Thread by @PiersRobinson1

Murdoch newspaper @times and @OliverKamm have renewed a smear campaign against academics researching alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria. @ClarkeMicah @OborneTweets @PeterCronau @SusanSarandon @pamfoundation @rogerwaters @aaronjmate @MaxBlumenthal @jimmy_dore

1) Questions regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack in Douma are dismissed as 'conspiracy theory' even though there is widespread questioning; In March OPCW persons leaked a suppressed engineering assessment to us indicating the attack was staged: syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers…

2) BBC producer @Dalatrm tweeted in early February that he could prove staging of hospital scenes regarding Douma 2018. If these scenes were staged, then the attack scenes (which reportedly occurred after the hospital scenes) must also have been staged.

3) UK columnist @ClarkeMicah has repeatedly raised concerns regarding the OPCW Douma investigation and other investigations which have relied on opposition groups for their evidence and analysis. hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2019/05/my-urg…

4) Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter likewise:-

https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1161828899996803073?s=20

5) Even at the time of the alleged attacks two prominent UK military also raised doubts: General Shaw

https://twitter.com/EL4JC/status/984789066569998338

and Lord Alan West rt.com/news/424047-ru…

6) Currently Congresswoman @TulsiGabbard and MIT prof. Postal are also raising the issue of the flawed OPCW investigation into Douma:

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1162018254870724608?s=20

@aaronjmate @MaxBlumenthal @dancohen3000 @jimmy_dore

7) Questions have also been raised in the British and Belgian parliements: parliament.uk/business/publi…

8) And yet @OliverKamm and @thetimes are attempting to smear and have fired UK academics who are at the forefront of investigating this issue questions and trying to establish the truth behind the deaths of these civilians:-

9) To date none of the briefings published by the working group have ever been refuted; they have only been subjected to the smears currently being experienced, for example, by @TulsiGabbard and @RealScottRitter syriapropagandamedia.org @Tim_Hayward_ @Tracking_Power

10) Those attempting to smear our work (and there is a very clear pattern of this now (fully documented) are likely complicit in facilitating the cover up of possible war crimes and run legal jeopardy as a result.

11) Journalists who have been involved in this smear campaign should keep this in mind @TimesKennedy @haynesdeborah @georgiekeate @KrystinaShveda @ChrisDYork @jessbrammar @OliverKamm @Brian_Whit They are actively preventing the truth about what happened in Douma from being known.

@Times @OliverKamm @ClarkeMicah @OborneTweets @PeterCronau @SusanSarandon @pamfoundation @rogerwaters @aaronjmate @MaxBlumenthal @jimmy_dore @alextomo @bbclysedoucet @Ian_Fraser @IanCobain @afshinrattansi @BreesAnna @21WIRE @VanessaBeeley @EvaKBartlett @caitoz @Shelaco @cerumol @ukcolumn @medialens

@TimesKennedy @haynesdeborah @georgiekeate @KrystinaShveda @ChrisDYork @jessbrammar @OliverKamm @Brian_Whit 12) and finally,

https://twitter.com/PiersRobinson1/status/1134319715462000642?s=20

@TimesKennedy @haynesdeborah @georgiekeate @KrystinaShveda @ChrisDYork @jessbrammar @OliverKamm @Brian_Whit 13) And another significant individual asking questions,and more:-

https://twitter.com/Ian56789/status/1170409745959849985?s=20