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The other hostage, the Italian journalist Domenico Quirico has written in La Stampa, "One day, from the room in which we were held prisoners, through an open door, we heard a conversation in English via Skype between three men. During this conversation, the men said that the gas attacks in two districts of Damascus had been committed by the rebels as a provocation, to push the West to act."

Piccinin: "This conversation involved a general of the Syrian Free Army, who sequestered us and an officer of al-Farouq. And this conversation, it is clear that the Assad regime is not responsible for the gas attack in which the world is the basis for deciding whether or not to attack the regime of Bashar Al-Assad."

He added, "The regime could not give a best gift ( to the rebels) to use this weapon that militarily did not provide them great advantage in the suburbs of Damascus". As for a possible Western military action, Mr Piccinin disapprove of totally, "The Free Syrian Army, composed of rebels and secular, it has not sustained its time and the revolution is now submerged by katibas Islamists. would be insane and suicidal for the West to support these people. "