{"id":14258,"date":"2013-08-29T10:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14258"},"modified":"2013-08-29T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:56:40","slug":"intercepted-call-proves-syria-used-chemical-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/08\/29\/intercepted-call-proves-syria-used-chemical-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Intercepted call \u2018proves Syria used chemical weapons\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

France24<\/em> has the article Intercepted call \u2018proves Syria used chemical weapons\u2019<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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Further down in the article we have this added detail:<\/p>\n
\u201cLast 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,\u201d Foreign Policy said on Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I can imagine the phone call.<\/p>\n
High Official:<\/strong> What the heck is going on? Did you use chemical weapons?<\/p>\n
Officer:<\/strong> No, of course we didn’t use chemical weapons. It was probably the rebels that did it.<\/p>\n
Based on this frantic call, the US concludes that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. You can take that to the bank.<\/p>\n
The article further goes on to say:<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, German magazine Focus<\/a><\/strong> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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There you have it, the phone call was intercepted by two ‘reliable’ sources who have no reason to lie.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 I would also like to hear the recording so I can judge the panic level.\u00a0 It’s not that I am suspicious of motives at all.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
France24 has the article Intercepted call \u2018proves Syria used chemical weapons\u2019. 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: \u201cLast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14258"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14265,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions\/14265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}