Two Years Ago: The Ghouta Chemical Attacks: US-Backed False Flag? Killing Syrian Children to Justify a “Humanitarian” Military Intervention
This article was first published in September 2014.
Mother Agnes Mariam de la Croix, author of the controversial ISTEAMS Report
The chemical attacks which took place in East Ghouta on August 21, 2013 could be the most horrific false flag operation in history.
To date, available evidence indicates that numerous children were killed by “opposition rebels”, their bodies manipulated and filmed with a view to blaming the Syrian government for the attacks, thus sparking outrage and galvanizing worldwide public opinion in favor of another bloody, imperial US-led war.
While confirming the use of chemical weapons against civilians, the UN report has failed to identify the authors of the attacks:
Instead of a non-politicized
investigation and lab analysis, the UN investigation of alleged
nerve-gas attacks inside Syria was led by Professor Ake Sellstrom, a man
of mystery who keeps a veil of secrecy around his research and
political-military relationships…
This cosmetic veneer of Swedish
neutrality has been deftly exploited by Israel and NATO to perpetrate
falsehoods throughout Sellstrom’s work for the UN, including denial of
the chemical-and-biological causes for “Gulf War Syndrome” and the
shipments of U.S. chemical weapons to the Saddam Hussein regime…
What is publicly known about Sellstrom is that the biochemist heads the European CBRNE Center
[Center for advanced Studies of Societal Security and Vulnerability, in
particular major incidents with (C)hemical, (B)iological,
(R)adiological, (N)uclear and (E)xplosive substances], at Umea
University in northern Sweden, which is sponsored by the Swedish Defense
Ministry (FOI)…
Umea University is deeply involved in
joint research with Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), the
Haifa-based university that provides state-of-art technology to the
Israel Defense Force (IDF) and its intelligence agencies. Several
departments, which are involved in joint Israeli research, participate
in multidisciplinary studies at Sellstrom’s CBRNE center…
American ambassador to the UN Samantha
Power made emphatically clear that the “nerve gas used in Syria was more
concentrated than the nerve gas in Iraq.” Her statement should be
rephrased as: “Saddam may have trans-shipped U.S.-supplied nerve gas
into Syria, but it wasn’t our nerve gas used against Syrian civilians.”
That is the essential point of the
Sellstrom report: To take Washington off the hook for being the major
supplier of nerve gas precursors, formulations, delivery technology and
storage systems to the Middle East, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, Iraq
and very possibly Syria (during the Clinton era of good will).
The UN report of chemical weapons on
Syria lacks basic credibility due to the duplicitous record of its chief
inspector, Ake Sellstrom, who is politically and financially
compromised at every level. (Yoichi Shimatsu, The Sellstrom Report: The United Nations’ Syria Inspector Shills for NATO and Israel)
A day before the release of the UN Mission report, another carefully
documented report by Mother Agnes Mariam de la Croix and the
International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria (ISTEAMS) was released
with minimal media coverage. (To read the full report in pdf click here large pdf slow download)Its findings are unequivocal: the videos used by the US and its allies as evidence to blame the Syrian government were staged.
The study says:
From the moment when some families of
abducted children contacted us to inform us that they recognized the
children among those who are presented in the videos as victims of the
Chemical Attacks of East Ghouta, we decided to examine the videos
thoroughly…
Our first concern was the fate of the
children we see in the footages. Those angels are always alone in the
hands of adult males that seem to be elements of armed gangs. The
children that trespassed remain without their families and unidentified
all the way until they are wrapped in the white shrouds of the burial.
Moreover our study highlights without any doubt that their little bodies
were manipulated and disposed with theatrical arrangements to figure in
the screening.
If the studied footages were edited and
published to exhibit pieces of evidence to accuse the Syrian State of
perpetrating the chemical attacks on East Ghouta, our discoveries
incriminate the editors and actors of forged facts through a lethal
manipulation of unidentified children. (Mother Agnes Mariam de la Croix
and the International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria (ISTEAMS), The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria)
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya who examined the report writes:
The independent ISTEAMS study contradicts
the assertions of the Obama Administration and the entire US
Intelligence Community […] through simple observations of the video
material that has been put forward as evidence by the United States.
The ISTEAMS report does not deny that
chemical weapons were used or that innocent Syrians have been killed.
What the study does is logically point out through its observations that
there is empirical evidence that the sample of videos that the US
Intelligence Community has analyzed and nominated as authentic footage
has been stage-managed. This is an important finding, because it
refutes the assertions of the representatives of the US Intelligence
agencies who testified that the videos they authenticated provide
evidence that a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government took
place in East Ghouda. (Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Look With Your Own Eyes: The Videos of the Chemical Attacks in Syria Show Tampered Scenes)
A lot of things do not add up in the footage presented by the US government.
The same little boy in red is in two different locations
At least nine of these children appear in different footage from different locations
A little boy that appears in two different videos with two different scenarios
Among a series of important findings, the ISTEAMS report notes that
even though the attacks are said to have killed up to 1400 people,
mostly children appear in the videos and several corpses are shown in
different videos said to have been shot in various locations.While this report seriously challenges the assertion that the Syrian government was behind the attacks, it was not covered by the Western mainstream media, toeing the imperial line and parroting Washington’s claims, which still lack evidence and credibility.
In addition, some controversy arose pertaining to allegations that the rebels were responsible for the attacks and used chemical weapons provided by Saudi intelligence. Dale Gavlak, the co-author of an article containing these allegations, now wants to dissociate herself from the article and is facing threats. Her career is in jeopardy:
The MintPress article, published on 29th
August, through interviews with rebels, family members, and villagers in
Eastern Ghouta, alleges that elements within the opposition were
responsible for the alleged chemical weapons attack on 21st August, and
that those chemical munitions had been supplied through Saudi
intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan…
Dale is under mounting pressure for
writing this article by third parties. She notified MintPress editors
and myself on August 30th and 31st via email and phone call, that third
parties were placing immense amounts of pressure on her over the article
and were threatening to end her career over it. She went on to tell us
that she believes this third party was under pressure from the head of
the Saudi Intelligence Prince Bandar himself, who is alleged in the
article of supplying the rebels with chemical weapons.
On August 30th, Dale asked MintPress to
remove her name completely from the byline because she stated that her
career and reputation was at risk. She continued to say that these third
parties were demanding her to disassociate herself from the article or
these parties would end her career. On August 31st, I notified Dale
through email that I would add a clarification that she was the writer
and researcher for the article and that Yahya [Ababneh] was the reporter
on the ground, but did let Gavlak know that we would not remove her
name as this would violate the ethics of journalism. (Phil Greaves, Syria: Controversy surrounding MintPress Chemical Weapons Ghouta Report)
The information according to which Saudi intelligence was allegedly
implicated in the Ghouta chemical attacks was mentioned by a UN official
who wished to remain anonymous:
A senior United Nations official who
deals directly with Syrian affairs has told Al-Akhbar that the Syrian
government had no involvement in the alleged Ghouta chemical weapons
attack: “Of course not, he (President Bashar al-Assad) would be
committing suicide.”
When asked who he believed was
responsible for the use of chemical munitions in Ghouta, the UN
official, who would not permit disclosure of his identity, said:“Saudi intelligence was behind the attacks and unfortunately nobody will dare say that.” The official claims that this information was provided by rebels in Ghouta…
The UN official’s accusations mirror
statements made earlier this year by another senior UN figure Carla del
Ponte, who last May told Swiss TV in the aftermath of alleged CW attacks
in Khan al-Asal, Sheik Maqsood and Saraqeb that there were “strong,
concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels had
carried out the attack. Del Ponte also observed that UN inspectors had
seen no evidence of the Syrian army using chemical weapons, but added
that further investigation was necessary. (Sharmine Narwani and Radwan
Mortada, Questions Plague UN Syria Report. Who was behind the East Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack?)
All of the above leads us to believe that this attack was one of the
most horrific crimes committed in modern history, a diabolical staged
operation which consisted in killing small children, producing fake
video footage and photo ops of the corpses, all of which was intended to
fabricate a pretext for military intervention under a humanitarian
mandate.The mainstream media which has obfuscated these crimes bear a heavy burden of responsibility. The New York Times has smeared the findings of Mother Agnes and her team, accusing her of “defending the regime” and “playing the Christian card”. The NYT casually dismisses the evidence that the videos are fake. Read the ISTEAMS Report and then judge for yourself.
The war criminals who designed and launched this diabolical staged operation must face justice.
Procedures in the United Nations Security Council directed against the Syrian government must be suspended.
We invite our readers to consult the ISTEAMS Report, as well as the following GR articles and video production: Please share these articles and the ISTEAMS report!
GRTV VIDEO: How the Syrian Chemical Weapons Videos Were Staged By , September 19, 2013
The Full ISTeam Report The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria,
Mother Agnes Mariam and the International Support Team for Mussalaha in
Syria (ISTEAMS), Geneva, 15 September 2013 [pdf slow download]
The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria By , September 16, 2013
One Nun Puts the US Intel Community to Shame Over “Stage-Managed” Syria Footage By , September 24, 2013Syria: Fabricating Chemical Lies. Who is Behind the East Ghouta Attacks? By , September 17, 2013
The Sellstrom Report: The United Nations’ Syria Inspector Shills for NATO and Israel By , September 18, 2013
The Syria Chemical Weapons Attack: Human Rights Watch is Manipulating the Facts By , September 24, 2013
Saudi Arabia’s “Chemical Bandar” behind the Chemical Attacks in Syria? By , September 06, 2013
Syria: Controversy surrounding MintPress Chemical Weapons Ghouta Report By , September 22, 2013
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