OPCW inspectors accuse OPCW of evidence-tampering for USA regimechange, and M$M fails to report

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, November 25, 2019 01:52
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SIGNYM

Sunday, November 24, 2019 10:14 PM

Edited for brevity and emphasis

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The OPCW and Douma: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Accused of Evidence-Tampering by Its Own Inspectors
by Jonathan Steele

... An inspector from the eight-member team sent to Douma has just come forward with disturbing allegations about the international watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was tasked with obtaining and examining evidence.

Involved in collecting samples as well as drafting the OPCW’s interim report, he claims his evidence was suppressed and a new report was written by senior managers with assertions that contradicted his findings.

The inspector went public with his allegations at a recent all-day briefing in Brussels for people from several countries working in disarmament, international law, military operations, medicine and intelligence. ...

He is the second member of the Douma Fact-Finding Mission to have alleged that scientific evidence was suppressed. In May this year an unpublished report by Ian Henderson, a South African ballistics expert who was in charge of the mission’s engineering sub-team was leaked. The team examined two suspicious cylinders which rebels said were filled with chlorine gas. One cylinder was found on the roof of a damaged building where over two dozen bodies were photographed. The other lay on a bed
on the upper floor of a nearby house below a hole in the roof ...

Assessing the damage to the cylinder casings and to the roofs ... All but one member of the team concurred with Henderson in concluding that there was a higher probability that the cylinders had been placed manually.

That is, the incident was staged.

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... Henderson’s findings were not mentioned in the published OPCW report.

... Henderson and the new whistleblower appear to be completely non-political scientists who worked for the OPCW for many years and would not have been sent to Douma if they had strong political views. They feel dismayed that professional conclusions have been set aside so as to favour the agenda of certain states.

“Most of the Douma team felt the two reports on the incident, the Interim Report and the Final Report, were scientifically impoverished, procedurally irregular and possibly fraudulent”, he [the second whistleblower] said...

Within days of rebel-supplied videos of dead children and adults in the aftermath of the alleged attack in Douma Francois DeLattre, France’s representative at the UN Security Council, said the videos and photos showed victims with “symptoms of a potent nerve agent combined with chlorine gas”.

The Douma fact-finding team quickly discovered this was wrong. Blood and other biological samples taken from alleged victims examined in Turkey ... showed no evidence of nerve agents. Nor was there any in the surrounding buildings or vegetation in Douma ...

The next sentence said “Various chlorinated organic chemicals were found”. The indirect reference to chlorine was reported in many media as proof of the use of lethal gas. According to Alex there were huge internal arguments at the OPCW before the Interim report was released. Chlorinated organic chemicals (COCs) are present in the natural environment so one crucial point in discovering what actually happened at Douma was to measure the amount in the locations where the two cylinders were found and in the other parts of the two buildings and the street outside.

As Alex put it, “if the finding of these chemicals at the alleged site is to be used as an indicator that chlorine gas was present in the atmosphere, they should at least be shown to be present at levels significantly higher than what is present in the environment already”.

As a foresnic analytical chemist, when I read the original articles that said "traces" of chlorinated compounds were found, my spidey sense went up. I can find "traces" of chlorinated compounds almost everywhere; they're a by-product of (among other things) drinking-water disinfection and institutional/household use of

1KIKI

Sunday, November 24, 2019 11:59 PM

This is a story I've been following. 9 out of 10 investigators DISAGREED with the conclusion that chlorine gas was used, precisely because levels were so low, they were consistent with generic urban levels found around the globe.

I was so disappointed that at first it looked like the OPCW had fudged the analyses.

I tend to trust technical people because they have a mindset that the quality of their work reflects their intelligence, knowledge, skill, and integrity. In other words, their self-esteem rides on accurate results. I thought my trust was misplaced.

But it turns out that their work was good - and 2 have come out as ACTUAL whistleblowers - (as opposed to the Ukraine gossip gasbag) - to document the report's malfeasance. Everything was on the up and up until the report got to management. It was management that buried the technical report and issued its own predetermined conclusions.

And OF COURSE the m$m won't report this! What do you think they're there for? NEWS?

ETA: I wonder how long it'll take for the many people here who trust the 'news' to understand they're being lied to every day about pretty much everything important.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, November 25, 2019 1:52 AM

Thanks for the thread. I would have not found it buried in that other thread.

Many of us cannot keep up with the onslaught of Fake News (including oppressed News and Neutralized/Neutered News), so this is important for us to see.

Yes, you have permission to use the acronym NNN that I just created. It's about time, if not overdue.