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New Briefing Note from the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media on the final OPCW report about the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria, April 2018,: syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers… @Tracking_Power @Tim_Hayward_ 
1. Why was the FFM Team Leader apparently removed three days after arriving in Damascus, before on-site inspections had begun? The CWC does not give the DG or anyone else power to interfere with an investigation once the inspectors have been despatched.
2. The CWC stipulates that the final report of an investigation of alleged use of CW must be submitted within 30 days of the inspectors' return to base. Why did it take 10 months? Did someone interfere?
3. Why did the FFM, five months after completing their interviews with witnesses in Damascus and Turkey in May 2018, return to Turkey five months later to conduct more interviews with people affliiated to the opposition? Were they plugging holes in the chemical attack story?
4. Why is the report written to make it appear as if the witnesses who later testified in The Hague that the hospital dousing scene had been staged had not been formally interviewed by the FFM?
5. Who wrote this shoddy unsigned report? It's unlikely to be Kalman Kallo, a highly competent and professional Hungarian ex-army officer, who as FFM Team leader had just completed a signed report on incidents in Aleppo?
6. Why did the Executive Council block an apparently reasonable proposal from Russia on 14 May that all members of the FFM team should give a briefing on the Final Report? ...
... Russia hints that not all members of the FFM team would endorse the report -- do the UK and NL envoys also know this?
@CaterinaPerossa You will be very interested in this briefing note, I suggest you take a look,
@alice_adg Would the OPCW be willing to respond to the questions raised in this briefing note and twitter thread?
