Now we know the Damascus official explanation. It runs
basically along the following lines:
- Saudi Arabia and Western intelligence agencies have given chemical weapons to their friends the rebels;
- The point was for the rebels to make use of them the day the UN inspectors were to start their visit and get the blame on the Assad government;
- The fellows tried to shoot them from the suburbs they controlled but they were so inept - amateurs, the government said - that they could not send them across to the regime soldiers and to the areas under government control;
- They kept trying, those amateur rebels, and the more they tried the more they failed and people around them, women and children, not only men, just kept dying in droves.
