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Hersh: Obama administration lied about gas attack in Syria
Sun Dec 8, 2013 10:28PM GMT

Prominent American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says US President Barack Obama did not tell the whole story about a chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital, Damascus in August.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, in a new report published in the London Review of Books, wrote that the administration of President Obama was aware of the fact that the militants fighting against the Syrian government had the ability to make chemical weapons but did not inform the public about it.

“Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts,” he wrote in the article.

Hersh added that the US president refused to acknowledge that the al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliated group, according to classified US intelligence reports, had mastered the mechanics of producing Sarin gas.
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