[ThunderSleeps]

The leak of these so called intercepts sounds fishy. Why would the MOD be calling to find out if one of their units used special weapons? If it was Assad, don't you think he would just pick up the phone, call the MOD and say "put down those rebels at xyz, and use the gas, no screwing around this time."

If a chemical unit fired without orders they are screwed. The only question is how far up the chain of command they are screwed. Overall though, sounds like bammy the illiterate (at international politics and all things military) is looking for (or manufacturing) a reason to attack Assad and save his (bammy's) backside-buddies in the MB.

[silverleaf]

arab militaries don’t do anything unless their officers order it and their officers don’t order anything unless the regime orders it

the penalty for independent decision making is summary execution

this sounds like a CF orchestrated by a rogue rebel group who got themselves inserted into a key unit

or another false flag attack

so far all the victim pictures are civilians- anyone seen a dead al Qaeda .... errr...”rebel”... fighter?