12 amerikanska före detta CIA, FBI och arméexperter har skrivit ett gemensamt uttalande till Obama administrationen och säger att den mest tillförlitliga informationen säger att Bashar al Assad inte låg bakom kem-attacken 21 augusti och att Israel ser ett utdraget krig utan vinnare som det bästa för Israels del. "There is a growing body of evidence from numerous sources in the Middle East – mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its supporters – providing a strong circumstantial case that the August 21 chemical incident was a pre-planned provocation by the Syrian opposition and its Saudi and Turkish supporters. The aim is reported to have been to create the kind of incident that would bring the United States into the war." "The longer Sunni and Shia are at each other’s throats in Syria and in the wider region, the safer Israel calculates that it is." Thomas Drake, Senior Executive, NSA (former) Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.) Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan Larry Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.) W. Patrick Lang, Senior Executive and Defense Intelligence Officer, DIA (ret.) David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.) Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.) Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East (ret.) Todd Pierce, US Army Judge Advocate General (ret.) Sam Provance, former Sgt., US Army, Iraq Coleen Rowley, Division Council & Special Agent, FBI (ret.) Ann Wright, Col., US Army (ret); Foreign Service Officer (ret.) antiwar/blog/2013/09/06/veteran-intelligence-professionals-warn-obama-on-syrian-intel/
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:23:47 +0000