BANDAR AND HARIRI
IMPLICATED IN KHAN AL-ASSAL CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK
By Christof
Lehmann. Published On: Fri, Nov 1st,
2013
Testimony
by a Liwa Asifat al-Shamal member implicates Saudi, Lebanese and Turkish
Officials and Officers, including the Lebanese MP Saad Hariri and Saudi Arabi´s
Intelligence Chief Bandar bin Sultan, in Weapons Trafficking and the
Trafficking of the Nerve Agent Sarin to Mercenary Brigades in Syria. The
Testimony Implicates Bandar and Hariri in the Chemical Weapons Attack in Khan
Al-Assal on 5 March 2013.
In his confession, the 40-year old Kanno admitted, that he had transferred chemicals from the Turkish city of Kilis to Azaz in Syria, where Kanno has been working as the principal of a school before taking up arms. Kanno also admitted to robbing factories in Syria and to transferring the stolen goods to Turkey.
The former school principal said, that he had joined the so-called “Omar Ibn al-Aas Wing” of Liwa Asifat al-Shamal upon the request of the brigade´s leader, Ammar Dadikhi, who according to Kanno used to work as a smuggler between Turkey and Syria.
The Liwa Asifat al-Shamal brigade is known to be working in close liaison with Turkish and other core NATO members special forces, and the midi sized brigades primary objective has for a long time been the exercising of control over the Bab al-Salama border checkpoint between Turkey and Syria.
In his confession, Kanno pointed out that he used to take part in attacking checkpoints of the Syrian army at the entrance to Aleppo on the orders of Ammar Dadikhi, who in turn received his orders from Turkish, Lebanese and other sponsors.
Kanno´s confession further corroborates that the foreign-backed insurgents are operating under a much more centralized command structure than statements by i.e. US government officials and reports in western mainstream media would lead one to believe. Kanno referred, for example, to an operation which his brigade had carried out against an army checkpoint in Bustan al-Basha, in which also the Al-Ghurabaa Battalion, which included gunmen from Libya, Turkey and Chechnya participated.
Later on, Kanno added, he stopped taking part in combat operations to join the brigades political council, whose mission was to meet foreign sponsors and officers of various nationalities, including Saudi Arabian, Turkish and Qatari.
Kanno explicitly referred to one meeting with Turkish officers along with gunmen from other groups, during which the officers asked them to attack the Minnegh military airfield in exchange for facilitating the transfer of money and weapons.
Kanno detailed, that the preparation
and execution of the attack on the Minnegh airfield was carried out by 700
gunmen under the leadership of Dadikhi, using all types of weapons, and that 60
of the gunmen were killed.
Kanno added that the failure to
secure the Minnegh airfield prompted intensive visits by Turkish and Gulf
Arab officers to Azaz, and he stressed, that ” the Turkish and Gulf Arab
officers demanded full control over the airport at any price”.
LEBANESE MP OQAB SAQR VISITS AZAZ,
CONVEYING GREETINGS FROM SAAD AL HARIRI AND BANDAR BIN SULTAN.
In his testimony, the captured Liwa Asifat
al-Shamal member and former school principle, Waissi Samo Kanno, also referred
to a visit by the Lebanese MP Oqab Saqr to Azaz. Kanno said, that Saqr and
Dadikhi had close ties to each other. During his visit, said Kanno, Saqr tried
to boost the morale of the gunmen and conveyed to them the greetings of the
leader of the Future Movement Saad al Hariri and the Saudi Intelligence Chief
Emir Bandar bin Sultan.
Kanno stated that Saqr, during a
meeting in the Kilis camp, gave the gunmen 200.000 UD dollars and that he
promised to provide them with quality weapons. Kanno added that Saqr, on the
explicit orders of Saad al Hariri, asked the insurgents to kidnap Iranian,
Iraqi and Lebanese pilgrims who use to travel via Azaz. He added, that
Dadikhi was tasked with the abduction of a group of pilgrims “who probably
were Lebanese”, upon the request of Saad Hariri.
Kanno stressed that both Turkish and
Saudi military officers were involved in transferring Sarin gas to the
insurgents. Kanno explicitly mentioned one occasion when a number of leaders of
armed groups went to meet Turkish and Saudi officers in Kilis, who gave them a
box, containing chemical materials, namely four bottles of Sarin.
The testimony by Kanno adds to
mounting evidence that implies direct political and command responsibility for
chemical weapons attacks among top political, military and intelligence leaders
of Arab and Western countries.
Kanno´s testimony adds to and
corroborated Bandar´s and now also Hariri´s probable involvement in
facilitating the chemical weapons attack on Khan al-Assal on 5 March 2013.
It is noteworthy that an
additional attack was launched on Khan al-Assal, killing 123. The second
attack, on July 2013, was according to some reports, carried out with the
explicit purpose to liquidate eyewitnesses to the chemical weapons attack in
March.
Ch/L – nsnbc
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