Report: Turkey Behind 2013 Sarin Gas Attack in Syria

Turkey was behind the horrific Aug. 21, 2013, sarin gas attack that killed hundreds of innocents in a Damascus suburb "to push [President] Obama over the red line" and strike Syria, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh claims in the London Review of Books.

The April 4 report states Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan was known to be supporting the al-Nusra Front, an insurgent group fighting the Syrian government, noting more than 10 of its members were arrested last May in Turkey with 2 kilograms of sarin.
Turkey’s ambassador to Moscow Aydin Sezgin had dismissed the arrests and claimed the recovered substance was "anti-freeze," Hersh reported.

"We knew there were some in the Turkish government," a former senior U.S. intelligence official told Hersh, "who believed they could get [Syria President Bashar al-]Assad’s nuts in a vice by dabbling with a sarin attack inside Syria – and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat.

"We now know it was a covert action planned by Erdoğan’s people to push Obama over the red line," the ex-intelligence official added. "Off goes the gas and Obama will say red line and America is going to attack Syria, or at least that was the idea. But it did not work out that way."

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