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US Accuses Syria Of More Chemical Attacks Just As Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Institute for Public Accuracy published a report today<\/a> about the leaked engineering assessment from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria which directly contradicts the findings of the official OPCW report on the matter. Until the unauthorized release of this internal document<\/a> the public was kept entirely uninformed of its existence, despite the serious military consequences of the questions it raises; the official story that the Syrian government had dropped chemical weapons in Douma was used to justify an airstrike on Syria<\/a> days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MIT professor Theodore Postol provided IPA with a basic analysis of some of the data in the engineering assessment, adding that he \u201cwill have a much more detailed summary of the engineering report later this week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA second issue that is raised by the character of the OPCW engineering report on Douma is that it is entirely unmentioned in the report that went to the UN Security Council,\u201d Postol concludes after his analysis. \u201cThis omission is very serious, as the findings of that report are critical to the process of determining attribution. There is absolutely no reason to justify the omission of the engineering report in the OPCW account to the UN Security Council as its policy implications are of extreme importance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA leaked OPCW document challenges claim that Assad used chemical weapons in Douma in April 2018, the basis for US military strikes,\u201d tweeted<\/a> journalist Aaron Mat\u00e9 of the new IPA report. \u201cSo far, Western media has ignored it, w\/ only exceptions at the margins. Ted Postol is a leading expert; this should be impossible to ignore now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US Accuses Syria Of More Chemical Attacks Just As Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles The Institute for Public Accuracy published a report today about the leaked engineering assessment from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria which directly contradicts the findings of the official OPCW report on the […]<\/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":[17039,2928,19511,776,25926,826,827],"class_list":["post-46295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-opcw","tag-syria","tag-ted-postol","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46295","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=46295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46296,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46295\/revisions\/46296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}