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*** 6-Feb-18 World View -- Syria's Bashar al-Assad steps up use of chemical weapons on his own people
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Syria's Bashar al-Assad steps up use of chemical weapons on his own people
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A poison hazard danger sign in the town of Khan Shaykun, Idlib province, Syria (picture-alliance/AA/A. Dagul)
Rescue workers are reporting that warplanes from the regime of Syria's
president Bashar al-Assad and from his ally Russia have stepped up
bombing attacks on civilians in densely populated neighborhoods in
Eastern Ghouta and Idlib, and the use of chlorine gas has been stepped
up. At least 29 people were killed.
Typically chlorine gas is deliver through the use of barrel bombs.
The barrel bombs are filled with metal and chlorine gas in order to
kill as many people as possible.
Al-Assad has used Sarin gas in the past to kill dozens or hundreds of
people at a time. As a chemical weapon, chlorine gas doesn't
immediately kill as many people as Sarin, but it's used in a different
way. When warplanes start bombing women and children particularly
hide in basements of buildings. Since chlorine gas is heavier than
air, it seeps down into the basements and forces the choking women and
children out into the open, where they can be targeted by missiles and
gunfire.
As I've written many times in the past, Bashar al-Assad is the worst
genocidal monster so far this century. The Syrian war began in 2011
when al-Assad ordered his army and air force to attack peacefully
protesting civilians, including women and children. Things really
turned around in August 2011, when al-Assad launched a massive
military assault on a large, peaceful Palestinian refugee camp in
Latakia, filled with tens of thousands of women and children
Palestinians. He dropped barrel bombs laden with metal, chlorine,
ammonia, phosphorous and chemical weapons onto innocent Sunni women
and children, he's targeted bombs on schools and hospitals, and he's
used Sarin gas to kill large groups of people. Shia/Alawite al-Assad
considers almost all Sunni Muslims to be cockroaches to be
exterminated. AP and Reuters and Deutsche Welle
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**** UN Security Council is worthless as Syria uses chemical weapons with impunity
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At the United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday, US
Ambassador Nicki Haley condemned Russia for blocking investigations
into the use of chemical weapons in Syria:
<QUOTE>"The news out of Syria this morning is following a
troubling pattern. Victims of what appears to be chlorine gas are
pouring into hospitals. ...
Under the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Security Council
Resolution 2118, the Assad regime’s obligations are clear: It must
immediately stop using all chemical weapons. We spent much of
last year in this council watching one country protect the Assad
regime’s use of chemical weapons by refusing to hold them
responsible."<END QUOTE>
The reason that Russia is using its veto to block investigations of
chemical weapons attacks in Syria is because Russia knows that Syria
is using the chemical weapons to target innocent civilians. Bashar
al-Assad is a war criminal, but Russia's president Vladimir Putin is
also a war criminal, and there's honor among thieves or, in this case,
honor among war criminals.
The Russians don't want to make the same disastrous mistake they made
in 2013, after al-Assad's Sarin gas attack, killing hundreds of
civilians. Russia allowed an investigation to go ahead, but they were
too clever by half by allowing the investigation to go forward, but
the investigators were forbidden from assigning blame. So A
U.N. chemical weapons team was authorized to investigate the incident.
However, thanks to a threatened Russian veto, the U.N. team was
forbidden from assigning blame for the Sarin attack. But the team
found a clever way of assigning blame without having to say it.
In their scientific analysis of the
evidence, they included calculations of the trajectories of the
rockets that delivered the Sarin gas. They drew no conclusions about
where the rockets were launched, but they provided enough scientific
information within the report so that experts studying the report
could analyze the trajectories to prove that the rockets must have
been launched from a Syrian Republican Guard unit.
There have been several investigations of the 2013 Sarin gas attack,
and there are thousands of pieces of evidence that al-Assad used Sarin
gas on ordinary civilians, including forensic collections and
analyses, photos, videos, eyewitness testimony, doctors' testimony,
the UNSC report, analyses of the UNSC report, and so forth, proving
al-Assad's repeated use of chemical weapons, including Sarin gas and
chlorine gas.
As if that weren't enough, there was a new report last week that a new
investigation used laboratory tests to prove that the Sarin gas used
in the 2013 attack was identical to the Sarin gas that al-Assad turned
over to investigators in 2013 when he agreed to permanently eliminate
Syria's chemical weapons program. The new tests prove, once again,
that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the 2013 Sarin gas attack,
though that hasn't been in doubt for years.
After the attack, al-Assad didn't admit he was responsible, but agreed
to a destroy a 1,300 metric ton stockpile of chemicals related to the
2013 attack. Few people believed that al-Assad followed through on
his promise, and laboratory tests since then proved that he didn't.
I've been around for a few decades, and I keep asking myself, how
could all this be happening? We have al-Assad's use of chemical
weapons with impunity, we have Russia invading and annexing Ukraine's
Crimea peninsula, we have China building illegal large military bases
in the South China Sea with the obvious intention soon of controlling
all access to the South China Sea, and we have China building multiple
large nuclear missile systems whose only purpose is to attack the
United States in a preemptive attack. At the same time, we have a
political clown circus going on in Washington, and an equally idiotic
Brexit circus going on in London.
I know that Generational Dynamics has predicted all along that this
sort of thing was going to happen, but I still react in amazement
every day how the world has completely lost all common sense and is
pushing itself off the edge of a cliff, guided by sheer insanity.
It's astonishing. How could all this be happening? Politico and Reuters (30-Jan)
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Sarin gas, chlorine gas,
Idlib, Eastern Ghouta, Russia, Vladimir Putin,
Nicki Haley, Crimea, China, South China Sea
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Syria's Bashar al-Assad steps up use of chemical weapons on his own people
- UN Security Council is worthless as Syria uses chemical weapons with impunity
****
**** Syria's Bashar al-Assad steps up use of chemical weapons on his own people
****
A poison hazard danger sign in the town of Khan Shaykun, Idlib province, Syria (picture-alliance/AA/A. Dagul)
Rescue workers are reporting that warplanes from the regime of Syria's
president Bashar al-Assad and from his ally Russia have stepped up
bombing attacks on civilians in densely populated neighborhoods in
Eastern Ghouta and Idlib, and the use of chlorine gas has been stepped
up. At least 29 people were killed.
Typically chlorine gas is deliver through the use of barrel bombs.
The barrel bombs are filled with metal and chlorine gas in order to
kill as many people as possible.
Al-Assad has used Sarin gas in the past to kill dozens or hundreds of
people at a time. As a chemical weapon, chlorine gas doesn't
immediately kill as many people as Sarin, but it's used in a different
way. When warplanes start bombing women and children particularly
hide in basements of buildings. Since chlorine gas is heavier than
air, it seeps down into the basements and forces the choking women and
children out into the open, where they can be targeted by missiles and
gunfire.
As I've written many times in the past, Bashar al-Assad is the worst
genocidal monster so far this century. The Syrian war began in 2011
when al-Assad ordered his army and air force to attack peacefully
protesting civilians, including women and children. Things really
turned around in August 2011, when al-Assad launched a massive
military assault on a large, peaceful Palestinian refugee camp in
Latakia, filled with tens of thousands of women and children
Palestinians. He dropped barrel bombs laden with metal, chlorine,
ammonia, phosphorous and chemical weapons onto innocent Sunni women
and children, he's targeted bombs on schools and hospitals, and he's
used Sarin gas to kill large groups of people. Shia/Alawite al-Assad
considers almost all Sunni Muslims to be cockroaches to be
exterminated. AP and Reuters and Deutsche Welle
****
**** UN Security Council is worthless as Syria uses chemical weapons with impunity
****
At the United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday, US
Ambassador Nicki Haley condemned Russia for blocking investigations
into the use of chemical weapons in Syria:
<QUOTE>"The news out of Syria this morning is following a
troubling pattern. Victims of what appears to be chlorine gas are
pouring into hospitals. ...
Under the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Security Council
Resolution 2118, the Assad regime’s obligations are clear: It must
immediately stop using all chemical weapons. We spent much of
last year in this council watching one country protect the Assad
regime’s use of chemical weapons by refusing to hold them
responsible."<END QUOTE>
The reason that Russia is using its veto to block investigations of
chemical weapons attacks in Syria is because Russia knows that Syria
is using the chemical weapons to target innocent civilians. Bashar
al-Assad is a war criminal, but Russia's president Vladimir Putin is
also a war criminal, and there's honor among thieves or, in this case,
honor among war criminals.
The Russians don't want to make the same disastrous mistake they made
in 2013, after al-Assad's Sarin gas attack, killing hundreds of
civilians. Russia allowed an investigation to go ahead, but they were
too clever by half by allowing the investigation to go forward, but
the investigators were forbidden from assigning blame. So A
U.N. chemical weapons team was authorized to investigate the incident.
However, thanks to a threatened Russian veto, the U.N. team was
forbidden from assigning blame for the Sarin attack. But the team
found a clever way of assigning blame without having to say it.
In their scientific analysis of the
evidence, they included calculations of the trajectories of the
rockets that delivered the Sarin gas. They drew no conclusions about
where the rockets were launched, but they provided enough scientific
information within the report so that experts studying the report
could analyze the trajectories to prove that the rockets must have
been launched from a Syrian Republican Guard unit.
There have been several investigations of the 2013 Sarin gas attack,
and there are thousands of pieces of evidence that al-Assad used Sarin
gas on ordinary civilians, including forensic collections and
analyses, photos, videos, eyewitness testimony, doctors' testimony,
the UNSC report, analyses of the UNSC report, and so forth, proving
al-Assad's repeated use of chemical weapons, including Sarin gas and
chlorine gas.
As if that weren't enough, there was a new report last week that a new
investigation used laboratory tests to prove that the Sarin gas used
in the 2013 attack was identical to the Sarin gas that al-Assad turned
over to investigators in 2013 when he agreed to permanently eliminate
Syria's chemical weapons program. The new tests prove, once again,
that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the 2013 Sarin gas attack,
though that hasn't been in doubt for years.
After the attack, al-Assad didn't admit he was responsible, but agreed
to a destroy a 1,300 metric ton stockpile of chemicals related to the
2013 attack. Few people believed that al-Assad followed through on
his promise, and laboratory tests since then proved that he didn't.
I've been around for a few decades, and I keep asking myself, how
could all this be happening? We have al-Assad's use of chemical
weapons with impunity, we have Russia invading and annexing Ukraine's
Crimea peninsula, we have China building illegal large military bases
in the South China Sea with the obvious intention soon of controlling
all access to the South China Sea, and we have China building multiple
large nuclear missile systems whose only purpose is to attack the
United States in a preemptive attack. At the same time, we have a
political clown circus going on in Washington, and an equally idiotic
Brexit circus going on in London.
I know that Generational Dynamics has predicted all along that this
sort of thing was going to happen, but I still react in amazement
every day how the world has completely lost all common sense and is
pushing itself off the edge of a cliff, guided by sheer insanity.
It's astonishing. How could all this be happening? Politico and Reuters (30-Jan)
Related Articles
- Russia's Syria peace talks in Sochi dissolve into farce as Lavrov gets heckled (31-Jan-2018)
- Turkey begins invasion of Syria while China lies about 'indisputable sovereignty'(21-Jan-2018)
- Syria's Bashar al-Assad targets civilians and hospitals in never-ending war of extermination (07-Jan-2018)
- Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin hug and declare the end of war in Syria (27-Nov-2017)
- Russia uses the 'Grozny Model' to pursue mass slaughter in Aleppo Syria (02-Aug-2016)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Sarin gas, chlorine gas,
Idlib, Eastern Ghouta, Russia, Vladimir Putin,
Nicki Haley, Crimea, China, South China Sea
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
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John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
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