{"id":14366,"date":"2013-09-05T10:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14366"},"modified":"2013-09-05T10:40:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:40:34","slug":"intercepted-call-bolsters-syrian-chemical-weapons-charge-germans-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/05\/intercepted-call-bolsters-syrian-chemical-weapons-charge-germans-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Intercepted call bolsters Syrian chemical-weapons charge, Germans say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>McClatchy<\/em> news has the story <a title=\"McClatchy News article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/09\/04\/201193\/intercepted-call-bolsters-syrian.html#emlnl=Daily_News_Update\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Intercepted call bolsters Syrian chemical-weapons charge, Germans say<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Der Spiegel, one of the parties in the intercepted phone call was a &#8220;high-ranking member of Hezbollah,&#8221; the militant Lebanese movement that\u2019s sent fighters to support the Assad government. That Hezbollah member told the Iranian that &#8220;Assad had lost his temper and committed a huge mistake by giving the order for the poison gas use,&#8221; according to the magazine\u2019s account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently this is a different phone call from the one intercepted by Israeli intelligence and passed on to the U.S.A.\u00a0 Perhaps the evidence will show that the Obama administration is correct in its assessment of who perpetrated the gas attack.\u00a0 There are other details in the article to add to your store of possible (mis)information about what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McClatchy news has the story Intercepted call bolsters Syrian chemical-weapons charge, Germans say. According to Der Spiegel, one of the parties in the intercepted phone call was a &#8220;high-ranking member of Hezbollah,&#8221; the militant Lebanese movement that\u2019s sent fighters to support the Assad government. That Hezbollah member told the Iranian that &#8220;Assad had lost his [&hellip;]<\/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-14366","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\/14366","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=14366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14367,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366\/revisions\/14367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}