by Scott Creighton

The New York Times is attempting to bolster John Kerry’s baseless claim that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on their own people and in doing so, they seem to have provided some hard evidence to the contrary.

Combine that with recent images and video of the FSA “rebels” making and using 120mm mortar rounds in Syria and you have compelling evidence that if chemical weapons were used in Syria, then it was the US backed “rebels” who did it and not the Assad regime.

Means, motive and opportunity. The basic tenets of any investigation.

Opportunity

This is an image taken from an article in the New York Times which purports to show the location of the site where the rockets were launched.

Notice that the Times puts the “disputed areas” note far below that location but the fact is, both Qaboun and Jobar are currently disputed areas according to this up-to-date interactive map:

The map clearly shows the presence of our destabilization terrorists in those areas where the rockets were supposedly launched from. Right in the center of those three contested areas, to be exact.

The interactive map also shows that Muadamiya, the location where the UN inspection team was shot at, is also “contested” by the terrorists.

All of these areas are currently accessed by the FSA “rebels” which gives them the opportunity to commit this crime.

Means

It’s important to note the scale on the upper right side of the NYT image. It shows the that the impact zone is roughly a mile and a half from the suspected launch site, which is well within the range of rebel weapons like these.

“The Syrian rebels have no one source for their weapons and have had to scrape together their arsenal in various ways. Here, Abdel Hakim Yassin, a rebel commander in northern Syria, inspects a Yugoslav illumination mortar round that was brought to him by an Iraqi arms dealer.” NPR 2012

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