US, Turkey Reject Hersh Article on Sarin Gas Attack in Syria

The White House and the Turkish government have both dismissed a report suggesting that the Turkish government was behind a sarin gas attack in Syria last summer in cooperation with the al-Qaeda-affiliated organization al-Nusra Front.

American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and intelligence issues, reported the controversial story on Sunday. The story appeared in the British literary publication “The London Review of Books” with the title of “The red line and the rat line.”

Was Turkey Behind Syrian Sarin Attack?

Robert Parry

 

Last August, the Obama administration lurched to the brink of invading Syria after blaming a Sarin gas attack outside Damascus on President Bashar al-Assad’s government, but new evidence – reported by investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh – implicates Turkish intelligence and extremist Syrian rebels instead.