it seems as though you have to dig through 14 pages of the UN report into Assad's chemical attacks to find Annex II, where the whole story is exposed as a fake.
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/11/09/did-al-qaeda-dupe-trump-on-syrian-attack/It seems as though Eliot Higgins, a senior fellow at the " fiercely anti-Russian Atlantic Counsel", writing in his Bellingcat Blog was instrumental in deceiving President Trump, causing the launch of 59 Tomahawk Missiles into Syria, and the death of at least 9 civilians.
It wasn't smoke and mirrors, simply 3 plumes of smoke that were given as evidence that the Syrian Air Force had dropped the chemical laced bombs. The problem, as Annex II eventually points out is that >100 victims of the chemical attack had been hospitalized an hour earlier than the times shown on Bellingcat's video of the plumes.
As I pointed out some time back, this wasn't the first of Bellingcat's problems with meta-data timing. Previously Bellingcat produced a video of the dissipating smoke trail from the Buc that supposedly shot down MH-17 over the Ukraine, only to find that the video was taken prior to MH-17's having been shot down.
To be fair, Trump wasn't the only one deceived. The UN's JIM, Joint Investigative Mechanism, "delivered the verdict that the US and her allies wanted".
Just days earlier Trump had announced that "regime change was no longer America's goal", and, as Neven has noted, "sometimes it's more important to ask who benefits".
It's a fairly wordy piece authored by Robert Perry that features other UN investigated atrocities going back to Jr. Bush's days as Commander in Chief.
Terry