{"id":33621,"date":"2018-04-21T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33621"},"modified":"2018-04-21T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T16:50:27","slug":"staged-suffering-interview-with-boy-in-douma-video-raises-more-doubts-over-chem-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33621","title":{"rendered":"Staged suffering? Interview with boy in Douma video raises more doubts over \u2018chem attack\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/424563-douma-boy-chemical-video\/\">Staged suffering? Interview with boy in Douma video raises more doubts over \u2018chem attack\u2019<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article__cover\">\n<div class=\"media  \">\n<div class=\"media__video\">\n<div class=\"mediaplayer\">\n<div id=\"js-mediaplayer-5ad8590efc7e935b0c8b4570\" class=\"jwplayer jw-reset jw-state-idle jw-skin-five jw-stretch-uniform jw-flag-aspect-mode jw-breakpoint-5 jw-flag-user-inactive\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"jw-media jw-reset\"><video class=\"jw-video jw-reset\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnv.rt.com\/files\/2018.04\/5ad8590efc7e935b0c8b4570.mp4\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">\n<div class=\"media__title media__title_arcticle\">Hassan Diab (left) featured in the video of the alleged chemical attack in Douma \/ RT<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__share\">\n<div class=\"social-container\" data-buttons=\"facebook, twitter, reddit, google, telegram, fbmessenger, whatsapp\" data-counters=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">The boy portrayed as a \u2018victim\u2019 in a video of the alleged chemical attack in Douma has told a Russian TV crew that he was asked to go to hospital, where people \u201cgrabbed\u201d him and started \u201cpouring water\u201d over his head.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Panic, fear, screaming adults and frightened children featured in the purported footage of the aftermath following the alleged chemical attack in the Eastern Ghouta city. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Douma.Revolution.2011\/videos\/1739271562820418\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video <\/a>has been circulated by mainstream media since April 7 after being posted by the so-called Douma Revolution group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BhuYQc5HtjU\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=8&amp;wp=658&amp;rd=www.rt.com#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A6367%7D\" width=\"300\" height=\"916\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The group is one of the organizations, along with the notorious rebel-linked White Helmets, that has claimed government troops were the culprits behind the reported chemical attack.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main \u2018characters\u2019 in the footage is a soaked boy, who is seen being sprayed with water by people who claim to be \u2018rescue workers.\u2019 It\u2019s not clear whether they are doctors from the hospital, human rights activists, or White Helmets members. The latter usually make such videos and send them to news agencies, including Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Russian broadcaster VGTRK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vesti.ru\/doc.html?id=3008643&amp;3008643#\/video\/https%3A%2F%2Fplayer.vgtrk.com%2Fiframe%2Fvideo%2Fid%2F1779975%2Fstart_zoom%2Ftrue%2FshowZoomBtn%2Ffalse%2Fsid%2Fvesti%2FisPlay%2Ftrue%2F%3Facc_video_id%3D751695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> it found the boy in the video, who appeared to be 11-year-old Hassan Diab. His story differed from the one presented by the activists and later propagated by the mainstream media. He was in the basement with his mother, who said they ran out of food, when they heard some noise outside.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSomebody was shouting that we had to go to the hospital, so we went there. When I came in, some people grabbed me and started pouring water over my head,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he told Evgeny Poddubny, a war correspondent from Russian broadcaster VGTRK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staged suffering? Interview with boy in Douma video raises more doubts over \u2018chem attack\u2019\u00a0 Hassan Diab (left) featured in the video of the alleged chemical attack in Douma \/ RT The boy portrayed as a \u2018victim\u2019 in a video of the alleged chemical attack in Douma has told a Russian TV crew that he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2928,3717,19772,2864,655,8114,776,2080,827],"class_list":["post-33621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-disinformation","tag-douma","tag-lies","tag-propaganda","tag-rt-news","tag-syria","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33622,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33621\/revisions\/33622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}