13-05-2019, 02:16 PM
Some staffers at the OPCW seem to have had enough. They have turned to the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media: 'In our Briefing note on the Final Report of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission on the Douma incident, we noted that the FFM had sought assessments in October 2018 from unidentified engineering experts on the "the trajectory and damage to the cylinders found at Locations 2 and 4". The Final Report provided no explanation for why the FFM had not sought engineering assessments in April 2018, when the experts could have inspected the sites with cylinders in position, rather than six months later when inspection of the sites with cylinders in position was no longer possible and the assessments had to rely on images and measurements obtained by others. We raised this as an obvious anomaly. OPCW staff members have communicated with the Working Group. We have learned that an investigation was undertaken by an engineering sub-team of the FFM, beginning with on-site inspections in April-May 2018, followed by a detailed engineering analysis including collaboration on computer modelling studies with two European universities. The report of this investigation was excluded from the published Final Report of the Fact-Finding Mission, which referred only to assessments sought from unidentified "engineering experts" commissioned in October 2018 and obtained in December 2018. A copy of a 15-page Executive Summary of this report with the title "Engineering Assessment of two cylinders observed at the Douma incident" has been passed to us and we have posted it here. Please download and share this document via your own server if you link to it, so as not to overload our server.' 'Taken together, these findings establish beyond reasonable doubt that the alleged chemical attack in Douma on 7 April 2018 was staged.' 'We conclude that the staging of the Douma incident entailed mass murder of at least 35 civilians to provide the bodies at Location 2. It follows from this that people dressed as White Helmets and endorsed by the leadership of that organization had a key role in this murder.' http://syriapropagandamedia.org/working-...april-2018 Members of the Working Group have been denounced as "apologists for Assad" on the frontpage of the Times on the day the US, UK and France attacked Syria in response to the perceived CW attack in Douma: https://timhayward.wordpress.com/2018/04...the-times/ One of the co-authors of the hit piece is Deborah Haynes of the Integrity Initiative.