On August 29, 2013, an unverified MintPress article attributed to Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh said that Syrian rebels and local residents in Ghouta, Syria alleged that rebels were responsible for the chemical weapons attack on August 21. The story alleged that Saudi Arabia had supplied the rebels with chemical weapons, which the rebels then accidentally set off; "Foreign Policy" magazine described it as one of the craziest conspiracy attacks about chemical weapons attacks in Syria.