Syria: Western-backed terrorists preparing chemical false flag attack?

[Wehrwolfen]

Syria: Western-backed terrorists preparing chemical false flag attack?​

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
December 7, 2012

Let everyone reporting on the situation in Syria agree upon one thing: the situation is hideous, it is unacceptable, it is disgusting, it is a disgrace to humankind, it is an insult to our collective intelligence at the turn of the century and...video evidence that Obama is totally wrong. The ones preparing to use chemicals are the terrorists.

We may begin by discounting ninety-five per cent of what we read in the crispy-clean reports from the corporate media - you know, that pile of bullshit pressed and ironed on your morning newspaper on your breakfast table in Europe or slung into a pile of dog doos in your driveway by some immigrant trying to find the Great American Dream in the US of A. And let me explain why.

Remember the stories about Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction? Remember when the President of the United States called him a liar, when he said he didn't have any? Well now, who was lying and who was telling the truth? The answer to the question is that His Excellency President Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti was telling the truth and the one lying through his teeth was the President of the United States of America. The ones who, in the words of Bush, "stiffed the world" were himself and his wonderful Secretary of State, Colin Powell, with his wonderful foreign intelligence (a British bullshit report copied and pasted from the Net and sexed up by the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair).

Remember the stories about Iraq trying to obtain yellowcake uranium from, to quote the British Intel source at the time, "Nigeria" when the country exporting this was in fact Niger...


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[Avatar4321]

We may have to wait for the weapons to be used before we can determine who will use them, if then.

 

[S.J.]

I have a question for the idiots who claim there were never any WMD's in Iraq. What did Saddam use on the Kurds and the Iranians?

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - Obama needs to send Navy Seal Team 6 over there an' kick Assad's butt...

US Senators Urge Stronger Response to Syria Crisis
January 22, 2013 — A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wants the Obama administration to boost direct assistance to Syrian opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, help neighboring countries care for Syrian refugees, and increase pressure for regime change in Damascus.

Republican Senator John McCain led a delegation of lawmakers that recently returned from a trip to the Middle East and Afghanistan. At a news conference Tuesday, McCain relayed messages the group received from Syrian opposition leaders and refugees. “We heard desperate pleas for U.S. support and assistance," said McCain. "There was a desire for weapons and ammunition, for a no-fly zone, and for our government to channel humanitarian assistance - not to international NGOs as the [Obama] administration is currently doing but rather directly through the Syrian opposition coalition - which would strengthen its legitimacy and capacity.”

Several senators said they were struck by the growing anger expressed by refugees who believe the United States is doing too little to bring about change in Syria. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said, “The situation in Syria is getting increasingly dire. And it appears the Assad administration is dug in pretty hard. So there is a real danger of the warfare prolonging, and while it prolongs having the Syrian state devolve into potentially ethnically-cleansed enclaves, and a huge vacuum left for jihadis and extremists to launch attacks from.”

Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte urged continued pressure on Russia and Iran to stop the flow of arms to the Assad regime. Democratic Senator Chris Coons said the United States can and must do more to address a worsening humanitarian crisis in and around Syria. The senators said they have signed a letter to President Obama detailing their findings, concerns, and recommendations.

The Obama administration has been wary of direct U.S. military involvement in Syria, but insisted President Assad’s rule will end. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland spoke earlier in the day. “We need to all work together as an international community to hasten the day when this bloodshed ends and when we are turning the page and welcoming a transitional governing structure that can give Syria a better and different future," said Nuland. Meanwhile, at the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon struck a somber note on Syria, describing the situation as a "calamity."

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[waltky]

Kerry ain't makin' no promises...

Kerry: ‘No Guarantee’ That Weapons From U.S. Allies Won’t Go to Jihadists
March 5, 2013 – In Saudi Arabia Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry played down concerns about weapons from U.S. Gulf allies ending up in the hands of radical jihadists in Syria, pointing instead to the arms the Assad regime is getting from Iran and others.

During a joint press appearance with his Saudi counterpart Saud al-Faisal, Kerry was asked, “Are the arms that Saudi Arabia is already providing to the Syrian rebels at risk of falling into the wrong hands and basically being part of the problem that you have identified?” He replied that there was “no guarantee that one weapon or another might not at some point in time fall into the wrong hands,” but expressed optimism that the Syrian opposition was now able to “make certain that what goes to the moderate, legitimate opposition is, in fact, getting to them.”

Then – although the question obviously referred to jihadist elements among the anti-Assad rebels – Kerry turned the spotlight onto those arming the other side in the civil war. “Believe me, the bad actors, regrettably, have no shortage of their ability to get weapons from Iran, from Hezbollah, from Russia, unfortunately, and that’s happening,” he said. The parties he listed – Russia, Iran and its Shi’ite proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah – are Syrian President Bashar Assad’s closest allies and supporters.

But experts have been warning for months that arms shipments from U.S.-friendly Sunni governments, like the one represented by the man Kerry was speaking alongside in Riyadh, are benefiting dangerous Salafi-jihadist groups in Syria, including some with links to al-Qaeda. “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists,” the New York Times reported last October, citing U.S. and Mideast officials. As Kerry began his first foreign trip as secretary of state, Heritage Foundation senior research fellow James Phillips noted that radical jihadists in Syria “have enjoyed the lion’s share of arms provided by private donations from Islamist organizations in the oil-rich Arab gulf states.”

A United Nations-commissioned report on Syria released last month highlighted the influence of foreign patronage in the deepening conflict. “The escalation of violence and increasing intervention of external sponsors has also led to radicalization among the anti-government armed groups, and the proportion of fighters with Salafi inclinations has augmented including local and foreign extremists,” it said. “The financial support provided by donors not only strengthened Salafi factions but also pushed mainstream insurgents toward joining them due to their better ability to provide them with the necessary logistical supplies.” Among such groups, the report said, the al-Nusra Front stood out due to the “use of more aggressive tactics clearly benefiting from better financial support.” Al-Nusra, reportedly linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq, is the group that the U.S. last December designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

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[waltky]

The chemical attack that didn't happen...

Syrians allege chemical attack, as US says no evidence of one
March 19, 2013 — Syria's government and rebels traded accusations of a chemical attack Tuesday on a northern village near Aleppo. However a U.S. official said there was no evidence of any such attack.

The regime, whose allegation was backed by ally Russia, said 31 people were killed, including 21 civilians and 10 soldiers. The reports could not be independently verified because of tight media restrictions, particularly in government-controlled areas that are virtually shut to all foreign media and outside observers. But if confirmed, it would be the first known use of chemical weapons in the 2-year-old civil war and a glimpse of one of the nightmare scenarios for this conflict. One of the international community's top concerns since fighting began is that Syria's vast arsenal of chemical weapons could be used by one side or the other or could fall into the hands of foreign jihadi fighters among the rebels or the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is allied with the regime.

The accusations emerged only a few hours after the opposition to President Bashar Assad elected a prime minister to head an interim government that would rule areas seized by rebel forces from the regime. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad said at least 31 people were killed. State-run news agency SANA said more than 100 others were wounded, some of them in critical condition. SANA published pictures showing casualties, including children, on stretchers in what appears to be a hospital ward. None showed signs of physical injuries. Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi called it the "first act" of the newly announced opposition interim government. Rebels quickly denied the report and accused regime forces of firing the chemical weapon.

The head of Syria's main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, said the group was still investigating the alleged chemical attack near Aleppo. "Everyone who used it, we are against him, whatever he is," Mouaz al-Khatib told reporters in English in Istanbul. "We are against killing civilians using chemical weapons, but let us wait some time to have accurate information." The regime has not said that rebels have been able to seize any chemical weapons "so we assume that the opposition does not possess such weapons," said Mustafa Alani, an analyst with the Gulf Research center in Geneva. "I would not rule out that the military would use chemical weapons and try to pin it on the rebels," Alani said. "The only strategy that this regime has been left with is character assassination of the opposition and blame the rebels for all the bad things that are happening in the country."

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said a rocket attack on Khan al-Assal killed at least 26 people but its director, Rami Abdul-Rahman, said he had no information on chemical weapons being involved in the attack.

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[mike55]

And look what has happened last week.