By Reuters – Apr 14,2018 – JORDAN TIMES
U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement about Syria at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2018 (Reuters photo)
WASHINGTON – U.S., British and French forces hammered Syria with air strikes early Saturday Syria time in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest intervention by Western powers in Syria’s civil war.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced the military action from the White House late on Friday. As he spoke, explosions rocked Damascus.
Trump said he was prepared to sustain the response until the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stopped its use of chemical weapons.
The intervention was the biggest strike by Western powers against Assad in the country’s seven-year-old civil war and pitted the United States and its allies against Russia, which itself intervened in the war in 2015 to back Assad.
“A short time ago, I ordered the United States Armed Forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad,” Trump said in a televised address from the White House.
A U.S. official told Reuters the strikes were aimed at multiple targets and involved Tomahawk cruise missiles.
At least six loud explosions were heard in Damascus in the early hours of Saturday and smoke was seen rising over the Syrian capital, a Reuters witness said. A second witness said the Barzah district of Damascus had been hit in the strikes. Barzah is the location of a major Syrian scientific research center.
Speaking of Assad and his suspected role in last week’s chemical weapons attack, Trump said, “These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead.”
“The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread and use of chemical weapons,” Trump said.
The U.S. president had sharply critical words for both Russia and Iran, which have backed Assad’s government.
“To Iran and to Russia, I ask, what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?” Trump said.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said she had authorized British armed forces “to conduct co-ordinated and targeted strikes to degrade the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons capability.” She described it as a “limited and targeted strike” aimed at minimizing civilian casualties.
The military action is not about intervening in Syria’s civil war or changing its government, she said.
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http://jordantimes.com/news/region/us-britain-france-launch-air-strikes-syria
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you kill, so we also want to kill. Very noble – from the super democracies of the world.
Yes, with absolutely no civilian casualty of their own…!
Allah is in favor the Christian countries that Islamic countries now. Why?
The christian countries have learn from the past experience, they came back to God’s laws namely they obey HUMAN RIGHT, and JUSTICE for all.
This laws have been rejected by most Islamic countries.
Am I wrong?
So as long as Islamic countries reject human right, Allah will punish them with many ways.
Am I wrong?
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Yes you are wrong. So-called Christian countries are hypocrites. Just look at what they are doing in Syria. Read the article in The Muslim Times about the UK PM (by Robert Fisk). During the Iran-Iraq war and the gazing of Kurds the chemicals were sold by Britain to Saddam Hussain. (I do not know about the present ones, but who knows, may be the same. The joke made the rounds before the last Iraq war that Blair was reported to have said “Of course he has Weapons of Mass Destruction – we kept the receipts”).
If you see that way, you may be right— but Isee different way—
Sometime the Christuisn countries break the law, ( human Right) but Human Right and Justice for all are written in the Constitution as the law of goverment.
The wrong is not the constituion of government but leader made mistake.
Those leaders who made mistakes will face justice or people will not vote for him anymore.
That is the way of government work in the Western countries.
However no one perfect all the time Rafiq— even your Imam can make a mistake.
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Bush and Bush and Blair are not facing justice. Trump and May may not face justice. What can we say about such countries when the leaders are ‘above the law’. Seems similar to dictators who are a law unto themselves.
Rafiq— the opposite party has been trying to find 2 evidances in order he face the court. At least now his people condemn him— he live in disgrace..
that way I see
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