{"id":53037,"date":"2020-05-07T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53037"},"modified":"2020-05-07T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:17:08","slug":"new-opcw-leaks-prove-they-are-lying-to-us-about-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53037","title":{"rendered":"New OPCW Leaks Prove They Are Lying To Us About Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/05\/07\/new-opcw-leaks-prove-they-are-lying-to-us-about-syria\/\">New OPCW Leaks Prove They Are Lying To Us About\u00a0Syria<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/medium-5.jpg?fit=1080%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Grayzone<\/em>\u2018s Aaron Mat\u00e9 has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2020\/05\/06\/opcw-douma-whistleblower\/\">published some explosive new leaks<\/a>&nbsp;from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) which make it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that the organisation, and the narrative managers associated with it, have been lying about the investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May of last year&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ayBv-nEOMTtIc-QOvejQBdCnZQXTuJ5z\/view\">an Engineering Assessment<\/a>&nbsp;signed by South African OPCW inspector Ian Henderson&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/confirmed-chemical-weapons-assessment-contradicting-official-syria-narrative-is-authentic-fbcbf7ef281a\">was leaked<\/a>&nbsp;to the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, saying in direct contradiction of the OPCW\u2019s official findings that the chlorine cylinders allegedly dropped upon the scene via aircraft were in fact \u201cmanually placed\u201d there. Since Douma was then occupied by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/jaysh-al-islam-officially-unites-with-al-qaeda-in-eastern-ghouta\/\">Al Qaeda-linked<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-syria-crisis-jihadists-insight\/insight-saudi-arabia-boosts-salafist-rivals-to-al-qaeda-in-syria-idUSBRE9900RO20131001\">Saudi-backed<\/a>&nbsp;Jaysh al-Islam group, who were fighting against the Syrian government, this would mean the Syrian government was not responsible for whatever killed dozens of civilians. And it would have the very serious implication that the US, UK and France&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2018_missile_strikes_against_Syria\">launched airstrikes against the Syrian government<\/a>&nbsp;on false grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the moment Henderson\u2019s leaked document first emerged, both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/im_PULSE\/status\/1129829608948404225\">the OPCW and the establishment spinmeisters<\/a>&nbsp;responsible for managing the imperial narrative on Syria have been dismissing Henderson\u2019s Engineering Assessment on the grounds that he was not a part of the OPCW\u2019s Fact-Finding Mission (FFM), the team which went to Douma to investigate the incident. Since that time&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/deluge-of-new-leaks-further-shreds-the-establishment-syria-narrative-e5ba3ba9b44b\">mountains<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sott.net\/article\/426488-Medias-Deafening-Silence-On-Latest-WikiLeaks-Drops-Is-Its-Own-Scandal\">evidence<\/a>&nbsp;have surfaced both corroborating Henderson\u2019s assessment and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2020\/02\/11\/new-leaks-shatter-opcws-attacks-on-douma-whistleblowers\/\">revealing that<\/a>&nbsp;attempts to portray him as not a part of the FFM are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/deluge-of-new-leaks-further-shreds-the-establishment-syria-narrative-e5ba3ba9b44b\">disingenuous pedantic manipulations<\/a>&nbsp;at best, but these new leaks by&nbsp;<em>The Grayzone<\/em>&nbsp;are the first hard proof we\u2019ve seen that this spin job was actually an outright, bald-faced lie.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGrayzoneNews\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGrayzoneNews\"><strong>The Grayzone<\/strong>@TheGrayzoneNews<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGrayzoneNews\/status\/1258092294097469440\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New OPCW Leaks Prove They Are Lying To Us About\u00a0Syria The Grayzone\u2018s Aaron Mat\u00e9 has&nbsp;published some explosive new leaks&nbsp;from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) which make it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that the organisation, and the narrative managers associated with it, have been lying about the investigation into [&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":[5,6],"tags":[17039,2928,14545,27499,19511,19869,655,776],"class_list":["post-53037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-managers","tag-opcw","tag-organization-for-the-prohibition-of-chemical-weapons","tag-propaganda","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53037","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=53037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53038,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53037\/revisions\/53038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}