Two days ago Obama was claiming that they had intercepted a panicked phone call from Damascus, which occurred when Damascus heard about the chemical weapons attack.
Last Wednesday, in the hours after a horrific chemical attack east of Damascus, an official at the Syrian Ministry of Defense exchanged panicked phone calls with a leader of a chemical weapons unit, demanding answers for a nerve agent strike that killed more than 1,000 people.
Exclusive: Intercepted Calls Prove Syrian Army Used Nerve Gas, U.S. Spies Say | The Cable
Now Obama is claiming that Damascus planned the attack – which they didn’t know about until after it occurred.
American intelligence agencies had indications three days beforehand that the Syrian regime was poised to launch a lethal chemical attack that killed more than a thousand people and has set the stage for a possible U.S. military strike on Syria.
The disclosure — part of a larger U.S. intelligence briefing on Syria’s chemical attacks — raises all sorts of uncomfortable questions for the American government. First and foremost: What, if anything, did it do to notify the Syrian opposition of the pending attack?
U.S. Had Intel on Chemical Strike Before It Was Launched | The Cable
So Washington knew about the attack three days before Damascus. That’s the Obama story, and he is sticking with it. Until he changes it later.
Summarizing : Damascus didn’t plan the attack, but someone connected to US intelligence knew that it was going to happen. What a surprise.





