Intercepted call ‘proves Syria used chemical weapons’


France24 has the article Intercepted call ‘proves Syria used chemical weapons’.

US intelligence intercepted a panicked phone call between Syrian army officials shortly after the chemical weapons attack on civilians in a suburb of Damascus on August 21, according to the magazine Foreign Policy.


Further down in the article we have this added detail:

“Last Wednesday, in the hours after a horrific chemical attack east of Damascus, an official at the Syrian Ministry of Defence exchanged panicked phone calls with a leader of a chemical weapons unit, demanding answers after a nerve gas strike killed more than 1,000 people,” Foreign Policy said on Tuesday.


I can imagine the phone call.

High Official: What the heck is going on? Did you use chemical weapons?

Officer: No, of course we didn’t use chemical weapons. It was probably the rebels that did it.

Based on this frantic call, the US concludes that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. You can take that to the bank.

The article further goes on to say:

Meanwhile, German magazine Focus has reported that Israeli intelligence services also intercepted a phone call between Syrian officials regarding the use of chemical weapons.The conversation was then relayed to the US, according to an unnamed former Mossad official quoted in the magazine.


There you have it, the phone call was intercepted by two ‘reliable’ sources who have no reason to lie.

Somehow I would like to see an independent translation of the intercepted call to see if I would interpret the call in the same way as the CIA/Mossad did.  I would also like to hear the recording so I can judge the panic level.  It’s not that I am suspicious of motives at all.  It’s just that if I am asked to approve the bombing of another country, I don’t want to take one side’s word for what the evidence is without hearing what the other side has to say.

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