1) On April 7 2018, 43 plus civilians were killed in alleged chemical weapon attack in Douma, Syria. Even at the time notable voices raised substantial doubts about the claim the Syrian government was responsible. @aaronjmate@MaxBlumenthal
2) for example UK military commander Jonathan Shaw:-
3) At the same time @thetimes initiated a crude smear campaign against academics researching the war in Syria, a crude smear campaign that @IndexCensorship is carrying on in their latest publication.
4) Since then a large volume of information has become available showing that the official narrative regarding Douma is fraudulent. Even before the final report was published @bbc producer @Dalatrm reported staging of hospital scenes
5) A leaked engineering assessment passed to academics raised substantial questions as to whether cylinders alleged to be the source of the chlorine gas had been dropped from Syrian Air Force helicopters:- syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers…
6) This and other evidence from the team that deployed to Douma raised serious doubts as to the compatibility of the damage to this roof and the damage observed on the cylinder head.
7) Another issue concerned a second location and the impossible bounce across a bedroom for a chlorine cylinder. All of this evidence indicated that the cylinders were never dropped from a Syrian Air Force helicopter:- @CL4Syr@MichaKobs
8) More worryingly a leaked toxicology report ruled out chlorine gas as being the cause of these deaths:- wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/doc…
9) This thread details further substantive issues about the cause of death of the 43 plus victims, all of which points to the conclusion they were not killed in a chemical attack:-
10) It is also now known from leaks and testimony, and reported in detail by @ClarkeMicah, that the original interim reported was secretly altered in order to implicate the Syrian government:-hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2019/11/new-se…
11) An OPCW official has given testimony to the @couragefoundation panel detailing scientific and procedural manipulations with respect to the Douma investigation and this led to an open letter signed by many eminent voices:- couragefound.org/2019/10/analyt…
12) This year a statement of concern signed by 28 eminent voices and experts called on the @opcw to allow the dissenting inspectors to be heard: berlingroup21.org
13) Other notable voices include the first Director General of the @OPCW Bustani who addresses the UN security council in support of the whistleblowers:-
14) Despite all of this the whistleblowers, and anyone supporting them, have been subjected to crude and defamatory smear campaigns, almost without exception:- dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
15) Whilst the @opcw itself, as documented by @aaronjmate, has evaded addressing the issues raised by the @OPCW scientists Brendan Whelan and Ian Henderson and indicated by other senior opcw officials:-
17) *All* of this information is being elided by @martinbright and @IndexCensorship who are effectively enabling a cover up that continues to prevent truth and justice for these victims,
18) as well as obfuscating our wider understanding of alleged chemical weapon attacks in Syria even though evidence and objective analysis continues to cast doubt on official Western-backed narratives:-
@ryangrim There are multiple toxicology related issues plus issues with the various claims about events at Location 2 and the hospital which remain *highly* problematic. I'll spell them out for you.
1) the NATO toxicologists consulted in June agreed with the Douma team that the immediate onset of pulmonary oedema symptom of frothing was not consistent with chlorine. wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/doc…
2) These victims would not have died on the spot, gathering in piles, and then produce foaming at the mouth. This finding was clearly spelled out in the original report but expunged, with no explanation, in the final report. wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/doc…
@cenkuygur@AnaKasparian and the @theyoungturks broadcast on the @OPCW /Douma/Syria chlorine chemical weapon controversy presents a distorted & factually inaccurate account and, as such, misleads its viewers. Some key points in this thread:-
1) First, the broadcast ignores the now sizeable number of experts/opinion leaders who have raised questions regarding this issue e.g. the @couragefoundation panel in 2019 heard from an @opcw official and reported scientific and procedural flaws: couragefound.org/2019/10/analyt…
2) This led to an open letter, signed by many experts including Jose Bustani, the first director general of the @opcw, calling for all the Douma inspectors to be heard couragefound.org/wp-content/upl…
That mainstream media like @bbc and @andrewmarr9 can even entertain giving air time to a man who deceived in order to start multiple wars demonstrates how broken our political and media system is. Some reminders:- #NoVaccinePassports
1) Here is Blair conspiring with US president George Bush to attack Iraq, Iran and Syria just weeks after the 9/11 event. opendemocracy.net/piers-robinson…
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
@thomasphipps, you seem to suffer from a rather limited vocabulary .... 'useful idiot', 'war crime denier' when talking about the alleged Douma attack. Perhaps you would like to, on behalf of the UK government, answer the following questions:- @OPCW@DanyaChaikel@SaretaAshraph
1) Why was the key conclusion by 4 NATO chem. weapon experts that the 43 deceased at Douma were not killed by chlorine gas at Location 2 censored in the Final OPCW report? You can read the minutes from the consultation here:- wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/doc…
2) It concluded that chlorine gas would not have caused these civilians to drop dead on the spot, gathering in piles.
Yes, and for the record, I think the interview and accompanying article in @offguardian have aged rather well, one might say the analysis was right on the money!:-
And I note, with some hilarity, that it is the corporate 'liberal' media who are today peddling little green men stories 😂😂 ...well done folks, keep up the good work 🤨