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U.S., Allies Prepare to Act as Syria Intelligence Mounts
(Wall Street Journal) Adam Entous, Sam Dagher and Siobhan Gorman - U.S. officials said a flood of previously undisclosed intelligence, including satellite images and intercepted communications, erased any administration doubts that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons against its own people. One crucial piece of evidence came from Israeli spy services, which provided the CIA with intelligence from inside an elite Syrian unit that oversees Assad's chemical weapons, Arab diplomats said. The intelligence, which the CIA was able to verify, showed that certain types of chemical weapons were moved in advance to the same Damascus suburbs where the attack took place a week ago. The Pentagon and the CIA have focused on tracking special Syrian forces that control the country's chemical stocks, using spy satellites and allied spy networks on the ground. That tracking effort, aided by Israeli and Jordanian agents, expanded in recent months.