[Peace-discuss] FW: US Admitting Syrian Militants Use Chemical Weapons ‘Welcome’ Overdue Corrective

[Boyle, Francis A]

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From: Boyle, Francis A
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 9:42 PM
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Subject: US Admitting Syrian Militants Use Chemical Weapons ‘Welcome’ Overdue Corrective


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US Admitting Syrian Militants Use Chemical Weapons ‘Welcome’ Overdue Corrective

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201710211058422305-usa-terrorists-use-chemicals-syria/
US KNEW ALL ALONG
The US government was finally started to acknowledge that groups it had supported had employed chemical weapons in Syria where the Trump and Obama administrations had sought to blame the Damascus government for such attacks, University of Illinois Professor of Law Francis Boyle told Sputnik.
These policies were part of a wider US strategy to topple the Damascus government that was clearly illegal under international law, Boyle pointed out.
The United States had backed the Syrian terror groups "as part of an illegal attempt to overthrow the Syrian government in violation of the United Nations Charter and the rulings of the World Court in the Case of Nicaragua versus United States of America (1984-1986)," he said.
US policymakers could have had no doubt that the terror groups they were financing, helping to organize and arming had been s using chemical weapons, Boyle observed.
"Of course the United States government <http://sputniknews.com/politics/20170718/1055632225.html> knows full well that some of its surrogate terrorist organizations in Syria have used chemical weapons," he said.
[Buildings in Hama, Syria]
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
OPCW Says Found Evidence of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria's Hama in March<https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201710051057967144-opcw-chemical-weapons-use-syria/>
Over the past four years, successive US administrations had deliberately and cynically blamed Damascus for chemical attacks that they knew their own allies had carried out, Boyle stated.
"Both the Obama administration and now the Trump administration have maliciously exploited their surrogates’ uses of chemical weapons as pretexts and propaganda to justify direct US military intervention into Syria," he said.
Boyle also warned that even after the admission buried deep in this week’s Travel Advisory, the US government could again in the future blame the Syrian government for chemical attacks that it knew had been carried out in reality by its own allies.
"It very well could happen again. Caveat emptor!" he said.
Al-Nusra Front controls Syria's Idlib Governorate through the umbrella terrorist group al-Sham and is still thought to be a front for al-Qaeda.


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