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BBC Producer Says Footage of Alleged Gas Attack Victims in Syria’s Douma Staged

LONDON (Sputnik) – Riam Dalati, the Syria producer at the BBC, said that the footage of people being treated after an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Syrian city of Duma was staged.

Dalati wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that the issue was investigated into for six months.

The journalist pointed out that no fatalities had occurred at the hospital, adding that the attack in Douma had not happened and sarin had not been used there. However, Dalati noted that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) would look into whether chlorine was used at the scene.

Truth is @James__Harkin got the basics right in terms of #Douma‘s “propaganda” value.
The ATTACK DID HAPPEN, Sarin wasn’t used, but we’ll have to wait for @OPCW to prove Chlorine or otherwise.
However, everything else around the attack was manufactured for maximum effect. https://t.co/abRvSIMV1L — Riam Dalati (@Dalatrm)

Everything else around the attack was fabricated, according to Dalati.

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.
All the #WH, activists and people i spoke to are either in #Idlib or #EuphratesShield areas.
Only one person was in #Damascus. — Riam Dalati (@Dalatrm)

The White Helmets group published the video after the reported attack in Douma, which is located in the Damascus neighborhood of Eastern Ghouta, in early April 2018. The video showed local residents, both adults and children, being treated in the hospital after the alleged attack.

But never approached the block of flats and curtailed access immediately after #Douma takeover.
I can tell you that Jaysh al-Islam ruled Douma with an iron fist. They coopted activists, doctors and humanitarians with fear and intimidation.— Riam Dalati (@Dalatrm).

The Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has condemned any use of chemical weapons, referring specifically to the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission findings

OPCW Found No Trace of Nerve Agents in Syria’s Douma – Preliminary Report

The reports about the attack and the publication of the footage by the White Helmets were followed by missile strikes carried out by France, the United Kingdom and the United States on alleged chemical weapons production facilities in Damascus.

Western states have repeatedly accused the Syrian authorities of having carried out the Douma attack, while Damascus denied any involvement in the incident.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that the claims about the alleged use of toxic chemicals by the Syrian government were aimed at justifying external military action.

Moreover, prior to the Douma incident, the Russian Armed Forces warned about a provocation with the use of chemical weapons being prepared in the Syrian city by the militants.

Notably, back in April, the RT broadcaster reported that Dalati had already expressed his skepticism about the Douma hospital video in a Twitter post. However, the journalist subsequently deleted his tweet, citing a breach of editorial policy.

The same month, Hassan Diab, 11, who was featured in the White Helmets video, in an interview with a Russian media outlet alongside his father, gave a detailed description of how the footage of people treated in the hospital was filmed. Diab said, among other things, that children were given food for participating in the video.

Moreover, Douma residents, interviewed by Sputnik, were unable to confirm that the attack had taken place there. They said they knew nothing about it and were not aware of anybody having been affected by toxic chemicals.

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32. At this stage the FFM engineering sub-team cannot be certain that the cylinders at either location arrived there as a result of being dropped from an aircraft. The dimensions, characteristics and appearances of the cylinders and the surrounding scene of the incidents, were inconsistent with what would have been expected in the case of either cylinder having been delivered from an aircraft. In each case the alternative hypothesis produced the only plausible explanation for observations at the scene.

33. In summary, observations at the scene of the two locations, together with subsequent analysis, suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft.

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UPDATE: OPCW Confirm Leaked Report is Genuine

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
An OPCW memo, which was an engineering report on the Douma "chemical attack", has been leaked to the public. The memo was never included in the final report. In it, engineers evaluate pictures, released by the so-called White Helmets, which show gas cylinders which had supposedly crashed through roofs and landed in rooms below, and which had been placed there "manually" ... ie NOT "delivered by aircraft". Since the area was at the time was controlled by jihadists, only the jihadists could have set this up.

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32. At this stage the FFM engineering sub-team cannot be certain that the cylinders at either location arrived there as a result of being dropped from an aircraft. The dimensions, characteristics and appearances of the cylinders and the surrounding scene of the incidents, were inconsistent with what would have been expected in the case of either cylinder having been delivered from an aircraft. In each case the alternative hypothesis produced the only plausible explanation for observations at the scene.

33. In summary, observations at the scene of the two locations, together with subsequent analysis, suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft.

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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/05/syria-opcw-engineering-assessmen
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UPDATE: OPCW Confirm Leaked Report is Genuine

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Since the OPCW hid the report, one has to question its objectivity.

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An OPCW memo, which was an engineering report on the Douma "chemical attack", has been leaked to the public. The memo was never included in the final report. In it, engineers evaluate pictures, released by the so-called White Helmets, which show gas cylinders which had supposedly crashed through roofs and landed in rooms below, and which had been placed there "manually" ... ie NOT "delivered by aircraft". Since the area was at the time was controlled by jihadists, only the jihadists could have set this up.

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32. At this stage the FFM engineering sub-team cannot be certain that the cylinders at either location arrived there as a result of being dropped from an aircraft. The dimensions, characteristics and appearances of the cylinders and the surrounding scene of the incidents, were inconsistent with what would have been expected in the case of either cylinder having been delivered from an aircraft. In each case the alternative hypothesis produced the only plausible explanation for observations at the scene.

33. In summary, observations at the scene of the two locations, together with subsequent analysis, suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft.

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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/05/syria-opcw-engineering-assessmen
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UPDATE: OPCW Confirm Leaked Report is Genuine

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Since the OPCW hid the report, one has to question its objectivity.
- SIGNY

So the jihadists along with the White Helmets staged the whole thing.
What for?
To induce Western forces to bomb Damascus?- JSF

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I'm not following the details of the region. Are jihadists the enemy of Damascus?

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Are parts of Syria not Muslim, or not controlled by Muslim? Jihadists Muslim? Damascus Muslim? What?

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I'm not following the details of the region. Are jihadists the enemy of Damascus? Are parts of Syria not Muslim, or not controlled by Muslim? Jihadists Muslim? Damascus Muslim? What?

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
An old axiom says you can always pay one half of the savages to kill the other half, especially when they're so motivated to do it with or without our help. Have our strategies always played out to our national security advantage as we hoped? Not exactly, but even the best laid plans sometimes go out the window once the first punch is thrown.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Just to bring a little clarity as to who is the savage, "we" have been funding and arming jihadists for years, both directly and indirectly through Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.

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Jihadists have been "our" proxy army in the Mideast for decades.

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