{"id":162387,"date":"2015-06-27T23:47:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T23:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/was-turkey-behind-syria-sarin-attack\/"},"modified":"2015-06-27T23:47:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T23:47:53","slug":"was-turkey-behind-syria-sarin-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/was-turkey-behind-syria-sarin-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Turkey Behind Syria Sarin Attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"284.0170290406\">\n<p><strong>From the Archive: <\/strong>Turkey\u2019s history of \u201cdeep state\u201d intelligence\u00a0may have resurfaced\u00a0in 2013, according to journalist Seymour Hersh, as Turkish-backed, Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists learned\u00a0to make sarin\u00a0and may have used it in\u00a0Syria to trick the U.S.\u00a0into joining that civil war, as Robert Parry reported in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15342\"\/>By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 6, 2014)<\/p>\n<p>In August 2013, the Obama administration lurched to the brink of invading Syria after blaming a Sarin gas attack outside Damascus on President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s government, but new evidence \u2014 reported by investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh \u2014 implicates Turkish intelligence and extremist Syrian rebels instead.<\/p>\n<p>The significance of Hersh\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/2014\/04\/06\/seymour-m-hersh\/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line\"><u>report<\/u><\/a> was twofold: first, it showed how Official Washington\u2019s hawks and neocons almost stampeded the United States into another Mideast war under false pretenses, and second, the story\u2019s publication in the London Review of Books revealed how hostile the mainstream U.S. media had become toward information that didn\u2019t comport with its neocon-dominated conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9964\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/kerry-syria-remarks.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9964\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?55ac53\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kerry-syria-remarks-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Aug. 30, 2013, claims to have proof that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21, but that evidence failed to materialize or was later discredited. [State Department photo]\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9964\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kerry-syria-remarks-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Aug. 30, 2013, claims to have proof that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21, but that evidence failed to materialize or was later discredited. [State Department photo]\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Aug. 30, 2013, claims to have proof that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21, but that evidence failed to materialize or his claims were\u00a0later discredited. [State Department photo]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In other words, it appears that Official Washington and its mainstream press had absorbed few lessons from the disastrous Iraq War, which was launched in 2003 under the false claim that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was planning to share hidden stockpiles of WMD with al-Qaeda, when there was no WMD nor any association between Hussein and al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>A decade later in August and September 2013, as a new war hysteria broke out over Assad allegedly crossing President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cred line\u201d against using chemical weapons, it fell to a few Internet sites, including our own Consortiumnews.com, to raise questions about the administration\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2013\/08\/30\/a-dodgy-dossier-on-syrian-war\/\"><u>allegations<\/u><\/a> that pinned the Aug. 21 attack on the Syrian government.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the U.S. government fail to provide a single piece of verifiable evidence to support its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/06\/27\/was-turkey-behind-syria-sarin-attack\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Archive: Turkey\u2019s history of \u201cdeep state\u201d intelligence\u00a0may have resurfaced\u00a0in 2013, according to journalist Seymour Hersh, as Turkish-backed, Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists learned\u00a0to make sarin\u00a0and may have used it in\u00a0Syria to trick the U.S.\u00a0into joining that civil war, as Robert Parry reported in 2014. By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 6, 2014) In August 2013, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}