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49. It would cause an uproar and goes so far against the conventional narrative it could set off

the very thing that all sides, except the Israelis and the opposition want to avoid, a wave of American public opinion favoring some sort of intervention. Everyone else just wants to maintain the status quo of a charnel house with the meat grinders operating on a regular, predictable schedule of dead Jihadis and dead Alawites.

I agree that it was probably not the opposition who launched. If it was anyone, it was a broken arrow or turned faction or just a complete pysops where someone with the right authorization codes got on a com channel and started issuing orders which were obeyed until someone woke up the Defense Minister.

In the end, I still think there's something fishy about those ugly flying truck mufflers and the Hezbollah tie-in. Too much overkill there. Perfect weapon for a provocation. I would really like to find out about whether someone has compared the two Serin samples.

On the other hand, there's no question the BP-16 chemical rockets are standard ordinance and the quality of that sarin is first-rate by regional standards. No real coincidence that they appear to have been launched from the 4th Armoured base, and that there's been an effort by DEBKA to create a legend about the one-armed, peg-legged brother. General Assad and the entering columns of foreign-led commandos that they wrote about on Sept 17th. Now, that was a provocation! It it appears to have almost worked.

I would really like to find out about whether someone has compared the two Sarin samples.

The truck mufflers still bother me.