This is a sorta follow up to Rev's post:
Prince Bandar, Saudi Power Broker, Seeks to Bring Down Syria's Assad

which sparked my curiosity and rang some faint bells.

Don't Show Obama This Report About Who Really Is Behind The Syrian Chemical Attacks
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/30/2013 10:33 -0400

As we showed mere days ago, it appears the truth of who the real puppet-master in the Middle-East is becoming plainer to see. The incredibly frank discussion between Saudi's spy-chief Prince Bandar and Russia's Putin exposed a much deeper plot is afoot and the following details from the actual people on the ground in the chemically-attacked region of Syria suggest Obama is playing right into the Saudi's plan. While Obama is 'certain' that the chemical attacks took place on al-Assad's orders, as MPN reports, "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."
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Again we remind: Russia and Saudi Arabia account for 25% of global oil production, but far more importantly absent the Qatari natgas (and a potential pipeline crossing under a receptive Syrian regime - i.e., not Assad - and going into Turkey), Europe will remain beholden to every rate-hiking whim by Putin and Gazpromia."
More and links at:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-30...hemical-attacks

Further research led to the following articles:
"Proof" Assad Used Chemical Weapons Is One Hundred YouTube Clips: Full Report Attached
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-30...clips-full-repo

Meet Saudi Arabia's Bandar bin Sultan: The Puppetmaster Behind The Syrian War
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-27...hind-syrian-war

U.S. Started Backing Syrian Opposition YEARS BEFORE the Uprising Started

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The civil war in Syria started in March 2011. And see this.

However, the U.S. has been funding the Syrian opposition since 2006 … and arming the opposition since 2007.
So the American government’s argument that “we must stop Assad because he’s brutally crushing a spontaneous popular uprising” is false. The U.S. started supporting the rebels 5 years before the protests started.

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http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/201...prising-started

and the best for last:
U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator

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The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte.
"Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated," Del Ponte said in an interview with Swiss-Italian television.
"This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities," she added, speaking in Italian.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/0...E94409Z20130505