Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are headed to Douma, Syria, to investigate an alleged gas attack there. The attack was claimed to have happened Saturday, though no real evidence has yet been made public, and Syria is denying it.
Russian military police have been at the site in recent days securing it, and say the city is under full government control. This should make it easy for the OPCW to access the site, as both Russia and Syria have loudly backed the probe, believing it will vindicate them in claiming that the strike never happened.
Western officials have accused Syria of being behind the alleged attack, and the US tried to push a UN Security Council resolution blaming Syria. This was vetoed by Russia, and a Russian resolution calling for an investigation failed because of opposition from the US and its allies.
Thus, the OPCW is likely the only international body that will ever investigate the matter. French President Emmanuel Macron has insisted that he already has “proof” of Syria’s guilt, but this has not been made public, and US officials have insisted they haven’t drawn a conclusion themselves.
Interest in drawing a conclusion seems to have slowed a bit,with some US officials now concerned that an attack on Syria could start a US war against Russia. Still, if OPCW’s findings are as Syria and Russia appear to believe, the whole war will be derailed before it gets started. US officials have suggested they are loathe to wait for that.
Beyond the concern about a US attack leading to a major war, Syria also expressed concern abot the West obstructing the OPCW probe, saying they would fully blame them if the probe is prevented in any way.
Utterly irrelevant whatever the OPCW concludes. By the time the report anything the world may be finished. We’re always told these investigations last a while. And unless it confirms the establishment lies, it won’t get any mention in the establishment media anyway. But who knows, the OPCW could already be infiltrated and corrupted.
The fact Russia wants an investigation and the US doesn’t proves beyond any doubt who is acting rationally.
It did not help them in the “Skripal novichok” evidence-free case, and the removal of the two “victims” from being allowed even to speak or be seen adds to the suspicion there.
Latest is, the Skirpols were were felled with a non-Russian chemical weapon called BZ.
Ironically, the Russians do have experience with BZ, having used it to incapacitate terrorists during the Moscow Theatre Seige. Hostage deaths occurred because the Russian weren’t prepared to treat all the hostages quickly.
“BZ: Its history, symptoms, effects” – Robert Windrem, 2013, NBCNews. com
The new movie PUTIN, part 2 has a full explanation of that siege, and the reasons for the deaths.
In vesti news today Sergei Lavrov explains not only the BZ point, but the French and US reprise of last year’s “chemical attack” in Idlib- almost the same words, all “secret” of course, and the White Helmets and SAMS as the source of the facts!!
Hence the rush to squeeze in a massed air strike.
Macron’s spokesman Benjamin Griveaux on Tuesday said
intelligence shared by Macron and Trump “in theory confirms the use of
chemical weapons.”
It’s a riddle I think, and I like riddles.Would he be referring to the common wisdom that in theory there is no difference between in theory an in practice, but in practice there is?
Chemical weapons, but in whose hands?
If this is a ‘real’ chemical weapons case.
It’s somewhere on the spectrum between a ‘real’ false flag and mere propaganda.
With the neocons now in full control of the White House, false-flag incidents like the recent chemical attack in Syria are bound to happen. Problem is, any good false-flag is only useful for a few days, until folks figure out that it’s BS. Looks like there will have to be some new event, like “a new Pearl Harbor”, that drives us into another f-ing war. Hmm… Wonder what it will be?
Why don’t they contact the White Helmets, or the WHite Helmets contacting the OPCW. They know exactly where the gas attacks have taken place. Wonder why all of a sudden they have disappeared, would be a great opportunity to reveal the truth………..???
We almost had a war with Russia in 1999 in Yugoslavia . Yeltsin negotiated the end of the bombing of Serbia by promising Milosevic . Russian troops will be coming in with NATO forces and we will protect the Orthodox Christian civilians .. However when the Russian soldiers started protecting the Christians U.S. general Wesley Clark issued orders to shoot the Russian soldiers .. The English troops refused the order because they said they did not want to start W War 3 .Non the less these foolish orders and Yeltsin inability to protect the Orthodox Christian Civilians in Kosovo brought down Yeltsin’s government in Russia . If NATO wished to attack Russia they should have done in 1999 .This was before Aleksander Solzhenitsyn found Putin . Now Putin has been partnering with China on military technology and preparing almost 20 years for anther confrontation . Russia intends to make it very dangerous to shoot Russian soldiers . As I type this I understand Trump has attacked Syria . I now am in favor of impeaching Trump . apologizing to Russia and Syria and bringing all our troops home starting now .
Look Clinton’s gone bro it’s been over 30 years ago. The Russians helped get Trump elected they’ve come along way so please save it already no one cares!!!
No about 18 years since Bill Clinton was our president . He is the reason Russia wanted Putin a leader they believed would be able to protect Russia . You should care , It is very sad when nobody cares . because history keeps repeating itself .
Why nothing on Antiwar about Russia’s claim the UK was complicit in the staged chemical incident? Seems a deliberate omission by Antiwar.
At the press conference Secretary Mattis stated that he is sure that chlorine gas was used. He did not state that he has incontrovertible evidence that an attack was done by the Syrian government, only that there are indications of such.