Land Destroyer
September 17, 2013
As predicted days before the UN’s Syrian chemical weapons report was made public, the West has begun spinning the findings to bolster their faltering narrative regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks on August 21, 2013 in eastern Damascus, Syria. The goal of course, is to continue demonizing the Syrian government while simultaneously sabotaging a recent Syrian-Russian deal to have Syria’s chemical weapon stockpiles verified and disarmed by independent observers.
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A barrage of suspiciously worded headlines attempt to link in the
mind of unobservant readers the UN’s “confirmation” of chemical weapons
use in Syria and Western claims that it was the Syrian government who
used them. Additionally, the US, British, and French governments have
quickly assembled a list of fabrications designed to spin the UN report
to bolster their still-unsubstantiated accusations against the Syrian
government.
The BBC’s article, “US and UK insist UN chemicals report ‘blames Syria’,” again states unequivocally, [emphasis added]:
The UN report did not attribute blame for the attack, as that was not part of its remit.
However, that did not stop UK Foreign Secretary William Hague who claimed:
