2) @NathalieLoiseau attempted this act of censorship in full knowledge of her own involvement with the French government when it decided to bomb Syria following the alleged attack in Douma:- thewallwillfall.org/2021/04/19/pro…
3) At the time of the alleged attack in Douma @nathalieloiseau made the false claim that '“observed in the victims show that chlorine and powerful neurotoxins were used.'
4) We now know from official reports and leaked documents that no 'neurotoxins' were ever found *and* that the deceased were not killed by chlorine gas at location 2:- wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/doc…
5) Moreover, further leaked documents and whistleblower testimony have confirmed that someone within the OPCW attempted to doctor and then publish a manipulated interim report, as reported by @ClarkeMicah:- hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2019/11/new-se…
6) There have now been multiple calls by leading experts calling for simple transparency and accountability at the OPCW:- couragefound.org/2019/10/opcw-p…
7) Whilst leading figures have openly called for all the @OPCW's inspection team to be finally heard:-
9) The latest call, signed by former OPCW inspectors and its first Director General Jose Bustani, has also made clear the emergence of a smear campaign against OPCW scientists who have raised concerns about the investigation:- berlingroup21.org
10) Also set out in detail are the multiple procedural and scientific flaws now documented through leaks and testimony:- berlingroup21.org/background
11) What @NathalieLoiseau appears to be blocking is a simple and eminently reasonable request that the Scientific Advisory Board to the @opcw enables all the Douma inspectors to discuss, objectively and rigorously, the evidence regarding #Douma:- berlingroup21.org/bg21-proposal
12) Will @NathalieLoiseau now retract her false claims (see point 3 above) and support the request for scientific transparency and rigour at the @opcw?
1) In fact UK journalist @ClarkeMicah first reported in 2019 the fact that the original interim report had been secretly doctored to suggest Syrian gov. guilt without the knowledge of the Douma inspectors:- hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2019/11/new-se…
2) The @couragefound in 2019, which heard testimony from an OPCW person, reported serious procedural and scientific irregularities relating to manipulation of chemistry, toxicology, ballistics and witness testimony:- couragefound.org/2019/10/opcw-p…
@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.
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..
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