{"id":186844,"date":"2013-09-18T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/18\/how-about-some-fing-details\/"},"modified":"2013-09-18T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T00:58:00","slug":"how-about-some-fing-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/18\/how-about-some-fing-details\/","title":{"rendered":"How About some F%$#ing Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so now the Russians are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/19\/world\/middleeast\/syria.html\">denouncing the UN chemical weapons report<\/a>, claiming that they have been given evidence that the rebels gassed the people in Ghouta:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Russia sharply criticized the new United Nations report on Syria\u2019s chemical arms use on Wednesday as biased and incomplete, hardening the Kremlin\u2019s defense of the Syrian government even while pressing ahead with a plan to disarm its arsenal of the internationally banned weapons.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Russians also escalated their critiques of Western governments\u2019 interpretations of the report, which offered the first independent confirmation of a large chemical weapons assault on Aug. 21 on the outskirts of Syria\u2019s capital, Damascus, that asphyxiated hundreds of civilians. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Russian news reports quoted the country\u2019s deputy foreign minister, Sergei A. Ryabkov, as saying during a visit to Damascus that Syria\u2019s government had provided additional information that showed insurgents used chemical weapons not only on Aug. 21 but also on other occasions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Syrians offered no such information to the United Nations chemical weapons inspectors before they left Syria with a trove of forensic samples on Aug. 31. The inspectors have said they will return to Syria to investigate other reported instances of chemical weapons use, but no dates have been announced.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I called off Obama and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> about their profoundly disingenuous claims regarding poison gas use in Syria, where they said that they had incontrovertible evidence, and put out crap completely bereft of information, and I will call out Mr. Ryabkov as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you have information release it.<\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking about the implications of the UN Report (more in a later post) and it does appear to present a much stronger case for the Assad regime having agency in the gas attack than I have previously seen.<\/p>\n<p>I am dubious of the Russian &#8220;evidence&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so now the Russians are denouncing the UN chemical weapons report, claiming that they have been given evidence that the rebels gassed the people in Ghouta: Russia sharply criticized the new United Nations report on Syria\u2019s chemical arms use on Wednesday as biased and incomplete, hardening the Kremlin\u2019s defense of the Syrian government even &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,964,986,1257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-wmd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}