Propaganda Overdrive Suggests Syria War Coming SoonBrandon Turbeville For instance, while the typical narrative coming from the majority of mainstream media outlets such as NPR,[1] the Wall Street Journal,[2] CNN,[3]and the New York Daily News clearly implies that Bashar al-Assad was most likely the guilty party behind the attacks, the reasons to not only question the claims in this regard but to actually believe the opposite are legion. Indeed, in predictable fashion, the United States government is now claiming[4] that is has strong indications that chemical weapons have been used and that the culprit was clearly [by] the government. Such propaganda, of course, hearkens back to the days of Incubator Babies and Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. France, however, is doing whatever it can to take the lead in imperialism and warmongering with Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius stating[5] that a reaction with force might be needed if it is determined that it was the Syrian government who used the chemical weapons. As I wrote in my article, New Chemical Weapons Attack In Syria Another False Flag?[6] it has been the case with every other propaganda push against Assad regarding chemical weapons, that there is absolutely no evidence to implicate the Syrian government in the launching and use of chemical agents against the Syrian people or even the death squads themselves. In fact, the accounts being published throughout the mainstream media are very suspect in their own right. selfnewss say, of course, can be translated merely to mean death squads say, as the activists being referred to are indeed nothing more than terrorist killers politically, ideologically, and physically invested in the outcome and presentation of the Syrian crisis. In short, these individuals have a vested interest in the blame for these attacks being placed on Assad, popular opinion being turned against the Syrian government, and some type of condemnation or military action being taken against the Syrian army. Second, the location of the attack is heavily suspect. The Ghouta region, where the attacks allegedly took place, is an area that had been overrun with death squad organizations such as Jabhat al-Nusra and at one point. However, it is also interesting to note that the attacks come at a time after the area had been liberated by Syrian government forces as far back as May, 2013[7] and is now largely free of death squad activity. This suggests that the death squads themselves may have detonated chemical weapons as a move of desperation and coordination with NATO/Anglo-American interests seeking to justify military action against Syria. Third, and even more interesting, is the fact that the chemical weapons attacks come just days after a team of U.N. chemical experts entered Damascus and checked into a hotel a few miles from the targeted area. With this in mind, one must ask why would Assad order the use of chemical weapons in this area at such an inopportune time? Given the track record of Assads cleverness, this seems to be an incredibly foolish move, even as the Syrian army has gained the clear upper hand against the death squads. Why detonate chemical weapons in front of UN chemical experts? Why wait until after they arrive to do so? Why detonate chemical weapons so close to them? These questionable details have caused even mainstream experts to hesitate[8] when commenting on the nature of the alleged chemical attacks. For instance, Charles Lister, an analyst at IHS Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Center, stated, BBC security correspondent Frank Garnder also stated something similar, when he said, Firstly, the timing is odd, bordering on suspicious. Why would the Assad government, which has recently been retaking ground from the rebels, carry out a chemical attack while UN weapons inspectors are in the country? Likewise, Swedish diplomat and former UN weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus stated to Reuters that, It would be very peculiar if it was the government to do this at the exact moment the international inspectors come into the country.at the least, it wouldnt be very clever. Another Swede, chemical weapons expert Ake Sellstrom, who is currently leading the UN inspection team in Syria told SVT[9] that the large number of victims being reported sounded suspicious.[4] In addition, soon after the attacks, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexansdr Lukashevich stated that the attacks may have been a provocation planned in advance promoted for political purposes by biased regional media. Lukashevich also said, It draws attention to the fact that biased regional media have immediately, as if on command, begun an aggressive information attack, laying all the responsibility on the government. When Lukashevich refers to biased regional media he most likely means news agencies such as Al-Arabiya who, according to William Engdahl,[10] was the agency who broke the initial story regarding claims of 500 deaths from chemical attacks, reports which were taken almost entirely from activists aka death squads. After the initial reports were made by Al-Arabiya the massive wave of Western media picked up the story and ran with it, inflating the numbers of victims almost every hour, finally reaching claims of 1,300 deaths. As Engdahl writes, In addition, the Russian spokesman also added that A homemade rocket with a poisonous substance that has not been identified yet one similar to the rocket used by terrorists on March 19 in Khan al-Assal was fired early on August 21 [at Damascus suburbs] from a position occupied by the insurgents. As RT reported in their article Russia suggests Syria chemical attack was planned provocation by rebels, Lukashevich and the Russian government have ample reason[13] to suspect that the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria was the handiwork of the death squads instead of the Syrian government. Since the ridiculous red line talk has been repeated in government halls and press conferences since late 2012 by both President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well as French President Francois Hollande, the idea that the Syrian government would be the party to actually use chemical weapons was patently absurd from the beginning. As far back as June 2012, the pieces were clearly seen being moved into place in order to create the environment and subsequent chain of events for a successful false flag attack used to justify an invasion of or, at the very least, some limited military action against Syria. However, the more hidden aspects being used to create infrastructure for such an event could be seen going back even further. For instance, in November, 2011, it was reported in The Telegraph[14] that the transitional government of terrorists, Muslim Brotherhood, andNATO puppets in Libya[15] were offering to send money, personnel[16] (aka terrorists[17] and mercenaries), and weapons to the death squads operating in Syria. It was largely understood, at least after the initial announcement of the weapons deal, that the weapons in question included chemical weapons. Later, in June of 2012, it was reported by Russia Today[18] that these weapons had indeed found themselves into the hands of the death squads by virtue of their Libyan counterparts now acting as head of the failed Libyan State. RT stated that, They allegedly plan to use it against civilians and pin the atrocity on the Bashar al-Assad regime. Thus, it should be noted that the London Guardian[19] reported that the Libya possessed 25 metric tonnes of bulk mustard agent and 1,400 metric tonnes of precursor chemical used to make chemical weapons. It was also reported in August of 2012[20] that the death squads had managed to capture a missile site belonging to the Syrian army which contained chemical weapons. The death squads erroneously claimed that the reason for attacking the site was to prevent the Assad government from using the weapons against members of the opposition. Regardless, one does not have to speculate very much as to the possibilities available here in June, the death squads gain access to chemical weapons. In August, they gain access to a delivery mechanism in the form of missiles. It is just such a coincidence that should cause one to examine another event which occurred shortly before the assault on the missile site. In July 2012, Tony Cartalucci of LandDestroyerReport,[21] described reports of so-called Free Syrian Army militants seen trying on gas masks, along with reports of Libyan chemical weapon caches equipment being discovered in Damascus. Together with the acquisition of the missile delivery capability by virtue of the conquering of the Syrian missile site and the possession of the chemical weapons themselves via Libya, the acquisition of gas masks points to the preparation for the launch of an actual chemical attack, or at least the possibility of it, on the part of the death squads. As one of the death squad members stated to Reuters in April, 2012,[22] The rebels are getting better at bomb-making; as you know, desperation is the mother of invention. Reuters also commented that the death squads were now able to develop more sophisticated bombs due to rare outside donations although Reuters did not attempt to name those mysterious sources. Moving forward to August 2012, a false flag plot was discovered which had been hatched between NATO and Saudi Arabia that would have staged a chemical weapons deployment in Syria either by mercenary firms or by the NATO-backed death squads, an attack that would subsequently have been blamed on the Assad government, thus serving as a pretext for NATO intervention and the creation of a buffer zone in the country. According to Paul Joseph Watson,[23] the source reporting the impending attack stated to Syrian news channel Addounia that a Saudi Arabian firm had fitted 1400 ambulance vehicles with anti-gas anti-chemical filtering systems at a cost of $97,000 dollars each, in preparation for a chemical weapons attack carried out by FSA rebels using mortar rounds. A further 400 vehicles have been prepared as troop carriers. Interestingly enough, the attack was set to make use of white phosphorous, sarin and mustard gas. It then stands as yet another questionable coincidence that, among the weapons possessed by the Libyan regime and now in the hands of the death squads, was large quantities of bulk mustard agent. Indeed, recent claims regarding the August 21, 2013 chemical weapons attack have made use of sarin gas would do nothing but add credence to the suspicion that it was the death squads themselves who committed the chemical weapons attack, not the Assad government. Nevertheless, the potential false flag attack reported by Addounia[24] was set to be launched on densely populated areas, most likely Daraa, a city on the Syria/Jordan border, after which the newly fitted ambulances would pour into Syria under the guise of humanitarian aid. Although painted with the labels, Syrian Peoples Relief, the ambulances would actually be nothing more than armored personnel carriers designed to capitalize on a manufactured disaster for the purpose of deploying such personnel in order to create the desired buffer zone. Furthermore, the same company that manufactured and fitted the ambulances to be used in the attack is one that is based in Riyadh and was negotiating a contract with the Yemeni government for the manufacture of military vehicles for the Yemeni army. A source also reported that a meeting had taken place between the head of Al Arabiya, the Saudi news channel, and a U.S. diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in the United Arab Emirates. As Paul Joseph Watson writes, The purpose of the meeting was to agree[25] upon a conditioning program to prepare the public for the likelihood that Bashar Al-Assads forces would use chemical weapons. Shortly after the meeting, Al Arabiya began running news segments depicting the inevitability of a chemical weapons attack carried out by Assads forces. Of course, it was around this same time period that discussions of a red line by the French and American Presidents as well as the U.S. State Department and Israeli representatives began their repetition in the mainstream media circles and hence the American public at large. For instance, in August 2012, President Barack Obama[26] warned that not only the use but merely the transportation of chemical weapons would constitute a red line that would result in military intervention. French President Hollande[27] also stated at the time that the use of chemical weapons Would be a legitimate reason for direct intervention. Likewise, Watson writes, Israels Vice Premier Silvan Shalom told media outlets that if Syrian rebels obtained chemical weapons from stockpiles belonging to the Assad regime, such a development would force Israel to resort to preventive operations, in other words a military strike on Syria. The creation of a buffer zone inside Syria is also interesting in its own right, not just because of the necessary loss of legitimate territory close to Syrias borders but also because of its inherent nature of destabilization and weakening of the ruling regime in Damascus. Thus, it is interesting to note that, while the false flag chemical attack and the subsequent creation of a buffer zone was designed to use the pretext of humanitarian aid as mentioned above, such a plan follows the roadmap provided by the Brookings Institution in a paper entitled Saving Syria: Assessing Options for Regime Change,[28] published in March 2012. The paper essentially argued for the use of a humanitarian issue in order to engage in military intervention on the part of NATO in Syria. Indeed, the paper states, An alternative is for diplomatic efforts to focus first on how to end the violence and how to gain humanitarian access, as is being done under Annans leadership. This may lead to the creation of safe-havens and humanitarian-corridors, which would have to be backed by limited military power. Yet one does not have to go any further afield in order to understand that the plan to stage false flag chemical weapons attack inside Syria in order to see the mass of evidence supporting such a claim. In December 2012, a video was obtained[32] by the Syria Tribune[33] and subsequently released in their report and posted on YouTube[34] which allegedly shows the NATO-backed death squads testing chemical weapons on lab rabbits. As the Syria Tribune describes the video, The Syria Tribune also comments that Judging from the rabbits reaction, the gas must be a nerve agent. The number of containers, if not a bluff, indicates ability to produce a considerable amount of this gas. Deployment could be by means of a smoke generator placed in the target area, an explosion, possibly a suicide one, of a chemmedcar, or simply by using a humidifier. In March, 2013, yet another YouTube[38] video was released which contained a clip of a second test of chemical weapons on captive rabbits by the death squads. This is quite an ironic presentation, since the Assad government has repeatedly vowed never to use chemical weapons inside Syria, while the death squads have repeatedly threatened to do just that. Indeed, in direct contrast to the tone and statements of the death squads, the Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi issued a statement[39] several months ago saying, No chemical or biological weapons will ever be used, and I repeat, will never be used, during the crisis in Syria no matter what the developments inside Syria. Yet the drums of war and military intervention from the United States, NATO, and Israel continue to relentlessly beat. Regardless, the video mentioned above also contains an alleged audio recording of a phone conversation[40] between two Free Syrian Army fighters discussing the details of a plan to carry out a chemical weapons attack capable of impacting an area the size of one kilometer. As Paul Joseph Watson writes, The video also contains a clip of the death squads openly announcing their plans to engage in chemical weapons attacks, all the while surrounded by bottles of nitric acid and other substances. Again, back in December of 2012, after the death squads managed to capture a chlorine factory inside Syria, the Syrian government actually issued a warning that the death squads might attempt to use chemical weapons of this nature in their battle to overthrow and oppress the government and people of Syria respectively. The Syrian Foreign Ministry stated, Terrorist groups may resort to using chemical weapons against the Syrian people after having gained control of a toxic chlorine factory. Thus, with the most recent chemical weapon attack which has caused both a frothing and bumbling public relations response from the Anglo-Americans, it is interesting to note that chlorine has been fingered as being one of the major ingredients. As Alex Thomson of The Telegraph reported,[41] Reports by the Syrian government coincide with the accounts given by the victims of the chemical weapons attack which one can view in the video clip contained in the YouTube video mentioned above. (See here) It is also important to note that many of the victims allegedly name the Free Syrian Army and the rebels as the perpetrators as they are being interviewed while waiting for medical treatment. The Free Syrian Army hit us with a rocket, one woman said. We smelled an odor and everyone fell to the ground. People died where they fell . . . the kids . . . A young girl was also interviewed, who said, My lungs closed and I couldnt breathe or speak. God curse them. Everyone died on the ground. My mom and dad died. I dont know where is my brother. God curse them. May they [FSA] all die. This is the freedom they bring us. They [FSA] want to kill everyone. I hope there remains not a single one of them [FSA] alive. Let us not forget that the death squads have been responsible for unspeakable atrocities[42] against innocent people ever since the destabilization effort began. Last October, the death squads, in typical terrorist fashion, conducted at least four suicide bombings in Aleppo that killed around 40 innocent civilians. Receiving more attention in the media, however, at least until the death squads were found to be responsible, was the infamous Houla Massacre of 2011 where approximately 90 people were killed. Numerous other atrocities have also been documented with videos showing the death squads machine gunning captives,[43] beheading prisoners[44](see here and here[45]), and forcing young children to behead them.[46] I, myself, have written an article dealing with reports regarding the death squads hanging of a young child[47] after murdering his family in front of him. One can also view the videos of the death squad members beating and humiliating[48] the famous elderly Yellow Man in Aleppo. Indeed, the videos of the torture of prisoners in the hands of the death squads are legion. One need only type the relevant keywords into a YouTube search engine to be greeted with generous results. Such open acts of terrorism, lack of regard for human life, and outright savagery on the part of the death squads have thus made even coordinated Western media propaganda campaigns rest on shakier ground. Unfortunately, we must never overestimate the intellectual prowess of the population of the television and entertainment-saturated Western populations. After all, it has failed on countless occasions in the past. We cannot allow false claims of atrocities or phantom threats of frightening weapons to be used to justify American military intervention in yet another Middle Eastern country. Indeed, our experiences with incubator babies and weapons of mass destruction should serve as a reminder when faced with nerve gas victims and chemical weapons. Notes: [1] Syrian Government Accused Again of Using Chemical Weapons. NPR. August 21, 2013. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=214237508 Read other articles by Brandon Turbeville here. Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelors Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of three books, Codex Alimentarius The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, and Five Sense Solutionsand Dispatches From a Dissident.Turbeville has published over 200 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbevilles podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. 