Who Is Behind The Chemical Attack In Syria, And Why The Sudden Tomahawk Missile Strike Which Was Ordered By The Trump Regime ? Does The U.S. President Have Pressure (We Do Remember What Happened With Kennedy) . Was This A Message For The Chinese Government And North Korea -DPRK.  Is It Possible It Was Cordinated With The Russians To Get ISIS Out Into The Open Or Maybe To Make Trump Look Good And That There Is No Friendly Partnership With Putin ? Or Something More Sinister, The Government Within The Government In The United States Run By The Clinton / Soros Gang To Remove Trump, A Sort Of Coup d’ etat And To Destroy The Alliance Between Russia And The United States That Was Going To Be Forged, To Bring A More Business Oriented Peaceful World.  Before We Can Answer These Questions, Lets Go Back A Little Bit. (ZN)

The Ghouta attack

Obama’s Director of National Intelligence at the time, James Clapper, was able to dissuade Obama from ordering a cruise missile strike, according to a newly-published book by Mideast expert Michael Lüders. Presumably, a deciding factor was an analysis of the chemical weapons used in Ghouta, conducted by a British military lab, which found the gas to be of a different composition than the Syrian army possessed.

The attack took place while UN weapons inspectors were in the country, on Assad’s invitation. Assad had asked them to investigate a chemical weapons attack from March 2013 outside Aleppo, which killed Syrian soldiers.

“It makes no sense that the regime would carry out an attack with inspectors in the country.

Former weapons inspector Richard Lloyd and MIT professor Theodore Postol cast further doubt on Assad’s role in the Ghouta attack. They reported in 2014 that the chemical weapons could have only been fired from rebel-held territory, with a range of up to 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles).

Chemical weapons as a deterrent

At the time of the Ghouta attack, the Syrian government had access to about 600 tons of material necessary to make sarin and mustard gas. The stockpile was to counterbalance Israel’s nuclear arsenal, Meyer said. “Israel has an estimated 200 nuclear weapons,” he said. “Chemical weapons are something of a poor man’s atomic weapon.”

The US reported these chemical stockpiles had been destroyed in 2014, although the state of confusion surrounding such a war zone makes that hard to confirm.

Al Qaeda’s role

No one can say how the situation has evolved since the DIA’s assessment in 2013 of the Nusra Front’s weapons. The al Qaeda affiliate is today the most significant rebel group in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, Meyer said. Along with other jihadi extremists, it has turned itself into the “de facto ruler of Idlib.”

Assad has not hesitated to use ruthless means to stay in power. In confronting the most recent use of chemical weapons in Syria, credible questions remain as to why Assad would bring world opinion against him at a time when his continued rule is beginning to be accepted.

Is Assad to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria?

Is the regime of President Bashar al-Assad responsible for the chemical weapons attack in northern Syria? Experts suggest it could have been jihadi rebels. It wouldn’t be the first time.

More than 80 people were killed by suspected chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun.  That is about the only thing certain about the attack. Western statements place blame at the feet of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, an accusation Damascus and Moscow contest.

The Syrian regime may not have had a compelling motive, believes Günther Meyer, the director of the Research Center for the Arab World at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. “Only armed opposition groups could profit from an attack with chemical weapons,” he told DW. “With their backs against the wall, they have next to no chance of opposing the regime militarily. As President [Donald] Trump’s recent statements show, such actions make it possible for anti-Assad groups to receive further support.”

Former President Barack Obama famously drew a “red line” in 2012. “We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus,” he said at the time. Meyer views the statement as an “invitation for Assad’s opponents to use chemical weapons and make the Assad regime responsible for it.”

Rebels’ chemical weapons

In 2014, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported on opposition forces’ ability to use chemical weapons. In an article for the “London Review of Books,” Hersh obtained documents from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon’s own spy organization. They suggested that the Nusra Front, a Syrian offshoot of al Qaeda, had access to the sarin nerve agent. A chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta in August 2013, which was blamed on Assad, was carried out by rebels, according to Hersh’s article. They wanted Washington to presume Assad had crossed Obama’s “red line” and draw the US into a war.

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The White Helmets, an al-Qaeda affiliated group funded by George Soros and the British government, have reportedly staged another chemical weapon attack on civilians in the Syrian city of Khan Shaykhun to lay blame on the Syrian government.

A day prior to the attack, Gulf-based Orient TV announced “Tomorrow we are launching a media campaign to cover the airstrikes on Hama country side including the usage of chemical warfare against civilians.” This shows clear foreknowledge that the rebels were going to stage an attack by Orient TV.

The White Helmets filmed much of the footage being released on the chemical attack. They have also been known to stage “rescue” videos in the past. However, this time it appears children were indeed killed in the making of this “media campaign.”

Several children appear in the videos suffocating from an unknown chemical substance, while others appear to have unexplained head injuries. It is known 250 people were kidnapped by Al-Qaeda last week from the nearby city of Hama, which is the same number as the current body count of wounded and killed civilians.

The so-called Moderate rebels have not gotten rid of the chemical weapons at their disposal.

According to award winning journalist Seymour Hersch, intelligence reports show the rebels smuggled in chemical weapons from Libya through Turkey with the approval of Hillary Clinton.

In 2013 so-called moderate rebels had filmed themselves killing rabbits with gas and threatening to kill religious minorities. ISIS is also known to be in possession of chemical weapons having conducted attacks on Syrian forces in Deir Ezzor.

However weaponized, sarin would have killed or at least injured unprotected first responders.  Sarin can be absorbed through skin and requires a full body suit; however, the White Helmets appeared to wear only masks and no gloves while they handled exposed victims. Others in the vicinity appear not to be wearing a mask at all and are yet unaffected.

US missile strike on Syria ‘carries message for North Korea and China’: analysts

President Trump ordered the strike after Syrian forces apparently attacked civilians with a nerve gas. Some analysts say he wanted to send a message to North Korea, but it remains unclear what message it will receive.

Washington’s swift response overnight Thursday to Syria’s alleged chemical weapons attack wasn’t merely an impulsive response from a US president known for his impulsive behavior, but also contained a message to his guest at the time – Chinese President Xi Jinping – analysts say.

President Donald Trump informed his guest of the US strike as their dinner was winding down on Thursday evening in Florida. China is North Korea’s patron and arguably its only real ally, and the agenda at the summit included the issue of how to thwart Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions.

For years the US has pressed China to rein in the North – specifically, its nuclear weapons and long-range missile programs, which Pyongyang says it is pursuing with the aim of being able to strike the United States.

The strike in Syria lends some more weight to Trump’s recent threat of unilateral action against North Korea if Beijing fails to bring pressure to bear on its neighbor to stem its nuclear weapons program.

A message sent

Kim Yong-Hyun, a professor at Dongguk University, said the strike against Syria was a statement of intent that was meant for a broader audience.

“It signals to Pyongyang that the US has a new sheriff in town who isn’t hesitant about pulling his gun from the holster,” Kim said.

On Saturday, Pyongyang responded, calling the US strike “an unforgivable act of aggression” that showed its decision to develop nuclear weapons was “the right choice a million times over.”

Russia also condemned the US airstrike, while Germany supported it.

Implied threat

The Trump administration, of course, hopes the North will internalize a different message: namely, that it should abandon its weapons program to avoid a US attack.

But the message the Washington wants to convey may not be the one received in Pyongyang.

“In the long term, US military actions overseas won’t help curb the North’s nuclear pursuit,” Kim said.

‘Unlikely to have an effect’

Joel Wit, a senior fellow at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, said, “Trump’s attack on Syria is unlikely to have any significant effect on a North Korea that is already well versed in the threat posed by the United States.”

When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, the then North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il disappeared from public view for around six weeks – and it was widely believed that he had gone into hiding for fear of a US attack.

Chang Yong-Seok, a senior researcher at the Institute for Peace and Unification at Seoul National University, said Kim’s son, current leader Kim Jong-Un, had no reason to take such precautions.

“Armed with nuclear weapons, he would hardly flinch at the attack in Syria,” Chang said.

As if to underline the point, North Korean state media released photos of a smiling Kim inspecting a mushroom farm.

NATO governments are unhappy with the Trump administration’s recent statements that they no longer see regime change in Syria as a priority. In response to this, British Prime Minister Theresa May made a statement that Britian was still fully committed to regime change in Syria. The UK and France may have seen a staged chemical attack as an opportunity to push Trump into war with Syria.

The chemical attack came at the same time as another media attack was occurring against the Syrian government, which claimed that Syrian hospitals were in fact secret torture “slaughterhouses.”

The last chemical attack false flag attack occurred in 2013, where the Syrian Army was accused of using the WMD on the same day the Syrian government had invited weapon inspectors into Damascus, which resulted in Syria giving up its chemical weapons.

In the near future neocons may accuse Syria of failing to give up all chemical weapons, in spite of assurances by the OPCW. This is what happened to Iraq in 2003, which was invaded despite surrendering their chemical weapons in the 1990s.

No one questions how the Syrian government could possible use a weapon it doesn’t have, nor what motive it could possibly possess.

For the moment however, the narrative being pushed by neo-cons is “Trump should do what Obama failed to do, bomb Syria for al-Qaeda” and it seems that narrative is winning.