Mer om den sk sarinattacken.
Peter Hitchen går igenom tveksamheterna i OPCW-rapporten:
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/07/who-gassed-whom-in-syria-we-dont-know-please-dont-be-rushed-into-war.html
Finns som sagt gott om märkliga uppgifter i OPCW-rapporten. Som exempel, varför har inte det här lämnats in, det har ju gått flera månader sedan den sk "attacken":
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But I was struck by paragraph 5.107 ‘However, the FFM was informed that remnants of a munition from the impact crater (point 1 in Figure 5) have been secured and could be made available in the future.’ Why not now? And in any case, what is its chain of custody? How can we even know it came from where it would be said to come from?
Rysslands representant i OPCW är minst sagt upprörd.
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Aron Lund @aronlund 12 juli
Statement by Russia's Alexander Shulgin to the July 5 OPCW Executive Council about the FFM report on Khan Sheikhoun.
http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/2811032 …
Ryssen tar upp hur viktiga bevis förstörts:
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Dear Mr Chairman,
I would like to apologise in advance for the fact that I will have to depart from my prepared remarks, as I cannot leave unanswered serious accusations of Russia by distinguished US Permanent Representative Kenneth Ward.
We regret that our American partners have descended so low, to a level which borders on foul language. We are not going to start a shouting match with them. We leave on their conscience the labels that they are trying to attach to us. However, for the sake of fairness, if there is anyone who is telling stories about the events in Khan Shaykhun in the OPCW or outside of it, it is our American "partners."
With regard to the question of who has been emboldened, and whose actions are responsible for this, we have no doubt that it is the US underlings, including all kinds of White Helmets and oppositionists of all stripes, including the hardcore ones, which control Khan Shaykhun.
I think that in light of today's briefing, few people will have any doubts left on this account. With all the praise of the heads of the Fact-Finding Mission of the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria regarding cooperation with NGOs - at least, this is how things are portrayed in the report - these people engaged in hiding important material evidence, such as fragments of ammunition found in a funnel caused by an explosion. What about their American overseers? Did they give them a dressing down? Apparently not, because a couple of days later they went ahead and poured cement into the funnel.
The explanations that we heard at the briefing (the allegedly urgent need to restore the roadway) are nothing short of ridiculous. It is unbelievable to see gray-haired and wise people praised for being top professionals take such perverted logic at face value, or pretend to do so. The opposition members and the affiliated NGOs have shamelessly destroyed important material evidence knowing that their American overseers will cover their backs, which, in fact, is what we are witnessing now.
Trump litade på CIA:s hastiga analys, innan han beordrade anfallet mot flygplatsen i Syrien som "vedergällning":
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Aron Lund
@aronlund
CIA Director Pompeo describes how he informed Trump about the Khan Sheikhoun attack on April 4.
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2017-speeches-testimony/director-pompeo-delivers-remarks-at-insa.html … via @joshua_landis
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I got a call from the President one afternoon back in April. He wanted to talk about some disturbing images that were coming in from Syria. I’m sure you saw many of them yourselves—scenes of innocent civilians writhing in agony, the apparent victims of a chemical weapons attack.
The President had a very direct message for me: Find out what happened. So we immediately assembled a crack team of Agency experts. They began piecing together the evidence, working closely with some outstanding partners from across the Intelligence Community.
The next day the President called his cabinet together. As we sat down, he turned to me and asked what we had learned. I told him that the IC had concluded that a chemical weapon had indeed been used in the attack, and that it had been launched by the Syrian regime.
The President paused a moment and said: Pompeo, are you sure? I’ll admit that the question took my breath away. But I knew how solid the evidence was, and I was able to look him in the eye and say, Mr. President, we have high confidence in our assessment.
The President never looked back. Based on the Intelligence Community’s judgment, he made one of the most consequential decisions of his young administration, launching a strike against the very airfield where the attack originated.
