The Lifeboat News

The Lifeboat News
[ The Lifeboat News ]

Seymour Hersh has released US Intel memo showing it knew Nusra could produce the nerve agent Sarin.

Posted by Laurie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Laurie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 14, 2023, 12:20 pm

In the 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 al Qaeda's "most advanced sarin plot since al-Qaida's pre-9/11 effort."

DIA: Al-Nusra's sarin production cell received help from sources in Turkey and Saudi Arabia - two countries deeply involved in the Syria dirty war. They were trying to "obtain sarin precursors in bulk... likely for the anticipated large scale production effort in Syria."

Seymour Hersh's Substack (subscription)

DIA on Al-Nusra Sarin Cell June 2013

H/T David Miller, Aaron Maté

Re: Seymour Hersh has released US Intel memo showing it knew Nusra could produce the nerve agent Sarin.

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 14, 2023, 5:18 pm, in reply to "Seymour Hersh has released US Intel memo showing it knew Nusra could produce the nerve agent Sarin. "

I recall reading at the time that Turkish police had arrested a bunch of dudes red-handed in Turkey with Sarin.
I looked up the source to find it had been reported only in a couple of small Turkish news outlets and in Turkish.

A couple of weeks later I looked to see what the follow up was. There was none at all...but more telling than that was that both the original reports I had found had also disappeared: as though they never where.

« Back to index

[ The Lifeboat News ]