by New Worlds
Part 1
It was a lethal lie that killed thousands. BBC News last month was forced to admit the lies it spread and stood behind for three years: a BBC documentary video used all over the world, made in April 2018, showed children and civilians gasping and being chaotically hosed down, with an announcer narrating breathlessly that these were the horrors perpetrated by Syria's Assad government. It reported opposition witnesses alleging aerial drops of chemical weapons barrels that killed more than 40 people and injured hundreds more.
This video and narrative was quickly used by the United States, the United Kingdom and France to justify launching over a hundred missiles into Syria a week later without any evidence, just one day before an investigation by the OPCW, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Why the hurry?
In 2013, the UN inspector Carla del Ponte already came out in news video clips to say that investigation showed that it wasn't the government but the opposition rebels who used the chemical weapons on civilians. These clips were removed from the public view and only much later reuploaded by truth advocates.
In 2013, the UN inspector Carla del Ponte already came out in news video clips to say that investigation showed that it wasn't the government but the opposition rebels who used the chemical weapons on civilians. These clips were removed from the public view and only much later reuploaded by truth advocates.
In 2014, the official closing report of the UN again reiterated that "the government of the Syrian Arab Republic has completed the functional destruction of critical equipment for all of its declared chemical weapons".
Why would the Western powers not wait two days for investigation results before bombing?
Why would the Western powers not wait two days for investigation results before bombing?
Some speculate that the 2018 US, UK and French bombing was to obliterate the evidence that the gassing may have been by rebels allied with the White helmets, a supposed NGO supported by the west. Assad, who was already winning the war, had nothing to gain from atrocities that would turn the world against him.
The request by Syria and Russia to investigate the allegations was ignored by the US, the UK and France as were objections by other nations to the military attacks and partial occupation.
The request by Syria and Russia to investigate the allegations was ignored by the US, the UK and France as were objections by other nations to the military attacks and partial occupation.
BBC's own Syria producer Riam Dalati three years ago, after six months of investigations, revealed a basis to believe that the "chemical attack by the Syrian government" reported by the BBC may have been staged. But these were belittled by the BBC as personal opinions and were not investigated by institutional bodies.
Dalati also identified one of those in scene as a doctor affiliated with rebel group Jaysh al-Islam, who was filming the chaos and not doing rescue efforts. Dalati tweeted: "Sick and tired of activists and rebels using corpses and children to stage emotive scenes for western consumption."
Dalati also identified one of those in scene as a doctor affiliated with rebel group Jaysh al-Islam, who was filming the chaos and not doing rescue efforts. Dalati tweeted: "Sick and tired of activists and rebels using corpses and children to stage emotive scenes for western consumption."
The Polygraph defended that the New York Times also "conducted an investigation into the incident... concluding that a chlorine canister was dropped from a helicopter and landed on the apartment building."
A long campaign for the truth ensued, conducted by different parties, through British journalist Peter Hitchins, through revelations by insiders of the OPCW, testimonials and video evidence dug up by Russia and Syria, and science itself, which revealed the fake news and false science that the BBC and NYT reports were based on, forcing the eventual BBC admission.
A long campaign for the truth ensued, conducted by different parties, through British journalist Peter Hitchins, through revelations by insiders of the OPCW, testimonials and video evidence dug up by Russia and Syria, and science itself, which revealed the fake news and false science that the BBC and NYT reports were based on, forcing the eventual BBC admission.
Engineering investigator Henderson had concluded, in consultation with other experts, that the positioning, light damage and location of the gas cylinders indicated they were not dropped from the air as reported but manually placed. These contrary reports and all traces of their data were asked by a senior OPCW official known as "Voldemort," through email, to be removed along with details of inconsistencies in witness testimonies and other findings.
Various whistleblowers within the OPCW provided emails and other evidence of selective use of facts, and actual revisions, to arrive at a desired conviction of the Assad regime, when the overall results provided different conclusions. The OPCW has chosen not to respond to these points and verifications raised.
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