COUNTRIES: SYRIA, UNITED STATES: U.S. on Syria Chemical Attack: What's the Evidence?

[David P. Dillard]

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COUNTRIES: SYRIA, UNITED STATES:

U.S. on Syria Chemical Attack: What's the Evidence?

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U.S. on Syria Chemical Attack: What's the Evidence?

By Josh Levs

CNN

updated 12:09 AM EDT, Monday September 9, 2013

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/world/
syria-us-evidence-chemical-weapons-attack/?hpt=hp_t1

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A shorter URL for the above link:

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http://tinyurl.com/pzvolan


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The gruesome images are clear. There's little doubt Syrians suffered a
chemical attack last month.

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But videos of the aftermath -- including 13 shown to Congress -- do
nothing to show who was responsible.

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President Barack Obama says he has "high confidence" that the regime is to
blame -- the strongest position short of confirmation. But his
administration has not released hard evidence.

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Secretary of State John Kerry says declassifying any more information
could endanger "sources and methods" of U.S. intelligence gathering.

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Britain, France and NATO also blame Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for
the horror in a Damascus suburb last month.

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Still, as Obama engages in a full-court press to build U.S. support for
strikes, some Americans hear echoes of a different basketball analogy:
"slam dunk."

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That's how then-CIA Director George Tenet described what turned out to be
flawed intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in the
run-up to the war 10 years ago.

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Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel were senators at the time.

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"We are especially sensitive, Chuck and I, to never again asking any
member of Congress to take a vote on faulty intelligence. And that is why
our intelligence community has scrubbed and re-scrubbed the evidence,"
Kerry told Congress.

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Some lawmakers remain skeptical.

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"The administration is asking us to go to war on the basis of a four-page
document and a 12-page document and none of the underlying evidence," Rep.
Alan Grayson, D-Florida, complained on CNN's New Day Saturday.

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"They have evidence showing the regime has probably the responsibility for
the attacks. They haven't linked it directly to Assad, in my estimation,"
Rep. Buck McKeon, R-California, told CNN's State of the Union Sunday.

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Additional Topics Covered in This Article:

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Beyond a reasonable doubt or no? U.S. says both

'Concrete' evidence: Described, not declassified

'Intercepted communications'

U.S.: Opposition doesn't have 'the capacity'

Assad's motive unclear

Analyst: 'No way in hell' U.S. can back up death toll

U.N. won't place blame

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