@bellingcat & @N_Waters89 continue attempts to smear @OPCW whistleblowers & all those raising questions about the investigation of the alleged chemical weapon attack in Douma/Syria 2018 and, most seriously, suppress the truth about this event. @ClarkeMicah@2ndNewMoon
2) With respect to the Douma incident itself, remarkably, @bellingcat were caught deleting a tweet that evidenced manipulation of a cylinder allegedly dropped from a Syrian Air Force helicopter, at Location 2:-
3) This cylinder has become a source of controversy because it is now known that @opcw inspectors questioned whether the damage seen on the cylinder and the roof were compatible.
4) Attempting to smear scientists is nothing new for @bellingcat, here we see their founder Eliot Higgins attacking US Professor Ted Postol. @2ndNewMoon@Tim_Hayward_
5) One of the most serious aspects of the Douma controversy, which @bellingcat and their partners @CIJAOnline would appear to be keen to suppress and keep from public discussion, concerns the 43 victims at Douma.
6) It is now established from a leaked toxicology assessment that these victims were not killed by chlorine gas at Location 2 whilst no traces of nerve agent were ever found. This finding was removed from the final @opcw report: wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/doc…
7) It is also now apparent from the leaked original report that contradictory witness testimony has also been edited out of the @opcw's final Douma report. wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/doc…. This includes apparently false witness reports of nerve agent symptoms:-
8) Whilst information about the manipulation of bodies at location 2 throughout the night, clearly noted in the leaked original interim report, has also been buried come the @opcw's final report
9) Also removed from the final OPCW report was witness testimony referring to up to 300 deceased being buried in a mass grave. More info regarding these and related issues will be published soon.
10) Others, including the @BBC's @Dalatrm claim, based on research, that the hospital scenes associated with the events at Location 2 were staged:-
12) Suppressed information re false witness claims, mass graves and the fact that NATO toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of death, ring alarm bells for anyone wanting to find out the truth. And there are many more issues as set out here:- berlingroup21.org/background
13) And yet @bellingcat and @CIJAonline appear determined to smear anyone asking questions with crude disinformation and false allegations of 'war crime denialism' @Tim_Hayward_@aaronjmate.
14) Meanwhile, for those seeking the truth about Douma, a calm, sober, and eminently reasonable request for transparency and accountability at the @opcw, to allow all the Douma inspectors to be heard, remains: couragefound.org/2021/03/statem…
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As the @opcw's DG has chosen to again spread false information regarding whistleblower scientists from his own organisation, it is worth reminding why so many people, eminent and otherwise, are concerned about the Douma investigation @aaronjmate@PaulWalkerGG@ambLisaHelfand:-
2) It is also now established that a toxicology assessment from NATO experts, which ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of 43 deaths at Location 2, was effectively deleted from the Final Report @DarylGKimball
Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü & @CSRisks, asking questions and not getting straight answers from the @opcw does not constitute an 'intense defamation campaign'. Let's ask some of the key questions again shall we:- @Tim_Hayward_
2) Why was the assessment of 4 NATO toxicologists, that the victims at Location 2 were not killed by chlorine gas, removed from the Final Report with all record of the NATO assessment removed? @2ndNewMoon
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…
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.