EFTA00706589Set 9
2013-08-2923p8,564w
readying a strike of some kind against the author of the
atrocity at East Ghouta, the suburb of Damascus whose name has entered
the rolls of contemporary evil, alongside Halabja ... that crimes against humanity
always provoke, and it is tardiness. The gassings at East Ghouta were not a
unique outrage, a sudden outburst of tyrannical madness. They were
perfectly consistent ... other words,
is precisely what American action will not address. The atrocity at East
Ghouta has been analytically isolated from its context. It will not be
allowed to falsify
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00706589.pdf
EFTA01957301Set 10
2013-08-3034p8,105w
lawyerly way, on very narrow
grounds -- the use of chemical weapons in the Ghouta, east of
Damascus. True, the use of chemical weapons was a
transgression ... have been made refugees.
Why indict Assad on the chemical weapons attack on the
Ghouta alone? One would think that the use of airpower against
civilian populations would have sufficed
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01957301.pdf
EFTA01133557Set 9
2013-09-0841p16,854w
Other areas are under more secular control, including the suburbs of Damascus.
In East Ghouta, for example, the suburbs east of the capital where the chemical attack took place,
jihadis
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01133557.pdf