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AP: Russia knew of chemical attack, tried to cover it up by bombing hospital

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Xando

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior U.S. official says the United States has concluded that Russia knew in advance of Syria's chemical weapons attack last week.

The official says a Russian-operated drone flew over a hospital in Syria as victims of the attack were rushing to get treatment.

Hours after the drone left, a Russian-made fighter jet bombed the hospital in what American officials believe was an attempt to cover up the usage of chemical weapons.

Until Monday, U.S. officials had said they weren't sure if the drone was operated by Russia or Syria. The senior official said it still wasn't clear who was flying the jet that bombed the hospital.

The official said the presence of the drone couldn't have been a coincidence, and that Russia must have known the chemical weapons attack was coming and that victims were seeking treatment.

The official wasn't authorized to speak publicly on intelligence matters and demanded anonymity.
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https://apnews.com/19772be1238e49fb...sia-knew-in-advance-of-Syrian-chemical-attack
 
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Slaythe

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Wait.

Russia is the smartest country around.

It's kind retarded of them to try to cover up anything of this nature with such a blatant try.

Or maybe they don't give a fuck anymore because they know the USA is in their pocket.

:/
 
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Puck Beaverton

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Russia is pretty abhorrent, so I would expect they knew this happened.

I'm sure Putin wishes he could just do another Holocaust on the LGBT people in his own country, the fucking scumbag.
 
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painey

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why release this kind of information to the public? No normal human being could feel anything but anger at Russia for this, and the lunatics will be the ones demanding full-blown warfare over this stuff.
 
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BoogieWoogie

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painey said:
why release this kind of information to the public? No normal human being could feel anything but anger at Russia for this, and the lunatics will be the ones demanding full-blown warfare over this stuff.
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Because it could be the IC continuing to shine a light on Trump being a Putin stooge.

Trump's not going to do one fucking thing about this and it will raise more questions.
 
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Elandyll

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1 step closer to the (still really far fetched) conspiracy theory that the Kremlin commendited the attack knowing that it would generate massive news headlines for Trump in the US to distract from his constant media woes.
 
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Electric Eye

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Slaythe said:
Wait.

Russia is the smartest country around.

It's kind retarded of them to try to cover up anything of this nature with such a blatant try.

Or maybe they don't give a fuck anymore because they know the USA is in their pocket.

:/
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"Smartest country around" what the fuck are you talking about?
 
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Simplet

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Slaythe said:
Wait.

Russia is the smartest country around.

It's kind retarded of them to try to cover up anything of this nature with such a blatant try.

Or maybe they don't give a fuck anymore because they know the USA is in their pocket.

:/
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The russians have been carpet-bombing hospitals for months (years?), were you not around for the battle of Aleppo?

I worked fine for them until now (and I suspect it will continue to work fine).
 
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kirblar

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painey said:
why release this kind of information to the public? No normal human being could feel anything but anger at Russia for this, and the lunatics will be the ones demanding full-blown warfare over this stuff.
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Because they (the IC) dont trust Trump.
 
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Sho_Nuff82

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painey said:
why release this kind of information to the public? No normal human being could feel anything but anger at Russia for this, and the lunatics will be the ones demanding full-blown warfare over this stuff.
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This is the kind of information that is certainly in the public's best interest to know. Since we're currently having a national debate over whether or not Russia is an ally in the region, what our SOPs should be in Yemen, and whether we should be accepting refugees from warzones.
 
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Electric Eye

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painey said:
why release this kind of information to the public? No normal human being could feel anything but anger at Russia for this, and the lunatics will be the ones demanding full-blown warfare over this stuff.
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Would you rather we have a lengthy bipartisan investigation into this to get to the bottom of it? Yeah.
 
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Giganteus

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Bombing a hospital with some or all of its victims there isn't going to cover it up, so if that was their intention, that's odd. I wouldn't put it past them to do that, though.
 
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