[Netz]

A friend of mine in France said that they have been reporting that the use of gas was done in order to implicate Assad and then stage a coup d’etat. The rumors are that Assad loyalists immediately rounded up and executed the generals involved and hence no coup, no Obama attack last week. Another rumor has it that Assad Army personnel are not being demobilized but forced to rejoin and fight. Any refusal to sign on for another deployment is a firing squad. The Syrian Army is spent and it is the Hizbollah and Iran doing most of the fighting. These are rumors I am hearing from the French press from sources there.

[Mouton]

Some possible truth there....one high general officer defected this past week.