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Trump says Syria attack 'could be very soon or not so soon at all'

WASHINGTON, Aril 12: U.S. President Donald Trump amended on Thursday an earlier warning of a swift military strike a...
By Reuters

WASHINGTON, Aril 12: U.S. President Donald Trump amended on Thursday an earlier warning of a swift military strike against Syria in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack on civilians, saying it “could be very soon or not so soon at all”.


“Never said when an attack on Syria would take place,” Trump wrote on Twitter.


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Trump had vowed to take swift and decisive action against Syria since reports of a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people. Damascus has denied responsibility for the incident that has widened a rift between the West and Moscow, which backs Syria’s government.


On Wednesday, even though Trump had previously said he would not “broadcast” his moves in Syria, he said in a post on Twitter that missiles “will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’”


However, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis struck a more cautious tone later on Wednesday, saying that Washington was still assessing intelligence on the suspected toxic gas attack.

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