>ITT: THE EVIDENCE POINTING TO A FALSE FLAG ATTACK IN SYRIA
Articles: The search for truth in the rubble of Douma – and one doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack archive.li/Tz7jz PETER HITCHENS: How on earth would killing MORE people rescue Syria? archive.is/wBRKQ TV news interview with former army officer cut short as he questions whether Syria launched chemical attack archive.is/nTTXg Syria 'chemical attack' staged to provoke US airstrike, London pushed perpetrators – Russian MoD archive.is/K9bgS STUNNING evidence from BBC journalist exposing White Helmets staging chemical attacks in Douma archive.is/3kNdD Trump’s Rush to Judgment on Syria Chemical Attack archive.li/Nwahm Now Mattis admits there was no evidence Assad used poison gas on his people archive.is/d3sm3
Tweets: The German broadcaster @ntvde interviewed a doctor working in the hospital in Duma:"There were no patients with symptoms of a chemical gas attack!" twitter.com/StanM3/status/986236411798933505
>This is the story of a town called Douma, a ravaged, stinking place of smashed apartment blocks – and of an underground clinic whose images of suffering allowed three of the Western world’s most powerful nations to bomb Syria last week. There’s even a friendly doctor in a green coat who, when I track him down in the very same clinic, cheerfully tells me that the “gas” videotape which horrified the world – despite all the doubters – is perfectly genuine.
>War stories, however, have a habit of growing darker. For the same 58-year old senior Syrian doctor then adds something profoundly uncomfortable: the patients, he says, were overcome not by gas but by oxygen starvation in the rubbish-filled tunnels and basements in which they lived, on a night of wind and heavy shelling that stirred up a dust storm.
>As Dr Assim Rahaibani announces this extraordinary conclusion, it is worth observing that he is by his own admission not an eyewitness himself and, as he speaks good English, he refers twice to the jihadi gunmen of Jaish el-Islam [the Army of Islam] in Douma as “terrorists” – the regime’s word for their enemies, and a term used by many people across Syria. Am I hearing this right? Which version of events are we to believe?
>By bad luck, too, the doctors who were on duty that night on 7 April were all in Damascus giving evidence to a chemical weapons enquiry, which will be attempting to provide a definitive answer to that question in the coming weeks.
>France, meanwhile, has said it has “proof” chemical weapons were used, and US media have quoted sources saying urine and blood tests showed this too. The WHO has said its partners on the ground treated 500 patients “exhibiting signs and symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic chemicals”.
>At the same time, inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are currently blocked from coming here to the site of the alleged gas attack themselves, ostensibly because they lacked the correct UN permits.
>Before we go any further, readers should be aware that this is not the only story in Douma. There are the many people I talked to amid the ruins of the town who said they had “never believed in” gas stories – which were usually put about, they claimed, by the armed Islamist groups. These particular jihadis survived under a blizzard of shellfire by living in other’s people’s homes and in vast, wide tunnels with underground roads carved through the living rock by prisoners with pick-axes on three levels beneath the town. I walked through three of them yesterday, vast corridors of living rock which still contained Russian – yes, Russian – rockets and burned-out cars.
>So the story of Douma is thus not just a story of gas – or no gas, as the case may be. It’s about thousands of people who did not opt for evacuation from Douma on buses that left last week, alongside the gunmen with whom they had to live like troglodytes for months in order to survive. I walked across this town quite freely yesterday without soldier, policeman or minder to haunt my footsteps, just two Syrian friends, a camera and a notebook. I sometimes had to clamber across 20-foot-high ramparts, up and down almost sheer walls of earth. Happy to see foreigners among them, happier still that the siege is finally over, they are mostly smiling; those whose faces you can see, of course, because a surprising number of Douma’s women wear full-length black hijab.
>I first drove into Douma as part of an escorted convoy of journalists. But once a boring general had announced outside a wrecked council house “I have no information” – that most helpful rubbish-dump of Arab officialdom – I just walked away. Several other reporters, mostly Syrian, did the same. Even a group of Russian journalists – all in military attire – drifted off.
>It was a short walk to Dr Rahaibani. From the door of his subterranean clinic – “Point 200”, it is called, in the weird geology of this partly-underground city – is a corridor leading downhill where he showed me his lowly hospital and the few beds where a small girl was crying as nurses treated a cut above her eye.
>“I was with my family in the basement of my home three hundred metres from here on the night but all the doctors know what happened. There was a lot of shelling [by government forces] and aircraft were always over Douma at night – but on this night, there was wind and huge dust clouds began to come into the basements and cellars where people lived. People began to arrive here suffering from hypoxia, oxygen loss. Then someone at the door, a “White Helmet”, shouted “Gas!”, and a panic began. People started throwing water over each other. Yes, the video was filmed here, it is genuine, but what you see are people suffering from hypoxia – not gas poisoning.”
>Oddly, after chatting to more than 20 people, I couldn’t find one who showed the slightest interest in Douma’s role in bringing about the Western air attacks. Two actually told me they didn’t know about the connection.
>But it was a strange world I walked into. Two men, Hussam and Nazir Abu Aishe, said they were unaware how many people had been killed in Douma, although the latter admitted he had a cousin “executed by Jaish el-Islam [the Army of Islam] for allegedly being “close to the regime”. They shrugged when I asked about the 43 people said to have died in the infamous Douma attack.
>The White Helmets – the medical first responders already legendary in the West but with some interesting corners to their own story – played a familiar role during the battles. They are partly funded by the Foreign Office and most of the local offices were staffed by Douma men. I found their wrecked offices not far from Dr Rahaibani’s clinic. A gas mask had been left outside a food container with one eye-piece pierced and a pile of dirty military camouflage uniforms lay inside one room. Planted, I asked myself? I doubt it. The place was heaped with capsules, broken medical equipment and files, bedding and mattresses.
>Of course we must hear their side of the story, but it will not happen here: a woman told us that every member of the White Helmets in Douma abandoned their main headquarters and chose to take the government-organised and Russian-protected buses to the rebel province of Idlib with the armed groups when the final truce was agreed.
>There were food stalls open and a patrol of Russian military policemen – a now optional extra for every Syrian ceasefire – and no-one had even bothered to storm into the forbidding Islamist prison near Martyr’s Square where victims were supposedly beheaded in the basements. The town’s complement of Syrian interior ministry civilian police – who eerily wear military clothes – are watched over by the Russians who may or may not be watched by the civilians. Again, my earnest questions about gas were met with what seemed genuine perplexity.
>How could it be that Douma refugees who had reached camps in Turkey were already describing a gas attack which no-one in Douma today seemed to recall? It did occur to me, once I was walking for more than a mile through these wretched prisoner-groined tunnels, that the citizens of Douma lived so isolated from each other for so long that “news” in our sense of the word simply had no meaning to them. Syria doesn’t cut it as Jeffersonian democracy – as I cynically like to tell my Arab colleagues – and it is indeed a ruthless dictatorship, but that couldn’t cow these people, happy to see foreigners among them, from reacting with a few words of truth. So what were they telling me?
>They talked about the Islamists under whom they had lived. They talked about how the armed groups had stolen civilian homes to avoid the Syrian government and Russian bombing. The Jaish el-Islam had burned their offices before they left, but the massive buildings inside the security zones they created had almost all been sandwiched to the ground by air strikes. A Syrian colonel I came across behind one of these buildings asked if I wanted to see how deep the tunnels were. I stopped after well over a mile when he cryptically observed that “this tunnel might reach as far as Britain”. Ah yes, Ms May, I remembered, whose air strikes had been so intimately connected to this place of tunnels and dust. And gas?
alright. you prob wont see it on the list cus its getting close to 2k char but i will move it into the pastebin
Hudson Garcia
Another important video for next OP The next report from Pearson Sharp where he visits the hospital where the supposed gas attack victims were filmed youtube.com/watch?v=N9w8j-avq_0
Nathan Ward
May I suggest giving these videos priority over some of the other links. For example the Peter Hitchins opinion piece is good but these reports from the ground are far more important to portraying the truth. The interviews with the boy who was filmed getting washed down in the hospital should be listed there too imho. Whilst opinions are good these first hand witness testamonies are worth so much more.
William Barnes
yes, you're right. up until now everything fit in the op but i will slim the OP down to the juicy stuff and put everything in the pastebin for anyone who wants to dive deeper. would you happen to have a link to the kid btw? if not i can just look it up when i finish this smoke
As for opinion pieces this one with the ex head of the British Navy is a good one. He obviously dislikes Assad but he doesn't buy into the bullshit of the gas attacks. He also calls out the White Helmets. Interesting video as it was actually broadcast by the BBC and goes against the official narrative. As someone who is obviously well versed in military strategy this guy makes a good case that it is absurd to believe Assad would be behind the attack youtube.com/watch?v=rIA_dNkscsw
Isaac Murphy
opinions? shaved off about 400 char and focused on vids for low attention spans
>ITT: THE EVIDENCE POINTING TO A FALSE FLAG ATTACK IN SYRIA
Articles: The search for truth in the rubble of Douma – and one doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack archive.li/Tz7jz TV news interview with former army officer cut short as he questions whether Syria launched chemical attack archive.is/nTTXg Syria 'chemical attack' staged to provoke US airstrike, London pushed perpetrators – Russian MoD archive.is/K9bgS STUNNING evidence from BBC journalist exposing White Helmets staging chemical attacks in Douma archive.is/3kNdD Now Mattis admits there was no evidence Assad used poison gas on his people archive.is/d3sm3
Another important opinion piece this time from Peter Ford former UK Ambassador to Syria dropping truth bombs on the BBC youtube.com/watch?v=3j_Z1f84Ps8
Yeah saw that after. Can you squeeze the other two OAN reports in? If not this one is less important and can be simply included in the pastebin? Media accuses Tucker of pushing 'Russian propaganda' hooktube.com/watch?v=fPQ9uA_M1Eg
Gavin Morris
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Articles: The search for truth in the rubble of Douma – and one doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack archive.li/Tz7jz TV news interview with former army officer cut short as he questions whether Syria launched chemical attack archive.is/nTTXg Syria 'chemical attack' staged to provoke US airstrike, London pushed perpetrators – Russian MoD archive.is/K9bgS STUNNING evidence from BBC journalist exposing White Helmets staging chemical attacks in Douma archive.is/3kNdD Now Mattis admits there was no evidence Assad used poison gas on his people archive.is/d3sm3
>ITT: THE EVIDENCE POINTING TO A FALSE FLAG ATTACK IN SYRIA
Articles: Highly acclaimed Journalist Robert Fisk searches for truth in the rubble of Douma – and one doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack archive.li/Tz7jz TV news interview with former army officer cut short as he questions whether Syria launched chemical attack archive.is/nTTXg Syria 'chemical attack' staged to provoke US airstrike, London pushed perpetrators – Russian MoD archive.is/K9bgS STUNNING evidence from BBC journalist exposing White Helmets staging chemical attacks in Douma archive.is/3kNdD Now Mattis admits there was no evidence Assad used poison gas on his people archive.is/d3sm3
he was laughing at a joke gaddafi told "the only thing holding us together is this hall". it was edited to make it look like assad laughed when gaddafi said they were next to be killed like saddam. watch your own video. you can even see when they edit it.
Can confirm. Ever see him address the UN meeting where he questioned 911 and lots of ambassadors walked out in protest? I still think that was another nail in his coffin.
Joseph Barnes
i havent but i was about to just now. i think i recall curtis mentioning in his doc "hypernormalisation" that he also talked about the jfk assassination. he got played big time
