Thread by @PiersRobinson1

@OliverKamm persistently misleads the public with respect to the WGSPM's work on alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria, presenting it as fringe 'pro-Assad conspiracy theory' @LawDavF @ProfPRogers @BristolUni @Tracking_Power @Tim_Hayward_ @BoardofDeputies

https://twitter.com/CapX/status/1363907594360938498

He achieves this deception by omitting key facts regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack in Douma, 2018, including:- syriapropagandamedia.org/update-on-the-…

1) the fact that others have raised questions regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack including UK military experts, for example here on @skynews:

https://twitter.com/ShoebridgeC/status/984837379612708864?s=20

@aaronjmate @MaxBlumenthal @BoardofDeputies

2) the fact that BBC producer Riam Dalati has stated in public that, based on 6 months of research, hospital scenes related to the alleged attack were beyond doubt staged:

https://twitter.com/Dalatrm/status/1095677403198906369?s=20

@bbclysedoucet @MaxAbrahms

3) @oliverkamm also makes no mention of key developments since his newspaper first attacked the working group back in April 2018. These developments include:-

4) the emergence of OPCW whistleblowers who have identified serious procedural and scientific flaws regarding the OPCW FFM investigation of the alleged Douma attack. couragefound.org/2019/10/analyt…

5) Reporting in 2019 by @ClarkeMicah and @SMaurizi which details how the original interim report on Douma was secretly altered in an attempt to publish an interim report that suggested an attack had occurred:- hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2019/11/new-se…

6) In fact, whistleblower testimony has been so compelling that the first Director General of the OPCW, Jose Bustani, and a number of other eminent figures have signed an open letter calling for accountability at the OPCW couragefound.org/2019/10/opcw-p…

7) Jose Bustani has also addressed the UN Security Council on this issue. And yet you will learn nothing of these facts in Kamm's article. @2ndNewMoon

8) Furthermore, in his attempt to present our work on alleged chemical weapons attacks as fringe, @oliverkamm also conceals the fact that the late Julian Perry Robinson was in communication with the working group. theguardian.com/world/2020/may…

9) Robinson, a leading world expert on chemical and biological warfare, invited working group member Paul McKeigue to present findings at the Harvard-Sussex prog. syriapropagandamedia.org/wp-content/upl…

10) Also omitted from discussion is his personal involvement in a near 3 year long smear campaign aimed at members of the working group. This article details this smear campaign and Kamm's involvement with it:- off-guardian.org/2020/10/06/the…

11) Finally, @OliverKamm also fails to inform his readers about the large volume of documentation published by @wikileaks which corroborates the OPCW whistleblowers wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/#OP… as well as Noam Chomsky's recent statement

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1318554204676460545?s=20

12) In sum, to present our work on alleged chemical weapon attack as the product of unfounded 'conspiracy theory' is demonstrably false and profoundly misleading. Clearly, these are legitimate questions and it is our responsibility to address them @CapX

13) The question that should now be asked is why @oliverkamm is so determined to attack academic investigation of alleged chemical weapon attacks in Syria? In doing so, he is suppressing the truth of what happened to these civilians. @BristolUni @ProfPRogers @LawDavF

14) And for the latest summing up of the OPCW issue, watch this @RollingStone interview:-

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1363915715250692101?s=20