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Apr 14, 2018 7 tweets 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
The OPCW yesterday announced it was about to enter Syria. US media spent today not covering this critical fact. I put it atop news release today. As much as anything else — as with the US attacks on Iraq — the targets are law, inspections, open process. accuracy.org/release/inspec…
I was alerted to this by Noam Chomsky who really deserves the credit here. He was totally spot on. I don’t think he would mind if I shared his note from yesterday afternoon to me:
The dynamic here is similar to how US gov ensured UN inspectors left Iraq just before major bombing by Clinton in 1998 and invasion by Bush in 2003.
Syrian gov appears to have been anxious for @OPCW inspectors to get to work. US / British / French govs appear to have been anxious to bomb before the inspectors could do their work. This *implies* that the Syrian gov is telling the truth and US et al are falsifying.
Syrian UN amb was just saying saying #OPCW would have access to wherever they want in Douma.
Guardian piece from 2001 on series of Taliban offers that Chomsky refers to:
US / British / French bombing of Damascus and other parts of Syria also probably came quickly to undermine peace initiatives like this Swedish one: thelocal.se/20180413/swede…

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