“Cenk Uygur discusses a U.S. intelligence report which confirmed the use of chemical weapons by the Assad Regime in Syria. How will the U.S. government react now that it knows Assad has crossed President Obama’s “red line”?” – YT
“The US has said it will provide military support to the Syrian rebels after confirming it believes there is concrete evidence of nerve gas attacks by government forces against rebel groups.
“Following a deliberative review our intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year,” said a White House statement.
“The White House believes its assessment means Syria has crossed the so-called “red line” that President Barack Obama established early in the conflict as a test for further western intervention to support the rebels.”
Read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/13/syria-chemical-weapons-us-confirm
