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		<title>Alarming Footage: Who Is Really Using Chemical Weapons in Syria?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evidence points in disturbing directions.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/theodore-and-walid-shoebat/alarming-footage-who-is-really-using-chemical-weapons-in-syria/sc/" rel="attachment wp-att-183095"><img class=" wp-image-183095 alignleft" title="sc" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/sc.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="167" /></a>In December of last year we <a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/12/16/syrian-rebels-now-have-chemical-weapons/">revealed</a> that the Syrian rebels had in their hands potent chemical weapons and were testing them on rabbits, and we predicted that they will use them on innocents.</p>
<p>Well now it is happening.</p>
<p>Recent new evidence translated from Arabic sources reveals the likelihood that it was the Muslim rebels (FSA) &#8212; and not the Assad regime &#8212; that carried out a chemical attack on the town of Khan al-Assal, west of Aleppo.</p>
<p>We have captured clips that were never translated (until now) showing rebels revealing heavy arsenals including weapons of mass destruction that contain chemical agents.</p>
<p>Russia says that it was the FSA that carried out the massacre while the White House <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/03/19/white-house-syria-rebels-chemical-weapons/1999563/">says</a> that there is no evidence that the rebels are responsible.</p>
<p>In Arab circles, the blaming goes back and forth. The Syrian government blames the FSA and vise-versa.</p>
<p>So who do we believe?</p>
<p>Even if we examine the sources in Arabic we find that the reporting on this story is usually done by <a id="_GPLITA_1" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2013/03/25/alarming-footage-syrian-rebels-used-chemical-weapons/#">masters</a> of confusion. For example, how can an FSA reporter film an exploded chemical rocket at a close distance and remain alive?</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ICHQIKQPiU4" frameborder="0" width="420" height="315"></iframe></p>
<p>But if we examine the videos during all the clashes between the FSA and the Syrian military we find much evidence from footage never seen in the West (until now) showing that weapons cache of scuds, tanks, Sam-7 rockets and even weapons of mass destruction (chemical as well as biological) are falling into the hands of FSA rebels.</p>
<p>In one <a id="_GPLITA_0" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2013/03/25/alarming-footage-syrian-rebels-used-chemical-weapons/#">video</a> that we found, the Syrian rebels, after taking an airbase, show the substantial amount of scud missiles now in their hands:</p>
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<p>And just when you think that these rebels are too primitive to figure out how to fire these missiles, here is a video of them actually launching one:</p>
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<p>The chemical attack in Khan al-Assal is said to have been done by Assad, but as people are swayed to believing the jihadist rebels, we have first hand testimony from just one of the multitude of victims of this tragedy:</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qNdLXmiwtEU" frameborder="0" width="425" height="315"></iframe></p>
<p>Also, there are some important facts that we have to take into perspective:</p>
<p>The assault happened in the town of Khan al-Assal, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9950036/Syria-chemical-weapons-finger-pointed-at-jihadists.html">a predominately Shiite town</a>. The Syrian revolution <a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/08/13/obama-administration-supports-islamists-in-syria-but-stops-revolution-against-the-hitler-of-sudan/">is a Sunni movement</a>, and one of its main goals is to remove the Shiite Assad regime. The town has also been a common victim <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9950036/Syria-chemical-weapons-finger-pointed-at-jihadists.html">of attacks by Al-Qaeda</a>, a Sunni organization. This is an indication that the attack was conducted by Sunnis, and not the government &#8212; which is Shiite.</p>
<p>Moreover, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9950036/Syria-chemical-weapons-finger-pointed-at-jihadists.html">neither the rebels nor the government deny</a> that amongst the victims were military personal. In fact, it is said that out of the 26 dead <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/un-to-investigate-chemical-weapons-use-in-syria/2013/03/21/2f497eee-9230-11e2-9cfd-36d6c9b5d7ad_story.html">16 were Syrian soldiers. </a></p>
<p>Why would a Shiite government orchestrate a terrorist attack on its own soldiers especially in a Shiite town?</p>
<p>Assad is very loyal to his own sect &#8212; the Alawites &#8212; which is a part of Shia Islam, and they in turn are loyal to him. This allegiance is so strong that, according to Middle East expert Walid Phares, if Assad ever escaped from the rebels and hid in the northwestern part of Syria, where most of the Alawites live, and his enemies came to attack there, he would use chemical weapons “to defend his own community.”</p>
<p>Khan al-Assal, the place of the attack, is in the northwestern part of Syria, to where Assad would flee, and the region that he would be willing to defend.</p>
<p>Furthermore, a medic at the local civilian <a id="_GPLITA_2" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2013/03/25/alarming-footage-syrian-rebels-used-chemical-weapons/#">hospital</a> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9950036/Syria-chemical-weapons-finger-pointed-at-jihadists.html">said</a> that he personally saw soldiers attending to the wounded at the scene of the attack.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9950036/Syria-chemical-weapons-finger-pointed-at-jihadists.html">Another factor</a> that deserves attention is that the device used for the attack was not advanced; both American and independent weapons analysts confirm this. If the Assad regime had done last week’s incursion, then it would have utilized something of a more sophisticated arsenal.</p>
<p>Also, if the government was behind this, the attack would have killed more than just 26 people, since Syria<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/03/what-are-chemical-weapons-and-how-would-syria-use-them/274220/"> is said</a> to own the largest chemical arsenal in the region.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9950036/Syria-chemical-weapons-finger-pointed-at-jihadists.html">It is reported</a> that the Syrian military believes that the assault was done by launching into the town a home-made rocket containing CL17, a type of chlorine that can be found at your local swimming pool.</p>
<p>Though this was a small attack, chlorine can be used to implement very significant destruction on human populations.<a href="http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/industrial-chemicals-weapons-chlorine/"> According to</a> Benjamin Brodsky, writing for the Monterey Institute of International Studies:</p>
<blockquote><p>The worst industrial accident in history is illustrative: 40 metric tons of methyl isocyanate was released from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, on December 3, 1984. The resulting plume killed at least 3,000 people downwind and injured more than 100,000. A sufficiently large release of elemental chlorine may be capable of exacting a comparable toll, particularly if it were to be discharged in a highly populated civilian area.</p></blockquote>
<p>Another point is that if Assad was indeed the attacker in this scenario, then the media would be making full scale reports affirming that he is the perpetrator. The White House would be confirming it, the U.N. would be confirming it–but they are not.</p>
<p>It makes no sense that Assad would all of a sudden order such a strike in the first place, since he is worried about the repercussion of negative international responses. Walid Phares has made this point:</p>
<blockquote><p>He is going to try not to use it [the chemical weapons] as much as as he can because he knows the international reaction is going to be very tough.</p></blockquote>
<p>But, all of these facts have not stopped John McCain and Lindsay Graham from calling for U.S. intervention and the granting of weapons to the jihadists. In a recent <a href="http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&amp;ContentRecord_id=84315d03-b017-6943-0169-f18538e13669&amp;Region_id=&amp;Issue_id=">joint statement</a>, the two Republican senators wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>We are extremely disturbed by reports that chemical weapons have been used today in Syria. President Obama has said that the use of weapons of mass destruction by Bashar Assad is a ‘red line’ for him that ‘will have consequences.’ If today’s reports are substantiated, the President’s red line has been crossed, and we would urge him to take immediate action to impose the consequences he has promised. That should include the provision of arms to vetted Syrian opposition groups, targeted strikes against Assad’s aircraft and SCUD missile batteries on the ground, and the establishment of safe zones inside Syria to protect civilians and opposition groups. If today’s reports are substantiated, the tragic irony will be that these are the exact same actions that could have prevented the use of weapons of mass destruction in Syria.</p></blockquote>
<p>The facts do not stop Republican Mike Rogers from affirming that it is a “high probability” that Assad used chemical weapons, as can be found in a recent interview:</p>
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<p>America is in, to a degree, intervening in the Syrian situation.</p>
<p>One diplomatic source has <a href="http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/03/22/sources-obama-administration-ordered-cia-training-for-syrian-rebels/">stated</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Scores of U.S. military advisers in Jordan are training the rebels.</p></blockquote>
<p>It has also been <a href="http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/03/22/sources-obama-administration-ordered-cia-training-for-syrian-rebels/">said</a> that that training and weapons has been financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and that the goal of the U.S. and NATO is to make the rebels into a formidable fighting force “capable of countering the Syrian Army.”</p>
<p>Our primary concern should be that one day our own nation will work with NATO to militarily strike the Assad regime and allow the revolutionaries to prevail. Such an act will not only enable Islamic fundamentalism to further expand, but it will empower Turkey to commence its much aspired empire &#8212; that is &#8212; a revived Ottoman empire.</p>
<p><strong>Theodore Shoebat and Walid Shoebat are the authors of the book,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Tyranny-When-Nations-Natural/dp/0982567901"> For God or For Tyranny</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>Syrian Rebels Now Have Chemical Weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A glimpse at the nightmare when Assad goes down.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/theodore-and-walid-shoebat/syrian-rebels-now-have-chemical-weapons/syria-8/" rel="attachment wp-att-169885"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-169885" title="syria" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/syria1.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="187" /></a>We have heard repeatedly from politicians and pundits alike that Assad may very well be using his chemical weapons against the rebels. A number of days ago John Baird, Canada’s foreign minister, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/12/11/pol-baird-syria-chemical-weapons.html">expressed</a> his fear that Assad will be using chemical weapons on his own people.</p>
<p>Well, we have warned <a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/11/05/associated-press-finally-takes-notice-of-atrocities-committed-by-syrian-rebels/">numerous times</a>, it&#8217;s the Syrian rebels who we need to worry about &#8212; not Assad. The rebels have seized chemical weapons, and they are willing to use them on innocent people. According to <a href="http://www.elaph.com/Web/news/2012/12/778492.html?entry=arab">Russia Today</a>, Syrian rebels have obtained chemical weapons from Libya and are planning on using them on civilians, and then blaming it on Assad. This is an effort between the Syrian rebels and their allies in Turkey, alongside cooperation with Libyan rebels under Abdel Hakim bel Haj.</p>
<p>The Al-Rih al-Sarsar Chemical Brigade in Syria, according to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/new.syria1/posts/453603591362326">The Campaign to Return to Emergency Law</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>carries out science experiments on animals by poisoning them, using toxic gases, and says the allies of the Syrian government will be poisoned just like the animals.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here is a video released by the brigade showing the chemical powders they are planning on using to kill civilians who support Assad:</p>
<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/12/16/syrian-rebels-now-have-chemical-weapons/syria-rabbit-911/" rel="attachment wp-att-34333">Video of chemicals</a>.</p>
<p>Notice, the company name for these materials is <a href="http://www.tekkim.com.tr/">Tekkim</a>, a chemical factory in Turkey. The Syrian media reports that the Turks are involved in giving these materials to Syria.</p>
<p>How are the rebels testing these chemicals? On rabbits:</p>
<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/12/16/syrian-rebels-now-have-chemical-weapons/ted-syria-rabbit-303/" rel="attachment wp-att-34337">Video of Syrian rebels testing chemicals on rabbits</a>.</p>
<p>Where is the outcry of PETA on this animal cruelty?</p>
<p>This is the answer that these terrorists give in regards to how they will use these chemicals:</p>
<blockquote><p>By Allah it did not take 1 minute of breathing, and you will see Allah willing, what will the chemical and biological weapons do to you.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/12/16/syrian-rebels-now-have-chemical-weapons/ted-syria-rabbit-202/" rel="attachment wp-att-34335">Watch rebel speech</a></p>
<p>They are planning on using the weapons on civilians after the Assad regime falls.</p>
<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/12/16/syrian-rebels-now-have-chemical-weapons/video-of-syrian-rebels-with-long-range-missiles/" rel="attachment wp-att-34351">There is also another video which we have found of long range missiles in the hands of the rebels which they stole after taking over the Al-Hajar al-Aswad Air Force base.</a></p>
<p>So we can talk about our fears of Assad using chemical weapons, but what we can be sure of, and what we cannot ignore, is that if Assad goes down (and we believe he will) the rebels will use chemical weaponry on civilians.</p>
<p><strong>Walid and Theodore Shoebat are the authors of, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Tyranny-When-Nations-Natural/dp/0982567901">For God or For Tyranny.</a></strong></p>
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