Articles by Ian Wilkie

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Now Sec. Defense Mattis Admits There Was No Evidence Assad Used Poison Gas on His People
Ian Wilkie | Other News - Newsweek, 26 Mar 2018

22 Mar 2018 – Lost in the hyper-politicized hullabaloo was the striking statement by Secretary of Defense James Mattis that the U.S. has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people. This assertion flies in the face of the White House Memorandum which was rapidly produced and declassified to justify an American Tomahawk missile strike against the Shayrat airbase in Syria.

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Now Mattis Admits There Was No Evidence Assad Used Poison Gas on His People
Ian Wilkie - Newsweek, 19 Feb 2018

8 Feb 2018 – The striking statement by Secretary of Defense James Mattis: the U.S. has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people. This assertion flies in the face of the White House Memorandum to justify an American Tomahawk missile strike against the Shayrat airbase in Syria.

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