Investigative Report
Syria...A War In The Shadows
By: Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Misinformation is a key strategic component of any battle plan. George Washington knew this as being the nature of war in regards to the public and the press.

The war in Syria has for many years been classified by both the mainstream media and by politicians at large as the Syrian Civil War, but nothing could be further from the truth for the fact is that the civil war in Syria is a proxy war being waged by just about everybody except the Syrians themselves.

To fully understand this concept one must first know the players involved in what’s happening inside Syria and why they are so engaged.

And while we hear daily about the “rebels” who are trying to oust duly-elected Bashar al-Assad from power, know that for the most part those “rebels” are not all Syrians per se but are outsiders being driven and financed by entities outside of Syria.

In fact, the “rebels” are proxy fighters being controlled in large part by Iran with a number of said “rebels” actually being ISIS fighters, and with smaller factions bearing allegiance to various independent terrorist organizations. And with the smallest number of “rebels” actually being Syrians engaged in trying to overthrow al-Assad to better their own country, even those actual Syrian “rebels” have been taking up with Iranian proxy fighters out of both desperation and a lack of resources. They are of little consequence in the grand scheme of things.

Simply, Iran has sent their proxy fighters to Syria for one reason...to take control of a country that borders Israel in their effort to establish a launch point for military action against the regions only true democracy. Iran wants Israel to be wiped from the map, and they need a close-in base for such an undertaking.

And at the same time ISIS fighters in Syria are battling for their own chunk of regional real estate...a home base if you will after losing their grip on Iraq thanks to President Donald J. Trump. Remember, Obama did all he could to establish ISIS in Iraq and ISIS doesn’t want to just wipe Israel off the map...ISIS is seeking the Levant...as in regional control of the Middle East...which puts ISIS in direct conflict with Iran, and rest assured Iran does not want to play second fiddle in the region to anyone.

That means that within Syria both ISIS and Iran are trying to rid al-Assad of power, so as to control a country from which they can attempt to destroy Israel, and yet both Iran and ISIS are also battling each other...“rebels” against “rebels” in their quest for regional superiority.

And other terrorist factions engaged in Syria are apt to be playing a sort of follow the leader, helping whichever of the Iran/ISIS entities they feel has the best chance of coming out on top or whichever of those two entities is currently gaining the most ground...more mercenary than committed.

On the other side of things in Syria, we have the al-Assad regime which quite frankly is using Russia as its proxy to engage both Iran’s proxy fighters, ISIS, and other various terrorist factions for the purpose of maintaining control of Syria.

Russia is playing both ends against the middle by being on friendly terms with Iran and being friendly with al-Assad, but Russia when push comes to shove will most definitely side with al-Assad because Russia’s real estate interests inside of Syria are specific...as in Russia wants Tartus...a deepwater port on the Mediterranean and make no mistake both Iran and ISIS want Tartus as well. But should either Iran or ISIS control Syria neither will allow Russia access to Tartus, but should al-Assad remain in power, he would allow Russia said access.

Therefore, Russia has a vested interest in defeating all the various factions lined up against al-Assad and should Russia...specifically Putin...have access to Tartus he would be more than willing to turn his back on any economic gains he and Russia get from being friendly to Iran. And this brings us to why the port of Tartus is so important to all the key players involved as Tartus is the geographical lynchpin for why all said players are engaged in Syria.

It must be understood as fact that Russia wants the deepwater port at Tartus as its permanent Mediterranean base of operations. Leasing access to Tartus in a 1971 multi-billion-dollar debt write-off with Syria, the then Soviet Union was Syria's main arms supplier and Tartus was used to receive Damascus bought Soviet weapons. Becoming the Soviet 229th Naval and Estuary Vessel Support Division in the mid-1980s, Tartus then became the 720th Logistics Support Point for the Soviet Navy with the Russian Navy continuing to use Tartus after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.

And while some Russians officials continue to mimic the 2012 words of Ruslan Aliev, the former head of information at the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) in Moscow that, “Tartus is not a real naval base”... that..."It is just a point on the map to replenish food and water and carry out some occasional repairs..and that from a strategic point of view [Tartus] is insignificant"...nothing could be further from the truth.

In fact, a past report on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty stated that, "Russia's greatest strategic and geopolitical interest in Syria is the use of a deep-water port at Tartus.” How so...when first reported and continuing to this day, Tartus can accommodate both nuclear submarines and missile cruisers at its docks; it remains the receiving port for Russian made weapons shipments to Syria; it is a much needed refueling port and a commercial cargo loading and unloading stop; as well as being directly linked to a well-developed network of roads and railways...railways that just happen to encompass military transport routes from Tartus to major cities across Syria...railway routes Russia needs to transport weapons to al-Assad's government forces.

And Tartus is a touch point beyond just a Russian naval base as it's also a touch point in transporting natural gas to Europe. Lying under the Persian Gulf and being shared by both Iran and Qatar is the largest natural gas field in the world, and with Qatar forging ties with the European Union, Qatar along with Saudi Arabia and Turkey now want to build a pipeline link, but said link would need to pass through Tartus. And being that al-Assad and his ally Russia, as well as “rebels” supporting Iran having interest and competing proposals for said pipeline...again going through Tartus...this translates into he who controls said link controls the discrimination of the natural gas. And with a full quarter of Europe's gas energy needs now being met by Russia imagine the influence and power Russia would have if they controlled the Tartus natural gas pipeline link.

Now as for the actual physical logistics of why Tartus is so important to Russia. As it stands now Russia's most important foreign naval base is the Black Sea Fleet base of Sevastopol in Ukraine.To deploy beyond the Black Sea and especially into the Mediterranean, Russian warships based at Sevastopol must pass through the Bosporus Strait, but said strait has been militarized by NATO-member Turkey. As per the 1936 Montreux Convention, the Bosporus Strait was deemed an international shipping lane with military restrictions, and a 1982 amendment gave Turkey the right to close the Strait at its “discretion” in peacetime as well as during wartime. Because of this “discretion” the only unfettered way out of the Black Sea for Russia is through the out of the way Dardanelles, thus Tartus becomes a must have vital strategic naval asset.

But no matter the reason, Russia today desperately needs said port if they are to remain a key player in the Middle East, and that, in our opinion, is why neither Russia nor Putin will ever abandon al-Assad or his government. And when you add in that al-Assad struck a deal to confer territorial sovereignty of the base to the Kremlin, it means that as long as Russia continues to veto any and all U.N. Security Council resolutions against al-Assad as well as continues to sell weapons to his regime, their alliance will remain unbroken while at the same time it becomes highly unlikely that any opposition government who might someday replace al-Assad would allow Russia's current rights to Tartus to remain in place.

But what of Iran whom Russia to some degree continues to play footsie with?

The simple fact is that if Iran were ever to rule Syria even via a puppet government, Iran would then see Tartus as their Mediterranean base of operations and would never allow Russia to keep or even have access to Tartus. And why...in a word 'payback.' Remember, while Russia currently backs al-Assad, in October 2017 Russia also made an agreement with Iran's enemy Israel...an agreement seeing a 10-15 mile “off limits buffer zone” being placed along Israel's border with Syria...a buffer zone intending to keep both Iranian and Hezbollah forces from entering and attacking the Jewish State. Simply put, the Iranian mullahs have a long memory and they will not ignore the fact that while Russia was playing footsie with them, at the same time Russia was also making nice, if you will, with Israel...and that is something Iran will neither forget, forgive nor reward.

And this alone means that as much as al-Assad needs Russia to remain in power, Russia in turn needs al-Assad to have access to Tartus.

So as you can see from all stated, U.S. involvement in Syria has a very specific goal...with that goal being preventing Iran, ISIS or Russia from either controlling or having full access to Tarsus, but as with any U.S. military involvement anywhere, a shadow entity is to some extent pulling the strings.

And we’re talking about the gathering and dissemination of intelligence used in guiding both our military and the military forces of our allies in their efforts. Gathering intel is tricky, but not as tricky as disseminating intel and misdirection...the manipulation of gathered intel has always been a key factor not only in military operations, but in the court of public opinion regarding the use of military operations.

The C.I.A. was present in Benghazi, and most likely was a key player in the illegal transfer of weapons from “rebels” in Libya to “rebels” in Syria...actions that eventually resulted in the murders of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans...all of which the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton tried to pin on a YouTube filmmaker's video.

But, if you think such involvement by the C.I.A. is something relatively new, think again. Look at the involvement of the C.I.A. in such covert actions as Operation Mongoose https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/operation...and Operation Northwoods http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html...and know that those are just the very tip of the covert ops iceberg.

It is well known that we have about 2000 U.S. troops on the ground in Syria, but what isn’t widely known is that the C.I.A. has embedded...as in operatives...in Syria as well. And know that what has transpired in Syria over the past couple of weeks has been known to the C.I.A., and that certain intel we now believe has been manipulated by the C.I.A. in its dissemination not only to our allies but to the American public as well.

The latest volley of American cruise missiles fired into Syria was in response to what has been referred to as an “alleged” gas attack perpetrated by al-Assad...right? Not so fast as our military strike on Friday night, April 13th was actually in response to what our sources have told us was evidence and intel manipulated and carefully disseminated by the C.I.A. for specific purposes.

Intel from the ground, most likely gathered by the C.I.A. or by C.I.A. informants over the last couple of years, pointed to several buildings in various locations that were at one time key elements of al-Assad’s chemical weapons program. But the C.I.A. knew well that those very buildings had not only been evacuated in the days prior to our cruise missile attacks, but in fact had been emptied out long before last Friday’s strikes, which is why casualties were less than a handful and why virtually nothing of any great importance has been shown to have been destroyed.

That, however, is not where the careful manipulation of intel ends. It is, in fact, where it begins.

The U.S. led military strike against what we have been led to believe were al-Assad’s key chemical weapons facilities was supposedly in response to al-Assad’s gassing of his own people a week prior. Killing a reported 70 or so people...mostly children...a barbaric act if indeed it actually happened, this is what certain elements of our primary overseas intel agencies want us to believe, but we aren’t buying it.

Through our RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS sources and through what we have been able to piece together from other sources, we believe the truth contradicts the manipulated intel. We have good reason to believe Bashar al-Assad did not do what he is accused of doing.

And why do we believe this...first let’s have a look at the two types of chemical weapons most often mentioned in press briefings and widely spread throughout the mainstream media that either sarin gas or chlorine gas was used by al-Assad.

First, sarin gas would have had a greater kill rate than what was reported, and sarin gas also leaves behind a residue making it impossible for unprotected responders to handle sarin victims for some time...and we have all seen the images of unprotected responders trying to assist the Douma victims. Sarin gas also kills its victims at the most in mere minutes, while the Douma victims remained alive, some for more than an hour, after the alleged al-Assad gas attack occurred.

Simply, it was nor sarin gas...which must be vaporized into an aerosol form...nor was it chlorine gas that killed those people for something forgotten about chlorine gas is that it blinds its victims both temporarily and in most cases permanently, and we have not heard or seen any reports of the victims in Douma being blinded. Chlorine gas also produces a very recognizable pineapple odor as well as a specific yellowish-brown colored cloud, neither of which have accompanied any of the reports or has been stated by any of the witnesses or surviving victims...so it wasn’t chlorine gas either.

Our RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS sources tell us that the gas in question was most likely CS or CS4 gas...commonly known as CS/tear gas...that killed the people in Douma. And know that CS gas is the same potent tear gas used in riot control situations by law enforcement world wide. And while in most cases CS/tear gas is non-lethal, probably because it is most widely used in outdoor settings, a study of CS/tear gas was conducted by Prof. Dr. Uwe Heinrich* and commissioned by John C. Danforth of the United States Office of Special Counsel. Investigating how the F.B.I. used CS/tear gas at the Branch Davidians' Mount Carmel compound outside Waco, Texas, the study concluded that the lethality of CS/tear gas used would have been determined mainly by two factors: whether gas masks were used and whether the occupants were trapped in a room. Prof. Heinrich suggested that if no gas masks were used and the occupants were indeed trapped then, "there is a distinct possibility that this kind of CS exposure can significantly contribute to or even cause lethal effects."

Large concentrations of CS/tear gas also produce a cloud of white smoke or vapor, which is completely consistent with reports provided by Syrians on the ground and in photos taken immediately after the alleged al-Assad gas attack occurred...but if it wasn’t al-Assad then who did it?

Because CS/tear gas is readily available and is easily packaged in small easy to transport canisters, we have every reason to believe the CS/tear gas in question was in the possession of the Jaysh al-Islam “rebels” in Douma. We also have reason to believe that those Jaysh “rebels” knowing a setback was eminent due to the breakdown of negotiations with the al-Assad regime, set in place their own covert op by which their knowing of the sensibilities of the West regarding harm done to children...something the barbaric islamist Jaysh “rebels” have no problem with...they gathered up just enough children from their own area...possibly children of average Douma citizens...enclosed them in unventilated rooms and set off more than enough CS/tear gas canisters to cause the required 20% fatality rate so as to incur the wrath of the West while blaming the alleged attack on al-Assad.

There are several reasons why we believe this to be the absolute most likely scenario.

The militant Jaysh al-Islam “rebels” who were in control of Douma at the time immediately hightailed it out of Douma following the “alleged” al-Assad gas attack. Running to the north of Syria to regroup under the protection of Turkey, the Jaysh “rebels” hoped that by blaming al-Assad they could garner more support for their cause, and the C.I.A. would have been fine with that as they would have also seen a benefit in getting more civilians unaffiliated with terror groups to rise up against al-Assad especially if a “rebel” covert op perpetrated against those civilians was allowed to occur. And if those unaffiliated civilians knew it was the “rebels” who were responsible and thus began to actively oppose such “rebel” factions...the C.I.A. would be okay with that too.

And by carefully manipulating and disseminating the intel not only to our allies but to the American people as well, and by doing so by spoon feeding us said information via the mainstream media, outrage over a harsh military strike against al-Assad would be minimized. So let’s be honest here...it’s so much easier to sway public opinion in favor of U.S. military action when the public is led to believe a brutal dictator gassed his own people...gassed children...than it is to gin up support for military action related to a sea port...Tartus...clear on the other side of the world.

But know that there is also another player in Syria...a player who has very strategic reasons for engaging in limited operations within that country as it is a matter of their national security. And that country is Israel who, over the past two weeks, has made two bombing runs inside Syria. The first occurred on April 8th hitting a target east of the city of Homs with the second strike occurring on April 14th hitting targets just south of Aleppo, and both are so important when one considers the misdirection in which covert ops so often engage.

In the April 8th mission Israel overflew Lebanon, which even at the time we questioned, as Israel had no real need to take that air path into Syria, as they share a small common border. So, why did they? The second supposed Israeli strike, the one near Aleppo on April 14th struck an Iranian used military base, destroying it and the ordinance stored there... ordinance used by Iran’s proxy “rebel” fighters.

And while we have no direct confirmation of this, we ask that you consider what we believe to be a very plausible scenario...could Israel have taken the flyover route across Lebanon for nothing more than to be “seen”...to intentionally be observed heading into Syria for that April 8th mission...and could the accusatory Israeli presence over Aleppo on April 14th been nothing more than a misdirection?

Let us explain…in the U.S. led strikes of April 13th we have all been told that 105 cruise missiles were deployed yet, according to RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS sources, official satellite images fail to show either the level of destruction nor anywhere near the number of impact craters produced by said cruise missiles when all three sites our strike reportedly hit are added together. That tells us that between those three targets considerably less than 105 cruise missiles were actually used. By the way, each of those sites could have been successfully taken out with between one to five direct hits alone.

So, what happened to the rest? Could the next day's Israeli bombing of April 14th near Aleppo been a misdirection...a misdirection set up by the previous week’s much noticed and much talked about Israeli overflight of Lebanon. Could the Israeli war planes been nothing but a mere distraction while American cruise missiles hit the targets...making people believe Israel was dropping bombs, when in fact they were just providing cover. The idea being a coordinated strike to see what cruise missiles could do against a hardened, underground facility such as those Iran is infamously fond of constructing and then using.

In other words, could we have been working in concert with Israel in setting the stage for a not so distant future strike directly against Iran? And dare we forget that Benjamin Netanyahu was informed ahead of time about our soon to come bombing of April 13th so there is no reason why we could not have been working in concert on the 14th...if the possibility we laid out is indeed the case. Just something to think about as the lack of impact craters at the three sites we and our allies bombed says it all as witnessed by this Department of Defense photo presented as part of a briefing at the Pentagon last Saturday. This photo clearly shows the preliminary damage assessment from the Him Shinshar Chemical Weapons Storage Site with maybe five impact craters at best.

Over the past five years Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been accused of committing all the chemical attacks in Syria...attacks on both rebel factions and civilians. However, few if any have definitely been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be his handiwork. And something the world also knows but refuses to accept as fact is that the so-called “rebels”...the proxy army of Iran...are also in possession of chemical weapons...of gas. And yet the world blames the easy target for to uncover the truth might indeed cause even more problems than exists today. Better in the world's eye to remove an easy target than deal with the true enemy...Iran.

Remember, the rules of war are solely written by the winners.
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* Professor of Toxicology and Aerosol Research at Hanover Medical School, and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Aerosol Research, Hanover, Germany
Copyright © 2018 Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots / Investigative Reports / All rights reserved.

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Investigative Report:
Syria...Evidence and Truth

By: Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots

It is a well-known fact that when one rushes to judgment one tends to be wrong. And it is also a well-known fact that gut instincts are usually right especially when they nag at you and will not let go.

Such is the case with the recent chemical gas attack ‘supposedly’ being committed by Syrian President Bashir al-Assad against his own people in the rebel-held northern Idlib province city of Khan Sheikhun...a city actually bordering on Hama province. And how quickly he was blamed, how quickly the call to judgment was made for after all no one can dispute the fact that al-Assad is a ‘bad guy’ who has in the past done bad things, and so it must be him doing this even ‘badder thing’ now. And when this most grievous of actions reached the ear of the public the collective outcry against al-Assad was heard loud and clear even before any definitive facts and truths surrounding the tragedy could emerge.

In fact, Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the ‘European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,’ condemned Bashir al-Assad and his government forces before the gas had settled or even before the gas used could be positively identified as what was claimed to be sarin gas. Saying that the “Assad regime bears responsibility for ‘awful’ Syria ‘chemical’ attack,” Mogherini’s sentiments were echoed post haste by world leaders who simply took her word for it. Europe’s leaders were quick to chime in, and even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack against civilians already scared by over six-years of non-stop war. And when photos of babies and young children lying dead in the streets started to hit the internet, President Donald Trump himself did an abrupt about-face regarding his policy of not getting involved in Syria...of not going for regime change...which led to last Thursday night’s targeted Tomahawk attack on the airbase believed to be the base from which the gas was loaded unto planes and dropped on an unsuspecting civilian populace.

And on the surface this surely seemed to be the case, and no one can blame President Trump for his actions which were solely based upon hastily gathered ‘facts’ presented to him less than 48 hours after the attack occurred...and of course the photos of dead babies and young children played strongly upon the heart of this loving father and grandfather as it did upon the hearts of the American people as well. And we 'Right Side Patriots' cried too seeing those pictures, yet between our tears was a nagging feeling that what we were seeing...or should we say 'led to believe' we were seeing...just did not seem quite right for the rush to both judgment and revenge led us to believe we were being manipulated into seeing something that did not add up to the important word ‘truth.’

And so began our search for the truth...an around the clock search that began within hours of the attack occurring until just now, almost four days later, when we put to paper both our findings and what we believe did actually happen in a rebel-held city in the north of Syria, and simply put, while this incident in no way was a ‘false flag’ it was and remains the chess board upon which the pieces of the puzzle being moved around have chosen a king of the wrong color. 

"Does anyone believe that on the eve of peace talks, just after the White House said the Syrian people should choose their own leaders, that Assad would launch a gas attack to turn the whole world against him? We don't either. We're back to the same lies that got us into Iraq." – Kentucky Senator Rand Paul

And the nagging gut feeling grew even stronger for we knew that the day after the attack was to be the first day of talks between representatives of more than 50 nations who were to meet in Brussels for a conference to discuss the financial and humanitarian needs of Syria, a country that the U.N. estimated 13.5 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance, including the 4.7 million people who lived in besieged or barely accessible areas...areas like the city of Khan Sheikhun.

A meeting to help the Syrian people...a meeting to assist in helping to end the conflict between Bashir al-Assad’s government forces and those who call themselves rebels...a meeting that would start with Bashir al-Assad’s government forces showing that they were winning the war on the ground. And while some of the rebels truly are rebels, it must also be known that most who call themselves rebels are but tentacles of ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra (now technically renamed Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, meaning the ‘Front for the Conquest of Syria/the Levant’), and other terrorist groups...groups waiting for al-Assad to fall so they could move in and turn Syria into a sharia compliant state of the caliphate.

And to that affect we now find out that the rebel group Ahrar al-Sham...the ‘Islamic Movement of the Free People of the Levant'‎...issued a statement that they “welcomed U.S. intervention through surgical strikes that would deter regime capabilities to kill civilians.” Sounds good on the surface doesn’t it what with the U.S. considering Ahrar al-Sham as one of the most “effective” rebel groups in Syria according to a report from Stanford University. However, what is not being reported is that this very group is integrated with the Islamic Front and al-Nusra who according to their very own words is “dedicated to building an islamic state whose only sovereign, reference, ruler, direction, and individual, societal and nationwide unifier is Allah Almighty's Sharia (law).”

And when a group like this is but one of many terrorist groups conveniently calling themselves rebels...rebels wanting the predominately secular government of Bashir al-Assad gone...it becomes a dangerous reality that if al-Assad and his government do fall then a power vacuum will likely see al-Qaeda type terrorists or worse...as in the likes of ISIS...moving in to fill the void.

But that is for another article as what must be focused on at this time is the fact that a rush to judgment was made as to which side committed this vile act for as the dust settles some of us are starting to see and zero in on certain facts that others simply do not want to see or actually fear seeing. And let’s start by first noting that a day prior to the attack a tweet was sent out by Feram Karam, a reporter in Syria with Orient News, telling of Orient TV's announcement that “Tomorrow we are launching a media campaign to cover the airstrikes on Hama country side [remember Khan Sheikehun is right on Huma's border] including the usage of chemical warfare against civilians," thus showing that the rebels were going to 'stage' an attack within the area...an attack that was now known about and media prepared for with key players in place before it happened.

 
Now briefly touching upon the reality that contrary to what many claim as sarin gas being the toxic agent used in the attack on Khan Shiekhun, the fact is it simply was not. And why is the gas used so important as obviously these people...at least some of them...were killed by some form of gas...because by proving this was not a sarin gas attack other key pieces of the puzzle will start to fall in place...key pieces that will show that not only were we here in America duped but that the world has been duped as well, and by those who up until now had little to lose.

And so documented facts are key as to the why this attack was not one of sarin gas...a gas that is “not very persistent” in the environment, meaning it dissipates fairly quickly yet certain toxic aspects of it remain. First, sarin gas is colorless and odorless and yet ‘survivors’ claim they saw a yellowish-green gas floating within the air at the time of the attack. Second, within seconds a minute or two of exposure to sarin gas the effects of the gas begins to target the muscle and nervous system as sarin is a nerve agent that causes an almost immediate release of the bowels and bladder, coupled with profuse vomiting. Now look at the pictures from the ‘supposed’ scene of the attack...no such bodily fluids can be seen in any of the pictures. 

Also, when sarin gas is used within a concentrated area...as was the city blocks involved in this ‘drop’...it would likely kill and/or sicken thousands of people not the under one hundred involved. And third, look now at photos of those ‘helping’ the victims and those carrying the dead and wounded...from ‘supposed' civilians to the very recognizable aid group known as the White Helmets...and much more on them in a bit...and see how they are treating bodies with little concern for their exposed skin for remember, sarin poisoning is spread not only by air-borne contact to the gas but even by just touching, handling, or carrying a victim.

Now let’s move on to some other oddities about this entire scenario. Supposedly taking place in a residential area...hence the baby and children victims...we have discovered through zeroing in on Google Maps that the areas in question were not residential but were warehouse districts scattered within a few areas of the city. This attack, we were told, took place in the middle of the night while babies were asleep in their cribs, yet the pictures of dead children and babies we see only show them lying alone in the streets in broad daylight. And where were their parents...they were not lying dead or sick next to their children...they were not cradling their children in their arms to comfort them... they were nowhere to be seen. And how did children and babies end up in the middle of the these (warehouse) streets alone...something to think about isn’t it for what kind of parent would leave their child to die or suffer in the street alone...none that we know of and we’re sure none that you know of either.

Now something else Google Maps showed as does all the pictures we are seeing...if this attack did occur within a heavily populated residential area as claimed... a bombed-out area yet an area that ‘supposedly’ was teeming with family life...hence the babies and the children...why are there no signs of life even amongst the rubble. There are no remnants of children’s toys, furniture, housewares, clothing, nothing that would indicate that this area was home to anyone. Also, if this was a residential area where are the animals, the dogs, the cats, the birds...where are they whether they be alive or dead from exposure to the gas... they or their bodies are nowhere to be found and why...because none of those ‘supposedly’ killed in this attack came from the city of Khan Shiekhun and especially not from its residential areas.

And why...as can be seen by this unreleased media photo below of the impact site of the 'supposed' sarin gas weapon, the weapon was not dropped in a residential area... neither lived in now nor before...but in a warehouse district as we have alluded to throughout this article.

Also not released by the media...at least not here in our country...was the fact that one week before the ‘supposed’ attack on Khan Shiekhun, about 250 people, including babies and children, from the neighboring cities of Majdal (33 miles away) and Khattab (21 miles away) were kidnapped by al-Qaeda terrorists. Locals from the area are claiming that many of those dead from the gas attack were those kidnapped from Majdal and Khattab...staged to make it appear that al-Assad had used sarin gas to kill his own people. And with the absence of the 'stuff' of life as we explained above that seems a highly likely scenario. 

And to that affect, remember what we said about those who were aiding the victims and carrying the dead... that is a key factor for the White Helmets themselves are the key to this all...the very White Helmets who most believe to be a humanitarian organization but who unbeknownst to almost all are actually an affiliate of al-Nusra and sympathizers of al-Qaeda.

The White Helmets...a key player in the whole Syrian mess. Also known as the Syrian Civil Defense, a supposedly humanitarian organization that helps all Syrians...rebels, and government forces alike...for lack of a better term think of them as the Syrian version of something akin to our Red Cross. 

The White Helmets have their own broadcast channel, their own website, and were the subject of a propaganda styled film by George Clooney for Netflix last year, as well as having been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, but who are they really and are they what they claim to be. Netflix...the very  company who boasts a major shareholder as being the Capital Research Global Investors, and a company in which George Soros invested nearly $32.8 million dollars when he bought 317,534 shares in 2015, saw him dissolve those shares in 2016. One has to wonder why.

This Syrian Civil Defense organization referred to as the White Helmets was founded not by a Syrian, but by James Le Mesurier, a graduate from Britain’s elite Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and is said to be an ‘ex’ British military intelligence officer involved in a number of other NATO ‘humanitarian intervention’ theaters of war, including Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq, as well as postings in Lebanon and what is referred to as Palestine. He also boasts a series of high-profile posts at the UN, EU, and UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Not to mention his connections back to the infamous Blackwater (Academi)’...the American private military company founded in 1997 by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince...the company who received widespread notoriety in 2007, when a group of its employees killed 17 Iraqi civilians and injured 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad for which four guards were convicted in a U.S. court.

Interesting isn’t it, that a non-Syrian, and a fellow like this Le Mersurier, would be the founder of a Syrian organization, and more interesting still is the fact that a couple of the White Helmets primary sources of funding come from NATO and from our very own CIA. Since when does the CIA pour $23 million of our American taxpayer dollars into what is 'supposedly' a foreign ‘humanitarian’ organization? When one thinks of adding the word ‘funding’ to the CIA, one thinks covert ops...not humanitarian organizations on foreign soil. 

And here is a little something else to think about...the White Helmets are actually not the only civil defense organization in Syria. There is also the International Civil Defense Organization’s (ICDO) certified Syrian Civil Defense...the real Syrian Civil Defense...formed in 1953 as a civil fire and rescue organization that really does operate throughout Syria, and if you need them in a true emergency situation such as a bombing, you can reach them inside Syria by dialing 311.

To be clear, the White Helmets have no phone number so there is virtually no way to reach them in the case of an emergency, and yet there they seem to be every time a ‘rebel’ enclave gets hit, digging children from bombed out buildings, and nearly always with both still photographers and video cameras rolling. 

The real Syrian Civil Defense as a member of the ICDO, is part of a partnership which includes the U.N. Department of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Secretary of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations of Geneva (UNOG), Red Cross, and the Red Crescent.

The White Helmets are not ICDO partners and have   no affiliation whatsoever with any of the legitimate organizations named, and while their helmets may be white, that waves a lot of red flags. What it appears to be is that the White Helmets are not at all what they claim to be, as in a civil defense organization, rather they are a PR organization organized by those supporting the 'supposed' rebels who are tied to various terrorist organizations which operate inside Syria.

In fact, nearly all the photos and videos we have seen, and those supplied to our various intel organizations regarding attacks such as the one last week, come from the White Helmets. The photos of the dead children, the videos of ‘rescue’ attempts that so quickly make it to worldwide distribution via the internet, from places in Syria that have been bombed nearly to oblivion, come from the White Helmets.

In fact, while the real Syrian Civil Defense operates throughout Syria, the White Helmets seem only to be found in ‘rebel’ held territory, embedded with various factions of loosely connected terrorist organizations.

According to Vanessa Beesley, a correspondent for 21st Century Wire, who has traveled to Syria as a reporter, “In fact during my recent trip to Syria, I was once again struck by the response from the majority of Syrians when asked if they knew who the White Helmets were. The majority had never heard of them, others who follow western media noted that they are a “NATO construct being used to infiltrate Syria as a major player in the terrorist support network.””

According to the official White Helmet website, they claim they are not “tied to any political group in Syria, or anywhere else,” and they also state that they are, “fiercely independent” and “have accepted no money from governments, corporations or anyone directly involved in the Syrian conflict."

Those are lies, plain and simple, as it seems is their claim to be a Syrian Civil Defense organization replete with first responders and doctors whose goal is to save lives.

Saving lives...really?  Watch this video ‘supposedly’ of a White Helmet doctor ‘treating’ an injured baby who was ‘supposedly’ suffering from exposure to a toxic agent said to have been part of a recent attack perpetrated by the Syrian government. It is not an easy video to watch, but notice how the ‘doctor’ (if he really was even a doctor) jabs a needle into the baby’s chest. We are led to believe he is injecting adrenaline into the baby’s heart in a life-saving procedure. This ‘doctor’ never pushes the plunger...he simply and repeatedly jabs the dying infant through the heart with the needle. 

Also in the video Arabic can be heard, and translators have reported that the words being spoken are not what one would expect to hear in such an emergency room setting...they are, according to Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, stage directions being given regarding the placement of the children’s body for the camera.

One of the biggest red flags with regard to the White Helmets is who they always seem to be assembled with whenever a crisis, real or fake, presents itself. Al-Qaeda, al-Nusra…an arm of al- Qaeda, Nour al-Din al-Zenki...a one-time more moderate group that has in the past year joined with Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (Front for the Conquest of Syria/the Levant)...the name we previously stated that changed from al-Nusra Front... and which is directly linked to ISIS. The list goes on and on, but the point is that none of the groups that the White Helmets associate with are in anyway moderate. They are in fact various factions of more prominent terrorist organizations. 

Then there is Nour al-Din al-Zenki, yet another terrorist related Syrian-based organization that split from the Free Syrian Army about a year or so ago, and yet another group with whom the White Helmets associates.

There are a few key factors in these terrorist related associations regarding the White Helmets...first, the White Helmets can virtually only be found with the terrorist related organizations like al-Qaeda, as though they are embedded with them and second, the White Helmets, who claim to represent and assist all Syrians in emergency situations related to the war, are virtually never seen with the more moderate Free Syrian Army or anywhere near sites bombed or attacked by those opposed to Bashar al-Assad and his government forces.

And third, it seems every time cease-fire negotiations are ready to take place, usually within 24 hours of those talks, some enclave occupied by the forces of terrorist organizations gets hit, people are killed, and right there in the thick of it all are the White Helmets, their cameras, video gear, and their ‘doctors,’ to treat the victims...but have you ever noticed amid the inevitable flurry of released photos and videos that are recorded within moments of the attack, while ‘victims’ are literally dying in the streets...there does not seem to be a single shot or video of the attack itself.

If the White Helmets can be on the scene within mere moments with their cameras rolling and shutters clicking why are there not any images, moving or otherwise, of the bombing itself...or for that matter any photos or videos of actual down-and-dirty rescues they claim to have made. Holding a child in one's arms does not an actual rescue make.

So far, everything we have found leads us to believe that the chemical attack at Khan Sheikhun a week ago was staged, from the photos and videos to the bodies and the first responders...and all courtesy of the the White Helmets. Everything we have discovered leads us to believe that the victims seen in pictures and videos were more likely to have been victims first of the afore mentioned kidnapping by terrorist affiliated rebels before they were victims of murder.

And if you are looking for a name, someone who, by name, can be directly linked to it all...so too were we...and we found the person we now believe could very well be ground zero...Dr. Shajul Islam.

This so-called doctor spent the hours directly after the 'supposed' attack treating the victims and tweeting about the situation. Yes, tweeting, in 140 characters or less, that he was treating three victims, that it was a sarin gas attack, and that he had the proof it was sarin, and not anything but sarin, which he was offering to show to any who were interested, as he claimed to have “samples.” The ‘so-called’ Dr. Islam also offered to video chat with anyone interested in seeing the proof he offered.

Consider the situation in which he found himself during that particular moment. Supposedly, there had just, and we mean just, been a sarin weapons attack in Khan Sheikhun (remember, had it actually been sarin, the death and victim toll would have been extreme, and not limited to 100 or less), and he was 'supposedly' in the act of treating three victims of this claimed sarin nerve agent attack…and yet he had time to send out tweet after tweet, and had the time to go to video chat with anyone who was interested.

This seemed odd to us as to what we both did and did not see in the photos and videos, so we decided to do a bit of digging into this Dr. Shajul Islam, and what we discovered was quite shocking to say the least.

Dr. Shajul  Islam, from Stratford, East London, was arrested in 2012 on charges of kidnapping two journalists, one being British journalist John Cantile, who was taken while crossing from Turkey into Syria, and then rescued a week later; and the other, Dutch photographer Jeroen Oerlemans, who was with Cantile.

John Cantile was again kidnapped in Syria, along with journalist James Foley, who was later beheaded by Jihadi John in a widely publicized video. Cantile is still a hostage today, and Oerlemans was shot dead in Libya in 2016.

At the time of the kidnappings this Dr. Islam and a man by the name of Jubayer Chowdhury were the only two British jihadis charged with kidnapping westerners inside of Syria. Also, at the time of his ill-fated trial, Dr. Islam, it had been reported, was some sort of associate, knowing the true identity of jihadi John, which we all much later came to find out was Mohammed Emwazi.

But that is certainly not the end of the rap sheet on this 'supposed' doctor...Shajul Islam...as he escaped trial on the kidnapping charges when the only two witnesses failed to appear in court and the charges were then dropped...how convenient was that.

Dr. Islam had been practicing at St Bart’s Hospital in London until last month when he was removed from the medical register after a ‘fitness to practice’ hearing at the General Medical Council, where a secret tribunal panel heard the disciplinary case against him and banned him for misconduct.

But it doesn’t end there…

The hospital where this 'supposed' Dr. Shajul Islam was working on the ‘victims’ of what he still insists was a sarin nerve agent attack, was Binnish Hospital, in the town of Hama, some 50km north of Khan Sheikhun, where people ‘supposedly’ exposed to sarin were driven in ambulances and trucks by people not wearing any protective gear.

Remember, in one tweet, this 'so-called' doctor claimed to be treating just three victims, and yet in other tweets and videos he posted that day he claimed that, “The patients keep just flooding in from this chemical attack. Every one - every one - has got pinpoint pupils” and in others that, “The patients keep coming, we've run out of ventilators,” and “We don't have enough ventilator space, so we're now taking out the transport ventilators we have in our ambulances and we're going to try to modify them to see if we can use them for our patients.”

Let us be very clear on this point, it matters not whether a doctor is working on three or dozens of victims of a sarin or any other sort of chemical weapons attack, as said doctor would not have the time to devote to flurries of videos and/or tweets while in the process of dealing with such a mass trauma event. But, if it was all staged, if the victims were not really victims of such an event and their final outcome had been a pre-determined death, that doctor would have all the time he needed to issue all the propaganda he could muster.

We are happy to supply our readers with one more fact directly pertaining to this 'so-called' doctor, this man who had his medical license revoked for misconduct, who was charged in the jihadi kidnapping of western journalists, and who has become the propagandist for Syrian terrorist organizations...he lives and conducts his social media campaigns now in areas controlled by Jabhat al-Fateh, the former al-Qaeda affiliate.

Go to this: https://mobile.twitter.com/DrShajulIslam Dr. Shajul Islam’s twitter page or to this his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorShajulIslam/posts/1919551074998170...look at the photos, watch the videos, and note that while those all around him in the videos are speaking Arabic, Islam himself speaks in English. And why...he is playing to the western mainstream media, as any PR firm and propagandist would. Note that he and his fellow doctors are 'supposedly' treating what he claims to be sarin victims while wearing only rubber gloves as protection. Were they really sarin victims, by now both Dr. Islam and his colleagues would be dead.

So, obviously whatever chemical agent that was used to inflict the deaths of those claimed to be from Khan Sheikhun was not sarin, and was most likely, we believe, chlorine gas...and who in the region is well known for manufacturing low-grade chlorine gas to be used as weapons...none other than ISIS in Syria, and it is ISIS and their splinter factions previously named in this article that are the consorts of the White Helmets, and this man expelled from the British medical community, Dr. Islam, has in the past been a player with the White Helmets.

 

We find all these individual puzzle pieces odd indeed...but when you assemble them into the actual finished puzzle they all fit together and lock into place. First piece is that this was no sarin gas attack by Bashir al-Assad's government forces but was most likely an attack committed by any one of a number of ‘so-called’ terrorist factions masquerading as rebels who were part of the White Helmets circle of players...players who could be called into action at a moment’s notice. 

Second, the true victims of those killed were the given number of people who had been but a week earlier kidnapped from the cities of Majdal and Khattab...those who were already near death by the hands of their kidnappers...those who were then ‘placed’ into position (and note that a large number  of the 'supposed victims had their pants pulled down to the exact same level) and filmed as they died from a specifically targeted, we believe, chlorine gas attack occurring within a small yet concentrated pre-designated area of the city.

Third, this is why there is no showing of people falling ill or actually in the physical throes of dying in any of the photos or videos we have seen...as in they were either already dead when positioned into place or near death with the, we believe, chlorine gas finishing them off after what had become yet another routine bombing attack that had already occurred. 

Fourth, remember with any gas being especially toxic to babies and children because of their small size and weight, and with babies and children being the prime focus of all the photos and videos, they would be the ones most likely to be filmed because photos of dead children tug at the hearts of civilized men and women. 

Fifth, we believe this entire scenario was possibly orchestrated by one jihdist aligned Dr. Shajul Islam and then carried out through his affiliates within the While Helmets.

 

And why...to get the U.S. to do what the 'supposed' rebels could not do...as in bring down the government of Bashir al-Assad by tricking the world via photos and videos into believing that they were the victims...the victims of the only person who they believed stood in their way of having Syria become a state of the caliphate.

And so that brings us to last Thursday night when President Trump had Tomahawks reigning down on an airbase in Syria based upon the information he was given and the photos he was shown. And know that President Trump indeed sent the right message but simply sent it to the wrong ‘address’...meaning the Tomahawks should have been hitting the 'supposed' rebel enclaves in the area where this deliberately staged chlorine gas attack occurred. 

But no matter as what is done is done and the issue that remains is that we, the Right Side Patriots, believe that our president was given only half of the actual picture, because he was being deliberately misled by someone(s) within our own government who was acting covertly on behalf of those out to kill us all...but that dear reader is for yet another article soon to come.

*UPDATE: for those who have asked about the eye witnesses...those on the ground who claimed they saw bombs being dropped from the planes...they saw nothing as they are rebel sympathizers and condoners (Khan Shiekhun is a rebel enclave) who would say anything to forward the 'so-called' cause. And second, as per the videos from space...satellites would be looking straight down at the top of the planes and would in no way would be able see bombs coming out of the bottom...that is even if there were even any dropped at the time those on the ground claim there were. Also, conventional bombs were dropped the day before helping to set the stage for 'new' rubble so to speak...new damage in which to 'place' the victims.

Investigative Reports...Copyright © 2017 Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots

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