【杨斌按】 2013年8月29日，美国明尼苏达州新闻社网站刊登了一则令人震惊的独家报道，声称叙利亚反对派军队承认对化学武器袭击负有责任。这篇报道的是美联社资深中东记者格夫拉克和助手，他们称叙利亚化学武器袭击发生地的反对派士兵和当地居民，指责沙特支持的与基地组织有密切联系的叛军分支制造了化学武器袭击事件。
此时正值美国总统奥巴马即将宣布对叙利亚的重大决策之际，国际舆论盛传美国总统奥巴马准备在周末单独动武，这则消息顿时引起极大轰动和美国网民的访问量激增，据称明尼苏达州新闻社网站不久因超载陷入瘫痪，转载这篇报道的其他一些网站也出现长时间故障，仅有一些转载这篇报道的小网站仍能维持运转。美国新闻网站一般拥有大容量的先进网络设备，特别是长时间无法修复技术故障的情况更是极为罕见。这不由令人怀疑罕见情况的背后是否另有隐情。
这篇报道如属实就完全推翻了美国政府对叙利亚动武的合法性，因此，更合乎逻辑的解释是美国政府考虑到正处在特殊敏感时刻，担忧网站广泛传播这则报道引起公众反对和舆论压力，采取特殊封杀手段致使转载这篇报道的网站长时间陷入瘫痪。但是，美国知道最终无法阻止这篇报道的广泛传播，善于揭露美国的俄罗斯新闻社已经转载了这篇报道。美、英、法和众多北约国家民众强烈反对干涉叙利亚，同当年军事干涉伊拉克、利比亚等国前夕的舆论形势明显不同，与近年来俄罗斯媒体敢于深入西方国家传播截然不同声音有很大关系。
尽管美国政府依然信誓旦旦坚称叙利亚政府是元凶，但是， 8月31日奥巴马公布了推迟动武和寻求国会批准的决定，《环球时报》称奥巴马对空袭露出了“怯色”，是否因这篇报道的曝光引起了胆怯和心虚就不得而知了。《纽约时报》称30日晚上奥巴马就那定了主意，他将助手召集到办公室并宣布了让他们目瞪口呆的决定，这说明某些特殊情况临时改变了奥巴马的既定方针。关于叙利亚反对派军队承认对化学武器袭击负有责任的这篇报道，很可能就是迫使奥巴马临时变卦的某些特殊情况之一。当然，美国对叙利亚动武的战争阴云依然没有散去，战争与和平的前景依然取决于新一轮的舆论较量。
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叙利亚反对派军队承认对化学武器袭击负有责任
【美国 保尔·约瑟夫·华特森 】 2013年8月30日
(http://www.infowars.com/rebels-admit-responsibility-for-chemical-weapons-attack/)
叙利亚首都大马士革郊区的反对派军队士兵，在接受美联社记者戴尔·格夫拉克及助手调查时，透露化学武器袭击导致大量伤亡的事件，其实是他们运送沙特提供的武器时误操作所致。
美联社记者格夫拉克撰文称他和助手对反对派军队士兵及家属进行了大量调查，许多人承认他们在操作沙特情报部门提供的化学武器时发生了意外事故，结果导致了大规模伤亡事件。反对派军队士兵称他们当时不知道运送的是化学武器，也没有接受过使用化学武器的适当训练。一位反对派军队士兵说，他们对这些武器很好奇，摆弄时不小心引发了爆炸。另一位反对派军队女士兵说，他们未被告知这些是什么武器，也不知道具体的使用方法，万万没有想到这些竟然是化学武器。
格夫拉克还报道他和助手调查了一些叙利亚反对派军队的家属，一位名叫莫内因的人是反对派军队士兵的父亲，他称儿子曾说沙特提供了一些奇怪的武器，有许多管子和装有气体的巨大瓶子，运送这些武器的沙特士兵名叫阿布·埃维沙。美联社记者格夫拉克撰文称接触的十多个反对派军队士兵，都说沙特政府给他们提供薪水和武器。沙特向叙利亚反对派军队提供化学武器并不令人惊讶，他们一直竭尽全力支持叙利亚反对派军队。不久前国际媒体曾经报道，沙特甚至威胁俄罗斯放弃对叙利亚的支持，否则可能放纵其控制的车臣恐怖分子破坏冬奥会。
如果美联社记者格夫拉克和助手的报道属实，意味着美国坚称化学武器袭击是政府军所为，迫不及待打击叙利亚根本没有合法的事实依据。美联社记者格夫拉克享有很高的职业声誉，他从事中东地区的新闻报道工作有二十多年，还曾经在美国国家公共电台工作，为英国广播公司(BBC)撰写过文章。他对叙利亚化学武器袭击的调查报道，最早在29日发表在美国明尼苏达州新闻社的网站，结果公众访问量激增超过负荷导致了网站瘫痪。这家网站是美国明尼苏达州的合法传媒，《明尼苏达州邮报》曾对该机构做过专题报道。
奥巴马政府声称即将公布叙利亚政府制造化学武器袭击的证据，但是，美国政府官员向《纽约时报》记者承认尚未找到这方面的直接证据。美国情报部门的若干官员也向美联社透露，情报部门尚未掌握表明叙利亚政府有罪的确凿证据。据美国情报部门截获的监听电话显示，叙利亚国防部在化学武器袭击发生数小时后，曾惊慌地向叙利亚化学武器部门紧急要求解释，也表明叙利亚政府并未向军队发出过袭击命令。
美联社事后与我们接触证实格夫拉克确系该社记者，但是，这篇报道不是以美联社的名义发表的，美联社不会出面证实这篇报道是否是真实的，只能证实格夫拉克是资深记者和可靠的消息来源，曾经为美国公共电台、英国广播公司等著名机构撰稿。
Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack
http://www.infowars.com/rebels-admit-responsibility-for-chemical-weapons-attack/
Militants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
August 30, 2013
Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.
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“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families….many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,” writes Gavlak.(back up version #FormatStrongID_17#).
Rebels told Gavlak that they were not properly trained on how to handle the chemical weapons or even told what they were. It appears as though the weapons were initially supposed to be given to the Al-Qaeda offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra.
“We were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,” one militant named ‘J’ told Gavlak.
His claims are echoed by another female fighter named ‘K’, who told Gavlak, “They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them. We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”
Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of an opposition rebel, also told Gavlak, “My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” describing them as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.” The father names the Saudi militant who provided the weapons as Abu Ayesha.
According to Abdel-Moneim, the weapons exploded inside a tunnel, killing 12 rebels.
“More than a dozen rebels interviewed reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government,” writes Gavlak.
If accurate, this story could completely derail the United States’ rush to attack Syria which has been founded on the “undeniable” justification that Assad was behind the chemical weapons attack. Dale Gavlak’s credibility is very impressive. He has been a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press for two decades and has also worked for National Public Radio (NPR) and written articles for BBC News.
The website on which the story originally appeared - Mint Press (which is currently down as a result of huge traffic it is attracting to the article) is a legitimate media organization based in Minnesota. The Minnesota Post did a profile on them last year.
Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in providing rebels, whom they have vehemently backed at every turn, with chemical weapons, is no surprise given the revelations earlier this week that the Saudis threatened Russia with terror attacks at next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi unless they abandoned support for the Syrian President.
“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” Prince Bandar allegedly told Vladimir Putin, the Telegraph reports.
The Obama administration is set to present its intelligence findings today in an effort prove that Assad’s forces were behind last week’s attack, despite American officials admitting to the New York Times that there is no “smoking gun” that directly links President Assad to the attack.
US intelligence officials also told the Associated Press that the intelligence proving Assad’s culpability is “no slam dunk.”
As we reported earlier this week, intercepted intelligence revealed that the Syrian Defense Ministry was making “panicked” phone calls to Syria’s chemical weapons department demanding answers in the hours after the attack, suggesting that it was not ordered by Assad’s forces.
UPDATE: Associated Press contacted us to confirm that Dave Gavlak is an AP correspondent, but that her story was not published under the banner of the Associated Press. We didn’t claim this was the case, we merely pointed to Gavlak’s credentials to stress that she is a credible source, being not only an AP correspondent, but also having written for PBS, BBC and Salon.com.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
This article was posted: Friday, August 30, 2013 at 1:00 pm
Tags: foreign affairs, terrorism, war
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