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..Not only is the timing bizarre on the attack in Syria. Why did McCain just make a secret trip to Syria?
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) secretly visited the Kurdish-held region of Syria during a trip to the Middle East last weekend to meet with United States military officials, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A spokeswoman for McCain later confirmed the trip in a statement to The Hill. “Senator McCain traveled to northern Syria last week to visit U.S. forces deployed there and to discuss the counter-ISIL campaign and ongoing operations to retake Raqqa,” the spokeswoman said, using an alternate acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/320709-mccain-made-secret-trip-to-syria
Hmm, Northern Syria.
The death toll from Tuesday’s chemical weapons attack in northern Syria has climbed to at least 86 civilians, including 30 children and 20 women, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/syrias-latest-chemical-attack/story?id=46617872
…despite its central role in the savage civil war, the grandly named Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is virtually a one-man band. Its founder, Rami Abdul Rahman, 42, who fled Syria 13 years ago, operates out of a semidetached red-brick house on an ordinary residential street in this drab industrial city.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/world/middleeast/the-man-behind-the-casualty-figures-in-syria.html
every foreign trip a senator makes is news