According to reports in Mint Press News made by veteran Associated Press reporter
Dale Gavlak, the chemical attack came from Syrian rebel arms by Prince Bandar, not the Assad regime.
Gavlak writes, “The U.S., Britain, and France as well as the Arab
League have accused the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for
carrying out the chemical weapons attack, which mainly targeted
civilians. U.S. warships are stationed in the Mediterranean Sea to
launch military strikes against Syria in punishment for carrying out a
massive chemical weapons attack. The U.S. and others are not interested
in examining any contrary evidence, with U.S Secretary of State John
Kerry
saying Monday that Assad’s guilt was ‘a judgment … already clear to the world.’”
Gavlak’s report states that the U.S. is not interested in differing
opinion, despite evidence that points to Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar.
The report continues, “However, from numerous interviews with
doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families, a
different picture emerges. Many believe that certain rebels received
chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin
Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the dealing gas attack.”
“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.”
Prince Bandar is said to have close ties to Washington, serving as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador. According to a report in the UK’s
The Independent,
Prince Bandar has re-emerged as a pivotal figure in the struggle by
America and its allies to tilt the battlefield balance against the
regime in Syria.
According to the Independent, it was Prince Bandar’s intelligence
agency that first alerted Western allies to the alleged use of sarin gas
by the Syrian regime in February.
According to the report, “It is a long-term Saudi goal that in the
past several days has been subsumed by the more immediate crisis over
the purported use of chemical weapons by Damascus … That message is
being delivered to President Barack Obama by the current Saudi
Ambassador in Washington, Adel al-Jubeir, who is a Bandar protégé.”
This situation continues to become eerily similar to President George W. Bush’s intel on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
In fact, according to Washington Post journalist
Bob Woodward,
on January 11, 2002, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen.
Richard Myers met in Cheney’s office with Prince Bandar, the Saudi
ambassador to the United States to discuss plans to attack Iraq.
The
Washington Post
reported that Bandar, who helped arrange Saudi cooperation with the
U.S. military, feared Saudi interests would be damaged if Bush did not
follow through on attacking Hussein, thus Bandar became another advocate
for war.
“Months of applying pressure on the White House and Congress over
Syria have slowly born fruit. The CIA is believed to have been working
with Prince Bandar directly since last year in training rebels at base
in Jordan close to the Syrian border,” the Independent reported.
The Saudis are “indispensable partners on Syria” and have
considerable influence on American thinking, a senior US official told
The Wall Street Journal yesterday. He added: “No one wants to do
anything alone.”
And right now, Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to justify intervening in Syria on the basis of crimes against
humanity. But it makes you wonder: Whose crimes?
Is Saudi Arabia using an attack on Syria by the west as a way to advance its own agenda?
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