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'Get Ready Russia': Trump Warns Of Directing Smart Missiles Toward Syria

April 19, 2018 21:52·
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Asked about Trump's tweet about an impending attack on Syria, former Defense Secretary William Cohen, who ran the Pentagon for President Bill Clinton, said on CNN that it "compromises the mission somewhat".

"The OPCW technical secretariat has requested the Syrian Arab Republic to make the necessary arrangements for such a deployment", the OPCW said in a statement.

The fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was expected to head to Douma, where the suspected attack took place and where Russian Federation said rebels had now capitulated to government control.

While denouncing Assad, Trump, Macron and others have made it clear that their main goal is making sure Islamic State never recovers from its battlefield reverses.

"The president has publicly stated that he intends to hold not just Assad but his backers accountable as well", she noted.

Trump had on Monday warned of a quick, forceful response once responsibility for the attack was established.

But the strike was limited and created to not draw America into the chaos of Syria's bloody civil war.

The Russian military said on March 13 that it would respond to any USA strike on Syria by targeting any missiles and launchers involved.

Sanders pointedly refused to rule out the possibility of direct military engagement with Russian Federation - not shying away from the spectre of clashes between two nuclear superpowers. The United States however is highly unlikely to comprehensively go beyond air force targets since that would effectively commit the United States to a direct and full-scale war against the al Assad government, an option that is in all likelihood completely of the table at this point.

On Wednesday, Trump appeared to suggest airstrikes were imminent, warning Russia, Syria's key ally, to "get ready" for military action.

Asked whether the USA military was ready to conduct an attack in Syria if ordered, Mattis replied, "We stand ready to provide military options if they're appropriate, as the president determined".

"The president's national security Team met today". "The President has a number of options at his disposal and all of those options remain on the table".

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Unverified video shows children being treated after the alleged gas attack
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Unverified video shows children being treated after the alleged gas attack

"Smart missiles should fly toward terrorists, not the legal government that has been fighting global terrorism for several years on its territory", Zakharova wrote in response to Trump's Wednesday tweet. We're talking about humanity.

And while Trump has said he wants to get troops out "very soon" - the US military is more cautious, saying troops will be there until ISIS is not only wiped out, but until they're sure the terror group won't return when the USA leaves.

An official said at the time he was moved by images brought to him by his daughter Ivanka and other White House officials.

Even assuming that a strike was carried out in a seamless fashion with little to no collateral damage, there would undoubtedly be consequences for USA operations in Syria.

The same officials say Syria has continued to produce or procure chlorine, which also has industrial and agricultural uses.

Meanwhile, Russia has called for a UN Security Council meeting on Syria on Friday. Syria joined the pact in 2013 as part of the agreement to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile, negotiated between Russian Federation and the Obama administration.

Ned Price, a former Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council official during Obama's tenure told AFP the agreement led to the destruction of 1,300 tons of chemical weapons, but, he admitted, it was not enough. During one speech, he said, "We must as a nation be more unpredictable".

"Cabinet agreed the Prime Minister should continue to work with allies in the United States and France to coordinate an worldwide response".

US President Donald Trump (left) and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Erdogan and Trump "exchanged views on the latest developments in Syria", the source added, without providing further details. Trump responded then by launching dozens of Navy cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield.

And in recent months, Turkey has worked closely with Russian Federation despite their differences.

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