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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Trump Orders Attack Of Base In Syria

U.S. Launches Missiles at

Syrian Base After

Chemical Weapons Attack

by COURTNEY KUBE, ALEX JOHNSON and HALLIE JACKSON

The United States launched dozens of cruise missiles

Thursday night at a Syrian airfield in response to what it

believes was the Syrian government's use of banned

chemical weapons blamed for having killed at least 100

people on Tuesday, U.S. military officials told NBC News.

Two U.S. warships in the Mediterranean Sea fired at least

50 Tomahawk missiles intended for a single target — Ash

Sha'irat in Homs province in western Syria, the officials said.

That's the airfield from which the United States believes the

government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fired the

banned weapons.

There was no immediate word on casualties. U.S. officials

told NBC News that people were not targeted and that

aircraft and infrastructure at the site, including the runway,

were hit.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Nikki Haley, the U.S.

ambassador to the United Nations, have bluntly blamed

Syria for the chemical weapons attack, whose victims

included at least 25 children.

Tillerson told reporters on Thursday that "there is no doubt

in our minds" that the Syrian regime was responsible for the

attack. And in a combative speech at the U.N. Security

Council on Wednesday, Haley warned: "When the United

Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there

are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take

our own action."

NBC News reported Thursday that Defense Secretary

James Mattis briefed President Donald Trump on U.S.

military options, which included carrying out targeted

strikes against those responsible for Tuesday's attack.

There was no immediate reaction from Russia, which

Tillerson and Haley have accused of turning a blind eye

to Syria's transgressions.

"Russia cannot escape responsibility for this," Haley said

at the United Nations. "They chose to close their eyes to

the barbarity. They defied the conscience of the world."

Thursday, Tillerson urged Russia to "consider carefully

their continued support of the Assad regime."

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