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Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack

Militants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
August 30, 2013

Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press journalist Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.

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“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families….many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,”writes Gavlak.

Rebels told Gavlak that they were not properly trained on how to handle the chemical weapons or even told what they were. It appears as though the weapons were initially supposed to be given to the Al-Qaeda offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra.

“We were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,” one militant named ‘J’ told Gavlak.

His claims are echoed by another female fighter named ‘K’, who told Gavlak, “They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them. We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”

Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of an opposition rebel, also told Gavlak, “My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” describing them as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.” The father names the Saudi militant who provided the weapons as Abu Ayesha.

According to Abdel-Moneim, the weapons exploded inside a tunnel, killing 12 rebels.

“More than a dozen rebels interviewed reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government,” writes Gavlak.

If accurate, this story could completely derail the United States’ rush to attack Syria which has been founded on the “undeniable” justification that Assad was behind the chemical weapons attack. Dale Gavlak’s credibility is very impressive. He has been a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press for two decades and has also worked for National Public Radio (NPR).

Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in providing rebels, whom they have vehemently backed at every turn, with chemical weapons, is no surprise given the revelations earlier this week that the Saudis threatened Russia with terror attacks at next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi unless they abandoned support for the Syrian President.

“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” Prince Bandar allegedly told Vladimir Putin, the Telegraph reports.

The Obama administration is set to present its intelligence findings today in an effort prove that Assad’s forces were behind last week’s attack, despite American officials admitting to the New York Times that there is no “smoking gun” that directly links President Assad to the attack.

US intelligence officials also told the Associated Press that the intelligence proving Assad’s culpability is “no slam dunk.”

As we reported earlier this week, intercepted intelligence revealed that the Syrian Defense Ministry was making “panicked” phone calls to Syria’s chemical weapons department demanding answers in the hours after the attack, suggesting that it was not ordered by Assad’s forces.

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Obama Going Head-To-Head With Russia Over Syria

By Joseph R. Carducci on August 29, 2013

The situation in the Middle East has gotten a whole lot more serious in the last few days, as you have no doubt been following. However, you might not be aware of all of the major players that have now become intertwined in this morass.
Saudia Arabia has long been considered to be one of the more ‘moderate’ Muslim countries in the Middle East. This is also why they are often considered to be the best ally of the US within this region (after Israel, of course). The problem is that either the Saudis and Obama are simply not on the same page, or Obama has over-played his hand on this.
How do we know this? Because Russia has now officially thrown her hat into the ring of this Middle East conflict. The US and the UK have been making noises for the past few weeks about wanting to teach the Syrian government a lesson. It is Obama’s belief that the Assad Regime has used chemical weapons of mass destruction on their own people during this conflict. Setting aside the fact of why a US President once again feels as if we need to be the police of the worlds, is this a good reason for wanting to engage in almost unilateral military action?
Not to mention the fact that it looks like the US (and perhaps the UK as well) is being manipulated in all of this. Russian leader Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Bandar bin Sultan, the head of Saudi intelligence, earlier this month. According to reports from the UK Telegraph (which actually made the minutes of the meeting public), the Prince tried to bribe and blackmail Putin at the same time. In fact, he offered Russia a strategic pact to control the price, production, and distribution of oil throughout Europe in exchange for their agreement to not oppose US and British military action to topple the Assad regime in Syria.
So, that is the bribe. As for the blackmail, the Prince also made a very thinly veiled threat right to Putin’s face. He pledged to safeguard the Russian naval base in Syria is the Assad regime is toppled, but also threatened terrorist attacks and mayhem at the Winter Olympic games, to be held in Sochi, Russia in February. Amazing. Listen to this from the Prince: “I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us. These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role in Syria’s political future.”
So, the Saudis have now threatened Putin and Russia with terrorist attacks during the Winter Games if they do not back off of their support for Syria. The problem, now, is that everyone knows Saudi Arabia is in league with Obama and the US. They have simply been looking for an excuse to attack Syria. So, Putin is no doubt thinking right now that this threat and blackmail attempt is really coming from the Obama and the US.
If you were one of the most powerful leaders in the world, an ex-KGB operative who believes in the old school idea of a strong and dominant Russia, what would your next move be? Remember also that this man has access to thousands of nuclear weapons and is not really afraid of going to war (after all they have been engaged in a number of internal civil conflicts for many years). His next move was to basically make Syria (and perhaps the US, as well) a counter-offer. He has officially told the powers that be that if the US moves forward with military action against Syria without the support of the UN Security Council (which will certainly not be granted, since Russia has veto power), Russia will respond with a massive military counter-strike on Saudi Arabia!
This was done through the issuance of a “urgent action memorandum” by the office of President Putin to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The statement clearly indicates a “massive military strike” is being called for if the West attacks Syria.
It would appear that once again, Obama has not thought his plans through completely. Now there is a big surprise.

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Jones: “There Are Russian Troops Now Piling Off Ships Into Syria”

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 12:49

There’s more going on in Syria than the mainstream media would have us believe.

Watch the following Infowars update discussing the evidence that Syrian rebels are responsible for the chemical attacks that killed hundreds of people last week, deployment of large contigents of Russian troops to support Assad in the coming conflict, and how the world may well be on the verge of World War III.

This is happening right before our eyes – and it’s about to get even more serious.

There’s no good guys in Syria. The point is the truth is the truth.
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There is no validation of it [chemical attacks].

There’s no hard proof. John Kerry, Secretary of State, says he has indisputable proof. Well, let’s see it. Why don’t we see this proof?

It’s not there.

Even the United Nations going back to May doubted very seriously that the Assad regime, as bad as it is, was going to use sarin gas attacks.

It doesn’t make any sense.

Why, with the Assad government winning, would it resort to sarin gas attacks?

In Syria it’s widely known it’s the rebels… These are not good guys… to think that they wouldn’t use sarin gas attacks stretches the imagination.
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The Obama administration is far out on the limb they’re going to attack and we’re going to come to the edge of World War III.
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This is one of the most serious moments in world history that we have ever faced.



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WND EXCLUSIVE

Evidence: Syria gas attack work of U.S. allies

Contrary evidence arises as U.S. considers punishing Assad regime

Jerome R. Corsi

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NEW YORK – As the U.S. considers a response to what it calls a chemical weapon attack by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime that killed hundreds of civilians, reliable Middle Eastern sources say they have evidence the culprits actually were the rebel forces trying to take over the government.

Secretary of State John Kerry accused the Assad government Monday of covering up the use of chemical weapons in “a cowardly crime” and a “moral obscenity” that shocked the world’s conscience. Kerry claimed the Obama administration had “undeniable” evidence “that the Assad government was culpable in the use of chemical weapons on civilians” in the Aug. 21 attack in Damascus suburbs.

Reports that the Obama administration is considering a military strike against the Assad government continued to circulate Monday. Meanwhile, U.N. weapon inspectors in Syria were fired upon by snipers as they attempted to investigate the site of the Aug. 21 attack.

Assad has rejected charges that his government forces used chemical weapons as “preposterous” and “completely politicized,” the Los Angeles Times reported.

He argues Syrian forces were in the targeted area.

“How is it possible that any country would use chemical weapons, or any weapons of mass destruction, in an area where its own forces are located?” Assad asked in the interview with Izvestia, according to a translation provided by Syria’s official news agency and published by the Los Angeles Times.
“This is preposterous! These accusations are completely politicized and come on the back of the advances made by the Syrian Army against the terrorists.”

Rebel attack?

With the assistance of former PLO member and native Arabic-speaker Walid Shoebat, WND has assembled evidence from various Middle Eastern sources that cast doubt on Obama administration claims the Assad government is responsible for last week’s attack.

A video posted on YouTube, embedded below, shows Free Syrian Army, or FSA, rebel forces launching a Sarin gas attack on a Syrian village.

Another video posted on YouTube shows what appears to be Syrian rebel forces loading a canister of nerve gas on a rocket to fire presumably at civilians and possibly government forces.

As seen below, a screen capture from the video shows rebel civilian forces placing a suspicious blue canister on top of a rocket-launching device.



A separate YouTube video from Syrian television shows a government-captured arsenal of what appears to be nerve gas weapons seized from a rebel stronghold in Jobar, Syria.

The image below shows canisters in the seized rebel arsenal from Jobar that appear to resemble the canister launched by rebel forces in the first image above.



Syrian TV news report of rebel weapons seized in Jobar, Syria

A close-up from the Syrian television news report, seen below, shows a chemical agent identified as having been made by a “Saudi factory.”



Syrian TV news report showing chemical agents identified as manufactured in Saudi Arabia

A report from the Russian Arabic-language channel RT Arabic shows captured rebel arsenals apparently with chemical agents manufactured in Saudi Arabia and gas masks, supporting Russian claims that the rebels are the culprits in the alleged chemical attack.

On Aug. 23, LiveLeak.com hosted an audio recording of a phone call broadcast on Syrian TV between a terrorist affiliated with the rebel civilian militia “Shuhada al-Bayada Battalion” in Homs, Syria, and his Saudi Arabian boss, identified as “Abulbasit.” The phone call indicates rebel-affiliated terrorists in Syria, not the Assad government, launched the chemical weapons attack in Deir Ballba in the Homs, Syria, countryside.

The terrorist said his group, which comprises 200 terrorists escaped from al-Bayadah to al-Daar al-Kabera through a tunnel, needed to buy weapons to attack Homs.

The Saudi financier, who was in Cairo, asked the Syrian terrorists to give details about his group and how it will receive the money. The Saudi admitted his support to terrorists in Daraa and the Damascus countryside. The Syrian terrorist told him that one of the achievements of his “battalion” was the use of chemical weapons in Deir Ballba.

The recorded phone call disclosed the cooperation between two terrorist groups in Syria to bring two bottles of Sarin Gas from the Barzeh neighborhood in Damascus.

Russian media sources have consistently reported Syrian military have discovered rebel warehouses containing chemical weapons agents and have documented rebel chemical weapons attacks on the Syrian civilians the military.

Should U.S. military take sides in Syria's civil war?

• Yes, the U.S. should do everything possible to topple Bashar Assad's regime
• Yes, the U.S. is taking appropriate measures to topple Syria's leadership
• Yes, but Obama is going too far with military engagement and supplying arms to al-Qaida types
• Yes, but we're supporting the wrong side!
• Yes, but only if Congress declares war, as is constitutionally required
• I don't know who's who over there. Don't we have enough problems here to worry about?
• No, this is just some new world order scheme
• No, Assad is a monster, but he has protected religious minorities. That will be over when Brotherhood takes over
• No, didn't we learn our lesson from Egypt and Libya?
• No, Sarah Palin had it right: The U.S. should let the 2 sides fight and 'Let Allah sort 'em out'
• No, both sides are evil – but the current regime is better than what's coming if it's overthrown
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well as I see Obama don't like the American at all that why he want to ship our guy & girl ove r to syria No two way about it
as I said be for stay the hell out of syria don't go & look for war' this is our country fight stay the hell out

ROCITIES OF THE SYRIAN REBELS (GRAPHIC – NSFW)



Posted by Austin Petersen on 01 Sep 2013 / 5Comments

WHO WOULD WE BE SUPPORTING BY ATTACKING SYRIA?

Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham were summoned to the White House today by President Barack Obama, presumably to build a case for unilaterally attacking Syria. The president has reversed himself this week on whether or not he needed congressional authority to participate in the Syrian Civil War after reports of chemical weapons have been used by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. President Obama had previously argued that he was planning on bypassing congress, however he has now stated that he will likely bring the matter to a vote. Congressional leaders are weighing the option of bringing representatives back to Washington D.C. in order to hold hearings and possible debates on the issue.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul appeared on Meet the Press this morning to criticize any planned US involvement in the war. Rebel forces of the Free Syrian Army are estimated to be about 50% al-Nusra forces, which are al Qaeda affiliated. American involvement in Syria could strengthen hostile terrorist forces that could be future enemies of the United States. Although the office of the president has begun making a case for striking in Syria, the atrocities committed by the Syrian rebels have built a strong case against intervening on their behalf.

The Washington Post reported in June on a murder committed allegedly by Syrian rebels who executed a young boy in front of his family for “insulting Muhammed.”

Muhammed Qatta, killed by FSA rebels in front of his parents for blasphemy

When a 14-year-old boy from the Syrian city of Aleppo named Mohammad Qatta was asked to bring one of his customers some coffee, he reportedly refused, saying, “Even if [Prophet] Mohammed comes back to life, I won’t.” According to a story reported by two grassroots Syrian opposition groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Center, Qatta’s words got him killed. A group of Islamist rebels, driving by in a black car, reportedly heard the exchange. They stopped the car, grabbed the boy and took him away.

And Syrian rebels have not only been on record murdering those who they claim insult their religion. They have also persecuted rival faiths as well. The Libertarian Republic reported on this incident where Syrian rebels murdered a Christian bishop back in June.

In the video, a man is heard saying the victims were convicted of transporting weapons for the regular army but the man loudly denies it before being killed. Local media reports that the militia responsible for the executions may were Jabhat al Nusra, the Al Qaeda backed radical Islamist group.

The above slaughters of innocent civilians by rebel forces should be enough to dissuade American leadership from intervening on their behalf. However, the following incident seems far more horrific than those above. A Free Syrian Army rebel is seen cutting out and eating the heart of an enemy soldier.

WHY ARE WE EVEN CONSIDERING AIDING AL QAEDA?

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EXCLUSIVE: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack

Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh
Mint Press News
August 30, 2013

This article is a collaboration between Dale Gavlak reporting for Mint Press News (also of the Associated Press) and Yahya Ababneh.

Ghouta, Syria — As the machinery for a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last week’s chemical weapons attack, the U.S. and its allies may be targeting the wrong culprit.
Interviews with people in Damascus and Ghouta, a suburb of the Syrian capital, where the humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders said at least 355 people had died last week from what it believed to be a neurotoxic agent, appear to indicate as much.
The U.S., Britain, and France as well as the Arab League have accused the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for carrying out the chemical weapons attack, which mainly targeted civilians. U.S. warships are stationed in the Mediterranean Sea to launch military strikes against Syria in punishment for carrying out a massive chemical weapons attack. The U.S. and others are not interested in examining any contrary evidence, with U.S Secretary of State John Kerry sayingMonday that Assad’s guilt was “a judgment … already clear to the world.”
However, from numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the dealing gas attack.
“My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” said Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of a rebel fighting to unseat Assad, who lives in Ghouta.
Abdel-Moneim said his son and 12 other rebels were killed inside of a tunnel used to store weapons provided by a Saudi militant, known as Abu Ayesha, who was leading a fighting battalion. The father described the weapons as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.”
Ghouta townspeople said the rebels were using mosques and private houses to sleep while storing their weapons in tunnels.
Abdel-Moneim said his son and the others died during the chemical weapons attack. That same day, the militant group Jabhat al-Nusra, which is linked to al-Qaida, announced that it would similarly attack civilians in the Assad regime’s heartland of Latakia on Syria’s western coast, in purported retaliation.
“They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them,” complained a female fighter named ‘K.’ “We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”
“When Saudi Prince Bandar gives such weapons to people, he must give them to those who know how to handle and use them,” she warned. She, like other Syrians, do not want to use their full names for fear of retribution.
A well-known rebel leader in Ghouta named ‘J’ agreed. “Jabhat al-Nusra militants do not cooperate with other rebels, except with fighting on the ground. They do not share secret information. They merely used some ordinary rebels to carry and operate this material,” he said.
“We were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,” ‘J’ said.
Doctors who treated the chemical weapons attack victims cautioned interviewers to be careful about asking questions regarding who, exactly, was responsible for the deadly assault.
The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders added that health workers aiding 3,600 patients also reported experiencing similar symptoms, including frothing at the mouth, respiratory distress, convulsions and blurry vision. The group has not been able to independently verify the information.
More than a dozen rebels interviewed reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government.
Saudi involvement

In a recent article for Business Insider, reporter Geoffrey Ingersoll highlighted Saudi Prince Bandar’s role in the two-and-a-half year Syrian civil war. Many observers believe Bandar, with his close ties to Washington, has been at the very heart of the push for war by the U.S. against Assad.
Ingersoll referred to an article in the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph about secret Russian-Saudi talksalleging that Bandar offered Russian President Vladimir Putin cheap oil in exchange for dumping Assad.
“Prince Bandar pledged to safeguard Russia’s naval base in Syria if the Assad regime is toppled, but he also hinted at Chechen terrorist attacks on Russia’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if there is no accord,” Ingersoll wrote.
“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” Bandar allegedly told the Russians.
“Along with Saudi officials, the U.S. allegedly gave the Saudi intelligence chief the thumbs up to conduct these talks with Russia, which comes as no surprise,” Ingersoll wrote.
“Bandar is American-educated, both military and collegiate, served as a highly influential Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., and the CIA totally loves this guy,” he added.
According to U.K.’s Independent newspaper, it was Prince Bandar’s intelligence agency that first brought allegations of the use of sarin gas by the regime to the attention of Western allies in February.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the CIA realized Saudi Arabia was “serious” about toppling Assad when the Saudi king named Prince Bandar to lead the effort.
“They believed that Prince Bandar, a veteran of the diplomatic intrigues of Washington and the Arab world, could deliver what the CIA couldn’t: planeloads of money and arms, and, as one U.S. diplomat put it, wasta, Arabic for under-the-table clout,” it said.
Bandar has been advancing Saudi Arabia’s top foreign policy goal, WSJ reported, of defeating Assad and his Iranian and Hezbollah allies.
To that aim, Bandar worked Washington to back a program to arm and train rebels out of a planned military base in Jordan.
The newspaper reports that he met with the “uneasy Jordanians about such a base”:

His meetings in Amman with Jordan’s King Abdullah sometimes ran to eight hours in a single sitting. “The king would joke: ‘Oh, Bandar’s coming again? Let’s clear two days for the meeting,’ ” said a person familiar with the meetings.

Jordan’s financial dependence on Saudi Arabia may have given the Saudis strong leverage. An operations center in Jordan started going online in the summer of 2012, including an airstrip and warehouses for arms. Saudi-procured AK-47s and ammunition arrived, WSJ reported, citing Arab officials.
Although Saudi Arabia has officially maintained that it supported more moderate rebels, the newspaper reported that “funds and arms were being funneled to radicals on the side, simply to counter the influence of rival Islamists backed by Qatar.”
But rebels interviewed said Prince Bandar is referred to as “al-Habib” or ‘the lover’ by al-Qaida militants fighting in Syria.
Peter Oborne, writing in the Daily Telegraph on Thursday, has issued a word of caution about Washington’s rush to punish the Assad regime with so-called ‘limited’ strikes not meant to overthrow the Syrian leader but diminish his capacity to use chemical weapons:

Consider this: the only beneficiaries from the atrocity were the rebels, previously losing the war, who now have Britain and America ready to intervene on their side. While there seems to be little doubt that chemical weapons were used, there is doubt about who deployed them.
It is important to remember that Assad has been accused of using poison gas against civilians before. But on that occasion, Carla del Ponte, a U.N. commissioner on Syria, concluded that the rebels, not Assad, were probably responsible.

Some information in this article could not be independently verified. Mint Press News will continue to provide further information and updates .
Dale Gavlak is a Middle East correspondent for Mint Press News and the Associated Press. Gavlak has been stationed in Amman, Jordan for the Associated Press for over two decades. An expert in Middle Eastern Affairs, Gavlak currently covers the Levant region of the Middle East for AP, National Public Radio and Mint Press News, writing on topics including politics, social issues and economic trends. Dale holds a M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago. Contact Dale at dgavlak@mintpressnews.com
Yahya Ababneh is a Jordanian freelance journalist and is currently working on a master’s degree in journalism, He has covered events in Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Libya. His stories have appeared on Amman Net, Saraya News, Gerasa News and elsewhere.
This article was posted: Friday, August 30, 2013 at 10:12 am
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