A Call to Arms

FP’s Noah Shachtman reports that an intercepted phone call led U.S. intelligence services to confirm the chemical attack in Syria. But the contents of the call also raise a few key questions. “Was the attack on Aug. 21 the work of a Syrian officer overstepping his bounds? Or was the strike explicitly directed by senior members of the Assad regime?”

+ According to WaPo, U.S. intelligence officials have established a timeline of the Syrian chemical attack and could present it as soon as tomorrow. The U.K. is set to take the case for action to the United Nations..

+ The New Front: A pro-Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad hacktivist group called SEA took down the New York Times and Twitter’s U.K. site for a brief time on Tuesday. GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham explains how they did it.