New: Early in the OPCW’s Douma probe, expert toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the victims' cause of death. Leaks expose how OPCW officials censored this explosive finding — and then targeted the inspector who raised the alarm. thegrayzone.com/2021/11/22/cor… via @TheGrayzoneNews
Early in the OPCW's probe of an alleged chemical attack in Douma, expert toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of death. Instead of publishing this finding, OPCW officials concealed it, and then investigated a veteran inspector who questioned the censorship.
The suppression of toxicology is among a series of deceptions by the OPCW brass to corrupt the Douma probe's scientific process, as detailed in this new multi-part investigation by @TheGrayzoneNews. More than 3 years later, the high-level censorship has mired the OPCW in scandal.
Part one details the censorship of the toxicology and reveals for the first time an August 2019 email that raised alarm about it. Writing to two colleagues, Dr. Brendan Whelan expressed concern that the toxicologists' conclusion was censored. For this, he was investigated. 
"I imagine you have similar concerns about how such pivotal information could have been omitted from the report – possibly biasing the outcome," Whelan wrote his colleagues. He asked them to join him in raising this with the OPCW chief. Instead, the OPCW investigated him.
Dead victims filmed in Douma had been profusely frothing at the mouth. Expert toxicologists consulted by OPCW saw this and found "no correlation" between the frothing "and chlorine exposure." When OPCW later claimed that chlorine gas was likely used, they erased this finding.
To date, there are no recognized chemical weapons experts who have gone on record to state that the Douma victims' rapid, and in some reported cases immediate onset, of profuse frothing is consistent with chlorine gas exposure.
Even when the OPCW erased the original toxicologists and brought in new ones, they too could not establish a link between the victims' symptoms and chlorine gas exposure. Otherwise, the OPCW would have said so.
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