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Feb 2 28 tweets 12 min read
The OPCW has just released a new report regarding an alleged chlorine attack that is interesting in many ways.
opcw.org/media-centre/n…
First, it provoked the gloating of various actors who apparently believe that this report removes any doubts about the Douma report and ergo that the whistleblowers are exactly the idiots they were made out to be by united press power. Is that so?
Background: On October 1, 2016, two chlorine bombs were allegedly thrown into a field by the Syrian Army, injuring close to twenty civilians.
These were the combined reports of the White Helmets and those doctors from Kafr Zita, which were then quoted by Bellingcat.
Well, the patients already looked more like a bunch of bored men of prime military age with no discernible chlorine symptoms in 2016.
Note also the "medical staff" in camouflage pants and white T-shirt, who not only distributes inhalers and gives instructions to the camera...
...but also throws out that victim who can't help grinning.
The second cylinder is no longer mentioned in the OPCW report. There are only countless photos of the same cylinder and only one huge crater. But the OPCW has a hard time to specify the exact position of that crater. There is only a vague area.
...and the confirmation that this area was neither agricultural land nor a hospital full of civilians, but primarily the command post of two extreme Islamist groups like Jund al Aqsa.
As a reminder, Jund Al Aqsa was the group to which the White Helmet media activist Aga Hassan belonged. They were responsible for a whole series of chemical attack reports. Top center: Hassan at a hospital that was bombed by Russia, according to Higgins/Bellingcat.
So, we have a cylinder and a crater, bored victims of military age, and an undetermined location. Comparing the few clues with satellite images, the northern command post is probably the most likely, although even here there is no really satisfactory match.
The day after the alleged attack, the (Jund-al-Aqsa) White Helmets publish a few photos of themselves in full protective suits taking samples from the ruptured chlorine cylinder.
The deformation looks believable for a drop from a helicopter. However, not only the fake Norinco logo is interesting, but especially the fact that the fracture does not show any corrosion. Nor is there any black iron chloride on the surface or green copper chloride on the valve.
Here is what the OPCW report falsely claims.
The part that apparently belongs to the known harness also shows no signs of corrosion, in stark contrast to that completely rusted harness found in Douma next to the crater, the corrosion of which was supposed to be indisputable evidence of chlorine.
As you can see above, also in Kafr Zita we have a crater 1.2-1.5 meters in diameter with what seems to be two pointed spurs to the right and left.
The OPCW does not give any size information, but somehow managed to simulate a similar shape.
The question now is how they could simulate these pointed extensions while the cylinder must have impacted almost vertically??? And of course the question arises how this vertical cylinder of 35cm diameter could create such a large hole.
We saw a very similar attack on March 24, 2017, also against a cave of a sprawling military complex with a hospital. The cylinder looked very similar, but the crater was barely larger than the diameter of the crater.
So how did the simulation of a vertical cylinder come up with the result of a giant hole with no explosives?
However, the most interesting part is the 15 simulation results for that vertical cylinder. The result is impressively reminiscent of the simulation that Ian Henderson had undertaken with university support for the Douma cylinder.
...in stark contrast to the "simulation" in the so-called Final Report regarding the Douma incident.
Of course, the question arises as to which Finale Douma Report Higgins is referring to. Wasn't the Final Report the Final Report? Does he know more than... just me? ...the rest of the world? Did I miss something?
However, that analysis was already done.
Let's summarize: We have Jund-al-Aqsa witnesses, Jund-al-Aqsa victims who don't even cough but can hardly help grinning. We have one (not two) cylinder, a questionable hole, absolutely no corrosion where the OPCW sees corrosion, mechanical discoloration due to deformation and...
...someone carried the cylinder a long way out of the cave and put it next to the crater, for whatever reason.
Or does the OPCW believe the cylinder punched a 1.5m hole but bounced through the valley like the Douma cylinders?
Was that an authentic chemical attack? Is a helicopter drop really the only way to create this one-sided deformation? Perhaps. But maybe not.
Physically it is only relative movement of two bodies.
If there was a jihadist test center for the processing of gas cylinders, then one would have to look for it in Kafr Zita.
The Kafr Zita junkyard is full of the most surprising deformations and it is difficult to imagine a fall from a great height.
However, some well-preserved specimens with a detonating cord apparently show ammonia cylinders.
This valveless nonsense is also closely linked to that Kafr Zita junkyard. And there, too, the actors find it difficult to hold back a laugh.
And then there was what the OPCW completely overlooked in their lengthy explanations of the course of the war:
islamicinvitationturkey.com/terrorists-gas…
* March 25 !
March 24 was the sarin attack that never happened and probably was invented as an excuse for sarin degradation products on the cloth of a doctor killed in that March 25 chlorine attack.

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Jan 30
It's really too funny to be true.
Spinny the Clown, the @bellingcat troll expert and stalker, who claims to have a degree in math and physics, actually orders the books for a school and makes sure they arrive on time.
hiddensyria.com/2022/01/30/who…
Physics by Spinny the Clown:
Here he explains why the cylinder in Douma didn't jump 10cm high but bounced around the house until it landed on the bed. It is due to the lack of consideration of an ERROR, which then apparently mystically gives the cylinder more speed and energy.
Simple physics contradicts this crackpot no matter which error you consider.
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Dec 3, 2021
@Malinka1102 Has Bellingcat's flight data ever been backed up with hard evidence? ...some entry form at arrival? Or did they all accept the dark web data about a medical doctor who blew up a weapons depot in Slovakia? ...or another failed Novichok poisoning in Bulgaria?
@Malinka1102 IMO it is total BS. If you read about the "WAR" in Bulgaria around the weapons factory Dunarit then the Bellingcat story about Fedotov arriving in Bulgaria sounds even more idiotic.
capital.bg/politika_i_iko…
@Malinka1102 Obviously, it was the state of Bulgaria that would have liked to get this arms dealer out of the way. No wonder that the investigation led nowhere.
Later, employees of the company were shot dead in front of the parliament. And all the sudden Bellingcat comes around the corner...
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Nov 24, 2021
Urgh, I hate to comment on this dribble especially since @N_Waters89 is known to post BS he obviously don't (want to) get.
Equally @Bellingcat is not to be able to read the "Final Report" + testimonies of their preferred -because not questioned by Russians- Country X witnesses.
The OPCW final report claims: "...shortly after 19:00 ... foaming ..." ... "...given atropine"
This medical staff 1) did not believe in chlorine gas, that's why atropine and 2) the reported (or lied) foaming occured SHORTLY AFTER 19:00.

That's hardly the figure Prof. Blanc mentioned when he stated 2-4hrs.
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Jul 18, 2021
I had just written down a short list of the different types of chlorine gas (all Assad), when something struck me.
After Douma, the Western world and especially the two #1 (Kaszeta) and #1 (de Bretton Gordon) chemical weapons experts were worried that Assad would stall the OPCW until every trace of poison gas disappeared.
middleeasteye.net/news/analysis-…
The concern was not entirely unfounded, as we read in the OPCW final report. And as we know from the whistleblowers, only trace levels were actually measured, which do not allow any conclusions about the presence of molecular chlorine.
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Jul 17, 2021
Two good guys have a nice day... Image
...when suddenly a black smoking thing is thrown into the picture at a shallow angle from behind the column. Image
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Jun 17, 2021
A few days ago MH-17 blogger @marcelvandenb19 called MH-17 author @beek38 a "Kremlin"-something, because he asked/doubted if/that the smoke plume reached over the photographer's house. Reason enough to take another look at the matter with some new information and possibilities.
I created a model of the entire area using a geographic information system (GIS) that can directly import Google maps and the elevation profile into a 3D application. At all crucial points, I also compared the elevation data with GoogeEarth.
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