rt.com
August 21, 2013
The Middle Eastern newspaper, Al Arabiya, reports that “At
least 1,300 people have been killed in a nerve gas attack on Syria’s
Ghouta region, leading opposition figure George Sabra said on
Wednesday…” The paper went on to claim that the Government of
President Bashar al Assad was responsible for the attacks. If confirmed
it could be the “red line” that US President Obama previously
stated would tip the US into active military intervention in Syria,
using No Fly Zones and active military steps to depose Assad.That in turn could erupt into a conflagration across the Middle East and a Super Power confrontation with Russia and China and Iran on one side, and the USA, UK, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar on the opposite side. Not a happy prospect for world peace at all.
Therefore the story is worth analyzing carefully. When we do, several things jump out as suspicious. First the newspaper breaking the story was Al Arabiya, initially saying that at least 500 people have been killed, according to activists. From there it got picked up by major international media. Making the story more fishy by the minute were reports from different media of the alleged number of dead that changed by the minute – 635 then to 800 by USA Today and 1,300 by Rupert Murdoch’s SkyNews.
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