◼ Patriot batteries, F-16s and 4,500 US troops near Syrian border - Reuters
Multinational military exercise 'Eager Lion' has been launched in Jordan amid condemnation from neighboring Syria and its ally Russia. The US brings Patriot missile batteries to the Syrian border, which could remain deployed afterwards.
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AMERICAN TROOPS ON SYRIA BORDER...
◼ CIA preparing to deliver rebels arms through Turkey and Jordan - Washington Post
◼ RUSSIA HITS BACK - Paul Sonne/Wall St. Journal
The Kremlin criticized the U.S. decision to arm Syrian opposition fighters and said Washington's evidence that the Syrian regime is using chemical weapons was unconvincing, but said Friday that Moscow is "not yet" discussing its plans to deliver of air-defense missiles to the regime
Questions chemical weapons claims...
Says no-fly zone violates international law...
◼ WH policy 'a mess' - Lee Smith/Weekly Standard
Thursday the White House announced that the American intelligence community assesses, with a level of high confidence, that the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against the opposition multiple times, in a limited fashion. Now that it is clear Assad has crossed the Obama red line by using chemical weapons, the question is, has this changed the president’s “calculus,” as he said it might? The media is reporting that it has. According to the press, Obama has decided to arm the opposition.
Assad Prepares Offensive as Obama Promises Rebels Arms...
Warplanes bomb resistance in Damascus...
Oil Hits 9-Month High...
Saudi King cuts holiday short due to 'events in region...
Thousands of Egypt Islamists rally for Syria jihad...
◼ Obama Official Admits They Would Have Lied About “Red Line” Breach - Daniel Greenfield/Frontpage Magazine
I have been saying all along that the real determining factor for intervention would not be chemical weapons, but the collapse of the Sunni rebel advance.
That’s how it was in Libya where the intervention was not triggered by the phony genocide, but by Gaddafi ‘s gains. And that is what is pushing along the intervention now. Not the supposed use of chemical weapons, but the gains made by Assad.
This isn’t about chemical weapons. It’s about more Muslim Brotherhood regime change. And now there is the closest thing we’ll get to an admission from the halls of Obama Inc.
