As Western warships prepared for strikes against the Syrian regime, Prince Bandar, head of Saudi intelligence, offered Russian President Vladimir Putin a unified Saudi-Russian st... on oil prices and production if the Russians back away from supporting Assad, the Telegraph reported Tuesday.
The offer also included a guarantee to protect Russia's naval base in Syria and its gas contracts throughout the Middle East.
But the offers were coldly received by Putin and quickly turned to threats: Bandar claimed that there can be "no escape from the military option" if Russia refuses to cooperate on oil.
Putin barked back that Russia's position on Assad is non-negotiable: "We believe that the Syrian regime is the best speaker on behalf of the Syrian people, and not those liver eaters,” referring to a video of a cannibalizing, allegedly Jihadist rebel.
Middle East turmoil and the oil market volatility it produces threaten global economic recovery, and are particularly worrisome to countries that depend heavily on petroleum imports from the region.
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The war drums keep beating, and sadly seem to be getting louder. We must pray very hard to Our Dear Mother as only she can help us.
The Saudis didn't know who they are dealing with in Mr. Putin. :-p Neither, it seems, do most of the Western governments. The Russian bear can be very formidable. Russia was named by Our Lady as an instrument of chastisement, maybe in more ways than one.
I saw he just set the Russian ships out toward Syria.
Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
August 30, 2013
Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press journalist 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.
“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.
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.”
The Consecration of Russia to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart must be done soon! Otherwise we will be seeing "city in
ruins, with corpses everywhere" as revealed in a part of the 3rd Secret!
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