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Brian, as I'm sure you are aware, there is now good reason to evaluate alleged chemical weapons events in Syria including the role of the UK government.
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1) Regarding alleged chlorine attacks, our briefing note here details outstanding issues regarding both the 2018 Douma event and earlier alleged chlorine attacks: .
2) We will soon be publishing a briefing note on the final OPCW report on Douma, a report which brings the OPCW into disrepute. Until then perhaps you would like to respond to the briefing note mentioned above and you can do so here: timhayward.wordpress.com/2018/08/20/all…
3) Regarding Sarin attacks Kan Sheikhoun 2017 and East Ghouta 2013 Professor McKeigue has offered detail analysis here timhayward.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/who…. Again you can respond to these at Professor Hayward's site.
4) We are by no means the only people who have raised questions. In addition to @SeymourHersh and Prof. Ted Postel individuals such as General Shaw and Lord Alan West rt.com/news/424047-ru… have questioned officials claims regarding Douma.
5) The alleged chemical weapon attacks occur against a backdrop where we know UKGOV has provided propaganda support to opposition groups theguardian.com/world/2016/may… @IanCobain
6) and independent researcher @cerumol has raised substantive questions, which remain unanswered by the BBC in the reporting of an alleged napalm attack …amasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com @bbclysedoucet
7) It is important that researchers and academics are able to research this issue. You claimed in a tweet that you 'look at all the evidence and evaluate it.'
8) But you wrote 3/4 articles smearing the syriapropagandamedia.org as 'conspiracy theorists' before even our first briefing on Syria. That might appear to some you were trying to deter us from researching these questions, @Jonathan_K_Cook jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018-02-2…
9) The working group was also subjected to an extraordinary attack from the Times newspaper the day the UK bombed Syria involving journalists @TimesKennedy @georgiekeate @KrystinaShveda again involving the use of the smear tactic 'conspiracy theorist'
10) Our research into alleged chemical weapon attacks concerns establishing the truth about the events in question, many of which involve likely war crimes. Our research is objective and we are committed to accurate and truthful work
11) As such, journalists and academics who attempt to smear our work (and there is a very clear pattern of this now (fully documented) may well be, intentionally or unintentionally, facilitating the cover up of possible war crimes and run legal jeopardy as a result.
12) These last two points are are perhaps something all journalists and academics involved in smears might wish to consider and to keep in mind.
13) Finally, I reiterate the call for an inquiry that I made here (This might reasonably be extended to include an inquiry into how UK mainstream media have reported on the war on Syria):
14) BBC producer @Dalatrm tweeted in early February that he could prove staging of hospital scenes regarding Douma 2018. He has not tweeted since and the only mainstream journalist to have written about this is @ClarkeMicah hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/page/2/. 
