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La corresponsal de la más importante agencia de noticias de Estados
Unidos –Associated Press- que se encuentra reportando desde el barrio de
Ghouta, aledaño de Damasco, donde murieron centenares de personas por
un ataque con armas químicas, asegura tener declaraciones de primera
mano que afirman que hubo un “error de manipulación” de los rebeldes
–que ocultaban armas químicas- lo que causó la catástrofe.
La periodista Dave Gavlak-
trabajando como free-lance de AP en el frente sirio- afirmó tener
múltiples entrevistas con residentes y rebeldes en el barrio Ghouta,
donde los involucrados reconocen que hubo “un accidente”, cuando los tubos que tenían los potentes químicos detonaron y se expandieron antes de tener tiempo para hacer nada.
Abu Abdel-Moneim, residente en Ghouta y padre de un rebelde, dijo que su
hijo murió junto a otros 12 combatientes en el interior de un túnel,
utilizado como almacén de armas recibidas de manos de un yihadista saudí,
Abu Ayesha, comandante de un batallón insurgente. El padre describió
las armas que custodiaba su hijo: tenían “una estructura de tubo”, y
otras eran como “una enorme botella de gas”.
Varios combatientes rebeldes denunciaron que nadie les había dicho
qué tipo de armas eran ni cómo usarlas, y aceptaron la existencia de las
bombonas, que fueron “mal manipuladas” produciéndose una serie de explosiones.
Arabia Saudí es conocida como la principal fuente de financiación y
de entrega de armas a los rebeldes sirios, a través de sus servicios de
Inteligencia. Riad tiene un interés particular en la caída del régimen
de Assad, por el apoyo que recibe de Irán, enemigo histórico de Arabia
Saudí.
El artículo de Dale Gavlak no fue difundido por Asociated Press sino
por otra agencia para la que colabora también la periodista, Mint Press
News.
Rusia insiste: “Auténtico disparate” acusar al gobierno sirio
El presidente ruso Vladimir Putin insistió este domingo en calificar
como un “verdadero disparate” el responsabilizar al gobierno sirio por
la muerte de más de 1.200 personas en un ataque químico contra la
población civil. El mandatario dijo a la prensa en Vladivostok que quienes
“dicen que las fuerzas gubernamentales utilizaron armas de destrucción
masiva, si tienen pruebas de ello, que las presenten a los inspectores de la ONU y al Consejo de Seguridad”, remarcó en clara alusión a los Estados Unidos y sus aliados.
“Cuando afirman que estas pruebas no pueden ser presentadas a
nadie por ser información clasificada, hacen una falta de respeto
descarada a sus socios“, les endilgó.
Apuntó también a la incapacidad de Washington para manejar la cuestión por la vía armada. “¿Acaso se resolvió aunque sea un sólo problema en Afganistán, Irak o Libia? Porque allí no hay ni paz ni democracia alguna como supuestamente pretendían: no hay ni una paz civil elemental ni equilibrio”, sentenció.
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Militants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
August 30, 2013
Infowars.com
August 30, 2013
Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have
admitted to Associated Press correspondent 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. (back up version here).
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.”
Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of an opposition rebel,
also told Gavlak, “My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought
the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” describing them as
having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas
bottle.” The father names the Saudi militant who provided the weapons as
Abu Ayesha.
According to Abdel-Moneim, the weapons exploded inside a tunnel, killing 12 rebels.
“More than a dozen rebels interviewed reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government,” writes Gavlak.
If accurate, this story could completely derail the
United States’ rush to attack Syria which has been founded on the
“undeniable” justification that Assad was behind the chemical weapons
attack. Dale Gavlak’s credibility is very impressive. He has been a
Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press for two decades and has also worked for National Public Radio (NPR) and written articles forBBC News.
The website on which the story originally appeared -
Mint Press (which is currently down as a result of huge traffic it is
attracting to the article) is a legitimate media organization based in
Minnesota. The Minnesota Post did a profile on them last year.
Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in providing rebels, whom
they have vehemently backed at every turn, with chemical weapons, is no
surprise given the revelations earlier this week that the Saudis
threatened Russia with terror attacks at next year’s Winter Olympics in
Sochi unless they abandoned support for the Syrian President.
“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter
Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the
games are controlled by us,” Prince Bandar allegedly told Vladimir
Putin, the Telegraph reports.
The Obama administration is set to present its
intelligence findings today in an effort prove that Assad’s forces were
behind last week’s attack, despite American officials admitting to the New York Times that there is no “smoking gun” that directly links President Assad to the attack.
US intelligence officials also told the Associated Press that the intelligence proving Assad’s culpability is “no slam dunk.”
As we reported earlier this week, intercepted
intelligence revealed that the Syrian Defense Ministry was making
“panicked” phone calls to Syria’s chemical weapons department demanding
answers in the hours after the attack, suggesting that it was not
ordered by Assad’s forces.
UPDATE: Associated Press contacted us
to confirm that Dale Gavlak is an AP correspondent, but that her story
was not published under the banner of the Associated Press. We didn’t
claim this was the case, we merely pointed to Gavlak’s credentials to
stress that she is a credible source, being not only an AP
correspondent, but also having written for PBS, BBC and Salon.com.
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