US, UK and France Join Israel in Committing War Crimes Against Syria, Striking Damascus & Elsewhere
On the evening of Friday the 13th US time, and early Saturday morning in Syria, the US, UK and France - unprovoked and not threatened - carried out coordinated airstrikes, launching a reported 103 missiles into Syria at civilian and military installations. The Syrian government has also reported that several homes were severely damaged in the airstrikes targeting an airbase near Homs.
The Syrian air defense systems intercepted and shot down 71 of the missiles, mitigating much of the potential damage. Russian officials also reported that no US missiles entered the Russian air defense zone in Syria, no Russians were killed, and there were no reports of Russian aircraft or anti-air defense systems engaging Western aircraft, naval vessels or cruise missiles. The cruise missiles fired were instead shot down by Syrian defense.
Russia responded with a statement saying, "Again, we are being threatened," and warned the US that "your aggression is a major threat," promising that "such actions will not be left without consequences." The ambassador of Russia to the USA made the following statement in a tweet:
"A pre-designed scenario is being implemented. Again, we are being threatened. We warned that such actions will not be left without consequences. All responsibility for them rests with Washington, London and Paris."
The US announced and launched the military attack on Syria just hours before the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) team was scheduled to arrive in Douma to determine whether chemical weapons had been used there. The West's refusal to wait to strike Syria until evidence of an alleged chemical attack in Douma was confirmed by the coming investigation, demonstrates their utter lack of diplomacy and hunger for war at all costs.
Refusing to even consider that Russia's claims made earlier in the day may be true - that they have "irrefutable evidence" the alleged chemical attacks in Syria were staged by US-backed terrorist groups - and refusing to wait patiently just a few more days for the investigation to conclude, they instead chose to attack Syria immediately before the investigation was to begin.
Damascus slammed the joint attack as a "brutal, barbaric aggression," explaining it "aims at hindering the OPCW [Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons] mission's work and preempting its results."
"The attempts of Washington, London and Paris to undermine the activities of the OPCW mission are systematic. Despite the fact that these three countries state that they work together with this group at the same time they exert pressure behind closed doors of this organization in order to prevent these groups and commissions from fulfilling the tasks, they have been established for," Syrian ambassador to the UN, Bashar Jaafari said at the session of the UN Security Council (UNSC).
Assad has said the attack has only strengthened the Syrian Army's resolve to fight and crush the terrorists, and a source in the Syrian government has reported that the OPCW is in Damascus today (Saturday), still preparing to enter Douma to begin their investigation into allegations of a reported chemical attack, and are expected to start their work tomorrow (Sunday). Time will tell if the investigation is delayed further or interrupted by any coming airstrikes or military action.
Despite President Assad allowing international inspectors to destroy his chemical weapon arsenals years ago - a process completed in 2014 (a fact the BBC has admitted), the US claims to have targeted Syrian chemical research facilities in order to curb their alleged use of chemical weapons. However, the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said that "scientific facilities [targeted] in Syria are used only for peaceful activity which is aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of economic activity in Syria." Also, despite US claims to the contrary, all the available evidence backs up Russian claims that the alleged chemical attack was a staged provocation carried out by Jihadi terrorists.
Regardless of whether Assad even has any chemical weapons capabilities or not, the US attack is an unprovoked and hypocritical act of aggression and war, being that the US has the biggest stockpile of chemical weapons in the world. The US has one of the worst chemical weapon abuse records as well (firebombing & nuking Japan, Agent Orange in Vietnam, etc). The military strike is also a blatant violation of international law and a war crime, but the US has happily exempted itself and its allies from international law. Since the US holds the majority of the power and influence over the UN, she and her allies can pretty much get away with whatever heinous crimes she so chooses without much risk of being held accountable in any manner.
It is an international war crime for any UN-member sovereign state to attack another UN-member sovereign state without first being attacked, and the West has the audacity to call Assad the war criminal and animal! We not only attacked Syria without provocation, we attacked their capitol, Damascus, which also contains the largest population of Syrian refugees under the protection of Syrian troops. If that weren't bad enough, all four nations who have now carried out these retaliatory strikes (Israel, France, US, UK), have committed offensive acts of war against a sovereign nation without the approvals of their respective congresses or parliaments.
At least in America and Britain, this is also a serious violation of our own nations' respective laws. These simple facts highlight the inherent criminal nature of the people behind these airstrikes who are pushing for war with Syria to topple Assad. Not only are they all too willing to violate international law, they happily violate their own nation's laws. This is the sickness that infects Zionist neocon war-mongers, who sit ready to break any law that gets in the way of their agenda, ready to tell their people just about any lie to gain popular support - all to wage war for the corporate profits they bring in, and the interests of the Zionist Occupation of Palestine - the state of Israel.
These war-hawks don't care about the rule of law, and they don't seem to care about the loss of innocent life their pompous and hasty actions have caused, and will continue to cause if they get what they are pushing for - war with Syria to topple the Assad regime. Let's hope they fail, and give peace a chance to prevail.
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