Saturday, August 31, 2013
'Syrian rebels take responsibility for the chemical attack admitting the weapons were provided by Saudis'
In an interview with Dale Gavlak, a
Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and Mint Press News,
Syrian rebels tacitly implied that they were responsible for last week’s
chemical attack. Some information could not immediately be
independently verified.
“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,” he writes in
the article.
The rebels noted it was a result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them.
“My
son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were
that he had been asked to carry,” said Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of a
rebel fighting to unseat Assad, who lives in Ghouta.
As
Gavlak reports, Abdel-Moneim said his son and 12 other rebels died in a
weapons storage tunnel. The father stated the weapons were provided to
rebel forces by a Saudi militant, known as Abu Ayesha, describing them
as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas
bottle.”
“They
didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them,” complained a
female fighter named ‘K’. “We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We
never imagined 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 warned. She, like other
Syrians, do not want to use their full names for fear of retribution.
Gavlak also refers to an article in the UK’s Daily Telegraph about secret Russian-Saudi talks
stating that Prince Bandar threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin
with terror attacks at next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if Russia
doesn’t agree to change its stance on Syria.
“Prince
Bandar pledged to safeguard Russia’s naval base in Syria if the Assad
regime is toppled, but he also hinted at Chechen terrorist attacks on
Russia’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if there is no accord,” the article
stated.
“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,” Saudi Prince allegedly told Vladimir Putin.
Mint
Press News stated that some of the information couldn’t be
independently verified and pledged to continue providing updates on this
topic.
Recent publication by the Voice of Russia 'Syrian rebels take responsibility for the chemical attack admitting the weapons were provided by Saudis'
received a strong outcry among the Internet users as some of them
claiming that the company’s reports are more credible than allegations
against Syrian government made by US authorities.
‘It's
more credible than the US saying we have real evidence of Assad using
them [chemical weapons]. Assad doesn't get weapons from Saudi Arabia.
They don't have ties. The US will use any reason it can to go to war.
Even if it means creating one’, writesDylanJamesCo on Reddit.
Meanwhile, not everyone shares such this point of view.
KoreyYrvaI
writes that ‘The Voice of Russia wants us to believe that the Rebels
totally were responsible for the chemical attack, and it was an
accident… because Russia has been impartial throughout all of this and I
don't think America(or anyone) needs another war, but this is hardly
credible’.
But one thing unites the users: they believe the US government wants and needs another war in the Middle East.
‘America
is just getting better at proxy wars. They have firm ties with the
Saudis, and they would have no problem destabilizing Syria if it meant
the US could eventually target Iran and its oil reserve’.
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