NEWS SUMMARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 5/21-WEDNESDAY 5/22/2019
The United States State Department is "seeing signs" of chemical weapons use by Syrian government forces in northwestern Syria.
The State Department promising Tuesday that the US and allied nations will respond "quickly and appropriately" if the use of chemical weapons is proven.
The Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria warned in recent days of a false-flag chemical attack in Syria by jihadist opposition forces that would be blamed on Russia. More recently the Russians saying the jihadists intend to use chemical weapons and blame the Syrian government.
Attacks and counterattacks reported in the latest fighting in northwestern Syria.
Al-Masdar News in Beirut is providing coverage of the situation in Syria at this link....HERE
Top US officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Acting Defense Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Joseph Dunford briefed members of Congress Tuesday about Iran.
Their message is that there was an Iranian:
"threat"
And that the deployment of additional US military forces near Iran in recent days has provided:
"deterrence"
The United Nations representative for Libya says steps need to be taken to cut off arms supplies to Libya where a government ostensibly backed by the UN is fighting forces backed by the United Arab Emirates and other allied nations including Saudi Arabia.
Envoy Ghassan Salame warns that the fighting currently going on around Tripoli is "just the start of a long and bloody war".
A second Brexit referendum. That's Theresa May's latest gambit as she fights to get her highly unpopular Brexit plan through Parliament.
May's notion of a second referendum seems to mirror the notions of the opposition Labor Party.
Meanwhile, reaction from Conservative Party. The chair of the European Research Group of "Euroskeptics" MP Jacob Rees-Mogg sees May's new plan as "worse" than before.
Also reacting the United Kingdom Independence Party with a tweet using May's picture saying:
"Theresa May's Brexit Bretrayal Is Complete"
Some Conservative Party MP's seeking to change the rules of the "1922 Committee" to force an early vote by Tory MP's on May's leadership.
Mrs. May's latest move comes amid the last minute campaigning for European Parliament elections with UK voters set to go to the polls Thursday.
Among those contesting the election activist Tommy Robinson who is running as an Independent candidate for one of eight seats in North West England. One of Robinson's campaign rallies was attacked by a group of Muslims last weekend throwing objects into the crowd. Police escorted them away and made no arrests.
By contrast person who attacked Brexit Party Nigel Farage the other day with a milkshake was arrested by police. The person who attacked TommyRobinson with milkshakes twice the other week was not arrested after the attacks.
Robinson holding his last campaign rally Wednesday evening in Salford at 730 pm.
In France the voters choose European Parliament candidates Sunday and National Rally leader Marine Le Pen has dubbed France's left-wing "Insubordinate France" party led by Jean-Luc Melenchon as:
"Islamist France"
Le Pen urged Yellow Vests protesters and other opponents of President Emmanuel Macron to support the National Rally to send a message to Macron arguing that he:
"is already behaving in a totalitarian way"
Austria will have a vote of no-confidence in its government on Monday. That's after cabinet ministers from the nationalist anti-mass immigration Freedom Party resigned en masse.
Its part of the fallout from the video that suddenly appeared last week from a German source showing Deputy Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache talking about government contracts with a woman claiming connections to a Russian oligarch.
Strache, of the Freedom Party resigned, but then Chancellor Sebastian Kurz demanded that Herbert Kickl, the Interior Minister from the Freedom Party, also leave his post. This led to the mass resignations and collapse of the coalition government led by Mr. Kurz..
Six dead, some 200 injured in Jakarta, Indonesia with 69 people arrested. Demonstrations against the election win of President Joko Widodo, re-elected to a second term. Police speaking of deliberate attempts by the protesters to commit acts of violence and saying that the demonstrations were not spontaneous.
The governor of Jakarta saying that autopsies will performed on those killed to determine the cause of death. Demonstrators reported setting fire to cars and throwing firecrackers in the Tuesday demonstrations.
In the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte consolidating control as nine of the 12 contested Senate seats are won by his allies. Duterte now controls the Senate in addition to the House.
Back home here in the United States, the Special Election for the 12th Congressional District in Pennsylvania with Republican State Representative Fred Keller the winner to go to Washington over Democrat Marc Friedenberg. Keller topping 70 percent of the popular vote in a very Republican district.
In the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte consolidating control as nine of the 12 contested Senate seats are won by his allies. Duterte now controls the Senate in addition to the House.
Back home here in the United States, the Special Election for the 12th Congressional District in Pennsylvania with Republican State Representative Fred Keller the winner to go to Washington over Democrat Marc Friedenberg. Keller topping 70 percent of the popular vote in a very Republican district.
A court hearing Friday in Moscow in the case of Paul Whelan. Whelan, an American citizen with multiple nationalities, is accused by Russia of being involved in espionage. The Russian authorities want to extend the period they can keep Whelan imprisoned for another two months until August 29th.
And that's the way it really is on this Wednesday morning May 22nd, 2019.
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