Hersh Vindicated? Turkish Whistleblowers Corroborate Story on False Flag Sarin Attack in Syria
This is quite the bombshell delivered by two CHP deputies in the
Turkish parliament and reported by Today’s Zaman, one of the top dailies
in Turkey.
It supports Seymour Hersh’s reporting that the notorious sarin gas
attack at Ghouta was a false flag orchestrated by Turkish intelligence
in order to cross President Obama’s chemical weapons “red line” and draw
the United States into the Syria war to topple Assad.
If so, President Obama deserves credit for “holding the line” against
the attack despite the grumbling and incitement of the Syria hawks at
home and abroad.
And it also presents the unsavory picture of an al-Qaeda operatives
colluding with ISIL in a war crime that killed 1300 civilians.
I find the report credible, taking into full account the fact that the CHP (Erdogan’s center-left Kemalist rivals) and Today’s Zaman
(whose editor-in-chief, Bulent Kenes was recently detained on live TV
for insulting Erdogan in a tweet) are on the outs with Erdogan.
