{"id":199037,"date":"2019-12-09T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199037"},"modified":"2019-12-12T07:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T07:28:28","slug":"reporter-resigns-says-newsweek-suppressed-syria-chemical-attack-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199037","title":{"rendered":"Reporter resigns, says Newsweek &#8216;suppressed&#8217; Syria chemical attack story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 Dec 9, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_169012\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169012\" class=\"wp-image-169012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Douma-chemical-attack-victim1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"288\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-169012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hassan Diab shown in Al-Jazeera\u2019s coverage of the alleged Syrian chemical attack. Click to see the full-size image<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>A Newsweek reporter has resigned after the American magazine refuses to publish his article questioning Western-backed findings about the origin of a chemical attack in Syria.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last April, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) published a report alleging that Syria had carried out a chemical attack against its southwestern city of Douma. The United States, Britain, and France later used the report as an excuse to launch a coordinated missile strike against sites and research facilities near the Syrian capital Damascus and the city of Homs in the Arab country\u2019s west.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The reporter Tareq Haddad submitted his resignation on Friday after his editor refused to publish his article mentioning an internal OPCW email that had revealed inconsistencies between actual findings on the ground by the organization\u2019s experts and the United Nations chemical watchdog\u2019s final report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cYesterday, I resigned from Newsweek after my attempts to publish newsworthy revelations about the leaked OPCW letter were refused for no valid reason,\u201d Haddad tweeted on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday I resigned from Newsweek after my attempts to publish newsworthy revelations about the leaked OPCW letter were refused for no valid reason.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tareq Haddad (@Tareq_Haddad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tareq_Haddad\/status\/1203274308811993088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The email sent by an OPCW member was revealed by whistleblower website WikiLeaks in late November. In the communication, the inspector had accused the watchdog of doctoring the report, which had been compiled by its experts, who had visited Douma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The author of the email had rejected as &#8220;highly misleading and not supported by facts\u201d the OPCW claim that &#8220;sufficient evidence&#8221; was found to determine chlorine was &#8220;likely released\u201d from cylinders the organization\u2019s experts had analyzed at two different locations in the Syrian city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Haddad, meanwhile, said he was threatened with legal action after asking his editor why his story about the damning leak had been refused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI have collected evidence of how they suppressed the story in addition to evidence from another case where info inconvenient to US govt. was removed [by the outlet], though it was factually correct,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Fellow journalists, however, lauded Haddad for his courage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cNewsweek , Newsweek UK, do you have any comment on this tweet from your former reporter Tareq Haddad?\u201d Peter Hitchens of Britain\u2019s The Mail on Sunday paper tweeted. \u201cMr Haddad, please contact me at The Mail on Sunday in London,\u201d Hitchens added.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Newsweek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@newsweek<\/a> .  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsweekUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@newsweekuk<\/a> Do you have any comment on this tweet from your former reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tareq_Haddad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tareq_Haddad<\/a>?  Mr Haddad, please contact me at the Mail on Sunday in London. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X44VDC0uC9\">https:\/\/t.co\/X44VDC0uC9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClarkeMicah\/status\/1203280289675595776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Syria surrendered its entire chemical stockpile in 2013 to a mission led by the OPCW and the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Several reports have previously suggested the use of chlorine against civilians by anti-Damascus militants and Western-backed &#8220;rescue workers&#8221; in an attempt to implicate Damascus and justify foreign military intervention in the Arab country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/12\/09\/613199\/Syria-chemical-Newsweek-reporter-resignation-United-States-missile-attack-Douma-OPCW\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Newsweek reporter has resigned after the U.S. publication refused to publish an article of his in which he questioned the findings of an inquiry into the origin of a chemical attack in Douma, Syria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,42,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-ghouta-gas-attack","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199039,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199037\/revisions\/199039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}