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Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack
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Paul Joseph Watson at Infowars.com
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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).
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The website on which the story originally appeared -
Mint Press (which is currently down as a result of huge traffic it is
attracting to the article) is a legitimate media organization based in
Minnesota. The Minnesota Post did a profile on them last year.
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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.
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“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.
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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.”
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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.
