New @PushbackShow: A new open-source study concludes that Syrian insurgents carried out the Ghouta sarin chemical attack in August 2013 -- not the Syrian government, as the US and other Western sources publicly alleged.
Based on their trajectories, the study traces all 7 missile impact locations back to the most likely launch spot where they all intersected: a small area within insurgent-controlled territory. A video of insurgents firing Volcano rockets matches several features of that field. 
The study finds major errors in reports from the UN, Human Rights Watch and the NATO troll farm Bellingcat that were used to pin the blame on the Syrian government. Most importantly, it provides new evidence that the US gov't put out false or unsupported claims to blame Syria.
You can read the Ghouta study here: rootclaim-media.s3.amazonaws.com/syria2013evide…
Summary of findings: blog.rootclaim.com/new-evidence-2…
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Summary of findings: blog.rootclaim.com/new-evidence-2…
Follow the authors:
@CL4Syr
@MichaKobs
@saarwilf
@ckabusk
Study bolsters prior revelations that undermined claims of Syrian gov't guilt in Ghouta. MIT's Ted Postol & ex-UN inspector Richard Lloyd found that the range of the Ghouta rockets was outside of Syrian gov't-controlled territory.
nytimes.com/2013/12/29/wor…
s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentclo…
nytimes.com/2013/12/29/wor…
s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentclo…
In LRB, Seymour Hersh reported that US intel knew that Syrian insurgents acquired sarin from Turkey; UK tests found Syrian gov't stockpile didn't match the sarin used in Ghouta; Al Qaeda had a sarin production cell.
(lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/…)
(lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/…)
(lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/…)
(lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/…)
Another good background, based on prior revelations, from a mainstream source: dw.com/en/is-assad-to…
Detractors are now digging up old tweets of one of the Ghouta study contributors, who I did not interview. The tweets are, IMO, vile and bizarre. They're also irrelevant to the study.
Either detractors can challenge the study on the facts, or they can't. So far, they can't.
Either detractors can challenge the study on the facts, or they can't. So far, they can't.
I don't want to speculate what is going on behind those tweets; they're not my business. This contributor gave calculations and coordinates that were used in this study, & my business is whether they & any other claim holds up to scrutiny. So far, there has been no challenge.
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