Turkey Smuggled Sarin
Gas to Terrorists in Syria
By Stephen LendmanDecember 14, 2015
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Clearing House" -
Turkey is complicit with
Washington, other rogue NATO regimes, Israel, and despotic Arab
states in waging war on Syria - including smuggled use of
various type banned chemical weapons, Assad wrongfully blamed
for their crimes.
Turkish Republican
People’s Party (CHP) opposition member
Eren Erdem accused Ankara
of covering up a major war crime, likely direct high-level
involvement in smuggling materials used to make deadly sarin gas
to ISIS and other terrorists - US proxy foot soldiers waging war
on Syria.
Various attacks occurred.
The most notorious targeted the Damascus Ghouta suburb in August
2013, killing and injuring scores of civilians.
At the time, then Russian
Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexandr Lubkashevich said “(w)e’re
getting more new evidence that this criminal act was of a
provocative nature.”
“(T)here are reports
circulating on the Internet, in particular that the materials of
the incident and accusations against government troops had been
posted for several hours before the so-called attack. Thus, it
was a pre-planned action.”
Syria’s government had
nothing to do with it despite US-led false accusations
otherwise.
Under a UN-brokered deal,
Syria eliminated its entire chemical weapons stockpile. No
evidence indicates it used any toxic agents throughout nearly
five years of conflict. Plenty reveals terrorists’ use on
numerous occasions, sarin and other banned substances.
On December 10, Erdem
addressed Turkish parliamentarians, discussing criminal case
number 2013/120, opened by Ankara’s General Prosecutor’s Office
in Adana.
Evidence shows various
Turkish nationals were involved in direct dealings with ISIS and
other terrorist groups, supplying them with sarin gas.
Recorded wiretapped
conversations exposed dealings with Al Qaeda terrorist Hayyam
Kasap. RT
International interviewed
Erdem.
He explained “(t)here is
data in this indictment. Chemical weapon materials are being
brought to Turkey and being put together in Syria in camps of
ISIS which was known as Iraqi Al Qaeda during that time.”
“These are all detected.
There are phone recordings of this shipment like ‘don't worry
about the border. We’ll take care of it,’ and we also see the
bureaucracy is being used.”
None of this could go on
without direct high-level regime involvement, perhaps Erdogan
OKing the scheme complicit with Washington and other rogue
states.
According to Erden, once
word got out, 13 arrests were made. Days later, suspects were
released, charges dropped - after a new Adana public prosecutor
replaced the original one. Individuals accused then moved
cross-border unobstructed to Syria.
“The phone recordings in
the indictment showed all the details from how the shipment was
going to be made to how it was prepared, from the content of the
labs to the source of the materials,” Erden explained.
“Which trucks were going
to be used, all dates etc. From A to Z, everything was discussed
and recorded. Despite all of this evidence, the suspects were
released,” the case closed, showing high-level coverup, perhaps
ordered by Erdogan.
Materials to make sarin
gas and perhaps other toxic chemicals moved freely cross-border
from Turkey to Syria. Erden indicated a high-level regime
coverup, evidence revealing Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag’s
involvement.
Toxic chemicals were
purchased from Europe,” he said. US-led Western countries
“should question themselves about these relations. Western
sources know very well who carried out the sarin gas attack in
Syria.”
“They know these people.
They know who (they) are working with. They know that these
people are working for Al-Qaeda…Western (countries) are
hypocrites about the situation.”
It bears repeating. No
evidence showed Syrian use of chemical or other toxic substances
throughout years of conflict.
Plenty shows CIA and US
special forces train takfiri terrorists in chemical weapons use,
perhaps directly supplying them with toxic agents.
Earlier, Saudi Arabia was
caught red-handed providing them with chemical agents in
containers marked “made in KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia).”
In early November,
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
experts confirmed terrorists’ use of mustard gas and chlorine in
Syria with “utmost confidence” - calling perpetrators “non-state
actor(s).”
Blaming Assad for
incidents of chemical weapons’ use is part of the US-led
propaganda campaign to wrongfully vilify him. Expect no letup
ahead.
Stephen Lendman lives
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