Jeffrey T. Kuhner Adolf Hitler is back. Every time the war party wants to attack another country its leader is always compared to the Nazi dictator. This time it’s the turn of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have said Assad is the new “Hitler.” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Dennis Rodman while in North Korea might have asked his friend “Kim” about North Korea and Syria. Too bad he missed the chance, along with any notion of getting “Kim” to “do me a solid,” as he once put it, and let him bring Kenneth Bae out of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Recent findings point increasingly toward the conclusion that the chemical weapons attack in Syria was indeed a self-inflicted attack by the Syrian opposition in order to provoke a U.S. and Western military intervention against the Ba’athist government of President Bashar Assad. Ultimately, it […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The United Nations has issued contradictory assessments of Syria’s use of chemical weapons. A leading UN official asserted that Sunni rebels in Syria fired weapons that contained CW. The official identified the chemical agent as sarin, deemed one of the most lethal of toxins. “According to the testimonies we have […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States, after weeks of stalling, has acknowledged that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons in attacks on Sunni rebels. The administration of President Barack Obama said the U.S. intelligence community determined that Assad was believed to have fired CW munitions at rebel strongholds in […]