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Swordsmyth
08-30-2018, 05:20 PM
Russia says that its diplomats in Washington formally reached out to US officials and have briefed them on an impending plan by al-Qaeda insurgents in Idlib to stage a false flag chemical attack in order to provoke a Western military strike on Damascus.
This week Moscow has claimed to be in possession of firm intelligence that it says shows armed groups in Idlib are transporting chemicals to area sites, in preparation for the coming major Syrian Army and Russian offensive on the contested province in northwest Syria.
According to RT News, it appears that the State Department previously confirmed that the rare meeting did take place (https://www.rt.com/news/437201-idlib-syria-chemical-provocation-meeting/):

Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador in Washington, confirmed to the media on Wednesday that he had met with the US special representative to Syria, James Jeffrey, and David M. Satterfield, acting assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs.
The attendees of the rare meeting and the fact that it had taken place earlier this week was revealed by US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert during a daily briefing.
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/Battleship%20Syria%20Attack.jpg
The meeting was reportedly held this past Monday, according to Russian Ambassador Antonov, who told RT it was "constructive and professional".

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-30/russian-ambassador-gave-intel-us-officials-showing-planned-chemical-provocation

Zippyjuan
08-30-2018, 05:31 PM
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/idlib-offensive-looms-state-dept-and-pentagon-troubled-russian


As Idlib Offensive Looms, State Dep’t and Pentagon Troubled by Russian Warnings of New ‘Staged’ Chemical Attack

Russia claims that opponents of the Assad regime are planning to use chemical weapons in rebel-held Idlib as a pretext to invite more U.S. airstrikes, but the State Department raised doubts Wednesday about the claims – while expressing concern about what they may portend.

Asked about Moscow’s claims that rebels in Idlib, including the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, are planning a chemical attack as a provocation there, department spokeswoman Heather Nauert dismissed them as “more false flag-type reporting.”

“We’ve seen that before, where they try to put the blame – they try to put the onus on other groups,” Nauert told a briefing. “And we don’t buy into that.”

U.S. diplomats met with Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov this week, “in part to raise concerns about what could happen in Idlib,” she said.

“You’ve read the Russian reports, you’ve heard their rhetoric, and so we’re concerned about what could potentially happen.”

“We have all seen what the Syrian regime, backed by the Russian government, has done in the past,” Nauert said in reference to previous chemical weapons attacks blamed on the regime, adding that it “should not be a surprise to anyone” that the U.S. would once again be concerned.

A day earlier, Nauert said both National Security Advisor John Bolton and chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford had spoken to their Russian counterparts, “to make it very clear that the United States government and its partners would respond to any verified chemical weapons use in Idlib, or elsewhere in Syria for that matter, in a swift and appropriate manner.”



More at link.

dannno
08-30-2018, 05:35 PM
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/idlib-offensive-looms-state-dept-and-pentagon-troubled-russian



More at link.

Why does the US State Dept. raise doubts that Al Qaeda may be planning a false flag attack? Do they think that sort of stuff is below what even Al Qaeda would do?

Also, why not report that it is Al Qaeda? Why report that it is "Assad's opponents" if the intelligence says it is Al Qaeda?

Swordsmyth
08-30-2018, 05:36 PM
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/idlib-offensive-looms-state-dept-and-pentagon-troubled-russian



More at link.

Thank you for our daily propaganda update.

dannno
08-30-2018, 05:38 PM
Thank you for our daily propaganda update.

That's the problem with Zippy's propaganda... it is so plainly and unmistakably written as propaganda.

Zippyjuan
08-30-2018, 05:53 PM
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/idlib-offensive-looms-state-dept-and-pentagon-troubled-russian


Konashenkov claimed that the U.S. would use the purported incident being planned in Idlib as a pretext to attack regime targets.

In support of that claim, he charged that the U.S. Navy destroyer U.S. Ross – one of the two ships which launched 59 cruise missiles against Syria’s Shayrat airbase in April 2017 – had entered the Mediterranean on August 25, armed with Tomahawk missiles.

In fact the USS Ross, which has been forward deployed in Rota, Spain for more than four years, spends a significant amount of time in the Mediterranean and Black seas. It did not “enter” the Mediterranean on Aug. 25, but in recent weeks has made port calls in Agadir, Morocco (Aug. 14) and Toulon, France (Aug. 20), and carried out live-fire exercises in the Mediterranean (Aug. 22).

As the regime gears up for the push into Idlib, NATO confirmed a build-up of Russian warships in the eastern Mediterranean, shortly after Russia’s Izvestia newspaper cited defense ministry sources as saying a flotilla of at least ten ships is being deployed to near the Syrian coast.

The newspaper identified some of the vessels as a guided missile cruiser and anti-submarine destroyer from the Northern Fleet, two submarines, three frigates and a large patrol ship from the Black Sea Fleet, and smaller corvettes.

Some are armed with Kalibr cruise missiles, the same projectiles Russia has launched on previous occasions since late 2014, from ships and submarines in the Mediterranean and Caspian seas, supposedly at ISIS targets in Syria.

Swordsmyth
08-30-2018, 09:04 PM
https://www.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/styles/wv_large/public/naval-update-08292018.png?itok=eQzb763o

Zippyjuan
08-30-2018, 09:10 PM
https://www.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/styles/wv_large/public/naval-update-08292018.png?itok=eQzb763o

Wow! Look at all those ships off the coast of Syria! Looks like a massive US invasion!

(not sure relevance of the image to the thread topic?)

timosman
08-30-2018, 09:36 PM
That's the problem with Zippy's propaganda... it is so plainly and unmistakably written as propaganda.

Zippy is raw. You would think somebody trying to brainwash Americans would be more sophisticated. Like Aratus or Rev 3.0 at least. :cool:

TheCount
08-31-2018, 06:37 AM
https://www.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/styles/wv_large/public/naval-update-08292018.png?itok=eQzb763o
Is it that thread again?

There must still be new rumors.

Ender
08-31-2018, 11:14 AM
Why does the US State Dept. raise doubts that Al Qaeda may be planning a false flag attack? Do they think that sort of stuff is below what even Al Qaeda would do?

Also, why not report that it is Al Qaeda? Why report that it is "Assad's opponents" if the intelligence says it is Al Qaeda?

???


Asked about Moscow’s claims that rebels in Idlib, including the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, are planning a chemical attack as a provocation there, department spokeswoman Heather Nauert dismissed them as “more false flag-type reporting.”

AZJoe
09-08-2018, 06:36 PM
the actions in Idlib show the weakness of the US. (https://thesaker.is/russias-asymmetric-response-to-the-us-in-syria/) Trump is completely muzzled – not by his adversaries, but by Russia. It’s exactly like this. Russia uncovered preparation for a provocative chemical attack in Idlib, (https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809081067858045-weapons-provocation-syria/) which it reported at the UN in front of the whole world. And everyone heard it. With all the details, including the quantity of barrels and their color, and also the description of ways of delivering chlorine to Idlib and the places of their secret storage. All the trump cards of Americans have been illuminated. There is no sense in the operation anymore.

But there will be an operation all the same. The match will take place in any weather conditions. The US already planned the places that it will bomb. The storm will be more resolute than the previous time. Preparation happens as if the US is sure that a chemical attack will take place, when the US chooses it. … all masks were thrown off, and the US openly prepares aggression with a provocation in a sovereign country where they frankly have the status of an occupier. …

UWDude
09-08-2018, 09:35 PM
That's the problem with Zippy's propaganda... it is so plainly and unmistakably written as propaganda.

Why does he do it? He must be a traffic pole. He is polar opposite to keep people conversing. That's what I think.
This sight without Zippy? Only foils left would be the count, Ender and revolution. And they are kinda boring, because they try to interject their cliche "personalities" into the conversation.
Strangely, the most vicious of hatreds are saved for the boring teleprompter reader of the boards, ZippyJuan, with his faithful regurgitation of state media.
I have a feeling, he is here simply to keep the members hooked.