Former CIA officer and analyst Ray McGovern says foreign-sponsored militants carried out the 2013 false-flag operation near Damascus with the help of the Turkish intelligence.
McGovern, who was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Saturday, after US President barrack Obama told The Atlantic that he is “proud” that he stood up to intense pressure in 2013 and refused to order airstrikes against Syria on allegations that the Syrian government used chemical weapons near Damascus.
The war rhetoric against Syria intensified after foreign-backed militants accused the President Bashar al-Assad government of launching a chemical attack on militant strongholds in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21, 2013.
Damascus had denied the accusations, saying the Ghouta attack was carried out by the militants themselves as a false-flag operation.
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