FREED HOSTAGE SAYS ASSAD DID NOT DO GAS ATTACK

"A Belgian writer held hostage for five months in Syria has said that his own rebel captors denied that President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the Ghouta massacre.

"Pierre Piccinin said that he and fellow hostage Domenico Quirico, an Italian war reporter, heard their jailers talking about the chemical weapon attack and saying that Assad was not to blame.

"Quirico confirmed to La Stampa newspaper that they had eavesdropped such a conversation through a closed door..."

Syria: Assad not Responsible for Ghouta Gas Attack, Says Freed ...

REUTERS/Hamid Khatib

Above, we see Issa, 10 years old, in a weapons factory of the Free Syrian Army, September 7, 2013.

CHILDHOOD LOST: Haunting Photos Of 10-Year-Old Boy Working In A Syrian Weapons Factory

Xymphora has written: Monsters everywhere!

We quote:

"Sources: U.S. helping underwrite Syrian rebel training on securing chemical weapons" 

(CNN - December 9, 2012):

"The United States and some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday.

"The training, which is taking place in Jordan and Turkey, involves how to monitor and secure stockpiles and handle weapons sites and materials, according to the sources. 

"Some of the contractors are on the ground in Syria working with the rebels to monitor some of the sites, according to one of the officials.

Syrie : l'opération anti-Assad a commencé" (Le Figaro - August 22, 2013). American, Israeli And Jordanian Troops And CIA Agents Have Entered Syria, Le Figaro Reports

Syrian rebels apparently with chemical weapons.

Jim White asks: Why is Obama Changing the Date and Size of First CIA Death Squads to Enter Syria?

Jim White writes:

"Obama claimed only the first group of 50 were entering, while Le Figaro claimed there were two groups, with the first one being 300 and the second one not specified by size. 

"Further, note the dates and location: they entered on August 17 and 19 and they passed through Ghouta. 

"The large number of deaths from a suspected chemical warfare agent occurred on August 21 in Ghouta."... 

Free Syrian Army. CHILDHOOD LOST

"Vladimir Putin had some very interesting things to say in a wide-ranging interview today, but this bit stands out in relation to the death squad story:

"“If it is determined that these rebels used weapons of mass destruction, what will the United States do with the rebels?” Mr. Putin asked. 

"“What will the sponsors of the rebels do? Stop the supply of arms? Will they start fighting against the rebels?”"

"....US-trained death squads could well be at the center of the disputed use of chemical weapons. 

"That would seem to be both a strong incentive and a huge tell for Obama to change both the date and the size of the entry of the first of these agents trained by the US... 

"It’s not just the US training them. Going back to the Jerusalem Post article:

"The rebels were trained for several months in a training camp on the Jordanian-Syrian border by CIA operatives, as well as Jordanian and Israeli commandos, the paper said."