AFP Warned in June: “Iraqis Uncover Sarin Gas Lab With Ties to U.S. Ally
in Syria;” Pulitzer-Prize Winner Seymour Hersh Confirms
December
04, 2013 AFP
Seymour
M. Hersh, the Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist, has just penned
a 5,515-word essay entitled “Whose sarin?” in the London Review of
Books, where he states that “Barack Obama did not tell the
whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was
responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August,” bolstering
the position taken by AMERICAN FREE PRESS reporter Richard Walker, a seasoned
international correspondent with many high-placed European intelligence
contacts.
Iraqis Uncover Sarin Gas Lab With Ties to U.S.
Ally in Syria
• Proves rebels, not Assad, using chemical
weapons in civil war
By Richard Walker
A
sustained campaign by Washington and its allies to hide the fact some Syrian rebel groups have been making and using chemical weapons could come back to haunt political leaders like
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) and President
Barack Hussein Obama.
On June
2, Iraq announced it had captured a five-man cell operating two chemical
weapons facilities in Baghdad for the manufacture of sarin
and mustard gas. These men planned to use some
of the gas in Syria and the rest in Europe and
the United States.
What made
the capture of the cell significant was its links to Jabhat
al-Nusra, one of the major militias
fighting to overthrow the Syrian government.
The
Baghdad arrests came days after Turkish anti-terror police raided the homes of
Jabhat al-Nusra members living in Adana in the southern part
of the country. Immediate reports from a wide range
of credible sources inside and beyond Turkey
claimed a cylinder of sarin gas was found in one of
the homes. Turkish authorities, who support Syrian
rebels, tried to play down those reports.
Both
events appeared to support a controversial announcement made weeks earlier by Carla Del Ponte, a member of a United Nations (UN)
commission investigating the use of chemical
weapons in the Syrian conflict. She said interviews with victims appeared to
show anti-Assad rebels had used sarin gas. The
findings, she admitted, had surprised her.
Famous as a renowned war-crimes prosecutor, she stunned Washington and its anti-Assad coalition, which had consistently
claimed only the Assad regime possessed and
used chemical weapons.
Very
quickly the UN, perhaps under pressure from Washington, London and Paris, tried
to dial back her revelation. For example
the UN international commission, of which she
was a member, issued a statement saying it did not have “incontrovertible proof” to support her claim.
For more
than a year, Washington and its allies, including Israel,
had been claiming, without proof, that only the government of Bashar al-Assad, and not the rebels supported by the West, had
used chemical weapons. Israel, not
surprisingly, had threatened to bomb Syria’s
chemical weapons facilities. On December 5,
2012, Hillary Clinton had warned North Atlantic Treaty
Organization foreign ministers Assad as a last
resort might put chemical weapons on warheads
to drop them on rebels.
Efforts
by Washington to imply only the Syrian regime could possibly have chemical
weapons are deliberate lies. Sarin was used
in 1995 by the Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese religious cult, to kill
people in the Tokyo subway. They had enough
materials to make sufficient sarin to kill
millions of people. Many of those materials can be easily acquired in Israel or
in Sunni Arab states supporting the Syrian rebels.
Moscow
has consistently warned Washington and the EU their support for the rebels will
embolden extreme elements
among them. Such a policy, Moscow has argued, will come back to bite the West.
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