Gasaanval door Syrisch leger nogmaals de grond in geschreven!

Het verhaal dat het bewind van Assad in Syrie gifgas zou hebben gebruikt, is al meermaals als onzin naar de prullenbak verwezen. Dit is echter ‘niet doorgedrongen’ (lees: het past niet in de anti-Assad porpaganda) tot de reguliere westerse media en de westerse politici…..

Hier nogmaals het ware verhaal op ICH (Interantional Clearing House) van 23 oktober jl.:

Hersh
Vindicated? Turkish Whistleblowers Corroborate Story on False Flag
Sarin Attack in Syria

By
Peter Lee

October 23, 2015
“Information
Clearing House”
– “Counterpunch”
– This is quite the bombshell delivered by two CHP deputies in the
Turkish parliament and reported by Today’s Zaman, one of the top
dailies in Turkey.

It supports Seymour
Hersh’s reporting that the notorious sarin gas attack at Ghouta was
a false flag orchestrated by Turkish intelligence in order to cross
President Obama’s chemical weapons “red line” and draw the
United States into the Syria war to topple Assad.

If so, President Obama
deserves credit for “holding the line” against the attack despite
the grumbling and incitement of the Syria hawks at home and abroad.

And it also presents
the unsavory picture of an al-Qaeda operatives colluding with ISIL in
a war crime that killed 1300 civilians.

I find the report
credible, taking into full account the fact that the CHP (Erdogan’s
center-left Kemalist rivals) and Today’s
Zaman
(whose editor-in-chief, Bulent Kenes was recently detained on live TV
for insulting Erdogan in a tweet) are on the outs with Erdogan.

Considering the
furious reaction it can be expected to elicit from Erdogan and the
Turkish government, the temerity of CHP and Today’s
Zaman
in running with this story is a sign of how desperate their struggle
against Erdogan has become.  Note that the author is shown only
as “Columnist: Today’s Zaman”.

I expect the
anti-Erodgan forces hope this will be a game changer in terms of
U.S.and European support for Erdogan.

It will be very
interesting to see if and how the media in the U.S. covers this
story.  In case it doesn’t acquire enough “legs” to make
into US media, I attach the full Zaman piece below:

CHP
deputies: Gov’t rejects probe into Turkey’s role in Syrian
chemical attack

Two
deputies from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)
have claimed that the government is against investigating Turkey’s
role in sending toxic sarin gas which was used in an attack on
civilians in Syria in 2013 and in which over 1,300 Syrians were
killed.

CHP deputies
Eren Erdem and Ali Şeker held a press conference in İstanbul on
Wednesday in which they claimed the investigation into allegations
regarding Turkey’s involvement in the procurement of sarin gas
which was used in the chemical attack on a civil population and
delivered to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL) to enable the attack was derailed.

Taking the
floor first, Erdem stated that the Adana Chief Prosecutor’s Office
launched an investigation into allegations that sarin was sent to
Syria from Turkey via several businessmen. An indictment followed
regarding the accusations targeting the government.

“The MKE
[Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation] is also an
actor that is mentioned in the investigation file. Here is the
indictment. All the details about how sarin was procured in Turkey
and delivered to the terrorists, along with audio recordings, are
inside the file,” Erdem said while waving the file.

Erdem also
noted that the prosecutor’s office conducted detailed technical
surveillance and found that an al-Qaeda militant, Hayyam Kasap,
acquired sarin, adding: “Wiretapped phone conversations reveal the
process of procuring the gas at specific addresses as well as the
process of procuring the rockets that would fire the capsules
containing the toxic gas. However, despite such solid evidence there
has been no arrest in the case. Thirteen individuals were arrested
during the first stage of the investigation but were later released,
refuting government claims that it is fighting terrorism,” Erdem
noted.

Over 1,300
people were killed in the sarin gas attack in Ghouta and several
other neighborhoods near the Syrian capital of Damascus, with the
West quickly blaming the regime of Bashar al-Assad and Russia
claiming it was a “false flag” operation aimed at making US
military intervention in Syria possible.

Suburbs near
Damascus were struck by rockets containing the toxic sarin gas in
August 2013.

The purpose
of the attack was allegedly to provoke a US military operation in
Syria which would topple the Assad regime in line with the political
agenda of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his
government.

CHP deputy
Şeker spoke after Erdem, pointing out that the government misled the
public on the issue by asserting that sarin was provided by Russia.
The purpose was to create the perception that, according to Şeker,
“Assad killed his people with sarin and that requires a US military
intervention in Syria.”

He also
underlined that all of the files and evidence from the investigation
show a war crime was committed within the borders of the Turkish
Republic.

“The
investigation clearly indicates that those people who smuggled the
chemicals required to procure sarin faced no difficulties, proving
that Turkish intelligence was aware of their activities. While these
people had to be in prison for their illegal acts, not a single
person is in jail. Former prime ministers and the interior minister
should be held accountable for their negligence in the incident,”
Şeker further commented.

Erdem also
added that he will launch a criminal complaint against those
responsible, including those who issued a verdict of non-prosecution
in the case, those who did not prevent the transfer of chemicals and
those who first ordered the arrest of the suspects who were later
released.

UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced in late August that an
inquiry had been launched into the gas attacks allegedly perpetuated
by both Assad’s Syrian regime and rebel groups fighting in Syria
since the civil war erupted in 2011.

However,
Erdem is not the only figure who has accused Turkey of possible
involvement in the gas attack. Pulitzer Prize winner and journalist,
Seymour M. Hersh, argued in an article published in 2014 that MİT
was involved with extremist Syrian groups fighting against the Assad
regime.

In his
article, Hersh said Assad was not behind the attack, as claimed by
the US and Europe, but that Turkish-Syrian opposition collaboration
was trying to provoke a US intervention in Syria in order to bring
down the Assad regime.

Peter Lee edits
China Matters and
writes about Asia for CounterPunch.

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