MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – President Donald Trump ordered an air strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in retaliation to this week’s chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 people, including children.
“On Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians,” Trump said. “Using a deadly nerve agent, Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many.”
“It is in vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons,” the president added.
President Trump- "Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched."
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Trump said there is “no dispute” that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violating its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
“Years of previous attempts at changing Assad’s behavior have all failed, and failed very dramatically,” he said. “As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies.”
“Tonight I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria,” he added. “And also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types.”
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U.S. officials said Syrian government aircraft killed dozens of civilians by using chlorine mixed with a nerve agent, possibly sarin, earlier this week.
Doctors from the World Health Organization helped conduct autopsies on victims. Turkish health officials said the results point to possible exposure to sarin nerve agent.
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As CBS News reported, nearly 60 cruise missiles were launched from U.S. ships in the Mediterranean Sea, targeting an airfield in Syria.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross fires a tomahawk land attack missile while conducting naval operations in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017. (Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert S. Price)
According to Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis, the targets, which included hangars and fuel storage areas, were chosen with the aim of making it impossible to operate from the airfield. He said the strike was deemed successful and the airfield out of commission, CBS News reported.
“Each cruise missile carries a 1,000-pound warhead. So nearly 60 cruise missiles going off in 60 seconds amounts to 60,000 pounds of explosives in the space of 60 seconds,” CBS News’ National Security Correspondent David Martin reported.
The airfield is about 50 miles due south of the village that was hit by Tuesday’s gas attack, and it’s believed to be where the plane that dropped the gas took off.
Given that Russia is a major ally of Syria, this creates some complexities in the country.
“I think the key complexity here is: We would not want to attack a Syrian target at which there were Russian forces. We would not want to kill Russian forces in such an attack, because that obviously could lead us into a war with Russia,” former Deputy Director of the CIA Michael Morell told CBS News. “So I’m pretty confident that the Pentagon was confident that there were not Russian forces at this particular airfield.”
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Creating another ISIS and terrorism in the middle east, and at long run you shameless bigots will start pointing fingers at muslims/ islam

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