The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weapons 3:54 September 21, 2013 The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weaponsFlash Points: CBS News National Security Correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate about the negotiations over Syria's chemical weapons and whether the Syrians and Russians can be trusted to negotiate in good faith.
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Saturday, 21 September 2013
Video: The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weapons
The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weapons 3:54 September 21, 2013 The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weaponsFlash Points: CBS News National Security Correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate about the negotiations over Syria's chemical weapons and whether the Syrians and Russians can be trusted to negotiate in good faith.
Video: The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weapons
The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weapons 3:54 September 21, 2013 The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weaponsFlash Points: CBS News National Security Correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate about the negotiations over Syria's chemical weapons and whether the Syrians and Russians can be trusted to negotiate in good faith.Video: The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weapons
The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weapons 3:54 September 21, 2013 The diplomatic dance around Syria's chemical weaponsFlash Points: CBS News National Security Correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate about the negotiations over Syria's chemical weapons and whether the Syrians and Russians can be trusted to negotiate in good faith.Monday, 9 September 2013
Kerry: "We know" Assad ordered Syria chemical attack, "what are we going to do about it?"
London Secretary of State John Kerry's frustration was visible Monday after days of lobbying other nations to support President Obama's call for punitive military strikes against the Syrian government.
Play VideoSpeaking to reporters in London at the tail end of a foreign trip which saw him take the U.S. government's case to both friends and foes at the G-20 summit in Russia and in Europe, Kerry reiterated the Obama administration's absolute certainty in its own evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad was behind an Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs.
14 Photos"We know that his regime gave orders to prepare for a chemical attack," said Kerry. "We know by tracing it physically where the rockets came from and where they landed," he added, saying still-secret intelligence showed rockets being fired from regime-controlled areas into the opposition held eastern Ghouta suburbs.
"The evidence is powerful, and the question for all of us is what are we going to do about it," said Kerry.
The White House has shared its evidence with U.S. lawmakers, but it's unclear who else has seen the satellite imagery and heard the intercepted phone calls which make President Obama and his cabinet so certain Assad ordered the attack.
Russia, a close ally to the Assad regime, has said its own analysis of earlier alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria suggested the rebels fighting against Assad had used deadly chemical agents, including sarin gas.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomes his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem, left, prior to talks in Moscow, Sept. 9, 2013./ AP Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking Monday in Moscow alongside his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem, called on the U.S. to focus its attention and efforts on an expected round of diplomacy and negotiations in Geneva, "and not into preparations for military action."
"We believe in a peaceful settlement to the conflict, but if strikes happen, we would have a different stance," warned Lavrov, suggesting the window for a diplomatic solution to the crisis could actually close if the U.S. went ahead with strikes.
Kerry argued the contrary in London, saying negotiations were not possible with an Assad regime that he said felt it could carry out attacks like the one in Ghouta "with impunity".
Assad himself has given his first television interview since Obama sought congressional approval for strikes in Syria, telling "CBS This Morning" co-host Charlie Rose on Sunday that the U.S. and its allies should "expect every action" in retaliation to a strike.
On Monday, Kerry dismissed the Assad regime's repeated denials that it was to blame for the Ghouta attack.
"This is a man without credibility," Kerry said of the Syrian president.
The Secretary of State stressed that "we're not talking about war" with the plans for an "unbelievably limited" strike on Syrian military targets. "We're not going to war."
Asked by CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan whether there was any way, at this stage, for Assad to stop an attack by the U.S., Kerry said the Syrian leader "could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. Turn it over. All of it. Without delay, and allow a full and total accounting before that, but he isn't about to do it and it can't be done."
Assad: U.S. does not have "a single shred of evidence" of chemical weapons attack
(CBS News) Syria's President Bashar Assad denied his regime's use of chemical weapons in a wide-ranging interview with CBS News' Charlie Rose. Assad issued a chilling warning for theU.S. to "expect everythingin response to a potential strike on Syria and repeatedly told Rose the Obama administration lacks irrefutable evidence to back up charges of chemical weapons use.
The White House says more than 1,400 Syrian civilians were killed in a chemical weapons attack outside Damascus on August 21 using sarin gas.
Complete coverage of the Syria CrisisAssad said he had no knowledge of the chemical attack allegedly carried out by his own military, and took aim at Secretary of State John Kerry for making the charges without "a single shred" of evidence.
"We-- we're not in the area where... the alleged chemical attack was happened, as is alleged. We're not sure that anything happened," Assad insisted.
"Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically, our soldiers. They went to the hospital, as casualties because of chemical weapons. But in the area where they said the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we only have pictures and allegations. We're not there. Our forces -- our police, our institutions don't exist. How can you talk about what happened if you don't have evidences? We're not like the American administration. We're not social media administration or government. We are the government that deals with reality."
Secretary Kerry and other Obama administration officials insist they have intelligence showing it was Assad's forces who fired rockets into a region controlled by the rebels on Aug. 21. Assad emphatically denied the charge, and pointed to Russian evidence claiming the contrary. He went on to compare Kerry's claims to Colin Powell's claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"He presented his confidence and he presented his convictions," Assad said of Kerry. "It's not about confidence, it's about evidence. The United-- sorry, the Russians have completely opposite evidence that the missiles were thrown from area where the rebels controlled. That reminds me -- about what Kerry said -- about the big lie that Colin Powell said in front of the world on satellites about the W.M.D. in Iraq before going to war when he said, 'This is our evidence.' Actually, he gave false evidence. In this case, Kerry didn't even present any evidence. He talks, 'we have evidence,' and he didn't present anything, not yet. Nothing so far... not a single shred of evidence."
Saturday, 31 August 2013
Alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria
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Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Video: Sec. Kerry says chemical weapons used in Syria
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