{"id":199938,"date":"2019-12-29T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199938"},"modified":"2020-01-01T06:17:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T06:17:02","slug":"wikileaks-chemical-weapons-watchdog-ordered-deletion-of-all-traces-of-findings-that-syrian-chemical-attack-may-have-been-staged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199938","title":{"rendered":"WIKILEAKS: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Ordered Deletion of \u2018All Traces\u2019 of Findings That Syrian \u2018Chemical Attack\u2019 May Have Been Staged"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Cassandra Fairbanks &#8212; The Gateway Pundit Dec 27, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_169012\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Douma-chemical-attack-victim1.png\"><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\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-169012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hassan Diab shown in Al-Jazeera\u2019s coverage of the alleged chemical attack. Click to see the full-size image<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Wikileaks has published shocking leaked documents from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in which they covered up a dissenting report that concluded chemical weapons were not used in the Syrian city of Duoma last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The latest <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/opcw-douma\/#OPCW-DOUMA%20-%20Release%20Part%204\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>release<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is the fourth batch of leaked documents that WikiLeaks has published from OPCW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In one of the leaked e-mail exchanges, from February 27-28, between members of the fact finding mission (FFM) deployed to Douma and senior officials of the OPCW, the watchdog\u2019s Chief of Cabinet Sebastien Braha ordered the removal of \u201call traces\u201d of a report by Ian Henderson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cPlease get this document out of DRA [Documents Registry Archive]\u2026 And please remove all traces, if any, of its delivery\/storage\/whatever in DRA,\u201d the email reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Henderson had inspected the sites in Douma and two cylinders that were found on the site of the alleged attack. In his report, he had concluded that the cylinders were more likely placed there \u2014 not dropped. His findings heavily indicated that the \u201cattack\u201d was staged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">US media and politicians uncritically claimed that the cylinders were dropped from the air by the Syrian government, killing civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Since the cylinders appeared to be placed by hand, and the area was under the control of anti-government forces, Henderson\u2019s findings lend credence to theories that the attack was staged to set up the Syrian president and prompt the US to attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Email from the Chief of Cabinet at the OPCW, demanding deletion of dissenting engineering assessment: \u201cPlease get this document out of DRA [Documents Registry Archive]&#8230; And please<br \/>remove all traces, if any, of its delivery\/storage\/whatever in DRA\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j5Jgjiz8UY\">https:\/\/t.co\/j5Jgjiz8UY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8yojf8teFC\">pic.twitter.com\/8yojf8teFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/1210568660118573057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 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;\">WikiLeaks also released minutes from a meeting on June 6, 2018 where members of OPCW met with \u201cthree Toxicologists\/Clinical pharmacologists, one bioanalytical and toxicological chemist\u201d who all specialize in chemical weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The purposes of this meeting were \u201cto solicit expert advice on the value of exhuming suspected victims of the alleged chemical attack in Douma on 7 April 2018\u201d and \u201cto elicit expert opinions from the forensic toxicologists regarding the observed and reported symptoms of the alleged victims.\u201d They were particularly interested in \u201c\u2026whether the symptoms observed in victims were consistent with exposure to chlorine or other reactive chlorine gas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minutes from an OPCW meeting with toxicologists specialized in chemical weapons: \u201cthe experts were conclusive in their statements that there was<br \/>no correlation between symptoms and chlorine exposure\u201d.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j5Jgjiz8UY\">https:\/\/t.co\/j5Jgjiz8UY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vgPaTtsdQN\">pic.twitter.com\/vgPaTtsdQN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/1210564199161708545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 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;\">During the meeting, the experts informed OPCW that \u201cwith respect to the consistency of the observed and reported symptoms of the alleged victims with possible exposure to chlorine gas or similar, the experts were conclusive in their statements that there was no correlation between symptoms and chlorine exposure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The OPCW team who met with the experts concluded from the meeting that \u201cwith respect to the consistency of the observed and reported symptoms of the alleged victims with possible exposure to chlorine gas or similar, the experts were conclusive in their statements that there was no correlation between symptoms and chlorine exposure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The attack in question, and the OPCW findings, lead to a barrage of missiles being fired at Syria by the US, UK and France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2019\/12\/wikileaks-chemical-weapons-watchdog-ordered-deletion-of-all-traces-of-findings-that-syrian-chemical-attack-was-staged\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemical weapons watchdog orders removal of all references in a report on the Douma chemical weapons attack indicating that it may have been staged<\/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":[90,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-ghouta-gas-attack","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199938","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=199938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199940,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199938\/revisions\/199940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}