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By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Nothing the US claims about what happened in Syria adds up. We
are being asked to believe an illogical story, when it is much more
likely that it was Israel and Saudi Arabia who enabled the Obama
Administration to threaten Syria with war.
The Obama Administration’s intelligence report on Syria was a rehash
of Iraq. “There are lots of things that aren’t spelled out” in the
four-page document, according to Richard Guthrie,
the former project head of the Chemical and Biological Warfare Project
of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. One piece of
evidence is the alleged interception of Syrian government
communications, but no transcripts were provided.
Just as with the Obama Administration’s speeches which all fall short
of conclusively confirming what happened, nothing was categorically
confirmed in the intelligence report. Actually it comes across more as a
superficial college or university student’s paper put together by
wordsmiths instead of genuine experts on the subject.
Going in a circle, the report even depends on “unnamed” social media
and accounts as sources of evidence or data. Lacking transparency, it
states that “there are accounts from international and Syrian medical
personnel, videos, witness accounts, thousands of social media reports
from at least 12 different locations in the Damascus area, journalist
accounts and reports from highly credible non-governmental
organizations.”
Chances are that these unnamed sources are actually foreign-funded
insurgents, Israeli media, Saudi media, the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights – which includes fighters in the ranks of the insurgency and
salutes Saudi Arabia as a model democracy – or the NGO Doctors Without
Borders. These are the same sources that have been supporting the
insurgency and pushing for regime change and military intervention in
Syria.
Moreover, one of the main sources of the intelligence and communication interceptions that are supposed to be a smoking gun is none other than Israel, which is notorious for doctoring and falsifying evidence.
The US intelligence report also claims to have advanced knowledge
about the plans to launch a chemical weapons attack several days before
it happened. A leading expert on chemical weapons, Jean Pascal Zanders,
who until recently was a senior research fellow at the European Union’s
Institute for Security Studies, asks why the US government did not tell the world about it and issue warnings about a chemical attack at that time.
An Israeli-Saudi-US conspiracy?
The US-supported anti-government forces fighting inside Syria are the
ones that have a track record of using chemical weapons. Yet, Obama and
company have said nothing.
Reuters / Loubna Mrie
Despite the anti-government forces accusations that the Syrian
military launched a chemical weapon attack on Homs at Christmas in
December 2012, CNN reported that the US military was training
anti-government fighters with the securing and handling of chemical weapons. Under the name of the Destructive Wind Chemical Battalion, the insurgents themselves even threatened to use nerve gas and released a video where they killed rabbits as a demonstration of what they planned on doing in Syria.
According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, two brigades of
anti-government fighters that were trained by the CIA, Israelis,
Saudis, and Jordanians crossed from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan into
Syria to launch an assault, respectively on August 17 and 19, 2013. The
US must have invested quite a lot in training both anti-government
brigades. If true, some may argue that their defeat prompted the
chemical weapons attack in Damascus as a contingency plan to fall back
on.
However, how they came by chemical weapons is another issue, but many trails lead to Saudi Arabia. According to the British Independent,
it was Saudi Prince Bandar “that first alerted Western allies to the
alleged use of sarin gas by the Syrian regime in February 2013.” Turkey
would apprehend Syrian militants in its territory with sarin gas, which
these terrorists planned on using inside Syria. On July 22 the
insurgents would also overrun Al-Assal and kill all the witnesses as
part of a cover-up.
A report by Yahya Ababneh, which was contributed to by Dale Gavlak,
has collected the testimonies of witnesses who say that “certain
rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief,
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the gas
attack.”
The Mint Press News report adds an important dimension to
the story, totally contradicting the claims of the US government. It
quotes a female insurgent fighter who says things that make a link to
Saudi Arabia clear. She says that those who provided them with weapons
“didn’t tell them what these arms were or how to use them” and that they
“didn’t know 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 is quoted.
There is also another Saudi link in the report: “Abdel-Moneim said
his son and 12 other rebels were killed inside 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.’”
So it seems that the Saudis enabled the chemical attack while the
Israelis provided them cover to ignite a full-scale war, or at the very
least enable a bombing campaign against Damascus. Israel and Saudi
Arabia have empowered the Obama Administration to threaten war on Syria.
Obama wants to change the balance of power in Syria
The moralistic language coming out of Washington is despicable
posturing. The hypocrisy of the US government knows no bounds. It
condemns the Syrian military for using cluster bombs while the United
States sells them en mass to Saudi Arabia.
US President Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Scanpix Sweden / Jessica Gow)
The UN inspectors entered Syria in the first place on the invitation
of the government in Damascus. The Syrian government warned the UN for
weeks that the anti-government militias were trying to use chemical
weapons after they gained control of a chlorine factory east of Aleppo.
As a precaution, the Syrian military consolidated all its chemical
weapons into a handful of heavily guarded compounds to prevent the
anti-government forces from reaching them. Yet, the insurgents launched a
chemical weapon attack against the Syrian government’s forces in Khan
Al-Assal on March 19, 2013. Turning the truth on its head, the
insurgents and their foreign backers, including the US government, would
try to blame the Syrian government for the chemical attack, but the
UN’s investigator Carla Del Ponte would refute their claims as false in May after extensive work.
Concerning the alleged August attack the Obama Administration has
been lying and contradicting itself for days. They say that traces of
chemical weapons cannot be eliminated, but that the Syrian government
destroyed that same evidence that cannot be eradicated. They want an
investigation, but say they already have all the answers.
The claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in the
suburb of Ghouta defy logic. Why would the Syrian government
unnecessarily use chemical weapons in an area that it controls and shoot
itself in the foot by presenting the US and its allies with a pretext
to intervene? And of all the days it could unnecessarily use chemical
weapons, the Obama administration wants us to believe that the Syrian
government picked the day when United Nation inspectors arrived in
Damascus.
Even the biased and misleading state-run British Broadcasting
Corporation admitted that there was something strange about the event.
The BBC’s own “Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen says many will ask why
the [Syrian] government would want to use such weapons at a time when
[United Nations] inspectors are in the country and the military has been
doing well militarily in the area around Damascus.”
The US is deliberately pointing the finger for the use of chemical weapons at the Syrian government.
American officials have a track record of lying to start wars against
other countries. This has been the consistent modus operandi of the US
from Vietnam to Yugoslavia, and from Iraq to Libya.
It is not Syria that is going against the international community,
but the warmongers in Washington, which include the Obama
Administration.
Washington is threatening to attack Syria as a means of prolonging
the fighting inside Syria. The US government also wants to have a
stronger hand in the country’s future negotiations by restoring the
balance of power between the Syrian government and America’s
anti-government insurgent allies, thus weakening the Syrian military and
ending its winning momentum against the insurgency. If not softening
Damascus up for the insurgents, America wants to level the equation and
undermine the Syrian government before a final negotiation takes place.
