Dear @INakamitsu and @BWoodward_UN, once again the @opcw Director General has smeared his own inspectors and refused to address key questions regarding the controversial #Douma investigation. The questions remain:-
1) Why was the original interim secretly altered, without the knowledge of the Douma team, and then an attempt made to publish an inaccurate and 'spun' report? See @ClarkeMicah report on this hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2019/11/new-se…
2) Why was the key conclusion by 4 NATO toxicologists that the 43 deceased at Douma were not killed by chlorine at Location 2 expunged from the Final FFM Report? Consultation minutes are here wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/doc…@CL4Syr@MichaKobs
3) It concluded that chlorine gas could not have caused these civilians to drop dead on the spot, gathering in piles.
4) Why did the OPCW Final Report expunge engineering assessments which made clear this cylinder did not cause this damage to a concrete roof and steel reinforcement bars?
5) It does not require advanced studies to understand that the cylinder head should show signs of the steel bar which supposedly stopped it, whilst the bending of the other steel bars through greater than 90 degrees cannot be explained by the cylinder impact.
6) It is equally easy to understand that the second cylinder at Location 4 could *not* have performed the remarkable sideways bounce to then end up on a bed
7) and equally easy for any competent reader to understand that the Final Douma report does not provide an explanation for this bounce:
8) Furthermore, new and disturbing information continues to emerge. Witness reports referring to burial of up to 300 civilians in a mass grave is expunged from the final report. This number is completely inexplicable through reference to the alleged chlorine gas attack.
9) Exactly who was responsible for burying the deceased is obfuscated in the Final FFM Report:-
10) Whilst elsewhere there are contradictory claims being made to mainstream media regarding who buried the deceased
11) It has also now become clear that 'Country X' witnesses (arranged via the White Helmets) reported symptoms associated with nerve agent poisoning even though no traces of sarin were ever found
12) Also, the final FFM report has buried in its annexes information about the 're-positioning' of bodies throughout the night of 7-8 April 2018 and also obfuscated uncorroborated claims regarding civilians being killed in basements:-
13) A comprehensive list of the procedural and scientific flaws relating to the OPCW Douma investigation can be read here:- berlingroup21.org/background
14) And the recent call from 28 leading international experts and leaders can be read here:- berlingroup21.org
15) But instead of addressing these questions, or answering calls for the dissenting inspectors to be properly heard, the @opcw DG has now refused this request on the grounds he has no authority! @aaronjmate
16) And he has even referenced another UN report from 2018 in order to defend the Final FFM Douma Report. In fact, this earlier UN report raises the same issues, noted above, about chlorine supposedly having been the cause of death; documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…
17) Note also that the latest UNCRC Commission report does *not* include Douma in its list of 'established' chemical attacks. Clearly the OPCW DG is not inline with the UNHRC Syria Commission. @2ndNewMoon@Tim_Hayward_@McCormack_Tara
18) It should be a source of embarrassment to the UK that its diplomats can only respond to polite questions with smears and then blocks. And that crude smear/defamation campaigns have been initiated against people trying to establish the truth. @wallacemick@ClareDalyMEP
19) And, if the UK government is confident in the OPCW, it should have no concerns about allowing what is an eminently reasonable request that all the Douma inspectors are allowed to review the *facts* berlingroup21.org/bg21-proposal
20) Establishing the truth requires objective, rigorous and transparent investigation. However the @opcw and its key backers UK, US and France [who bombed Syria in response to Douma even before the OPCW arrived], have continually opposed transparency and rigour.
During a Senate hearing re Tulsi Gabbard, @SenMarkKelly evades the issue of the @opcw whistleblowers who reported on the corruption of the Douma Fact Finding Mission re an alleged chlorine gas attack in 2018. They are both highly credible sources and with expertise. @ggreenwald @Judgenap @DougAMacgregor
1) For example, Inspector Brendan Whelan, who blew the whistle internally regarding the corruption of the investigation was one of the OPCW's most experienced inspectors. He was closely involved with the Douma investigation: berlingroup21.org/front-matter-a…
2) Whelan first alerted senior management when he discovered an attempt to secretly modify and publish a falsified report. This act of subterfuge was reported on by @ClarkeMicah dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
Attempts to smear Tulsi Gabbard because of her questioning of the Syria chemical weapons narrative continue unabated. Here @gregkoblentz has issued a 19 page memorandum to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, washingtonpost.com/documents/c361…. The memo contains serious flaws: x.com/washingtonpost…
1) Linked to the @washingtonpost hit piece, by @isaacstanbecker, the memo is liberally sprinkled with the deeply problematic terms 'conspiracy theory' (14x) and 'disinformation' (19x). f.y.i. @Tim_Hayward_ @thackerpd
2) These terms are employed by @gregkoblentz in order to discredit Gabbard's questioning of US intelligence claims, before he then directs readers to supposedly authoritative sources.
As claims about chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria circulate, and calls are made for witnesses to be heard, here is a reminder of key scientific issues regarding the @opcw's investigation of the alleged Douma attack. @CL4Syr @MichaKobs @aaronjmate piersrobinson.substack.com/p/the-censored…
1) This alleged attack became controversial when OPCW whistleblowers revealed information had been manipulated and censored in order to blame the Syrian government @ukcolumn @UKCExtracts @Tracking_Power ukcolumn.org/article/the-ce…
2) For example, analysis showing the incompatibility between the chlorine gas cylinders and the supposed damage they had caused when hitting ceilings was suppressed. @citizenjournos_ berlingroup21.org/front-matter-a…
Dr. Gilbert Doctorow, in this interview with @Judgenap, implicates MI6 in the assassination of General Igor Kirillov due to his investigation of MI6 chemical weapons false flags, involving White Helmets, in Syria ( at 11:00 onwards)
1) He notes that @thetimes endorsed this assassination. The same newspaper which has itself been involved in MI6 sample gathering operations in Syria<<. berlingroup21.org/front-matter-a…
2) At the time of the controversial alleged attack in Douma 2018, General Kirillov, was interviewed regarding the event:
As heavily propagandised elites in the West celebrate the overthrow of the Syrian government, a reminder. As Wesley Clark revealed, the US planned to 'regime-change' 7 countries in 5 years. @ic911justice
1) The overthrow of the Afghan government in 2001 led to 20 years of war and no less than 176 000 direct deaths, as documented by the Watson Institute. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/fig…
2) The overthrow of the Iraqi government in 2003 was underpinned by now documented deceptions regarding fictitious weapons of mass destruction. 315 000 dead, probably many more. Ensuing civil war was beset with extremist groups. academic.oup.com/psq/article/12…
This is indeed where we are now at. Current geopolitical realities can be traced directly to the 9/11 manufactured war trigger, or false flag attack on the US. @ic911justice. This was when Bush and Blair conspired as to when to hit Iran, Syria and Iraq
1) Prior to 9/11, Philip Zelikow - who, a little coincidentally ;) - ended up directing the 9/11 Commission, penned a Foreign Affairs paper warning of a catastrophic terror event in 1998. ic911.org/journal/articl…
2) The psychological shock of 9/11 was immediately exploited in order to initiate multiple 'regime'-change wars, as Wesley Clark explained several years later