Was a rogue Syrian officer responsible for chemical weapons attack?

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 31, 2013 - Illegitimate dictator President Barack Obama claims that a chemical weapons attack was carried out by the Syrian government in Ghouta on Aug 21. The outlaw Obama regime then sent an “intelligence official” to Foreign Policy magazine to leak the false intelligence supporting that claim. That intelligence consisted of a captured phone call between an official of the Syrian Ministry of Defense and the leader of a chemical weapons unit. The phone calls were described as panicky with the official demanding answers.

You can kiss that intelligence collection method goodbye. This “leak” also may have endangered the NOC who placed the device. The phone call suggests that the Assad regime is responsible, but that regime includes everyone from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the lowliest private in the Syrian army.

The phone call does not indicate who gave the order. The repeated referrals to the entire regime means that the totalitarian Obama regime hasn’t narrowed it down. The easiest way to prevent an irate phone call from a Ministry of Defense official is to claim that Bashar al-Assad or his brutal younger brother, Maher, gave the order.

One intelligence official asked, “Was the attack on Aug. 21 the work of a Syrian officer overstepping his bounds, or was the strike explicitly directed by senior members of the Assad regime? It’s unclear where control lies.” Intelligence analysts say that the intercepted call does not establish who gave the order and could indicate that it was a mistake.

The Syrian civil war has provided a vehicle for a resurgence of al-Qaida. A Syrian rebel group, the Al-Nusra Front, has pledged allegiance to al-Qaida leader Sheik Ayman al-Zawahri. The Syrian Free Army, a group of rebels made up of Syrian soldiers who have defected, will “collaborate with any faction allowing them to topple” Assad. Networks are being set up to funnel foreign jihadis into Syria. In areas controlled by Al-Nusra, Sharia law is being enforced.

With a choice between Assad and his chemical weapons, and another Islamic state sworn to the destruction of Israel, it’s time to sit this one out.