The New York Times story Reports of Syria Chemical Attack Spur Question: Why?, published ages ago (over a week ago) on August 27, 2013 has recently come to my attention.

Still, the government is not monolithic. There are different power centers within its security forces, and some analysts have speculated that Mr. Assad’s brother Maher, the leader of the feared Republican Guard, could have given the order, or that it was carried out by irregular forces. Evidence from videos and witnesses suggested that the toxic substances in last week’s attack were delivered by improvised tube-launched missiles that could be used by smaller, more mobile units than were thought to be needed for chemical weapons.

The part about the tube-launched missiles was used by somebody referring to this article to make the case for the rebels having perpetrated the attack.  The actual article in The New York Times is more inclined to blame it on factions in the Syrian government than it is to blame it on the rebels.

I decided to throw this in just in case you hear one side of the argument.  I didn’t want you to go away thinking that you had actually learned something on which you could rely.