Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack

 Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack (false flag attack,  mid-level deep event)

Date	21 August 2013
Location	Syria
Blamed on	Syrian Government
Type	Chemical attack
Deaths	281
Injured (non-fatal)	3600

The 2013 Ghouta attacks were a series of alleged chemical warfare attacks that occurred on Wednesday, 21 August 2013, in the Ghouta region of Syria. Hundreds of people died, thousands were injured.

Official Narrative

The US and UK government were quick to blame the Syrian government. An anonymous aid worker, "Dr Rola" made repeated appearances on UK TV supposedly reporting on a napalm and/or incendiary attack. Full details were never disclosed and the "unverified" footage included deceitful audio editing.

False Flag Suspicions

Ron Paul was reported on August 31st, 2013 as saying about the attack "I think it’s a false flag".

Britam Defence Leak

The Daily Mail, a UK newspaper published a story on January 29th, 2013 entitled "U.S. 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad's regime'". This was based on evidence provided by an unnamed Malaysian hacker, which began "Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the US government gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad's regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country." The story was removed on January 31st and the newspaper ran an apology on the 18th April which stated that they had paid money to Britam Defence Ltd and that they no longer believed the email authentic.

Assad blames "French Intelligence"

In August 2016, Syria said that the French Intelligence Agency DGSE had orchestrated the deadly chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta to divert UN weapons inspectors from another incident carried out by militants in Aleppo. At a UN Security Council meeting over the Syrian conflict, Damascus's envoy to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari said:

“The use of chemical weapons in the Damascus area was meant to prevent Dr Åke Sellström [the head of the weapons inspectors] from going to Aleppo because [France] knew who had used chemical weapons in Aleppo. They wanted to prevent Dr Sellström from reaching Aleppo by any means and therefore they used chemical weapons in Damascus with the involvement of French intelligence.”

French representative to the UN, François Delattre, said that allegations were “absurd.”

External Links

• NYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis - Consortiumnews 29 December 2013
• Whose sarin? - Seymour Hersh. London Review of Books 19 December 2013
• An Awkward Silence - Burying The Hersh Revelations Of Obama’s Syrian Deceit - Medie Lens 17 December 2013

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Another Chemical Weapon False Flag on the Eve of Peace Talks in Brussels	article	4 April 2017	Paul Antonopoulos	The Khan Sheikoun gas attack in Idlib province, like that in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta in 2013, can be a very useful means of propaganda
Document:Controversy surrounding MintPress Ghouta report	article	22 September 2013	Phil Greaves	Early commentary on the furore caused by Mint Press article that revealed evidence of Saudi Arabia being behind the 21 August 2013 chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, Syria
Document:Depravity Redefined - Selling US Slaughter in Syria	article	8 September 2013	Tony Cartalucci	How horrific images are used to manipulate gullible publics into defending the indefensible in Syria
Document:Did the White House Help Plan the Syrian Chemical Attack	article	28 August 2013	Yossef Bodansky
Document:Ed Miliband’s decision to oppose military action against Syria is an action of statesmanship of which Britons will be proud	Article	28 August 2013	Michael Meacher	It is all very well to rush to war in a surge of moral outrage, it is quite another to spell out clearly what are the war objectives and how exactly they are to be achieved.
Document:Mother Agnes Mariam in her own words	interview	29 November 2013	Sharmine Narwani
Document:New Mint Press statement reveals Saudi pressure on reporter	article	21 November 2013	Phil Greaves
Document:Pictures resurface showing US Secretary John Kerry and President Assad dining in Syria together	Article	3 September 2013	Heather Saul	John Kerry's volte-face: Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region (2009). President Assad is a "thug" like Adolf Hitler (2013).
Document:Questions Plague UN Report on Syria	report	23 September 2013	Sharmine Narwani Radwan Mortada
Document:Serious Questions about the Integrity of the UN Report on Syria	paper	5 October 2013	Subrata Ghoshroy	A detailed and scholarly study of the evidence presented in the UN special report on the use of Chemical weapons in Ghouta, Syria on 21 August 2013 and a similar report by 'Human Rights Watch' based largely on it. It is a damning indictment of the manner in which UN reports on sensitive matters and the entire HRW organisation are effectively suborned to Western geo-political purposes.
Document:Syria - the rhetoric and the truth	article	13 August 2015	Thierry Meyssan	Thierry Meyssan rubbishes the likelihood of a serious US ground forces operation in Syria because it would trigger a military World War III
Document:Syria:Whose sarin?	article	19 December 2013	Seymour Hersh	In August-September 2013, Barack Obama, David Cameron and François Hollande accused Syria of killing 1,400 opponents in the suburbs of Damascus. Announcing that a red line had been crossed, they threatened to launch a punitive military campaign against Syria. Shortly after, London withdrew, then Washington, and finally Paris.
Document:Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack	article	29 August 2013	Dale Gavlak Yahya Ababneh	Evidence that the chemical weapons attacks in Syria are the work of the Syrian rebels and not government forces.
Document:The Trump Administration’s Syria Gas Attack Narrative Continues to Unravel	Article	18 April 2017	Michael Krieger	United States Government: "They Lied About Iraq; They Lied About Libya; They're Lying About Syria."
Document:US Intel officials say Syria NOT responsible for chemical attack	memo	6 September 2013	Philip Giraldi W. Patrick Lang Ray McGovern Larry Johnson Coleen Rowley David MacMichael Matthew Hoh Elizabeth Murray Todd Pierce Sam Provance Ann Wright Tom Drake
Document:Western rationality on Syria CW attacks	article	7 September 2013	Thierry Meyssan
File:Ghouta-Bad-Intelligence.pdf	report	14 January 2014	Richard Lloyd Theodore Postol	A Massachusetts Institute of Technology report that demolishes claims by the US, UK and French governments that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its own civilian population in the Ghouta area of Damascus on 21 August 2013
File:Postol-debunks-kaszeta.pdf	report	14 July 2014	Theodore Postol	Expose of fraudulent claims made by Dan Kaszeta, the West's favourite source for demonising information on President Assad's alleged guilt for the Ghouta chemical weapons attack of August 2013

 

The Official Culprit

Name	Description
Syria	A nation state in the Middle East being targeted by NATO countries and their terrorist proxies with a "humanitarian intervention"/"War on Terror" campaign to effect 'regime change'.

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