Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
August 23, 2013
300 handpicked rebel militants trained by the US, Israel
and Jordan entered Syria and began advancing towards Damascus in the
days before an alleged chemical weapons attack, the French newspaper Le
Figaro is reporting.
“The rebels were trained for several months in a
training camp on the Jordanian-Syrian border by CIA operatives, as well
as Jordanian and Israeli commandos,” reports the Jerusalem Post.
Four days before the announcement that a chemical
weapons attack had taken place near Damascus, a group of FSA fighters
crossed into the Deraa region, followed by a second contingent on August
19th.
The CIA began conducting covert training of the rebels – despite their links to Al-Qaeda - late last year, advising them on how to use anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons.
In the absence of any independent evidence that Assad’s
forces were behind this week’s alleged chemical weapons attack, several
countries have seized upon the story to threaten military action, with
numerous lawmakers in Congress who had initially opposed arming the
rebels now “beginning to reconsider intervention,” according to Foreign Policy.
Whether the alleged chemical weapons attack was an attempt by the Assad regime to target the militants, or as Russia asserts it
was a conveniently timed “planned provocation” carried out by the
rebels themselves to coincide with the movement of CIA-trained FSA
militants, remains to be seen.
Numerous impartial analysts have commented on how it
makes little sense for Assad’s forces to have carried out such an attack
days after UN chemical weapons inspectors entered the country.
