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To: Thomas M. who wrote (14704)9/15/2023 10:09:38 AM
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Under Obama and Hillary Clinton, US began providing weapons and military support to radical jihadis in Syria in order to overthrow the moderate Assad regime. In 2013 there was a chemical weapons attack in Syria. US blamed Assad, saying he was attacking the US-backed rebels. At the time US knew (but kept secret) that the Al Qaeda rebels had an advanced Sarin production facility and were targeting the Assad regime - exactly the opposite of what US publicly claimed.
  • In June 2013 assessment, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reports that al-Nusra -- al Qaeda's wing in Syria -- has a "sarin production cell" that marks AQ's "most advanced sarin plot since al-Qaida's pre-9/11 effort."
  • DIA: "Al-Nusrah Front's relative freedom of operation within Syria leads us to assess the group's CW [chemical weapons] aspirations will be difficult to disrupt in the future." Yes, Al Qaeda/Nusra did have lot of freedom to operate within Syria. It helped that, as Jake Sullivan wrote the year before, "Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria."
  • DIA: given the presence of Al-Nusra in this sarin production cell, "we believe the ultimate targets were Syria-based, likely regime or regime supporters."
  • DIA: Al-Nusra's sarin production was supervised by Abd-al-Ghani, the Aleppo-based ANF [Nusra] emir for military manufacturing. They discussed "plans for large scale Syria-based production." Ghani is "connected to senior ANF leadership," including Muhammad al-Jawlani -- who is now the ruler of Idlib, the last "rebel"-held province in Syria.
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