Re: “It is easy to understand why the Syrian opposition would be motivated to do this and attach blame to the regime.”
Germany’s Focus magazine said Saturday that Israel’s secretive signals intelligence agency, Unit 8200, eavesdropped on a conversation between senior Syrian officials about use of chemical agents.
On Friday, Israel’s Channel 2 reported that rockets containing chemical agents were fired by the 155th Brigade of the 4th Armored Division, a division under the command of the Syrian president’s brother, Maher Assad.
The shells were reportedly fired from a military base in a mountain range west of Damascus, the news channel said, without disclosing its sources.
If this pans out, there is even less reason to believe that the rebels somehow stole the Russian missiles that carried the chemical warhead — and then aimed it at themselves? That’s a bit of a stretch, isn’t it?
I hadn’t seen that story as I’ve been traveling overseas on business the past couple weeks and not able to pay daily close attention. Thanks for the update. I still find it difficult to understand why the regime would do this. But except for some of their mathematicians a thousand years ago logic has never exactly been an Arab strong suit.