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EXCLUSIVE: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
MintPress News ^ | August 29, 2013 | Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh

Posted on 08/30/2013 9:40:00 AM PDT by Sopater

Edited on 08/30/2013 9:44:02 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

This article is a collaboration between Dale Gavlak reporting for Mint Press News (also of the Associated Press) and Yahya Ababneh.

Ghouta, Syria — As the machinery for a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last week’s chemical weapons attack, the U.S. and its allies may be targeting the wrong culprit.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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We really need to stay out of this lest we make a mistake of biblical proportions.
1 posted on 08/30/2013 9:40:00 AM PDT by Sopater
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To: Sopater

so is oBowma going to fire a shot across the Saudis’ bow?


2 posted on 08/30/2013 9:42:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Sopater

I completely agree.. and to think it’s all to rescue Barry’s tender ego.


3 posted on 08/30/2013 9:43:21 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Sopater

So are we going to start bombing the rebels for breaking international law?


4 posted on 08/30/2013 9:48:44 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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So are we going to start bombing the rebels for breaking international law?

Whatever is most politically expedient...
5 posted on 08/30/2013 9:51:11 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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Only Two Days until
September.

Less than $3.4k to go!!
We can do this!!

6 posted on 08/30/2013 9:51:56 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: demshateGod
So are we going to start bombing the rebels for breaking international law?

...Never mind...

7 posted on 08/30/2013 9:52:07 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: Sopater
This article raises an interesting thought for me.  Perhaps others have been voicing this earlier.

What if it is found that the Syrian Rebels were the ones that used chemical weapons?

Is that a red line, Obama cannot accept?

I have heard no talk whatsoever about that reality.  Anyone else?

Does he use a limited cruise missile attack on the rebels?  If not, why not?

Personally I think we should stay out of it all together, but Obama laid down these ground rules.  I didn't.

Let's see how he dances around the issue, if it is proven the rebels were the culprits here.


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8 posted on 08/30/2013 9:52:49 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: Sopater

We’re already in it (not us but our rulers). This could get really big and ugly fast. The decent people left in the military should refuse to participate.


9 posted on 08/30/2013 9:58:52 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Sopater

Link got taken down and is coming up with a service error 503!


10 posted on 08/30/2013 10:10:47 AM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: Sopater
This was big but the link got taken down!

Who took it down? CIA? NSA?

503 service error coming up!

11 posted on 08/30/2013 10:15:23 AM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

It seems to be working for me, now.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/


12 posted on 08/30/2013 10:24:07 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Sopater

Link is down again 503 error.


13 posted on 08/30/2013 11:05:19 AM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: DoughtyOne
I agree we should stay out of this mess.

But Obozo painted himself into a corner by making his ultimatum. Now what does he do? Stay out and look weaker and less credible than he already appears? Or get involved in something we shouldn't? In the US when he does something stupid he just blames the Republicans and his wingmen in the media back him up, but this time he looks like an idiot to the whole world. Putin must really be enjoying this.

14 posted on 08/30/2013 11:10:58 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Sopater

Dale Gavlak’s reporting shows up on beforeitsnews.com, I tried to post it, but the site is blocked by Free Republic.


15 posted on 08/30/2013 11:17:03 AM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: colorado tanker

I do wish someone in the GOP would remind him that its not up to him to decide when the US will take military action. However, nearly every president in our lifetime has already created a well-worn path to that unconstitutional option.


16 posted on 08/30/2013 11:19:56 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Sopater
The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF allows the Muslim Brotherhood to KILL CHRISTIANS in Syria, and take over another country.

It really is a "more progressive, blood lust".
Little do they know that they are fulfilling what our Heavenly Father said would happen.
Yet they are seeing the Greater Exodus happening before our eyes,
and most either are too involved in their "day-to-day lives", or they just don't want to see, that what God SAID would happen ... IS happening now.
Hussein of America is INTENTIONALLY DESTROYING AMERICA, from the inside out.





The Muslims are guilty of the chemical attack, not the Christians, and the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF knows it.
But the ARAB-KENYANand MUSLIM defiling the Oval Office doesn't care.
Barack Hussein Obama II, (a.k.a. Barry Soetoro) just want to turn Syria into another Muslim Brotherhood run country, and kill Christians.
It's just that simple!

17 posted on 08/30/2013 11:21:24 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins; All

This is Google’s cache of http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Aug 30, 2013 17:38:05 GMT.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/


18 posted on 08/30/2013 11:23:26 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Sopater
Here's a link to that article, EXCLUSIVE: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack

And here's another link, Rebels and local residents in Ghouta accuse Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan of providing chemical weapons to an al-Qaida linked rebel group.
19 posted on 08/30/2013 11:26:27 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Sopater
An NBC poll has 80% saying he should get Congressional approval, so the point has been made and understood.

I think the best thing for the GOP to do at this point is follow the rule that you don't get in the way of your opponent imploding.

20 posted on 08/30/2013 11:28:29 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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