Were the Chief of the Armed forces of #Syria and Suheil al-Hassan, commander of the “Tiger Forces," present in a command post overlooking a city shortly before it was hit by a chlorine attack?
@N_Waters89 Last week, the OPCW’s IIT stated that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a hospital in the Syrian town of al Lataminah was attacked with chlorine on March 25, 2017
@N_Waters89 Thanks to a SANA News video, we know that on the same date, a delegation of generals, including Suheil al Hassan, was present in a command post overlooking al Lataminah.
Thankfully, @syrian_archive grabbed a copy before it was deleted from YouTube
At one point an ISTAR feed is seen, showing another village in Hama.
If this feed was live, it indicates the time was 1415. We can be more confident about this time than the parade section, as the buildings provide us with shadow reference points
We used one of @topazlabs sharpening tools on Gen. Ayoub’s watch
The result looks consistent with our initial assessment.
NOTE: this is the interpretation of the tool, using a similar watch
@N_Waters89@syrian_archive@topazlabs Take into account the flight time of the helicopter from Hama air base, the time to conduct preflight checks & load chlorine munitions...
...And it appears very likely that these generals were present in the command post as the chlorine attack on al Lataminah was being prepared.
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All 298 civilians on board the flight lost their lives. Years of investigative work was carried out in pursuit of the truth.
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