So you've fallen hook, line and sinker for the Russian story was that it was Syrian Rebels killing Syrians. You are naive. It was Assad.
1). That isn't a "Russian story" it's a statement put out by the Russian defense spokesperson. The Russian Defense Ministry says a rebel-held town in northern Syria has been exposed to toxic agents from a rebel arsenal hit by a Syrian air strike. The ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said in a statement that the Russian military assets registered a Syrian air strike Tuesday on weapons depots and an ammunition factory on the eastern outskirts of the town of Khan Sheikhoun.
Seems pretty matter of fact...
... but that's not how I came about my conclusion.
The question "Cui bono" is where I began. Cui Bono is still the MOST IMPORTANT forensic question to ascertain which party has a motive for the crime. The crime was a "chemical attack". Cui Bono, Qui Prodest or follow the money... whatever phrase you prefer.
I already outlined the thought process behind how I came about culpability but I'll repeat it.
1). Al Nusra has chemical weapons factories and has been churning out chemical weapons for use in Syria for years
U.S. plans for possibility that Assad could lose control of chemical arms cache
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A former Syrian general who once led the army’s chemical weapons training program said that the main storage sites for mustard gas and nerve agents are supposed to be guarded by thousands of Syrian troops but that they would be easily overrun.
The sites are not secure, retired Maj. Gen. Adnan Silou, who defected to the opposition in June, said in an interview near Turkey’s border with Syria. “Probably anyone from the Free Syrian Army or any Islamic extremist group could take them over,” he said.
Most of the chemical munitions are stored at two sites: a warehouse complex in Furqlus, outside the battle-stricken central city of Homs at the western edge of the Syrian desert, and an installation known as Khan Abu Shamat, about 50 miles east of Damascus, the capital. A third site is near Masyaf, west of Homs. Smaller stockpiles are thought to be scattered among dozens of other military installations nationwide.
The arsenal is so vast that it could take 1,000 outside inspectors and specialists just to monitor the condition of each site and take an inventory, said Leonard Spector, deputy director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies."
Syria: Rebels may resort to using chemical weapons
"Terrorist groups may resort to using chemical weapons against the Syrian people... after having gained control of a toxic chlorine factory" east of Aleppo ... The ministry was believed to be referring to the Syrian-Saudi Chemicals Company (SYSACCO) factory near Safira, which was taken over earlier this week by militants from the jihadist Al-Nusra Front."
Syria’s Civil War: The Mystery Behind a Deadly Chemical Attack
...when Mohammad Sabbagh, an industrialist from Aleppo, heard about the attack near his hometown on March 19, the details stopped him cold. Survivors and witnesses of what was being described by the government news agency as a chemical attack said they smelled something like chlorine. And as the owner of Syria’s only chlorine-gas manufacturing plant, Sabbagh knew that if chlorine was involved, it most likely came from his factory.
In August rebel forces took Sabbagh’s factory by force, as part of a sweep that also netted them an electricity station and a military airport about 30 km from Aleppo. Sabbagh, who has since fled Aleppo for Beirut, says his factory is now occupied by Jabhat al-Nusra...
... he has no idea what has happened, if anything, to the 400 or so steel barrels of chlorine gas he had stored in the compound. The yellow tanks, which hold one ton of gas each, are used for purifying municipal water supplies. “No one can know for certain, but if it turns out chlorine gas was used in the attack, then the first possibility is that it was mine. There is no other factory in Syria that can make this gas, and now it is under opposition control,” he says.
2). Al Nusra is a terrorist organization and has no respect for the sanctity of human life. They kill innocent civilians without discrimination and civilian casualties are ALWAYS good because the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights will assign those deaths to the Syrian regime 100% of the time. They get to terrorize the citizens and then that terror gets blamed on their enemy... A PARADISE FOR TERRORISTS.
The "Free Syrian Army" is nothing more than Al Nusra, Al Qaeda and ISIS fighters fighting with snazzy new matching uniforms.
A declassified U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency document from August 12, 2012 details the rise of ISIS in Syria BEFORE it ever happened.
A).
THE SALAFIST, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND AL QAEDA IN IRAQ ARE THE MAJOR FORCES DRIVING THE INSURGENCY IN SYRIA. Hmmm... no mention of any Free Syrian Army which had been "fighting" against the Assad regime for 13 months prior to this intelligence assessment...
NO MENTION OF THE FREE SYRIAN ARMY, ONLY SALAFIST (WAHHABI), MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND AL QAEDA IN IRAQ FIGHTERS.
B).
THE WEST GULF COUNTRIES AND TURKEY SUPPORT THE OPPOSITION (SALAFIST, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND AL QAEDA IN IRAQ)...
... AND AL QAEDA IN IRAQ SUPPORTED THE SYRIAN OPPOSITION FROM THE BEGINNING BOTH IDEOLOGICALLY AND THROUGH THE MEDIA.
3). The Syrian Defense Forces are in a COMFORTABLE position... with NO need to use ridiculously counter-productive chemical weapons.
IN CONCLUSION - The only people in Syria that benefit from the use of chemical weapons are the opposition to the Assad regime.
The use of chemical weapons is a nightmare for the Assad regime... every use of chemical weapons is blamed on his defense forces and each use of chemical weapons emboldens the terrorists by allowing them to get more funding and more weapons.
Chemical Weapons use = BAD for Assad.
Chemical Weapons use = GOOD for the opposition to Assad.
Chemical Weapons use = Pretext for the United States to launch a full scale invasion which is BAD for Assad and GOOD for the opposition.
Assad LOSES BIG TIME whenever there is a chemical attack and the Syrian opposition WINS BIG TIME.
The Syrian opposition is
clearly the party that profits or benefits.
So no, I didn't need a statement from the Russian defense Spokeperson to come about this conclusion... this isn't a "story" but a series of stories and information that provides only ONE logical conclusion. The conclusion is that the Syrian opposition stands to gain a HELL OF A LOT every time there is a chemical attack... which is paired with the knowledge that the opposition has captured large stockpiles of Assad's chemical weapons program if not most of it Syria's chemical stockpiles. Not only that, but there is serious evidence that the Syrian Opposition has developed their
own chemical weapons factories.
Those chemical weapons are NOT to be used on Assad's government troops or his government controlled areas of the country. Why not? BECAUSE THEN THE GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE FORENSIC PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE OPPOSITION'S CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROGRAMS BUT ALSO THE FORENSIC EVIDENCE THAT THEY WERE USED IN AN ACT OF WAR.
Nooooooo... those chemical weapons are to be used on OPPOSITION CONTROLLED AREAS AS FALSE FLAG ATTACKS TO GARNER SYMPATHY FOR THE OPPOSITION AND TO PORTRAY THE REGIME AS RUTHLESS COLD BLOODED MURDERERS. ENOUGH CHEMICAL ATTACKS, AND AN INVASION BY BIG DADDY USA WOULD BE INEVITABLE.
The chemicals were ALWAYS designed for civilians in Opposition controlled areas... it was the opposition's "ace-up-their-sleeve" to ensure an invasion by the US.
