Exclusive: Secret State Department Cable: Chemical weapons used in Syria -- The Cable/Foreign Policy
A secret State Department cable has concluded that the Syrian military likely used chemical weapons against its own people in a deadly attack last month, The Cable has learned.
United States diplomats in Turkey conducted a previously undisclosed, intensive investigation into claims that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, and made what an Obama administration official who reviewed the cable called a "compelling case" that Assad's military forces had used a deadly form of poison gas.
The cable, signed by the U.S. consul general in Istanbul, Scott Frederic Kilner, and sent to State Department headquarters in Washington last week, outlined the results of the consulate's investigation into reports from inside Syria that chemical weapons had been used in the city of Homs on Dec. 23.
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My Comment: This is Assad testing U.S. red lines .... and finding that the White House is completely silent. If Syria is using chemical weapons .... and the U.S. is silent on this use .... it is only a matter of time before we end up with a mass casualty event .... and that is when the White House will respond.
Update #1: Syria Dropped Hallucinogen Weapon on Rebels, Secret Cable Says -- Danger Room
Update #2: White House doubts Syria chem. weapons report -- The Ticket/Yahoo News
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