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Spies Intercepted Syrian Calls

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Government officials “panicked” after nerve-gas attack.

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So that’s how the U.S. knows it was the Syrian government who launched chemical weapons. U.S. spies intercepted “panicked” phone calls between the Syrian Ministry of Defense and a leader of the chemical-weapons unit in the hours after the attack that left hundreds dead last week, Foreign Policy reported on...

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