'No Nerve Agents' In Douma: OPCW Report Demolishes White House Sarin Narrative

[RonZeplin]

'No Nerve Agents' In Douma: OPCW Report Demolishes White House Sarin Narrative

A preliminary report published Friday by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) found no traces of any nerve agent at the site of a suspected chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma. The OPCW report states this unambiguously as follows:

"No organophosphorous nerve agents or their degradation products were detected in the environmental samples or in the plasma samples taken from alleged casualties."​

Compare the newly published official OPCW findings with the 5-page White House assessment released on April 13th, just days after the alleged attack. Now contradicted by the new OPCW findings, the White House asserted that sarin was used at Douma:

A significant body of information points to the regime using chlorine in its bombardment of Duma, while some additional information points to the regime also using the nerve agent sarin.
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Firebrand British MP George Galloway responded as follows moments after the OPCW's findings were made public:

Was that, was that the news? What about Douma? The chemical weapons attack? The nerve agent bombs that rained down on Douma that took us to the brink of World War 3?

The OPCW have just reported, well two hours ago... There was no nerve gas attack on Douma. There was no nerve agent deployed on Douma. We were taken to World War 3’s brink on a crock. A crock of vile propaganda. Ring any bells?
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No Nerve Agents, Concludes OPCW Report

The April 7th alleged chemical attack, widely blamed by Western countries and the media on Assad's forces, resulted in massive US-led retaliatory airstrikes mostly concentrated on suspected chemical production facilities in Damascus.

Though at the time both UN and OPCW officials urged caution in the rush to blame "animal Assad" for "using nerve agents" as many world headlines breathlessly concluded a mere moments after videos purporting to show scores of chemical attack victims first surfaced (and though CW experts themselves warned that not a single neutral observer was on the ground to verify such claims when it happened), the latest OPCW report flatly contradicts the narrative that quickly solidified in the mainstream.

I guess George W. Bush Donald J. Trump was wrong? Niki Haley should have never listened to Colin Powell. But sanctions, funding, attacks, must go on and on, and on. .

 

[jllundqu]

This headline should be 24/7 across all media platforms, but alas, the people are weak and ignorant.

 

[shakey1]

... & the media, selective.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Chlorine gas is still a chemical weapon.

https://news.sky.com/story/no-nerve...n-ghouta-strikes-opcw-inspectors-say-11428637

'Chlorinated chemicals' found in deadly Douma strikes, but OPCW finds no evidence of sarin

Weapons inspectors have concluded there were 'chlorinated chemicals' in an attack on a Syrian rebel holdout that triggered retaliatory airstrikes from Britain, France and the US.

But while they found evidence that chlorine was used, there was no proof of the use of sarin or any other nerve agents as claimed by the US.

At least 70 people were killed and 500 more injured in attacks on Douma in eastern Ghouta in early April, which led to accusations that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons.

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inspectors entered Douma in the weeks after the attacks and have now revealed that two samples recovered from gas cylinders at the scene tested positive for chlorine.

Syrian President Bashar al Assad has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons during the long-running civil war, although the OPCW has previously documented the systematic use of banned munitions, including sulphur mustard gas and sarin.

The OPCW inspection did not come until after the intervention, and inspectors faced delays upon their arrival.

Syria and Russian authorities initially prevented them from reaching the scene of the bombardment, which France suggested may result in the disappearance of key evidence.

Sarin and chlorine were identified as being used at a previous bombing site:

https://news.sky.com/story/sarin-an...-syria-say-chemical-weapons-watchdog-11403798

Sarin and chlorine 'likely' used in Syria, says chemical weapons watchdog

The OPCW watchdog says its conclusions are based on witness testimonies, epidemiological analysis and environmental samples.

The global chemical weapons watchdog has said it is "very likely" that gas was used on civilians in Syria during attacks last year.

Lab analysis shows banned nerve agent sarin and chlorine were most probably used in attacks in northern Syria, according to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

In a statement, the body said sarin was "very likely" used on 24 March 2017 in southern Ltamenah, in the Hama governate.

The OPCW also concluded chlorine was "very likely used as a chemical weapon" at Ltamenah Hospital and its surrounding area the following day.

It said the conclusions from its fact-finding mission were based on witness testimonies, epidemiological analysis and environmental samples.

The OPCW also said the fact-finding mission's mandate did not include "identifying who is responsible for alleged attacks".

"The fact-finding mission's mandate is to determine whether chemical weapons or toxic chemicals as weapons have been used in Syria," the watchdog said.

However, it went on to say the inspectors had previously confirmed with a "high degree of confidence" the use of chlorine, sulfur mustard and sarin as weapons in Syria.

 

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/f...s-weapon-syria-civil-war-170314110043637.html

Chlorine is a choking agent. Its greenish-yellow clouds of gas cause shortness of breath, wheezing, respiratory failure, irritation in the eyes, vomiting, and sometimes death.

Chlorine's effects are also largely psychological: the chemical triggers fear, shock, and panic in a way that other conventional weapons don't. In the case of Aleppo, Solvang suspects the regime strategically used chlorine to force a mass exodus of the city.

"Places that were relatively safe suddenly were not safe any more when chlorine started being used," Solvang said. "When people were trying to hide and shelter from explosive weapons, regular rockets and bombs - they would go into a basement because that's the safest place to be. Chlorine is heavier than air so it sinks into those basements, so those basements can become death traps."

Solvang's statement, echoed the way in which the Taleb family died in Sarmin: overexposure to chlorine gas after mistaking their cellar as a safe haven.

"It is definitely very scary if you are a physician in a small hospital with dozens or hundreds of patients that are suffocating and you don't know what to do with all of that," said Zaher Sahloul, a former president of Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), who is originally from Homs, but who now practices in Chicago.

SAMS has also closely monitored chlorine attacks in Syria. The medical organisation has documented 109 chlorine attacks since the civil war began in 2011.

"The main reason chlorine was used in Syria was to cause panic and to force people to flee. And that's what it really did in most of the instances," Sahloul added.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Chlorine gas is still a chemical weapon.

https://news.sky.com/story/no-nerve...n-ghouta-strikes-opcw-inspectors-say-11428637





Sarin and chlorine were identified as being used at a previous bombing site:

https://news.sky.com/story/sarin-an...-syria-say-chemical-weapons-watchdog-11403798

And it was still a false flag op.