Submitted by: Donald Hank
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
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.
“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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