The theory behind this allegation is that Turkey wanted to trick Obama into attacking Syria to remove Assad because if Assad wins then Turkey thinks that it will be a probable target for the defeated rebels.
The evidence for accusing Turkey in this latest article of Hersh rests on intelligence that was gathered on Turkey before and after 21st August. But my doubt in this rests on this statement:
The post-attack intelligence on Turkey did not make its way to the White House.
[source : Seymour Hersh, The Red Line and the Rat Line, http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/04/06/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line, 4th April 2014]
So why was this intelligence reportedly not passed to the White House then but is being leaked out now?
This accusation that Turkey is the culprit behind Ghouta is made stronger by the recent secret recording of high level Turkish officials plotting a false flag attack to give Turkey the pretext to start war on Syria.
I find the timing of that secret recording and this article of Hersh more than coincidental.
Who made that recording? And why?
A week or two before Ghouta I predicted that a huge false flag attack was about to occur in Syria after reading a report on the meeting between Prince Bandar bin Sultan and President Vladimir Putin last summer. I urged you all to inform your MPs about it. In that meeting Bandar issued a lovely threat to Putin: if Putin would dump Assad then Saudi Arabia would buy multi billions of dollars worth of weapons from Russia and allow Russia to operate in the Middle East; if not then terrorists would be unleashed onto the Sochi Winter Olympics and hell on earth would be unleashed in Lebanon and Syria.
Note that no such meeting occured between a Turkish official and Putin.
Putin rejected this deal.
Shortly after this meeting the HQ of Hezbollah in Lebanon was attacked, and since then Lebanon has slowly descended into chaos again, with bombing after bombing after bombing following a period of relative calm after the Israeli-engineered war on Hezbollah in 2006.
Also note that after Ghouta that Russia was much more interested in Saudi Arabia than Turkey.
However, Turkey is not blameless. Turkey has been playing a covert role in the illegal war on Syria, allowing the rebels to live in and enter Syria from Turkey. Over the last week or two, rebels entered Syria with the overt military assistance from Turkey, who bombarded Syrian military positions in Syria as rebels entered Syria from Turkey and shot down a Syrian fighter jet as it was attacking the aforementioned rebels. On 11th May last year two car bombs exploded in Reyhanli in Turkey. Turkey immediately blamed Syria. A few days later Turkish PM Erdogan was in Washington DC demanding that Syria had crossed Obama's red line. Obama wisely rejected the accusation. But on 27th March this year Turkey finally admitted that al Qaeda had bombed Reyhanli.
Speaking at the 992nd meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on March 27, Turkey’s Ambassador Tacan Ildem was the first Turkish official to state that the Reyhanli attack was carried out by al-Qaeda: “More recently a massive bomb attack in the Reyhanli town center, carried out by al-Qaeda elements operating out of Syria, caused 52 deaths and 146 injuries,” he said.
[source : Turkey admits Reyhanli was attacked by al-Qaeda, Al Monitor, www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/04/reyhanli-qaeda-bombing-attack-admits.html, 4th April 2014]
It is one thing to blame a car bomb on Syria when you know it was al Qaeda, but several levels above that to organise a false flag attack to kill hundreds of people to trick the USA into a war.
Of the two nations, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, who has the form?
Turkey is accused of a genocide of Armenians. But that was nearly 100 years ago. But since then?
But Saudi Arabia has already been involved in something similar but much more nefarious and much more recently; 9/11.
9/11 involved hijacking passenger planes to attack America on its own soil, killing nearly 3000. Whoever organised that can organise something like Ghouta.
Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11 is being protected by someone, and this latest Hersh article could be in the same league. I am not accusing Hersh of being an asset, but I am wondering why Saudi Arabia is barely mentioned in this latest Hersh article.
It was Hersh who reported The Redirection in March of 2007 which accused the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia of conspiring to unleash the nastiest cutthroat Jihadis onto Iran, Syria and Lebanon, a prediction that has come true. So Hersh cannot be dismissed easily.
Some corroboration can be taken from the article by Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh published by Mint Press which accused Prince Bandar bin Sultan and Jabhat al-Nusra (JAN) of smuggling chemical weapons into Ghouta which exploded by accident after they were handled by rebels not trained to handle them. Hersh mentions JAN several times in his article but links them to Turkey not Saudi Arabia.
Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan was known to be supporting the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist faction among the rebel opposition, as well as other Islamist rebel groups. ‘We knew there were some in the Turkish government,’ a former senior US intelligence official, who has access to current intelligence, told me, ‘who believed they could get Assad’s nuts in a vice by dabbling with a sarin attack inside Syria – and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat.’
So:
1. Turkey has form in trying to trick the USA into attacking Syria by stating that Syria attacked Reyhanli last May, but now says that it was al Qaeda;
2. Turkey has form in plotting false flag attacks, as shown by that recent secret recording;
3. but Saudi Arabia has much more form from:
a) its involvement in attacking the USA itself on 9/11;
b) threatening Russia with unleashing hell in Syria;
c) accusations by residents of Ghouta that Saudi Arabia and JAN had chemicals in Ghouta.
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