Israel Attacks Syria on Christmas, Uses Civilian Airliners as Attack Cover in Airstrikes Launched Near Damascus Airport & the US Military 'Withdrawal'

As it turns out, Israel decided to carry out its first attack against Syria since President Trump announced a US troop withdrawal from the country, on Christmas Day of all days. Just another unprovoked Israeli aggression against Syria via illegal violation of Lebanese airspace. Merry Christmas Syria, 16 missiles launched towards the Damascus airport with love from Israel, just the Zionist way of spreading peace on earth and goodwill to men I suppose.

Three Syrian soldiers were injured in the attack according to the Syria Arab News Agency (SANA) but thankfully there were no deaths. The attack was launched by six Israeli F-16s from Lebanese airspace, and the Syrian Air Defense Forces (SADF) managed to successfully intercept 14 of the 16 hostile missiles according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Israel has, as usual, not taken responsibility for the attack.

The S-300 was not employed, however the Russian training of the Syrian operators is on track to be completed by February at which point the advanced air defense batteries will become active under the control of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).

The airstrikes were targeting ammo depots in the Damascus countryside near the international airport which allegedly belonged to Hezbollah or Iran, while the Damascus International Airport has been a common target of the Zionist entity in the past. This time there were civilian passenger airliners preparing to land at both the Beirut airport and the Damascus airport just as the Israeli warplanes flew into firing positions, with Israel's timing of the attack clearly intended to use these passenger jets as human shields, 21st Century Wire explains. The Russian Defense Ministry called out Israel's "provocative acts."

“Provocative acts by the Israeli Air Force endangered two passenger jets when six of their F-16s carried out airstrikes on Syria from Lebanese airspace," Russian MoD spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in an official statement on Wednesday.

Israel's plan worked. As a result of this reckless Israeli behavior, the SADF heavily restricted its response, RT reported, and did not deploy its surface-to-air missiles and electronic jamming against the F-16s “to prevent a tragedy,” and instead allowed Damascus air traffic control to divert one of its passenger flights to an emergency destination at Khmeimim (Russian airbase) in Latakia, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. It appears that Israel was betting on this to increase their chances of a successful attack without loss of attacking warplanes or that Syria would fall for the trap and possibly shoot down a civilian airliner which would have certainly given cause for Trump to reverse the US troop withdrawal.

It looks to be a similar Israeli operation to the September attack on Latakia in which Israeli jets used a Russian IL-20 spy-plane as cover, causing it to be shot down by the SADF and the loss of 15 Russian servicemen's lives. The Syrian army didn't fall for the trap this time, and this incredible Syrian restraint is likely what ultimately led to the two hits achieved and the three injured SAA soldiers. The sacrifice Syria made to protect civilian life which Israel intentionally put into harms way... There is surely no way Israel would have shown the same restraint in the same situation reversed!

As for the Israeli targets, Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been destroying ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria alongside the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Russian Air Force and Special Forces. They have been helping Syria to successfully crush the very terrorists which Israel and the US have supported time and time again throughout the 7-year war in their bid to topple the democratically elected and internationally recognized legitimate Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad. If there is any doubt as to whom these attacks benefit and whose side Israel is on in the fight against radical Islamic Jihadi terrorism, ISIS and al-Qaeda's consistent praising of Israeli attacks against Syria should clear up any confusion and clarify Israel's status as ISIS/al-Qaeda's acting air force in Syria.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8iolH6aYLg

Below is the SouthFront 3 min. Syrian War Report for December 26 covering this attack and more:

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3gOwXfxT3M

The Last American Vagabond does a superb show covering this topic in more depth, recommended for further discussion on this and other top stories of the day being ignored by the presstitute Zionist media cabal:

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9knfGbvugCo

Apparently the US military, despite having already successfully defeated ISIS according to President Trump and so now withdrawing it forces from Syria, is for some reason still continuing to carry out airstrikes in Deir Ezzor. Maybe because the US occupation forces were never in Syria to fight ISIS in the first place?!?! US Coalition airstrikes targeted and destroyed a bridge over the Euphrates River in western Deir Ezzor in SAA-controlled territory on Wednesday, Al Masdar News (AMN) reported.

According to a military source in Damascus, the U.S. Coalition bombed the Halbiyah-Zalbiyah Bridge that links the territories controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces and Syrian Arab Army in western Deir Ezzor.

The SAA had almost finished reconstruction of the bridge until it was destroyed by the US bombs, in a likely attempt to hinder the SAA from crossing over into the US/Kurdish-occupied side of the river.

The SAA on the same day, after reaching an agreement with the Kurds, deployed troops just west of the northern city of Manbij under Kurdish control, in preparation of taking immediate control of the city upon the US troop withdrawal, while there are at the same time already rumors of US troops withdrawing from the city, AMN has reported. This new agreement was reached due to Trump's previous announcement and also Turkish plans to launch an assault on Manbij, which will likely commence once US troops withdraw; and the Kurdish YPG/SDF likely came to the agreement with Damascus in order to protect themselves from possible annihilation by the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Turkish-backed, former US-proxy Jihadist terrorist group, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) who are preparing for an imminent offensive.

The supposed total defeat of ISIS in Syria which has not yet occurred and so is clearly a blatant lie to distract the public from the real reason for US troop withdrawal, was nonetheless the stated reason for the US troop withdrawal in the first place. The real reason for the US troop withdrawal is obviously the result of a deal between the US and Turkey in order for Trump to salvage the US alliance with Turkey. It's all just a part of the show. Hopefully the new Syrian-Kurdish agreement will prevent Turkey from expanding it illegal occupation of Syria in Afrin further into the northeast territory currently occupied by the US-backed YPG/SDF and US forces.

I will finish off this post leaving you with the following videos which illuminate the real reasons behind the US 'troop withdrawal', which will almost certainly not be a 100% complete withdrawal, even if this turns out to be a legitimate withdrawal and not just more talk like earlier in March of this year. It does indeed seem to be legitimate withdrawal of US troops, but at the same time does not yet appear to have begun. Below is The Duran report discussing the US troop withdrawal from Syria, extremely informative:

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BBukWQkpo

And the Blackstone Intelligence show on the real reasons behind the US troop withdrawal from Syria with Jake Morphonios - a wonderful show with excellent commentary and insight by Jake as always:

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBvEtQ9MpUE

Thank you for your time, and hope you found the post informative. If you appreciate the content, please do everything you can to share it as the MSM is burying and ignoring this infuriating story which should be the top story of the day, in my opinion. It is indeed a very dark world we live in, so long as the Zionist war machine continues to run amok. On a brighter note, the world is quickly waking up to the Zionist lies. One day soon there will be peace on earth. In the meantime...

Merry Christmas to you all!

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US-Backed Saudi Airstrike on Tuesday Targeted Wedding in Yemen...AGAIN, Killing 11 Women & Children

American Insanity

As the US continues to dig itself deeper and deeper into a debt now over $20 trillion, one might wonder why the government approved an enormous $700 billion military budget for the year of 2018, and why our government feels the need to fund Israel to the tune of $10.5 million per day, while social security funds for American citizens are projected to run dry by 2034. One might wonder how this has anything to do with 'Putting America First', as President Donald Trump promised to do while on the campaign trail. Or they might simply realize that politicians get paid to lie and say what the voters want to hear in order to win the support of the people they don't care one bit about, in order to get elected.

And as the US continues to wage its endless 'war on terror' for the 17th year in a row, one might wonder why radical extremist Jihadi terrorism has been on the rise this entire time, and why the best funded and largest military in the world hasn't been able to do diddly squat to stamp out or even curb terrorism in the Middle East.

No need to wonder, the reason is simple: The US funds and arms radical Islamic terrorist groups, in many cases the very groups we claim or at one time claimed to be fighting to eradicate. This is not a crazy conspiracy theory, but rather documented fact freely admitted to by various US leaders at various times.

But not only does the US fund and ally themselves with radical Islamic terrorists, the government also funds and supports some of the most brutal and oppressive Islamic regimes in the region, and our alliance with Saudi Arabia is a prime example. Not only does Saudi Arabia have one of the worst human rights abuse records in the region apart from Israel, they (just like the US, UK and Israel) also fund radical Islamist terrorist groups in the region with millions of dollars and thousands of pounds of weapons. Many terrorist fighters in Syria are Saudis - paid mercenaries - funded by Saudi Arabia and the West. And as a 'US ally', Saudi Arabia enjoys the full support of the US government, regardless of the inhumanity of their actions, and their current ongoing war on Yemen is no exception.

US-Backed Saudi Airstrike Targets Another Wedding in Yemen, Killing 11 Children and Women

The ongoing US/Israeli-backed Saudi airstrike campaign on Yemen has been devastating to the Yemeni population and infrastructure, and Tuesday's airstrike on yet another wedding ceremony is a prime example of why Americans should begin to question their government's alliance with such heartless regimes as Saudi Arabia and Israel.

The Saudi airstrike last Tuesday which targeted a wedding ceremony in Yemen killed 11 women and children, wounding 11 more, and not surprisingly the MSM has stayed mostly silent on this atrocity.

Photo Credit: MintPressNews - Bodies of dead children pulled out of the rubble from a Saudi airstrike on a residence where a wedding party was taking place last Tuesday (7.3.2018). 

According to witnesses, Saudi warplanes began bombing the home in Ghaffa where the wedding party was taking place at 9pm, but they continued circling for hours making it impossible for residents to safely rescue the victims without the risk of being targeted themselves. It is obvious these airstrikes are not targeting militants, but indiscriminately bombing civilians to instill fear and with the purpose of terrorizing them into withdrawing their support of the Houthi 'rebels'. On the same day, another woman was killed in an airstrike on a residence nearby, and Saudi warplanes carried out 10 additional airstrikes on residential buildings and farming land elsewhere in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada. Clearly, these bombings are not being directed at militants and military infrastructure, but are intentional acts of 'terrorism,' meant to terrorize the Yemeni civilians into submission to the Saudi-coalition.

And as Ahmed Abdulkareem notes in his article at Mint Press News, this isn't the first time Saudi Arabia has targeted a wedding in Yemen, while the war being waged by the Saudi Kingdom has decimated the lives of countless Yemeni women and children:

The frequency of wedding-day attacks committed by the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition seems to be on the rise. On April 23, a wedding ceremony in Yemen’s Hajjah was targeted by Saudi airstrikes, killing 50 civilians and injuring an additional 55.

Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF, has slammed the “carnage” of over 2,200 children during the ongoing war in Yemen, warning that millions of other children are currently suffering the agonies of the humanitarian crises in the country.

“The relentless conflict in Yemen has pushed a country already on the brink deep into the abyss,” she added in a statement to journalists in Geneva on Tuesday. In addition to the more than 2,200 children killed since the conflict began three years ago, at least 3,400 others have been injured or maimed. Over 600,000 civilians have been killed or injured in Yemen since the Saudi-coalition began its attacks in 2015according to Yemen’s Ministry of Human Rights based in Sana’a. The U.S.-backed Saudi-coalition’s blockade on Yemen has also triggered an epidemic of disease and famine across the country. (all emphasis mine)

Clearly, it is time for the average American to re-consider their support for their government's military actions, and the government's role in supporting and allying ourselves with regimes which carry out heinous actions such as these - actions which we tacitly endorse by funding, supporting, and allying ourselves with such evil. Maybe a good starting point would be to withdraw all funding to radical Islamic terrorists, but with Trump having recently renewed funding to the terrorist White Helmets, even this first step seems like a far cry, realistically. Maybe one day enough Americans will realize that funding terrorists and allying ourselves with the most evil countries in the world, while spending more and more money on our 'defense budget' to fund the US military Empire abroad, is not the way to peace, nor the way to 'fight terrorism', nor is it the way out of an insurmountable debt and into prosperity.

But the average American doesn't seem concerned with debt - not their own, let alone the nation's - and the average American certainly doesn't seem concerned with the hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths to innocents caused by US foreign policy in the last 17 years, despite the fact that their taxes pay for this shit. And that seems to me to be the biggest problem of all: People don't seem to care about the evils inflicted on other people abroad, even when their own taxes pay for it, just so long as they get their paycheck, access to their shiny new toys, and a TV or smartphone to plug themselves into to escape reality. If they did care, the answer is always one simple step away - Stop feeding the beast, and the beast will starve to death...

The High Cost of the Syria Airstrikes & the Greedy Few who Profit (War is a Racket)

US Airstrikes on Syria Cost Taxpayers Over 119 Million Dollars - Huge Payout for the War Profiteers Raytheon & Lockheed Martin

In my last few posts, I have been focusing on the overwhelming hypocrisy and deception behind the recent US airstrikes against Syria, and will continue to do so in the near future, but in this post I am going to take a brief moment to focus on the immense financial cost of war to the American People, versus the few greedy war profiteers who rake in enormous profits each time the US carries out an airstrike such as this.

In this society based upon materialism and fueled by greed, sadly most people seem to care more about the financial implications of US policies, rather than the moral ones - as is evidenced by the trend of voters to view the economy as the biggest campaign issue at election time, rather than foreign policy, human rights or the plight of the poor. Hopefully, with the timing of these airstrikes and the recent push for war with Syria being right around Tax Day, the insane cost of war to the average American Taxpayer will start to get the attention of the masses, and cause many to re-think their support of US intervention and endless war in the Middle East!

CNBC on Monday reported that US forces fired 66 Tomahawk cruise missiles costing $92.4 million, as well as 19 JASSM-ER missiles costing $26.6 million, for a total cost in missiles alone coming to $119 million. That doesn't even include the enormous cost of fuel to run the naval vessels and all the aircraft that were used in this military operation, however CNBC did write this:

"In addition, the U.S. Air Force deployed a pair of B-1B Lancers, one of the world's most technologically advanced strategic bombers. The aircraft is believed to have an operating cost of approximately $95,000 per flight hour. It is unclear how long the Lancers flew and from where they were deployed.

The Pentagon and U.S. Air Force did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for clarity on the extent of the B-1B's role."

The cost to simply finance the US Military Industrial Complex each day is insane, and the price only skyrockets from there anytime the military carries out actual operations such as the recent airstrikes on Syria. For those citizens overly concerned with the economy and their finances, one of the biggest financial drains on the US economy is in fact the funding of the military, not to mention their absolutely ridiculous fuel consumption on a daily basis, which environmentalists across the country seem to conveniently ignore while bashing those citizens who drive gas-guzzling trucks.

As far as the cost of this strike, the 66 Tomahawk missiles which were fired cost the US $1.4 million each, and are manufactured by Raytheon, an increase from the 58 Tomahawks used in last April's airstrike on Syria. After last year's strike, Raytheon stock immediately soared by $1 billion, and the company makes a killing any time their Tomahawks are used in war by the US. This time, Lockheed Martin will also be getting a nice chunk of the profits from these airstrikes, with their Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles Extended Range, or JASSM-ER, making its combat debut in the 2018 Syrian strikes, with 19 launched at an estimated cost of $1.4 million each, just like the Tomahawks.

We may never know the total financial costs of these strikes, but what we do know is that the US spent $119 million dollars, which went straight to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, all based on a LIE.

$119 million sure is a lot of money to just piss away in an hour, considering doing so was also an international war crime, and especially considering just how big a number of Americans are simply struggling to make ends meet - with many living paycheck to paycheck, while many others are homeless or even going hungry. When the media pushes the war propaganda on their audiences in an attempt to convince the average American to support war against Syria, they fail to emphasize the insane financial cost of war which comes straight out of the taxpayer's pocket. And in almost every case, that taxpayer doesn't profit in any way at all, while war profiteers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin rake in the dough.

War is a racket, but worse than that, war is a racket funded at the expense of the taxpayer, to satisfy the greed of the few who make a killing (literally & figuratively). War is a racket funded by the American taxpayers, many of whom do not even support the war in any way, but their taxes fund and support it anyway, paying for someone else's war crimes so Raytheon and Lockheed Martin can make millions in a day. War is a racket, but until the Americans who oppose the war stop funding the war with their taxes, the war will surely continue.

As long as there is profit to be had from war, there will be war profiteers, and as long as war profiteering remains legal, war will surely continue. Striking Syria had NOTHING to do with stopping Assad's alleged chemical weapons capabilities, and everything to do with GREED & PROFIT. War is the only racket in which the profits are reckoned in dollars, and the losses in lives.

Western War Criminals: US & Allies Strike Syria Hours Before Douma Investigation to Begin, Target Damascus

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.

#HandsOffSyria

Russia Says They Have "Irrefutable Evidence" that Alleged Chemical Attack in Syria was Staged

Russian Foreign Minister Said an Alleged Chemical Attack in Syria was Staged by Foreign Agents, Claims Russia has "Irrefutable Evidence"

In a statement to NBC News yesterday (Thursday), unnamed US officials said they had obtained blood and urine samples from victims which tested positive for chlorine and a nerve agent, in response to various claims there were no chemical weapons used and that the alleged attack had been staged. However, the US had already placed the blame of the alleged attack fully on the Syrian government and president Assad days before obtaining any evidence chemical weapons had even been used. The fact that western media and governments immediately not only ran with unconfirmed reports of the alleged attack, but also accused Syria of carrying out the 'attack' before any evidence emerged, makes their claims to have now obtained such evidence suspect.

Russia continues to maintain their stance that the alleged attack was a staged false flag event, and today (Friday), Russian spokesmen for the Defense Ministry announced that they have irrefutable evidence proving the alleged attacks were staged, and even that the UK was directly involved in staging the provocation. BBC reported,

During a press briefing on Friday, Mr Lavrov said he had "irrefutable evidence" that the attack was staged as part of a "Russophobic campaign" led by one country, which he did not name.

General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for Russia's defence ministry, said: "We have... evidence that proves Britain was directly involved in organising this provocation."

As crazy as those claims may sound to those who are indoctrinated by western mainstream media propaganda, keep in mind that this is the same Britain whose Prime Minister has recently announced her willingness to go to war with Syria without Parliamentary approval, in order to attack Assad for a war crime there is zero evidence he even committed, over an alleged chemical weapons attack that has not yet been independently verified even occurred...

So I do not think it is unreasonable to say, these Russian claims should be taken seriously and investigated further. After all, Russia also claimed to have intelligence weeks in advance that US operatives were training the so-called rebel groups to carry out this exact type of false flag attack, and that the terrorist groups had been smuggling chlorine gas into rebel-strongholds under the guise of humanitarian convoys. Last Friday, just a day before the alleged attacks occurred, Russia again warned that their intelligence indicated staged chemical weapons attacks were to be carried out in rebel-held territory and would be blamed on the Syrian government.

“We have reliable information at our disposal that US instructors have trained a number of militant groups in the vicinity of the town of At-Tanf, to stage provocations involving chemical warfare agents in southern Syria,” Col. Gen. Rudskoy said on March 17th.

“They are preparing a series of chemical munitions explosions. This fact will be used to blame the government forces. The components to produce chemical munitions have been already delivered to the southern de-escalation zone under the guise of humanitarian convoys of a number of NGOs.”

A Russian spokesman had this to say on April 6th, the day before the alleged attacks:

"The ringleaders of Jabhat al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army, which are acting together, are plotting explosions of makeshift chemical charges containing chlorine in a number of areas under their control, including Al Balad in Daraa," he said. "The militants plan to photograph and video the alleged effects of chemical weapons and show the clips to the public at large to blame government troops for civilians casualties," Yevtushenko went on to explain.

The very next day, just such an attack - whether with actual chemicals or entirely staged - took place.

Combined with the initial reports from both Red Crescent workers, Syrian medics and Russian investigators in Syria that there were no traces of chemical agents found on any of the victims of the alleged attack, it appears there is a good case to be made in defense of the Russian claims.

Russian Ambassador to the EU Says no Chemical Weapons Attack Occured

Speaking with EuroNews on Wednesday, Russia’s ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizov said,

“Russian military specialists have visited this region, walked on those streets, entered those houses, talked to local doctors and visited the only functioning hospital in Douma, including its basement where reportedly the mountains of corpses pile up. There was not a single corpse and even not a single person who came in for treatment after the attack.”

“But we’ve seen them on the video!” EuroNews correspondent Andrei Beketov replied.

“There was no chemical attack in Douma, pure and simple,”responds Chizov. “We’ve seen another staged event. There are personnel, specifically trained – and you can guess by whom – amongst the so-called White Helmets, who were already caught in the act with staged videos.”

Chizov is absolutely correct regarding the White Helmets, who were responsible for releasing the photos and video initially used by the West as evidence of the alleged attack and to cast the blame on Assad - as photo evidence proves that bodies of the "victim's" of the alleged attack were moved and the photos staged for propaganda purposes.

Conclusion

Russia accurately predicted this alleged attack would occur in rebel-occupied territory, and it did. Russia accurately predicted the alleged attack would involve chlorine gas, and it did. Russia accurately predicted that photos and videos would be staged and used as war propaganda, and they were, just as the photos linked above demonstrate. Russia accurately predicted that this provocation would immediately be used by western media and government as a pretext for US strikes on Syria, which are now both planned and imminent.

So when Russia now claims to have irrefutable evidence of this alleged attack being staged, and evidence proving Britain was directly involved in organizing this provocation, those claims should certainly not be dismissed outright as outrageous conspiracy theories.

While it is yet unclear whether a chemical weapons attack actually occurred or not in Syria last Saturday, it is safe to say that western media and governments are not giving us the truth, as they are blindly accepting only the "evidence" which can be used as war propaganda in support of the western narrative, while ignoring all "evidence" which raises serious questions concerning that same official media narrative.

They lied about 9/11, they lied about WMDs in Iraq, they lied about Assad gassing his own citizens in 2013 and 2017, they lied about providing humanitarian aid to Libya, and now they expect us to believe they are not lying about Syria in 2018.

Video: Marching to WW3 | US Airstrikes Imminent, Russia to Strike US Launch Platforms in Response, Iran Likely to Strike Israel

World War looks to be imminent... I made this video yesterday (Thursday) on the quickly developing imminent war with Syria. Hopefully world war can be averted...
Video on YouTube @ https://youtu.be/IZofPKV49G0
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Syria False Flag: PHOTO EVIDENCE OF STAGED BODIES by the White Helmets (Alleged Chemical Weapons Attack in Douma)

Alleged chemical weapons attacks in Douma, Syria last Saturday are being blamed by the West on Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and the Syrian government, as a pretext to go to war with Syria in an effort to topple the Assad regime. Despite there being no credible evidence the chemical attacks had even occurred, and no logical reason whatsoever that Assad would gas the very citizens he has been fighting for years to liberate from the Al-Qaeda affiliated, US/Israeli backed terrorists, the Western media and governments immediately jumped to blame the Assad regime for the alleged attacks.

On the day before the alleged attacks, Russian officials warned they had credible intelligence that the al-Qaeda affiliate terrorist group, Jaish al-Islam and the Free Syrian Army terrorists were planning to stage a series of chemical weapons attacks to be used as a pretext for Western intervention on behalf of the terrorist rebels, who are losing the civil war and quickly being pushed back and out of Syria by Assad troops. A Russian official said on Friday that, "the militants plan to photograph and video the alleged effects of chemical weapons and show the clips to the public at large to blame government troops for civilians casualties," which is exactly what appears to have happened the very next day.

The following photos prove that whether or not there were actually any chemical weapons used, photos of the alleged attack were staged as a part of a propaganda stunt to pull the US into war with Syria on behalf of the rebel terrorists. Together with the fake humanitarian group, the White Helmets (which has been caught staging death scenes/videos in the past), Jaish terrorists took the dead bodies of children and staged the bodies in multiple locations to create propaganda photos/video to shock and outrage the public - and to frame President Bashar al Assad and the Syrian military for the crime. Here is the proof:

Russian officials and the humanitarian aid group the Red Crescents on Tuesday reported from on the ground in Syria that there were no traces of chemical weapons found on any of the alleged victims of the alleged attack, and Russia has maintained that the "attack" was a staged provocation. We now have evidence that at the very least, photos and video were staged as part of a propaganda campaign.

During a press briefing today (Friday), a Russian spokesman said he had "irrefutable evidence" that the attack was staged as part of a "Russophobic campaign" led by one country, which he did not name. General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for Russia's Defence Ministry, said: "We have... evidence that proves Britain was directly involved in organising this provocation," according to BBC.

This follows statements by unnamed US officials to NBC News yesterday (Thursday), that they had obtained blood and urine samples from victims which had tested positive for chlorine and an unspecified nerve agent. The French president also claims to have "proof" of the use of chemical weapons, but gave no details as to what kind of evidence he may have obtained or who the source of the evidence was.

In the light of this photographic evidence which proves the Russian intelligence predicting the staging of propaganda photos by Al-Jaish terrorists was good intel, the Western claims of having obtained proof of chemical weapons use should be considered highly suspect. Even if it does turn out that chlorine gas and Sarin or other toxic nerve agents were indeed released in Douma, all the evidence indicates the alleged attacks were carried out by Jaish and Free Syrian terrorists rather than by the Assad government. Previous Russian intelligence indicated that the terrorists were smuggling in large amounts of chlorine gas, "plotting explosions of makeshift chemical charges containing chlorine in a number of areas under their control," the same Russian spokesman said last Friday.

And, Jaish Al-Islam has admitted to using chlorine gas in the past to massacre dozens of people in Aleppo, while Bashar Al Assad has repeatedly denied ever using chemical weapons against his own people, and there is no evidence that he has ever done so in the past, despite claims to the contrary by the US. Assad also destroyed all of Syria's chemical weapons a few years ago, which was independently verified. Whether there was an actual chemical weapons attack last Saturday or not, all the evidence clearly indicates it was a false flag provocation carried out by US/Israeli-backed terrorists and not the Syrian government.

Don't buy the war propaganda. ASSAD DID NOT GAS HIS OWN PEOPLE. Wake up America!

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More detailed post on the false flag operation with embedded links & sources: https://steemit.com/news/@jasonliberty/syria-false-flag-gas-attack-in-douma-being-used-to-push-u-s-into-war-with-syria-wwiii