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Robert Fisk's bombshell first-hand account for the UK Independent runs contrary to nearly every claim circulating in major international press concerning what happened just over week ago on April 7th in an embattled suburb outside Damascus: not only has the veteran British journalist found no evidence of a mass chemical attack, but he's encountered multiple local eyewitnesses who experienced the chaos of that night, but who say the gas attack never happened.
Fisk is the first Western journalist to reach and report from the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack widely blamed on Assad's forces. Writing from Douma in eastern Ghouta, Fisk has interviewed a Syrian doctor who works at the hospital shown in one of the well-known videos which purports to depict victims of a chemical attack.
originally posted by: Grambler
So let me get this straight, Syria and Russia ask for these investigations,
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — 10 April 2018 — Since the first reports of alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma, Syrian Arab Republic, were issued, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been gathering information from all available sources and analysing it. At the same time, OPCW’s Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, has considered the deployment of a Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) team to Douma to establish facts surrounding these allegations.
originally posted by: dragonridr
a reply to: Grambler
You don't find it funny a CBS reporter managed to find someone who died in the chemical attack but your reporter couldn't?
originally posted by: dragonridr
a reply to: Grambler
You don't find it funny a CBS reporter managed to find someone who died in the chemical attack but your reporter couldn't?
originally posted by: paraphi
originally posted by: Grambler
So let me get this straight, Syria and Russia ask for these investigations,
That's not actually correct. Russia and Syria maintained that there were no chemical attacks. Then bizarrely Russia changed their tune (as one would expect) and said the UK did it. Now that the OPCW have arrived the Russians have prevented access to Douma. Separately, the Russians an Syrians have been accused of sanitising the area in order to compromise an investigation by the OPCW.
From the OPCW website 10 April
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — 10 April 2018 — Since the first reports of alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma, Syrian Arab Republic, were issued, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been gathering information from all available sources and analysing it. At the same time, OPCW’s Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, has considered the deployment of a Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) team to Douma to establish facts surrounding these allegations.
Today, the OPCW Technical Secretariat has requested the Syrian Arab Republic to make the necessary arrangements for such a deployment. This has coincided with a request from the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation to investigate the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma. The team is preparing to deploy to Syria shortly.
originally posted by: sosobad
originally posted by: dragonridr
a reply to: Grambler
You don't find it funny a CBS reporter managed to find someone who died in the chemical attack but your reporter couldn't?
First off the woman in the article stated that the "rebels" are not allowing them to leave ie using them as human shields. Denying them even food but has access to it now that the Syrian government has the place under control. The same practice that the Palestinians are called terrorists for using. Secondly if what was shown in the footage, the missile just laying there that was used to deliver the chemical weapons that would be the smoking gun. There it is why isn't this being followed up? You mean to tell me that this reporter just Forrest gumped his way to the biggest piece evidence, goes in films it then nothing. You're deluded.
originally posted by: sosobad
You cannot get rid of traces of chemical attacks as easily as most of you are saying. Just can't be done.
originally posted by: Grambler
So the very next paragraph confirms exactly what I said, Russia and Syria asked for them to come in.
originally posted by: paraphi
originally posted by: Grambler
So the very next paragraph confirms exactly what I said, Russia and Syria asked for them to come in.
Sorry, that's not correct. The OPCW invited themselves. They asked Syria to ensure they had access, but they were not invited per se.