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NYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis

Teddy Wilson | 30.12.2013 17:37 | Guantánamo | Terror War | Cambridge

For months, the “slam-dunk” evidence “proving” Syrian government guilt in the Aug. 21 Sarin attack near Damascus was a “vector analysis” pushed by the New York Times showing where the rockets supposedly were launched. But the Times now grudgingly admits its analysis was flawed, reports Robert Parry.

The New York Times has, kind of, admitted that it messed up its big front-page story that used a “vector analysis” to pin the blame for the Aug. 21 Sarin attack on the Syrian government, an assertion that was treated by Official Washington as the slam-dunk proof that President Bashar al-Assad gassed his own people. ......... more ............ By Robert Parry  http://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/29/nyt-backs-off-its-syria-sarin-analysis/

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