Details of the last hours before the US strike on Syria

Details of the last hours before the US strike on Syria


Washington, Moscow-Damascus / Reuters - AFP

US officials revealed yesterday (Friday) critical details occurred hours before the implementation of a US strike on Syria air base controlled by the Syrian regime forces in Homs in response to a chemical attack Tuesday in an area controlled by the opposition. Officials explained that senior military adviser to President Donald Trump met with the president Thursday evening in «Mar E. Lago» Resort in Florida and offered him three options to punish Syrian President Bashar al - Assad on the attack poison gas that killed dozens.


Trump was in Mentdjah Florida, to hold his first summit with his Chinese counterpart , Xi Jinping, but an official told «Reuters» that the summit set aside for the benefit of a very secret US National Security Advisor Ach.ar and Defense Minister McMaster Jim Mathis. The official said, the McMaster and Matisse offer on Trump 's three options quickly shrunk to two: the bombing of several air bases or capillaries near the base of the city of Homs, where he launched the military aircraft that carried out the attack with poison gas, only.
The official added that Trump chose after listening to the debate that it is better to reduce the minimum Russian and Syrian human losses and ordered the launch of a series of missiles «Cruz» on the military base capillaries. The official said that Matisse and said McMaster, the choice of that goal would create a clearer link between the use of the lion nerve gas and retaliatory strike.
In addition, the accommodation of Russian advisers and Syrian pilots and some civilian workers there are in the vicinity of the base, which means that it can be destroyed without risking the fall of hundreds of victims , especially if the attack took place in the normal working hours of the base.
Another official familiar with the discussions that the administration has contingency plans for additional strikes Friday night with possible solutions depending on how Assad 's response to the first attack. The official added «President determines whether those (air strikes) ended, we have additional options ready for implementation».
He said three officials involved in the discussions that Trump adopted in the face of his first crisis in the field of foreign policy largely on military experienced: Mathis officers, General former US Marine, and McMaster, a lieutenant general US Army, not the politicians who dominated his decisions political in the first weeks of his presidency.
Two senior government officials involved in these meetings , immediately after news of the gas attack Tuesday Trump request a list of options to punish Assad. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
The senior administration officials said they met Petramb Tuesday evening and presented options , including sanctions and diplomatic pressure and plans for a variety of military strikes against Syria, all of which were prepared before assuming power.
One official said, the more powerful options called a strike «head cut» on Assad 's presidential palace , which sits alone on a hilltop west of the center of Damascus.
The official said , "he has (Trump) Many of the questions and said he wanted to think about them, but he also has some notes .. wanted to purify the options."
On Wednesday morning, he said intelligence officials and military advisers Trump, they made sure that the Syrian air base used to launch chemical attack and they were spotted «Sukhoi -22» fighter aircraft carried out.
On the other hand, the United States said it was frustrating, but not surprised, Russia 's position on the hit air base in Syria, suspected that chemical weapons were out. The US Secretary of State, Rex Tlison, on the Russian reaction: "I am disappointed reply, it is a sign of their continued support of the Assad regime, and more importantly, their support for the regime committed such heinous attacks on his own people."
He added that it was "very frustrating, but, unfortunately, no surprise at all."
Moscow has vowed to strengthen the Syrian air defenses, also suspended cooperation with the United States to avoid aircraft accidents in Syria.
The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nicky Healy, in the Security Council session: that her country intervened to prevent President, Bashar al - Assad, the use of chemical weapons again.
She added that Washington had prepared to do more, but expressed the hope will not be necessary. She said: "Preventing the spread and use of chemical weapons in our national security interest."
In a related context hours before the US missile strike that targeted the Syrian military capillaries airport in Homs, the regular forces movement in order to protect the movement from the US military fighter jets on fire, according to Syrian sources.
The Syrian Information Minister Mohammad Ramiz said after the US strike immediately that it was "unexpected", which may be pushing the Syrian government to take precautions to minimize the losses that could entail.
According to Syrian sources, the Syrian army 's transfer of military aircraft to the Russian bases, Moscow announced that it protected the Russian air defense system developed S400, unlike other military bases of Damascus.
The sources said that the Syrian government forces moved war fighters from the military airport Altifor in the countryside of Homs to Humaimam air base in the countryside of Latakia taken by Russian forces , which have a major headquarters.
The sources added that Syrian troops had moved fighter jets from the airport capillaries hours of exposure US missile strike before, at the military airport Altifor.
And it resulted in the US missile strike on the IPL for the destruction of 9 warplanes by Russian sources airport, but it seems that this aircraft was hit from an old model as shown pictures broadcast by the agency "Sputnik" Russian.


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