Friday, April 13, 2018

Syrian Strike Announced

Various media sources report President Trump has announced air strikes against the forces of Syrian President Assad. There were done in cooperation with the forces of the United Kingdom and France as a reaction to (and punishment for) the use of poison gas on Syrian civilians.

The Pentagon is scheduled to hold a briefing in approximately ten minutes, perhaps we'll learn more at that time. Observers in Damascus report explosions in the sky over the city. Developing....

Later ... I heard the Pentagon news conference and we don't know much more than we did except that what was targeted was three facilities associates with the regime's chemical and biological weapons program - a research lab, a storage facility and perhaps a place where they were made.

We learned sort of in passing this strike involved roughly twice as many missiles as the one last year. And that for sure chlorine gas was used by Assad's troops as well as possibly sarin.