Before It\'s News[/b] is also reporting the story :
...a Free Syrian Army Rebel has come out and admitted to the Associated Press that the rebels were responsible for the chemical attack in Syria blamed upon Syrian government forces. If this information isn’t bad enough, the rebels also admit that the weapons were supplied to them by US ally Saudi Arabia. Is Barack Obama now going to attack Saudi Arabia and the FSA rebels or will this be overlooked by the globalists and the White House and Syria attacked anyways? A video report is also below.
Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press journalist Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.
“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families….many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,”writes Gavlak.
Rebels told Gavlak that they were not properly trained on how to handle the chemical weapons or even told what they were. It appears as though the weapons were initially supposed to be given to the Al-Qaeda offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra.
“We were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,” one militant named ‘J’ told Gavlak.
His claims are echoed by another female fighter named ‘K’, who told Gavlak, “They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them. We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”
I'm not familiar enough with chemical weapons to know if that really is one.
I have a couple reservations about the story. Mr. Gavlak is identified as an AP reporter, and has indeed written for the AP, but the AP has not picked up this story. Instead, he was apparently reporting for [b]Mint Press News, which I'm unabe to connect to. It could be their website is too busy.
Here is their Twitter feed. And it seems awfully convenient that the "rebels" would claim the weapons came from U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. I'm not saying it isn't true, but I've sort of learned to distrust these sorts of unverifiable claims. And there's no real proof these "rebels" really are who they say they are.
Mint press News has been around for a little over a year and a half. It's run by 25-year-old Mnar Muhawesh, with headquarters in Minneapolis. She will not identify the "retired business people" who invested in the news organization, which raises a few more question marks.
In short, I honestly don't know what to make of this story.
UPDATE:
Mint Press News is back up - or was, anyway.
Here is the link to their website. Onward and upward,
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