Posted on 09/02/2013 8:35:48 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The German intelligence agency (BND) has enough evidence in its possession to conclude that President Bashar Al-Assad ordered the suspected chemical attack in Syria on August 21, Russia Today (RT) reported Monday, citing a report in the German weekly Der Spiegel.
The Der Spiegel report was based on the results of a secret security briefing.
The BND’s President Gerhard Schindler voiced his support for U.S. allegations that Assad‘s government ordered the attack on the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, according to the German weekly.
The intelligence agency’s chief said that following a thorough analysis his ministry assumes that the regime is the perpetrator of the chemical attack which killed hundreds of people.
Schindler reportedly said in the meeting that only the Syrian government was in possession of such agents as sarin. The agency’s experts concluded it was used in large amounts in the Ghouta incident.
According to Der Spiegel, a reason behind Assad’s decision to deploy the gas was that this was a crucial battle for the capital. The BND believes that sarin may have been meant as a deterrent against rebel forces, but mistakenly the military used too much of it.
As well, said the weekly, the BND said only Syrian government experts could mix sarin and place it inside small rockets. The process reportedly took place several times prior to the alleged attack which sparked the investigation.
The BND cited new evidence to conclude the agent used was sarin, having intercepted communications between a high level Hezbollah official and Iran’s embassy.
The German agency’s findings are in line with findings of the United States. On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the administration had new evidence that sarin gas was used in the chemical attack.
"We know that the regime ordered this attack," he said.
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I can't remember the post. Search "Bandar" and/or "redline".
If I find it, I'll post on this thread.
I hope I'm making sense. I'm exhausted. Spent 3 hours in Emergency Room last night and today has been kinda' weird and spacey.
Nothing in this report would refute my theory of what might have happened, which I posted on FR last week. I’ll post it again. Apologies if you already read it:
have my own theory about who used the chemical weapons and why.
First, a brief summary of what we know to date:
1. It makes no sense that the regime used chemical weapons to further any of its interests
” The Assad regime was not desperate. Over the past month or so the regime has launched a major offensive, reclaiming Homs back from rebel control, pressing forward towards Aleppo as well as having overrun other important positions held by rebel forces.” ...
“Now, until recently, Jordan has quietly and discreetly provided support for some of the rebel forces, particularly defectors from the Syrian Army which is good for the rebels and better than having jihadist, extreme Sunni sectarians or warlord types.
The speech was a surprise due to the level of uncertainty (rather than enthusiasm) it highlighted for the rebel cause. The King stressed that religious scholars –be they Sunni, or Shia, or Sufi or Salafi or Alawitte, I repeat “Alawitte,” must sit down together and do everything to end the sectarian motivated conflict with a negotiated settlement.
That speech must have made headlines throughout the Arab world or at the very least resonated in the chambers of al-Assad’s power. And yet, the next day the Sarin gas attack took place. Go figure”
2. However, the regime certainly acted guilty after the attack:
” If the Syrian Army did not launch this attack and it was the fault of the rebels, then why didn’t the Syrian regime allow, indeed encourage, the U.N. inspectors, staying in a hotel only an estimated 15 minute drive from the massacre, to go to the site last Wednesday instead of delaying permission? What’s more, immediately after the alleged chemical weapons attack took place, the Syrian Army launched an offensive and heavily shelled the area..”
Also, many have claimed that the rebels wouldn’t have had the means to launch such a large scale attack.
Hypothesis:
If you are an al Qaeda rebel with access to the internet, you would know that your best chance of becoming the new power in Syria would be to somehow get the government to use chemical weapons.
So your try to force a small unit that you know has the weapons into a no-win situation where they will use them, but you fail repeatedly.
Then, if you think overthrowing the regime and establishing Islamist rule is worth a few martyrs (sound familiar?) you go for plan B:
The next time a Syrian army officer offers to defect (and there have been plenty of army defections, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Syrian_defectors), you say: stay right where you are because you have access to the chemical weapons. We need you to fire off a few rounds into a civilian area, and THEN defect. By doing so you will bring the same coalition that toppled Ghaddafi to topple Assad.
Now imagine you are the Syrian regime reacting to this scenario. You call the head of Syrian DoD and demand answers. Knowing his regime and his life are on the line he calls the local commander in a panic and demands answers:
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/08/27/exclusive_us_spies_say_intercepted_calls_prove_syrias_army_used_nerve_gas
“Last Wednesday, in the hours after a horrific chemical attack east of Damascus, an official at the Syrian Ministry of Defense exchanged panicked phone calls with a leader of a chemical weapons unit, demanding answers for a nerve agent strike that killed more than 1,000 people. Those conversations were overheard by U.S. intelligence services, The Cable has learned”
The situation on the ground is a mess, the defector (or defectors) has deliberately muddled your understanding of what actually happened there.
You don’t want the UN to find out that you were even keeping the last resort weapons, and you definitely don’t want them to discover what the rogue unit has done (because you know how the UN/NATO will react) so you close off the area until you can figure out what happened. A few days later, you still don’t really know what happened but your continued blockage of the inspectors is becoming the equivalent of a guilty plea, so you let them in.
The Germans should know. They have a lot of experience using poisonous Mustard, Chlorine and Phosgene gas in W.W.I. They invented its use as a weapon in war and in concentration camps (Zyklon B).
They are now a optional item of interference due to their “W.W. II War Crimes.
Without hard evidence this is just the same liars lying for the NWO.
Now we have the Leftist telling us about Assad's Baathist regime having WMD without telling us where it came from. Iraq, maybe?
Leftists lie, people die everywhere due to their lies.
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