Communications intercept proves Syrian forces launched chemical
attack  As far as I'm concerned, this doesn't change the
rationale for not bombing Syria one bit. All it does is set up a
war crimes trial in the Hague in the future. Foreign Policy:
Last Wednesday, in the hours after a horrific chemical attack
east of Damascus, an official at the Syrian Ministry of Defense
exchanged panicked phone calls with a leader of a chemical
weapons unit, demanding answers for a nerve agent strike that
killed more than 1,000 people. Those conversations were
overheard by U.S. intelligence services, The Cable has learned.
And that is the major reason why American officials now say
they're certain that the attacks were the work of the Bashar al-
Assad regime -- and why the U.S. military is likely to attack
that regime in a matter of days. But the intercept raises
questions about culpability for the chemical massacre, even as
it answers others: Was the attack on Aug. 21 the work of a
Syrian officer overstepping his bounds? Or w