Wednesday, September 04, 2013

German Spy Agency (no not the Abwehr) Says Assad Behind Gas Attack

Well it looks like Assad actually used the gas attack because he was desperate.

Participants at a confidential meeting of German lawmakers on Monday said the head of the BND foreign intelligence agency told them it had intercepted a phone call believed to be between a high-ranking member of the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group and the Iranian Embassy in Damascus.

"The BND referred to a phone call they had heard between a Hezbollah official and the Iranian embassy in which he spoke about Assad having ordered the attack," one of the participants told Reuters.

In the phone call, the Hezbollah official says Assad's order for the attack was a mistake and that he was losing his nerve, the participants reported the BND briefing as saying. Both Iran and Hezbollah support Assad.

I agree with the Hezbollah official when he said that the attack was a mistake. However, seeing all the dithering on Capital Hill about striking Syria Assad might be getting away with a war crime for the time being. 

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