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BBC Producer’s Syria Bombshell: Douma “Gas Attack” Footage “Was Staged”<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Now approaching nearly a year after the April 7, 2018 alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria \u2014 <\/em>which the White House used as a pretext to bomb Syrian government facilities and bases throughout Damascus \u2014 <\/em>a BBC reporter who investigated the incident on the ground has issued public statements saying the “Assad sarin attack” on Douma was indeed “staged”<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riam Dalati is a well-known BBC Syria producer<\/strong> who has long reported from the region. He shocked his nearly 20,000 twitter followers on Wednesday, which includes other mainstream journalists from major outlets, by stating that after a “six month investigation” he has concluded<\/a>, “I can prove without a doubt that the Douma Hospital scene was staged.” <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bOne of many widely circulated images of the Douma hospital scene from April 2018. The Times (UK) published the image with the following headline: Syria attack: \u2018We found bodies on the stairs. They didn\u2019t see the gas in time\u2019<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The “hospital scene” is a reference to part of the horrid footage played over and over again on international networks showing children in a Douma hospital being hosed off and treated by doctors and White Helmets personnel as victims of the alleged chemical attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC’s Dalati stated on Wednesday: “After almost 6 months of investigations, I can prove without a doubt that the Douma Hospital scene was staged. No fatalities occurred in the hospital<\/strong>.” <\/em>He noted he had interviewed a number of White Helmets and opposition activists while reaching that conclusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He continued in a follow-up tweet<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia and at least one NATO country knew about what happened in the hospital.<\/strong> Documents were sent. However, no one knew what really happened at the flats apart from activists manipulating the scene there<\/strong>. This is why Russia focused solely on discrediting the hospital scene.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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BBC Producer’s Syria Bombshell: Douma “Gas Attack” Footage “Was Staged” Now approaching nearly a year after the April 7, 2018 alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria \u2014 which the White House used as a pretext to bomb Syrian government facilities and bases throughout Damascus \u2014 a BBC reporter who investigated the incident on the ground has issued public statements saying […]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[3218,64,10180,19772,2779,15164,496,512,24411,694,776],"class_list":["post-43815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-bbc","tag-chemical-attack","tag-douma","tag-fake-news","tag-gas-attack","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-riam-dalati","tag-russia","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43815","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=43815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43816,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43815\/revisions\/43816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}