He is also reported to have threatened that he would unleash hell on earth in Syria. Two weeks later hundreds die in the suburbs of Damascus allegedly from poison gas.
Now we have evidence from rebels and inhabitants of Damascus that Bandar bin Sultan is the man who provided the poison gas.
However, from numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the dealing gas attack.
“My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” said Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of a rebel fighting to unseat Assad, who lives in Ghouta.
Abdel-Moneim said his son and 12 other rebels were killed inside of a tunnel used to store weapons provided by a Saudi militant, known as Abu Ayesha, who was leading a fighting battalion. The father described the weapons as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.”
Ghouta townspeople said the rebels were using mosques and private houses to sleep while storing their weapons in tunnels.
Abdel-Moneim said his son and the others died during the chemical weapons attack. That same day, the militant group Jabhat al-Nusra, which is linked to al-Qaida, announced that it would similarly attack civilians in the Assad regime’s heartland of Latakia on Syria’s western coast, in purported retaliation.
“They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them,” complained a female fighter named ‘K.’ “We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”
“When Saudi Prince Bandar gives such weapons to people, he must give them to those who know how to handle and use them,” she warned. She, like other Syrians, do not want to use their full names for fear of retribution.
A well-known rebel leader in Ghouta named ‘J’ agreed. “Jabhat al-Nusra militants do not cooperate with other rebels, except with fighting on the ground. They do not share secret information. They merely used some ordinary rebels to carry and operate this material,” he said.
“We were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,” ‘J’ said.
[source : EXCLUSIVE: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack, Mint Press, http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/, 29th August 2013]
Now, what this article alleges is that the rebels were given the poison gas but mishandled it and the weapons went off by accident. This is one of a few possibilities that I considered much more likely than Assad illogically and/or insanely using chemical weapons. The others are that the rebels did indeed run a false flag, or bombardment from the Syrian Arab Army with conventional weapons either destabilised Bandar's poison gas canisters or hit a tunnel containing Bandar's poison gas, thus causing the poison gas containers to explode.
Whatever.
Bandar supplied the poison gas, with the intent of causing mass death, and the poison gas was made in Saudi Arabia (as reported by the Syrian news a few days after the horrific events).
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