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On August 21st chemical weapons attacks in Ghoutta, a neighborhood of
Damascus, Syria claimed the lives of at least 355 people according to
doctors without borders. What we all saw was an inordinate amount of
children, scenes of which went viral on the internet and propelled the
United States to send five destroyers to the Eastern Medditeranean with
an undisclosed number of nuclear submarines, all of which are laden with
cruise missiles ready to send a clear message to Bashar al-Assad that
chemical weapons use was crossing a red line President Barack Obama drew
one year ago.
While the Sec. John Kerry and his State Department Assad’s guilt was “a judgment.. already clear to the world,” other mainstream media organs reported there was “no smoking gun” and the evidence was “no slam dunk.” In fact it was all based off reports and analysis of Israeli surveillance unit 8200 or what is equivalent to our NSA. Not exactly a uninvolved actor.
While the Sec. John Kerry and his State Department Assad’s guilt was “a judgment.. already clear to the world,” other mainstream media organs reported there was “no smoking gun” and the evidence was “no slam dunk.” In fact it was all based off reports and analysis of Israeli surveillance unit 8200 or what is equivalent to our NSA. Not exactly a uninvolved actor.
Many problems immediately arose.
While the Syrian government is the largest stockpiler of chemical
weapons in the world, the opposition has them too. Now infamous video
has allegedly shown rebels killing rabbits with ad hoc mixtures of
chemicals procured from Turkey. Reports have acknowledged chemical
weapons depots have also been seized. On Aug. 23, LiveLeak.com hosted
an audio recording of a phone call broadcast on Syrian TV between a
terrorist affiliated with a rebel militia 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. One of
some 14 alleged chemical attacks pinned on President Assad. World Net
Daily hosts a litany of YouTube videos showing rebels handling chemical
ordinance and alleged nerve gas missiles.
There is also the potential use of Ghaddafi’s stockpiles which were
at one time feared to have fallen into the wrong hands, at the very
least left unsecured amidst the NATO backed no fly zone and ensuing
melee. The concern his weapons were transferred to Syria was
highlighted in the Benghazi affair and further supported by Bill Gertz
who reported that 20% of the mujahadeen doing the majority of the
fighting in Syria according to the NYT are from Libya. But most
importantly the UN’s Carla del Ponte officially acknowledged suspicion
rebels had in fact used chemical weapons. Yet mainstream opinion while
against involvement in Syria believed Assad was to blame! This is prior
to a UN chemical weapons investigation having even been concluded. CNN
in classic pre-Iraq style and obviously with copious notes from ESPN
are walking around on a life sized CGI war theatre.
So is there anything to the Saudi connection suggested by the post at
live leak.com? We know that Qatar and Saudi Arabia are spending
billions providing weapons to Syrian rebels. We know that Saudi
Arabians host live auctions sending suicide bombers to Syria. We know
the geopolitical interests of these two predominantly sunni nations
stand in sharp contrast to that of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran all of
which are Shia and in the case of the later three have recently signed a
$10bn gas pipeline leading directly through Syria. This undercuts, as
we covered in our interview with Eric Draitser yesterday, Qatari and
Saudi energy interests.
In a breaking article by long time Associated Press middle east
correspondent Dale Gavlak he notes: “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.” 26 rebel fighters lost their
lives in Ghouta and according to Gavlak its because these fighters
weren’t properly trained in handling the weapons. According to one
resident of Ghouta his son who fights for the rebels “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.”
Gavlak also reports that, “more than a dozen rebels interviewed
reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government.” But
here’s the kicker!? 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 Iraq parallels have been hammered home in the last 72
hours so some might say it’s appropriate that Prince Bandar or “Bandar
Bush” is back in the narrative. And if this report proves true and
accurate Barack Obama just like Bush, the CIA, and Collin Powell will
have bought into those sweet crude scented lies by a man who’s outlasted
popes and presidents. And rather than further humanitarian goals and a
responsibility to protect American strikes would have advanced Saudi
Arabia’s top foreign policy goal, according to the WSJ, of defeating
Assad and his Iranian and Hezbollah allies.
A lot of people on the lunatic fringe as its derided have been
wondering who Obama really works for and who’s interests he serves.
According to this report the answer is obvious.
