Chemical Attack Was Rebel Provocation, Former Captives Say
http://rt.com/news/chemical-weapons-rebels-captives-632/
"Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin and Italian journalist Domenico Quiric, both of whom were abducted and held hostage for several months in Syria, said they overheard in an exchange between their captors that rebels were behind the recent chemical attacks.
'It is a moral duty to say this. The government of Bashar al Assad did not use Sarin gas or other types of gas in the outskirts of Damascus,' Piccinin said during an interview with Belgian RTL radio station.
'In this conversation, they said that the gas attack on two neighborhoods of Damascus was launched by the rebels as a provocation to lead the West to intervene militarily,' Quirico told Italy's La Stampa..."