There has been some speculation as to who used this WMD in Syria and England seems to lean towards the Assad regime albeit, as they say, due to all circumstantial evidence.
Maybe this might help them figure it out. From RT May 30 2013:
Category Archives: al-Qaeda
France is ‘certain’ sarin gas was used in Syria; UN condemns ‘brutality’ of conflict
H/T Richard
NBC News:
Reuters
People flee fighting on a Syrian street on May 18. A new UN report cites systematic war crimes.
By John Newland, Staff Writer, NBC News
France said on Tuesday it was “certain” that the nerve agent sarin had been used in Syria, underlining a United Nations report that said the civil war had reached “new levels of cruelty and brutality.”
Tests carried out on samples showed the gas had been used “several times in Syria in limited areas,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in a statement, according to Reuters.
The results of the tests have been handed to the UN, Fabius added – although details of the French claims were not immediately available. It was not clear which side had supposedly used the chemical weapon.
It came hours after a UN report said investigators had “reasonable grounds” to believe that limited amounts of chemical weapons had been used in Syria in a conflict where brutality was now a tactic of war.
Qaeda chief warns attacks on US in ‘everyone’s reach’
France24
June 3 2013
AFP – Al-Qaeda’s military chief in Yemen warned Americans in an audio message posted online Sunday that the Boston bombings revealed a fragile security as he urged Muslims to defend their religion.
Qassim al-Rimi, the military chief of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said making bombs such as the ones used in the twin blasts in Boston in April, is within “everyone’s reach”.
“The Boston events… and the poisoned letters (sent to the White House), regardless of who is behind them, show that your security is no longer under control, and that attacks on you have taken off and cannot be stopped,” he said, in the message entitled: “A letter to the American people.”
“Every day you will be hit by the unexpected and your leaders will not be able to defend you,” warned the man whose organisation is considered by Washington the world’s most dangerous Al-Qaeda branch.
Turkey finds sarin gas in homes of suspected Syrian Islamists – reports
H/T M
RT:
Published time: May 30, 2013 16:56
Edited time: May 31, 2013 12:02
Turkish security forces found a 2kg cylinder with sarin gas after searching the homes of Syrian militants from the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra Front who were previously detained, Turkish media reports. The gas was reportedly going to be used in a bomb.
Omar Khadr moved to Edmonton jail after threats on life
H/T Edmonton Patriot
CBC News:
Khadr, 26, serving remainder of 8-year sentence in Canada after pleading guilty to war crimes
The Canadian Press
Posted: May 29, 2013 1:10 PM ET
Last Updated: May 29, 2013 1:23 PM ET
Omar Khadr spent several months in segregation in Millhaven penitentiary west of Kingston, Ont., classified as a maximum-security inmate even though he was considered minimum security before leaving Guantanamo. (Colin Perkel/The Canadian Press)Former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr woke up in an Alberta prison Wednesday after months stuck in isolation at a penitentiary in Ontario where an inmate had threatened his life, The Canadian Press has learned.
Khadr was flown to the Edmonton Institution Tuesday, potentially ending a situation in which he had been deprived of prison programming that complicated efforts to seek parole, his lawyer Dennis Edney confirmed.
“Hopefully, this is a positive step in his long journey to freedom,” the Edmonton-based Edney said.
Who wants to bet he will be released by end of 2014?
White House’s Benghazi email dump shows critical two-day gap, CIA objection
Daily Caller:
The Benghazi-related emails released by the White House late May 15 exclude the critical emails between administration officials that were sent during the crucial first two days after the deadly jihadi attack that killed four Americans last September.
The 100 pages of partially redacted emails also conclude with a dismissive message from CIA chief David Petraeus.
“Frankly, I’d just as soon not use this,” Petraeus said about the heavily edited, four-sentence “talking points” that the White House used to downplay Al Qaeda’s role in the Sep. 11 attack on the poorly protected diplomatic compound.
Reports: Benghazi used by Obama Administration to ship arms to Jihadi terrorists
Examiner:
- May 12, 2013
- By: Timothy Whiteman
Al-Qaeda terrorists armed with shoulder fired weapons.Wikipedia
American weapons secretly shipped to al-Qaeda?
Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera has gone public stating his sources have verified that the now destroyed and abandoned U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was actually a way station for American weapons to be shipped to Syrian rebels, as reported by The Blaze via Google News on 10 May, 2013.
Under the black flag of al-Qaeda, the Syrian city ruled by gangs of extremists
Telegraph:
The black flag of al-Qaeda flies high over Raqqa’s main square in front of the smart new governor’s palace, its former occupant last seen in their prison. Their fighters, clad also in black, patrol the streets, or set up positions behind sandbags.
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Fighters from Jabhat al-Nusrah, the al-Qaeda affiliated group, are said to control Raqqa’s streets Photo: David Rose
By Richard Spencer, and David Rose
7:00AM BST 12 May 2013
The Islamists smashed up one of the two shops that sold alcohol. That much was pretty inevitable, the locals agreed. The other off-licence had already closed, as had the casino on the outskirts of town.
They brought in a radical cleric from Egypt to preach Friday prayers, and set up a sharia court in the city’s new sports centre with the support of other brigades. They had their fiefdom — an entire city to run only 60 miles from Nato’S border.
Ben Ghazi hearings.
Public anger over Boko Haram deal: Nigerians slam plans to offer Islamist militants amnesty
H/T EDL Buck
Nigeria: ‘Many dead in Boko Haram raid’ in Borno state
BBC:
The region in which this attack took place is a Boko Haram stronghold
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Nigeria under attack
Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram militant group, the Nigerian army says.
It said 105 prisoners were freed in the pre-dawn raid in Bama, Borno state.
Bama’s police station, military barracks and government buildings were burned to the ground, said the military and witnesses.
Correspondents say extremist attacks are common in the region but the scale of bloodshed makes this raid stand out.
This strike – coming on the back of other deadly attacks – undermines the suggestion that the military operation against the militants has diminished the threat they pose, says the BBC’s Will Ross in Lagos.
Investigator: UN has testimony Syrian rebels used Sarin gas
YNET News:
Carla Del Ponte, member of UN’s independent commission of inquiry on Syria says there are strong suspicions rebel forces using nerve agent Sarin
Reuters
Published:05.06.13, 08:53 / Israel News
The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte.
“Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of Sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Del Ponte said in an interview with Swiss-Italian television.
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“This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added, speaking in Italian.
Animals found dead in Halab, Syria (Photo: Reuters)
Fifteen minute excerpt from Stephen Coughlin’s recent brief on the Boston jihad attack
This is a set of excerpts of the 55 minute Coughlin brief of the other day detailing the strategies behind the Boston terrorist attack and the media reaction to it.
If you can, please do click over to it and watch the entire thing. But here is a summary of it taken from that longer video courtesy of CSP:
For your viewing pleasure, go to the little gear at the bottom of the video on the right and click it, then select 1080 for clearest image and easy reading of written materials.
More written summations from the video here
FOX really doesn’t get it about Inspire and the bombs made by the jihadis.
The story is at the blaze. Yes, there may be, and likely are more people in this cell, but the fact that the detonators was not from the same issue of Inspire, the Al-Qaeda glossy magazine for aspiring terrorists, does not mean that this was not the source for the info on not only how to make a bomb out of a pressure cooker, but more importantly, when to strike, where to strike, and believe it or not, WHY to strike and this may not be as obvious as one may think. Or it is but there is also more too it to be more accurate.
With a little luck I might be able to post a new video tonight that has fantastic details on all this as well as what the near future likely holds for the West. If not tonight, soon.
The Last instruction from Osama Bin Laden.
This article was originally written in Italian in this periodical
Corriere
And translated for us by Gaia.
H/T M
The last planned attack by Osama Bin Laden’s testament to the faithful:
“Hit the railway lines in any way.”
The links between the terrorists and Iran WASHINGTON – Two aspects to be highlighted in the foiled attack in Canada; the first concerns the plan. The two terrorists arrested appear to have taken instructions from the Will & Testament of Osama bin Laden. Among the papers seized from the hideout in Abbottabad was a suggestion from the founder of Al Qaeda: “Hit the railway lines in any way possible, even cause the derailment of a train along a bridge.” ‘Artisan’ type projects to compensate for the lack of networks, but creating, however, a high number of casualties. So if the terrorists had bombs they could use them on trains in Madrid and the London Underground. Otherwise, they had to resort to sabotage.
THE SHADOW OF TEHRAN – The second aspect relates to Iran. For the Canadian police the two terrorists received orders from al-Qaeda leaders active in the country of the mullahs. It may surprise you but it is not like that. After the fall of the Taliban, a good number of jihadist “leaders” have taken refuge in Iran where the Pasdaran have placed them under control in special residences.
In theory, they could do little but more than once links have emerged between these representatives and accomplices around the Middle East. Not just contacts, but an axis aimed at terrorist acts.
Several investigations after attacks in Morocco and Saudi Arabia, have confirmed this. The components Salafist (Sunni) are at war against the Shiites backed by Iran. Just think of the Al Qaeda massacres in Iraq, the fight against the rebels in Syria pro-Iranian Hezbollah, the feud in Pakistan. Deep reciprocal hatred. But Tehran “accommodating” a share of militants is helpful, using them in any operations against the common enemy – the United States – or barters with Arab governments. Everything has a price and a handful of al-Qaeda, especially if important, are worth it.
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Now compare the analysis above from the Italian press with the British expert on the BBC. Which one seems more educated and likely?