1) OPCW staff have not advocated a 'false and misleading theory', they have reported serious procedural and scientic flaws w.r.t. the Douma investigation. 11 points detailed here: berlingroup21.org/background
2) These include secret attempts to modify the interim report and obfuscation of evidence. Starting with procedural irregularity 2, can @CanadaOPCW explain who attempted to publish a manipulated version of the interim report behind the back of the Douma team..
3) Why this was done, and why the actor subterfuge was never investigated? You can then, @CanadaOPCW address the other 10 procedural and scientific flaws:- berlingroup21.org/background
4) ... starting with an explanation of why this toxicology report, concluding the victims were not killed by chlorine gas, was obfuscated in the final report:- see (b)Scientific flaws (berlingroup21.org/background)
5) And also investigate why this senior opcw official reports threats and intimidation w.r.t. anyone raising questions
@CanadaOPCW Not only was the majority of the analytical work done before Whelan left, (compare the 106 page original interim report with the final report: wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/doc… with opcw.org/sites/default/…), any subsequent analysis added little to the original conclusions:-
1) the additional 13 samples analysed were not sufficient to alter the *original interim report* conclusion that there was no confirmation chlorine gas had been present (nor indeed that there was any evidence of nerve agent such as Sarin): berlingroup21.org/background@aaronjmate
2) But the *final report* did include an apparently fabricated claim that no bleach (a possible benign cause of some of the chemistry results) was ever reported by investigators at the scene. In truth, no such negative observation was ever recorded by the Douma inspection team.
10) Equally significant was the failure to find any evidence of sarin nerve agent nor even conclusive proof that chlorine gas had been released at location 2 where the deceased were found, piled on top of one another:- berlingroup21.org/background
11) We now know that a toxicology assessment via NATO chemical weapons experts, erased from the final @opcw report, had concluded that the deceased were not poisoned by chlorine wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/doc…
12) We also know from the leaked original interim report that witness testimony, again obfuscated in the final @opcw#Douma report, showed contradictory and contrasting claims about what had happened:- couragefound.org/2021/03/additi…
Three years ago today over 50 plus civilians were killed in an alleged chemical weapon attack in #Douma, Syria. US, UK and France bombed in retaliation seven days later alleging the Syrian government had carried out the attack. @VanessaBeeley@2ndNewMoon@Tim_Hayward_
1) The US, UK and France alleged that the Syrian air force had dropped two gas cylinders and, at the time, alleged that they likely contained Sarin nerve agent. @MichaKobs@CL4Syr
2) Since then, a crude smear campaign against researchers, journalists, academics and even OPCW scientists, has sought to discredit anyone asking questions as *conspiracy theorists*, *war crime deniers* or *Russian/Syrian agents*. @oliverkamm@chloehadj@CIJAOnline@tobycadman
From 6.52- 13.03 @ClarkeMicah@Iromg discuss on @talkRADIO the @OPCW controversy regarding the investigation of the alleged chemical weapon attack in #Douma, Syria, 2018 and the new Statement of Concern issued by leading figures f.y.i. @Tim_Hayward_@couragefound
1) Hitchens notes:- ‘Here we have a scandal … as big as the discovery that WMD in Iraq never existed, which is a serious dispute by very experienced inspectors at the OPCW … If anybody raises it they are immediately dismissed as apologists' couragefound.org/2021/03/statem…
2) ‘this happened over the weekend, amazingly qualified person, Lord Admiral West the Falklands war hero … joined the calls for looking into the OPCW business …. And the Foreign Office said that all those who signed the plea were whitewashing Assad ...’ dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
‘efforts to claim the Syrian gov. used chemical weapons against their own people in Douma is particularly pathetic. Like the phantom weapons of mass destruction from the Iraq War, whistleblowers from the OPCW have shown that the evidence was manipulated’ Clare Daley MEP