Who has Committed the Recent Gas Attack in Syria?

Just a couple of days ago the better part of Western media sources got themselves actively engaged in yet another propaganda campaign, provoked by the allegations of “yet another” gas attack that was allegedly committed in the Syrian city of Khan Sheikhun in the northern province of Idlib, which remain under control of the Jabhat Fatah al-Sham terrorist group. The group was used to be known to the world as Jabhat al-Nusra before getting re-branded by its sponsors. According to the reports distributed by the Western media gas attacks in the city Khan Sheikhun resulted in the death of up to a 100 people who passed away due to suffocation and severe gas poisoning.

Once those allegations were published, the United States, Britain and France immediately distributed a draft resolution of a UN Security Council that is designed to condemn Damascus for the alleged chemical attack in Syria. At the same time, as it has repeatedly happened been tried in anti-Russian and anti-Syrian propaganda campaigns, the White House was acting on a premise, without demanding any sort of verification of such claims. Both US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson started claiming that the responsibility for the use of chemical weapons in the province of Idlib lies solely on the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even though the Pentagon recognized that it doesn’t possess any information to allocate the blame, as it’s been stated, in particular, the head of the US Air Mobility Command, General Carlton D. Everhart.

In tune with Washington’s position, a string of similar accusations was voiced by the United Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to UN, Matthew Rycroft who seems to be convinced in the “the guilt of President Assad”.

However, if we try to trace those allegations back to its original source, we may found out that they were initially released by the so-called Syrian Observatory For Human Rights that is based in London, which is widely known for its commitment to Western special interests due to the funding it has been receiving from American and British special services. After all, if the genuine defense of human rights was of any interests for this so-called “observatory” why would it choose to keep silent about a massive carnage of the civilian population of Iraq in Syria that the United States and other NATO stated unleashed last month, killing more than 1,300 civilians in air attacks?

A lot has been said about the repeated attempts to allocate the blame for the staged and alleged gas attacks in Syria on Damascus. Among other, such claims have been dissected by French journalists, who have managed to expose not only the trace of US special services in similar cases, but also the trace of their French colleagues.

The details of the Western criminal scheme aimed at the overthrow of the Syrian legitimate government has recently been uncovered by a Lebanese edition of the Middle East panorama. In particular, this media source would present the information received about a criminal plot against Syria that was prepared by the special services of several countries, including those of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, Israel, France, UK and the United States, which continue providing logistical support to various terrorist groups inside Syria. The last meeting of the representatives of the above mnetioned intelligence agencies, where the plan to incriminate the Syrian government of the chemical weapons use received finishing touches, was held in the Israeli army camp deep inside the occupied territory of the Golan Heights. The meeting was also attended by the leaders of a number of terrorist groups.

As for the events that took place on April 4 in the vicinity of Idlib, the Syrian authorities have already announced that there was no chance that any of their forces that they control could take part in such a crime. The Syrian Air Force did carry out a number of strikes against a large ammunition ammunition depot near Khan Sheikhun that is controlled by terrorists. It turned out that this warehouse was used as a workshops for the production of land mines stuffed with poisonous substances. Once produced in large numbers, those munitions would be used by radical militants against both the Syrian and Iraqi government forces.

The politicians who criticized the Syrian Air Force’s attack on the chemical weapons stock piles, in fact, have completely compromised themselves, since they turn out to be protecting radical militants forces instead of waging a war on them and the Persian Gulf monarchies that are sponsoring such entities.

Of course, the truth will once again triumph. However, one cannot help but notice that yet another attempt was made to exacerbate Syrian conflict with the use of various Western propaganda sources. Some political forces in this world could care less about the suffering that has been inflicted upon the Syrian people for years now but Western special interests. It’s imperative that the international communities recognizes that such steps are unacceptable when serious attempts are being made to reconcile the parties to the Syrian conflict at the Geneva talks!

Jean Périer is an independent researcher and analyst and a renowned expert on the Near and Middle East, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”