First published at 18:48 UTC on September 3rd, 2018.
On Friday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement ahead of the Syrian government's campaign to liberate Idlib from ISIS/Al Qaeda jihadist control.
Pompeo sent a warning to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, followed with a tw…
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On Friday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement ahead of the Syrian government's campaign to liberate Idlib from ISIS/Al Qaeda jihadist control.
Pompeo sent a warning to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, followed with a tweet pretending to care about the people in Idlib, captive under the very jihadists the CIA and Obama White House helped train and arm...
"The 3 million Syrians, who have already been forced out of their homes and are now in Idlib, will suffer from this aggression. Not good. The world is watching."
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According to Zerohedge (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-01/truth-about-idlib-state-departments-own-words), both Washington and the mainstream networks are gearing up for a possible final US-Damascus-Russia confrontation in response to Assad's military action in Idlib, representing the northwest province as "the last rebel stronghold" where Damascus simply seeks to "massacre civilians".
But Washington officials often contradict their own past positions, and this is glaringly clear in the case of Idlib, where Brett McGurk — the White House appointed anti-ISIS envoy who essentially acts as the president's personal diplomat in Iraq and Syria — previously described the true situation on the ground in unusually frank comments:
Special US envoy McGurk accurately described:
"Idlib provice is the largest al-Qaeda safe-have since 9/11, tied to directly to Ayman al Zawahiri, this..
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