CNN: Intelligence Reports Directly Link Assad, Russia to Chemical Attack

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STARR: "CNN has learned from U.S. officials that, indeed, they do have communications intercepts of Syrian officials, military intelligence officials in Syria, talking about the chemical attack before it happened, the planning of it. Now, this just does not mean the U.S. had knowledge the attack was going to happen. They went back through all the intelligence they had after the attack and were able to sift out and locate, due to the time, date and place of the attack, exactly what they were looking for. So that is an important piece of intelligence that they have the intercepts that the Syrians were talking about, about this attack. What about the Russians? Emerging evidence. We had reported in the past there was a Russian drone over the hospital that got bombed. That Russian drone taking images. The theory now, the U.S. officials say: it was taking images of the injured people at the hospital. That provided the information for another plane to come in and try to bomb the hospital. So they are looking for additional evidence of Russian involvement. They know that there were Russian chemical experts inside Syria.”