{"id":19076,"date":"2013-09-01T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=19076"},"modified":"2013-09-01T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T12:00:51","slug":"saudi-prince-bandar-behind-chemical-attack-in-syria-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/09\/saudi-prince-bandar-behind-chemical-attack-in-syria-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Prince Bandar behind chemical attack in Syria: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Syrians in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta say Saudi Arabia provided chemical weapons for an al-Qaeda linked terrorist group which they blame for the August 21 chemical attack in the region, a Mint Press News report says.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The article co-authored by a veteran AP reporter, said interviews with doctors, residents, anti-government forces and their families in Ghouta suggest the terrorists in question received chemical weapons via Saudi spymaster Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The report quoted the father of a militant as saying that his son and 12 others were killed inside a tunnel used to store weapons supplied by a Saudi militant leader, known as Abu Ayesha.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The man described the weapons as having a \u201ctube-like structure\u201d while others were like a \u201chuge gas bottle.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-government forces, interviewed in the article, complained they were not informed of the nature of the weapons they had been given, nor did they receive instructions how to use them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Saudi Prince Bandar gives such weapons to people, he must give them to those who know how to handle and use them,\u201d said one militant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another militant accused the Takfiri militants of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front of refusing to cooperate with other insurgents or sharing secret information. \u201cThey merely used some ordinary rebels to carry and operate this material,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The authors noted that the doctors who treated the chemical weapons attack victims cautioned interviewers against asking questions regarding who exactly was responsible for the deadly assault.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Also more than a dozen militants interviewed said their salaries came from the Saudi government. They reportedly said Prince Bandar is referred to as \u201cal-Habib\u201d (the lover) by al-Qaeda militants fighting in Syria.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Independent<\/i>, it was Prince Bandar\u2019s intelligence agency that first accused the Syrian government in February of using sarin gas in a bid to rally support for Riyadh\u2019s efforts to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/i>\u00a0has reported that the Saudi spy chief is considered by the CIA as “a veteran of the diplomatic intrigues of Washington and the Arab world [who] could deliver what the CIA couldn\u2019t: planeloads of money and arms, and…wasta, Arabic for under-the-table clout.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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