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In May this year, a leaked engineering assessment given to a group of UK-based academics known as the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, revealed that an expert with the OPCW Fact Finding Mission (FFM) had in fact challenged the conclusion of the OPCW’s final report to the UN Security Council on March 1, 2019. According to the leaked document, the “dimensions, characteristics and appearance of the cylinders and the surrounding scene of the incidents were inconsistent with what would have been expected in the case of either cylinder having been delivered from an aircraft.” This finding suggests there is “a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft.”
According to award-winning physicist and MIT professor emeritus Theodore Postol, a leading expert in missile technology, “The leaked document provided unambiguous contradictory data from the UN Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) and supporting technical analysis that explicitly showed that the attacks were instead staged.” Postol said that the documents provide enough evidence to suggest that “someone had placed the chlorine cylinders at the alleged locations in the hope of making it appear like the cylinders had been dropped from an aircraft.” And Postol wasn’t the only one challenging the OPCW’s conclusion.
Robert Fisk, a veteran correspondent for The Independent (UK), said a doctor who treated the victims in Douma told him they had suffered “from dust and dirt inhalation, not toxic gas exposure”. Similarly, Riam Dalati, a BBC producer who has covered Syria extensively, also claimed in February that the attack was “staged”.
https://www.thedailystar.net/opinio...about-the-syrian-chemical-attack-2018-1821409And now, a second whistleblower has come forward challenging the OPCW’s final report.
On October 15, an independent British civil society organisation, Courage Foundation, convened a panel of experts from the fields of disarmament, international law, journalism, military operations, medicine and intelligence in Brussels, to meet a member of the OPCW’s team that investigated the Douma incident. Based on the whistleblower’s “extensive presentation, including internal emails, text messages and draft reports”, the panel “unanimously” expressed its “alarm over unacceptable practices in the investigation of the alleged chemical attack in Douma”.
The panel, consisting of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jose Bustani, Brazilian diplomat and the first Director General of the OPCW; Richard Falk, professor emeritus of International Law, Princeton University; Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor in chief of WikiLeaks; Dr Helmut Lohrer, MD, Board member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and others, concluded that: “A critical analysis of the final report of the Douma investigation left the panel in little doubt that conclusions drawn from each of the key evidentiary pillars of the investigation (chemical analysis, toxicology, ballistics and witness testimonies) are flawed and bear little relation to the facts.”
The panel stated that is was “particularly troubled by organisational efforts [by OPCW] to obfuscate and prevent inspectors from raising legitimate concerns about possible malpractices surrounding the Douma investigation.” Professor Richard Falk, one of the panel members, wrote that: “Not only did the panel find that OPCW tampered with the evidence to produce an outcome desired by the geopolitical actors involved in this instance, it tried to silence its own senior civil servants to such an extent as to produce what I would call ‘a reluctant but extremely credible whistleblower,’ a senior inspector with 17 years of experience with OPCW, and a member of the team that carried out the on-site investigations of the Douma allegations.”
CNN was on scene though and confirmed that Animal Assad had gassed his own people. Look
I love that your video gives a link to smell like teen spirit. Made me feel young again.
CNN was on scene though and confirmed that Animal Assad had gassed his own people. Look
The reporter's name is Arwa Damon, she is the granddaughter of Muhsin al-Barazi, the former Syrian Kurd prime minister of Syria, who was executed in the August 1949 Syrian coup d'état.
https://web.archive.org/web/2014071...e/article/facing-the-truth-cnns-arwa-damon/#1
This thread is evidently filled with Russian-bots or Tulsi supporters.
CNN was on scene though and confirmed that Animal Assad had gassed his own people. Look
This thread is evidently filled with Russian-bots or Tulsi supporters.
Not nearly enough, i've seen you post bullshit way more oftenTwice I've been accused of spreading Russian propaganda, by different mods.
Not nearly enough, i've seen you post bullshit way more often
Yeah they were so mad about those. Syria is broke they couldn't afford real bombs. It wasn't a war crime or anything nuts. Why the panties in a bunch over that?but but but barrel bombs!!