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Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Pentagon chief says Assad took Trump’s chemical warning ‘seriously’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump’s warning to the Syrian government not to carry out a chemical weapons attack appears to have worked, Pentagon chief Jim Mattis says.
“It appears that they took the warning seriously,” Mattis says, referring to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer warned Monday night that if “Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price.”
The warning came after US intelligence noticed suspect activity at the airbase used to launch a suspected chemical strike two months ago.
“I think the president speaking about (these preparations) says how seriously we took them. He wanted to dissuade them,” Mattis tells reporters as he flies to Brussels for a NATO defense ministers meeting.
— AFP
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