities for producing weapons…
The strikes are meant to disorganize and weaken a strong and unified Syrian army, determined to foil any partition of the Syrian nation.
The problem is not Bashar al Assad: That was a problem in 2011.
The problem is a unified and well trained army, ready to back any political independent decision to maintain Syria self sufficiency, a unified Syria…
Russia and the USA have agreed that the next Cold War partition for dominion in the Middle East should eliminate any strong armies, and reduce them for internal security missions…
Let us RECAPITULATE what was the main mission of the UN inspectors in Iraq before 2003:
February 2003: Colin Powell goes before the United Nations Security Council and scrolls through photos of trucks presented as prototypes of mobile laboratory of biological research, satellite photos for plants and chemical weapons bunkers in Iraq and has finally a vial of white powder: anthrax. (Colin Powell publicly regretted for lying, 3 years later after he resigned…)
March 2003: The United Nations Hans Blix Inspector indicates that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. The US and British Tony Blair PM faked not to believe Blix…
March 2003: Invasion of Iraq by a loose coalition led by the United States and not satisfying any UN mandate...
September 2004: Iraq Survey Group charged by the U.S. Government to find these weapons declared that there were no more chemical weapons since 1991
January 2005: the Chief Inspector of the ISG mission, Charles Duelfer, claimed that “it cannot be ruled out that the ADM (chemical weapons) has been transferred to Syria.”. He cited “a significant number of credible evidence”?
December 2008: Bush acknowledged to ABC News, that “the biggest regret of this Presidency will be the failure of credible intelligence on Iraq.” (Meaning not finding any nuclear facilities…)
March 2013: Attack with chemical weapons to Khan el Asal in Syria
May 2013: Carla Del Ponte reveals that the UN investigation commission has concrete and serious evidence that the rebels have used sarin gas.
August 19, 2013: UN experts arrive in Syria to investigate Khan al-Assal
August 21, 2013: with a developed sense of “timing”… New attack with nerve gas… in the suburbs of Damascus
August 22: The UN team dropped the investigation of Khan el Asal… and UN inspection team directed its attention to the Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus…
The United Nations asked for the Syria access to the site in the suburbs of Damascus
August 24: the system authorizes the United Nations to investigate. Obama and Cameron agreed that Syria regime had probably carried out a chemical weapons attack and consider military options against Damascus.
August 24: The US administration says that it has no doubt about the responsibility of the regime.
August 25: Laurent Fabius (France foreign affairs minister and of Israel too)… considers that there is “no doubt” about the attack with chemical weapons near Damascus and put the entire “responsibility” on the Syrian regime
August 26/ today: beginning of the mission of experts from the United Nations. The mandate of the inspectors is to assess if there is a use of chemicals or weapons, but not to determine who is responsible. !!!!!!!!!!
The moral of this story? The wolf has no need for actual and objective proofs.
What changed between 2003 and 2013?
In 2003, the US conducted a preemptive war on Iraq in order to physically plan and control the routes of the Gas pipelines crossing Iraq and Syria. The mission failed and Russia, China, and Iran drew the routes for the gas pipelines.
In 2013, the US and Russia agreed on partitioning the Middle East https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/next-cold-war-partition-line-for-dominion-is-being-drawn/
Note: This post was inspired by an article of Khalil Toubia recapitulating the timeline of the UN inspections in Iraq
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