By F. Michael Maloof
A classified document by the U.S. military, confirms that sarin was confiscated earlier this year from members of the Jabhat al-Nusra Front, the most influential of the rebel Islamists fighting in Syria.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36205.htm
Obama s Humiliating Defeat
By Glen Ford
'Obama will be back on the Syria warpath as soon as the proper false flag operations can be arranged.'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36208.htm
From Kabul To Damascus
By Tom Engelhardt
The Saudis are, once more funding and arming extreme fundamentalist forces and, however reluctantly, the U.S. is backing and being backed by them.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36209.htm
Syria: A Strategy For Anarchy
Regime change would not be the end of Syria s troubles but their beginning.
By David Malone
Keep a country in a state of barely contained anarchy and chaos for years on end. Just enough order to extract wealth but not enough to ever unify.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36204.htm
Who Funds Syrian Rebel Advocate O'Bagy and the Syrian Emergency Task Force? You Do
By Charles C. Johnson
The Syrian Emergency Task Force, the pro-rebel lobbying outfit that employs widely quoted intervention advocate Elizabeth O'Bagy as its political director, receives funding from the U.S. Department of State and related government contractors.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36213.htm
Nigel Farage Lambasts `Extreme Militarists` During EU Syria Debate
Video and Transcript
'We have seen it all before. An endless series of military adventures over the course of the last 10 to fifteen years, one of which of course - notably, in Afghanistan is still going on and is not achieving any of its original aims.'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36212.htm
Retired CIA Analyst: US s Evidence on Syria Chemical Attack Fabricated
Elements within the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have fabricated intelligence to implicate the Syrian government in the recent chemical attack in Syria and cater for Washington s case for launching strikes on the Middle-Eastern country, said a retired CIA analyst.
http://is.gd/T3dfH9
Who s a 'Moderate' Rebel in Syria? Check the Handwritten Receipts
The government has little oversight over whether US-funded supplies are falling prey to corruption-or into the hands of extremists.
http://is.gd/ABfTjT
Syrian rebel groups sought to buy materials for chemical weapons, prosecutors say
A public prosecutor completed his indictment as part of the probe into the chemicals seized in the southern province of Hatay on Sept. 12, claiming that jihadist Syrian rebel groups were seeking to buy materials that could be used to produce highly toxic sarin gas.
http://is.gd/7x8UIq
Syrian rebel groups sought sarin gas material, Turkish prosecutors say
An indictment issued in the southern city of Adana alleged that a Syrian national, was in Turkey trying to procure chemical materials for a pair of well-known Islamist rebel blocs, Al Nusra Front and the Ahrar al-Sham Brigades, the reports said.
http://is.gd/MuzGEO
The Inside Story Of How A Fake PhD Hijacked The Syria Debate
Dr. Elizabeth O'Bagy, Syria expert, made quite an impression on Senator John McCain. During Senate hearings, the former Presidential candidate quoted at length from her recent Wall Street Journal op-ed painting a rosy picture of a mostly secular, pro-Western anti-Assad insurgency.
http://is.gd/1jLR4F
Do Syrian Rebels Have Sarin?
By Robert Parry
The likely explanation is that U.S. intelligence agencies have indications that at least some rebel groups possess CW and may have used it in the past.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36244.htm
The end of the rebel alliance?
Tensions escalate in Syria, as self-declared jihadists say Western-backed moderates may be used against them.
http://is.gd/XLkM4m
Russia claims chemical attack in Syria provocation, calls for investigation
'There is a wide variety of evidence that a large-scale provocation was organised in Ghouta on August 21 in order to encourage foreign military intervention in the Syrian conflict,' Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations said
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c32/881321.html
Turkey confirms Syrian rebels with Al Qaida ties sought chemical weapons
This marked the first time that Turkey confirmed claims by Russia and Syria that Al Qaida-aligned rebel militias were acquiring CW precursors for attacks against the Syrian Army and security forces.
http://is.gd/LIoJK9
Were Videos Depicting Victims Of Sarin Attack Faked?
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
One nun puts entire US intel community to shame over 'stage-managed' Syria footage.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36284.htm
Russia says it has proof rebels behind deadly chemical attack in Syria
A senior Russian official Wednesday said that Syria had handed over new evidence showing that rebels had used chemical weapons in a deadly attack near Damascus last month.
http://is.gd/YDvvkX
Hundreds of Syria rebels pledge loyalty to Qaeda groups
Not only individual fighters, but entire units have joined the small but powerful al Qaeda-linked groups, the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in recent days, according to sources inside Syria.
http://is.gd/nmsJhr
U.S.-backed Syrian rebels being shoved aside by radical Islamists
On Wednesday, extremists captured the north Syrian town of Azaz, killing eight Free Syrian Army troops and support personnel and effectively blocking a primary supply route from the nearby Turkish border to Free Syrian Army forces in Aleppo. Turkey closed the border crossing Thursday, while Free Syrian Army forces battled to regain control.
http://is.gd/iZRpGK
Syria s main arms suppliers among least generous aid donors, says Oxfam
France, the most vociferous supporter of the opposition in western Europe, has given less than half its fair share, the Oxfam report found.
http://is.gd/Tu1j3s
Syria: Al-Qaeda as the black operations wing of the US
By John Robles
If the US Government were really engaged in a war on terror they would be providing support for the government of Bashar Al-Assad and cutting all ties with the Saudis.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36295.htm
Syrian rebels turn on each other as 'big tent' strategy collapses
With rebel infighting on the rise, Western-backed Free Syrian Army will have to confront its al-Qaeda problem
http://is.gd/1iDEST
Largest Syrian rebel groups form Islamic alliance, in possible blow to U.S. influence
American hopes of winning more influence over Syria s fractious rebel movement faded Wednesday after 11 of the biggest armed factions repudiated the Western-backed opposition coalition and announced the formation of a new alliance dedicated to creating an Islamic state.
http://tinyurl.com/lr8qsaw
Syrian Islamist rebels slam Western-backed opposition
In a joint statement, 13 rebel groups including a powerful al-Qaeda-linked faction but also more mainstream forces slammed the Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition, saying it no longer represents their interests.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-islamist-rebels-slam-western-backed-opposition/
Foreign extremists dominate Syria fight
Foreign fighters from across the Arab world and beyond are playing an increasingly dominant role in the battle for control of Syria, which has emerged as an even more powerful magnet for jihadist volunteers than Iraq and Afghanistan were in the past decade.
http://tinyurl.com/odyuh9q
From Information Clearing House
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Itself in Violation, US Grandstands on Chemical Weapons Treaty
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/12-2
Saudi Arabia s Real Goals in Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/09/12
Veterans? Group Responds to President Obama s Call to War
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/09/12-5
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Giving New Meaning to the Day After 9/11: Why Saying No to Syria Matters
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch: Once again, we find ourselves at the day after 9/11, and this time America stands alone.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18789-giving-new-meaning-to-the-day-after-9-11-why-saying-no-to-syria-matters
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The CIA Is Pouring into Syria
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/jack-d-douglas/the-cia-and-its-weapons-are-pouring-into-syria/
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Further proof that most Syrian rebels are Islamists
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11680/
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