Rockets Used in Damascus CW Attack Fired from Makeshift Flatbeds, Not Military VehiclesVideo emerges of unmarked truck-mounted launcher surrounded by militants, firing same ordnance used in August 21 Damascus (and other) chemical attacks. In September 17, 2013s article, 5 Lies Invented to Spin UN Report on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack, one fabrication used by the West was exposed in particular [emphasis added]: Video has now emerged showing just the sort of unmarked improvised trucks US-backed terrorists would use to carry out the attacks, surrounded by a combination of civilian-dressed and semi-uniformed individuals firing ordnance identical to those used during the Damascus chemical weapons attack. Western media sources are scrambling to explain how this is instead, the smoking gun proving the Syrian government was behind the attacks, and not the so-called rebels. This tenuous argument is being spearheaded by the Brown Moses Blog run by UK sofa-based, self-taught weapons expert Eliot Higgins, which claims: The alleged footage Higgins posted on his blog comes from YouTube account, Darya Revolution clearly belonging to militant supporters. The video descriptions claims: What serendipity to have both a massive chemical attack in Damascus just as UN monitors arrived in the Syrian capital, and now video shot by militants who claim they just so happened to have a camera ready to film the rockets as they were launched toward Eastern Ghouta in Damascus. At face value, nothing about this points to the Syrian government as Higgins claims. Higgins even has to remind readers that the chemical weapons attack allegedly took place at night, directly contradicting the description of the video he is citing as a smoking gun. Image: After firing a single rocket, the truck is promptly covered and prepared for transit. The purpose of a national chemical arsenal is to provide a deterrence against foreign aggressors and for deployment in pitched, full-scale warfare. This modified truck was clearly designed for launching a single rocket, at a painfully slow rate of fire not for tactical purposes. It is however, literally, the perfect vehicle for a false-flag attack, particularly the chemical attack carried out in Damascus in late August. The video shows two trucks surrounded by a motley crew of both uniformed and non-uniformed individuals carrying a variety of weapons typical of Free Syrian Army formations, atypical of the Syrian Arab Armys operations which include columns of tanks, clearly marked aircraft, camouflaged trucks, and soldiers in full battledress. There appears to be one truck for carrying and loading the rockets, and another for launching them the launcher can be seen at the end of the video being concealed under a tarp. Aside from this, there are no other military vehicles seen in the vicinity, and the trucks themselves are unmarked, converted civilian vehicles typical of the technicals (improvised fighting vehicles) used by terrorists both in Libya and now Syria. For trucks allegedly carrying government chemical weapons, or even large high-explosive rockets, there is surprisingly lax security around them and a suspicious desire to conceal the improvised weapon system after use. Image: Terrorists in Syria, and previously in Libya, with the exception of stolen military vehicles, rely on improvised fighting vehicles of varying sophistication called technicals like the one pictured above. The larger flatbed featured in a recent video, launching a rocket similar to those found at the scene of an alleged August chemical weapons attack in Damascus, is also clearly an improvised fighting vehicle. The painstakingly slow process of loading and firing a single rocket would also negate any practical tactical advantage on the battlefield were this footage of another attack, on another day, using a conventional rocket for an artillery strike as Higgins seems to suggest. The Syrian military possesses an extensive arsenal of artillery pieces and multiple rocket launchers that could easily bombard targets with better accuracy, increased frequency and effectiveness. Additional evidence cited by Higgins of regime use of these rocket systems consists solely of militant footage of rocket impacts not of Syrian troops actually firing the weapons. Higgins operates under the false assumption that previous chemical attacks showing up in militant videos depicting similar rockets could only be the work of the Syrian government, and not false flag operations carried out by an increasingly desperate West and their proxy forces inside Syria. Aside from this assumption, he provides no evidence to back up his claims. Higgins was handed a smoking gun by the people most likely to have benefited from the crime, who claim they found it at the feet of the very government they are fighting. Without critical examination, and apparently based on the color hats several individuals were wearing, Higgins concludes that the footage portrays the Syrian government launching a single massive rocket from a modified flatbed. In reality, we are most likely looking at the EXACT method the US-backed terrorists in Syria used to carry out the chemical weapons attack in Damascus in late August. Whether or not the rockets contained chemical weapons could be a matter of debate as the rockets and other evidence were all clearly tampered with in the days before the UN investigated the site this according to the UN itself. On page 18 of the UNs report (22 of the .pdf), the UN states [emphasis added]: It is confirmed that the US has been training militants and providing contractors to accompany them into Syria where they have been operating specifically to handle chemical weapons. CNN reported in their 2012 article, Sources: U.S. helping underwrite Syrian rebel training on securing chemical weapons, that: While the video above is claimed to be a smoking gun, it instead, under critical examination, illustrates the means with which the false-flag operation was carried out in late August for the sole purpose of justifying direct Western military intervention to save a faltering proxy war. That the same rocket used in Damascus has now been seen launched from makeshift flatbeds and not olive green military rocket launchers, along with answering the basic question of to whose benefit? and considering that militants are confirmed to have US training in handling of chemical weapons all at the very least tear down the narrative that only the Syrian regime could have carried out the attacks. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. 