Putin claims chemical attack was "false flag"

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Putin says expects 'fake' gas attacks to discredit Syria's Assad

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-putin-idUSKBN17D1K9

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had information that the United States was planning to launch new missile strikes on Syria, and that there were plans to fake chemicals weapons attacks there.

Putin, standing alongside Italian President Sergio Mattarella who was in Moscow for talks, said Russia would tolerate Western criticism of its role in Syria but hoped that attitudes would eventually soften.

When asked whether he expected more U.S. missile strikes on Syria, he said:

"We have information that a similar provocation is being prepared ... in other parts of Syria including in the southern Damascus suburbs where they are planning to again plant some substance and accuse the Syrian authorities of using (chemical weapons)."

He did not offer any proof for that assertion.

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Shows sympathy for Trump - saying "political opponents" are "still there" and Russia has intel that shows US is planning more false attacks to discredit Assad - will present those findings to the UN

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Russia says it WON'T shoot down US missiles if Trump orders another Syrian air strike because they 'are there to fight terrorism, not external threats'

Russia says it will not shoot down US missiles if Donald Trump orders another Syrian airstrike because they are 'there to fight terrorism, not external threats'. America unleashed a wave of 59 Tomahawk strikes on one of Bashar al-Assad's airbases in the wake of a horrifying chemical attack on 87 Syrian civilians last week.

 Russia - which has backed the Syrian dictator military - as well as Iran and its allies said the US had crossed a 'red line' and warned they 'will respond to any aggression' in the future. But today the head of the Russian Federation Council's Defense and Security Committee insisted Kremlin forces stationed in Syria will not try to intercept US missiles should Washington order further strikes.

Viktor Ozerov told the news agency Interfax: 'Our armed forces are in Syria to fight terrorism — not to defend against external threats. That’s not our mandate, and we’re not going to intercept anything.'
But he also warned that the Syrian military still had a 'legal right' to try to shoot down rockets.

Some 87 people, including children, are believed to have been killed in a suspected sarin nerve agent strike on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun.


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