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US To Act In Its ‘Best Interests’ Over Syria Crisis
The US has said it will act in its “best interests” in dealing with the Syria crisis, after British MPs rejected military intervention.
“Countries who violate international norms regarding chemical weapons need to be held accountable,” the US said.
Washington accuses Syrian government forces of using chemical weapons – a claim denied by Damascus.
The move by British MPs, meanwhile, ruled out London’s involvement in any US-led strikes against Syria.
Despite the unexpected outcome in the parliament of Washington’s key ally, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said America would continue to seek out an “international coalition” willing to act together on the Syrian crisis.
In a statement on Thursday, the White House said President Barack Obama’s decision-making “will be guided by what is in the best interests of the United States”.
It stressed that the president “believes that there are core interests at stake for the United States”.
And in an intelligence briefing to senior members of Congress on the case for launching military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops, State Secretary John Kerry said Washington could not be held to the foreign policy of others.
Eliot Engel, the top Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told reporters after the briefing that other Obama administration officials had said that it was “beyond a doubt that chemical weapons were used, and used intentionally by the Assad regime”.
Mr Engel added that officials had cited evidence including “intercepted communications from high-level Syrian officials”.
One of the Syrian officials overheard seemed to suggest the chemical weapons attack was more devastating than was intended, officials were quoted as saying by the New York Times.
At least 355 people are reported to have died in a suspected chemical attack in the Ghouta area – on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus – on 21 August.
UN weapons inspectors are currently in Syria investigating the allegations of the attack, which Damascus blames on rebel forces.
Samples taken during their site visits will be tested in various European laboratories to see whether an attack took place and what form it took, but the inspectors’ mandate does not involve apportioning blame for the attacks.
The experts are due to finish their work later on Friday and give their preliminary findings to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the weekend.
bbc
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ndanje kaks
August 31, 2013 at 7:14 am
Leave those Arabs alone.
shaka
August 31, 2013 at 7:26 am
us & the ***** obama re selfish…. da idiots think dey re da best wen dey re da worst…
doubleble
August 31, 2013 at 7:31 am
If americans continue playing with muslims,they ar puting their citizens @ risk.something worse dan WORLD TRADE CENTER might occure
AIDS patient
August 31, 2013 at 9:09 am
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Kakanda Ndumbanjhi
August 31, 2013 at 11:55 am
WHAT HYPOCISY, AMERICA! SINCE WHEN DID AMERICA BECOME THE SAVIOUR OF WORLD? AMERICA HAS SO MUCH BLOOD ON ITS HANDS- CMBODIA, MAI LAI MASSACRE, VIET NAM, CUBA, IRAQ (WHERE THEY CLAIMED SADDAM HAD STOCKPILES OF ARSENALS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND MADE THE INNOCENT COLIN POWEL BE THE UNWILLING MESSAGER OF THE LIES AT THE UNITED NATIONS, WITH COOKE UP GRAPHIC ‘EVIDENCE’; IT TURNED UP TO BE A PATENT LIE-YHEY LIED THROUGH THEIR TEETH! AND TO THIS DAY AMERICA HAS NEVER OWNED UP TO THAT LIE), THE SUPPORT TO THE BOERS IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE APARTHEID STRUGGLE, TOLERANCE AND SUPPORT OF EVIL RIGHTWING REGIMES AROUND THE WORLD, ETC ETC. AND FOR AMERICA TO ATTEMPT TO STAND ON A HIGH MORAL GROUND OVER THE SYRIAN QUESTION IS LAUGHABLE, EVEN SAD. DID AMERICA CENSURE ISRAEL WHEN NAPALM WAS USED AGAINST DEFENSELESS PALESTINIANS RECENTLY? AMERICA IS A BLOODY NATION; THEY EVEN ‘EAT’ THEIR OWN BY MASSACRING THEM IN SCHOOLS AND MILITARY SET UPS. SNOWDEN SAID ‘NO’ AND MANY OTHERS ARE SAYING SO. THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT SAID ‘NO’ AND TAUGHT THAT BOY OF A PRIME MINISTER A LESSON HE WILL LIVE TO REMEMBER, FOR, BLAIR TOLD THE BRITISH LIES ABOUT IRAQ, JUST TO BE SEEN AS A HERO. MALABISH AMERICA.
bodybuilder
August 31, 2013 at 12:22 pm
The War lacks legitimacy as it has no UN authorization. The attack will kill hundreds and possibly thousands and be a War crime. The World has a responsibility to stop this criminality.
icinshikululwa
August 31, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Shut up USA Obama, and Britain, and Israel; shut up you chaps, leav them alone.
Lex luger
August 31, 2013 at 10:07 pm
Why does the USA feel that there the moral police of the this world .the Arab spring and its subsequent results wuz started by them for one purpose only .’crude oil ‘