One year ago today, the Courage Foundation Panel received testimony from an OPCW official detailing fraud and deception during the organisation's investigation of the alleged chemical weapon attack in Douma, Syria: couragefound.org/2019/10/opcw-p…
1) The panel learned many important facts about how information had been suppressed in order to reach 'a preordained conclusion'. The panel included many eminent figures, including the OPCW first Director General Jose Bustani, and has been supported by many more:
2)Within the last two week, although blocked by the US, US and France, Bustani issued a statement to the UN Security Council based upon what he had learned: couragefound.org/2020/10/ex-opc…
3) You can watch Bustani's statement here:-
4) The panel learned that essential chemistry results were excluded from the Final OPCW FFM report on the Douma attack and that new falsified evidence had been introduced, thus giving the misleading impression that chlorine gas use had been confirmed: couragefound.org/2019/10/analyt…
5) It was also learned that a report from NATO toxicologists, clearly stating the victims at Douma had not died from chlorine poisoning, was suppressed in the Final Douma Report.
6) The panel also learned that an engineering report contradicting the Final Douma report was suppressed by OPCW management. The report questioned how this cylinder could have caused this extraordinary amount of damage at Location 2
7) And how this cylinder appeared to have performed an amazing sideways bounce to land on a bed
8) The Final Douma report also suppressed the testimony of multiple eye witnesses whose accounts did not support the allegation that an attack had occurred.
9) BBC producer @Dalatrm has subsequently claimed he knows the hospital scenes were staged:
. This means that scenes at Location 2 were also staged/manipulated. Yet he and the BBC have failed to hand the information over @NikGowing@bbclysedoucet
10) The panel also learned that someone in the OPCW had secretly redacted the original interim report produced by the inspectors who had been to Douma. This is a clear act of fraud and deception: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
11) Any one questioning the OPCW and the activities of the US, Uk and French governments, all of whom bombed Syria immediately after the alleged attack, have been viciously attacked and smeared
@malachybrowne@MaxBlumenthal Dear Mr Browne, would you like to comment on this communication from a senior OPCW official:-
@malachybrowne@MaxBlumenthal 1) Would you also like to comment on why you think this toxicology assessment, from NATO experts, was suppressed in the Final Douma Report?
@malachybrowne@MaxBlumenthal 2) The attached tweet confirms that the cylinder at Location 2 was manipulated and that those doing this were in communication with Bellingcat:-
@thomasphipps@RussiaUN@OPCW Thomas, some specific questions. Does the following statement from a senior OPCW official give you cause for concern?
@thomasphipps@RussiaUN@OPCW 2) This documents details the assessment made by NATO toxicologist confirming the deceased at Douma were not poisoned by chlorine gas. Can you ask the @opcw why this consultation was censored come the Final Douma report?
@thomasphipps@RussiaUN@OPCW 3) This BBC producer has repeatedly confirmed the hospital scenes in Douma were staged. Has the UK government requested that the BBC pass this information to the @opcw? If not, why not?
2) Because of the reported timings (see OPCW reports), if the hospital scenes were staged, so too were the scenes at location 2 where these deceased were found.
@UKPolDirRichard@nsoames The problem is that the OPCW Syria FFMs are procedurally and scientifically flawed, as indicated by this senior OPCW official.
1) For example, the Final OPCW FFM report on Douma obfuscated the clear evidence provided by 4 NATO toxicologists that the deceased at Douma could not have been killed by chlorine gas at Location 2.
2) @RobertF40396660, then Chief of Cabinet at the OPCW, allowed a US delegation to present their analysis to the OPCW FFM team: this represents undue pressure on the FFM team and is a breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention. @steelejourno article here:- counterpunch.org/2019/11/15/the…
@RichardHRBenyon Rather than hurling abuse and smears, would you like to reflect upon this message from a senior OPCW official and what that might mean for your confidence in the organisation:-
1) You might also reflect upon the conclusions of many notable individuals, including the first Director General of the OPCW, that something has gone seriously wrong at the OPCW:- couragefound.org/2019/10/opcw-p…
2) You might also be concerned that 4 NATO toxicologists advised that the victims at Douma did not die from chlorine poisoning
Dear Dr Sharma, The OPCW FFMs are seriously compromised and this recent article in @thenation by @aaronjmate summarises key information that has come to light in the last year:- thenation.com/article/world/…
1) Further details regarding key issues relating to the Douma FFM mission are detailed in these two talks, one at the UK House of Commons and the other at the Harvard-Sussex chemical and biological weapon program: timhayward.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/hou…