OPCW lekken bewijzen ten overvloede dat dit orgaan heeft gelogen over de gifgasaanval op Douma

Nieuwe lekken uit de OPCW tonen aan dat dit orgaan uit en te na heeft gelogen over de 'gifgasaanval op Douma', een aanval die zou zijn uitgevoerd door het reguliere Syrische leger, waar al snel bleek dat de cilinders met het gifgas chlorine niet vanuit een vliegtuig werden afgeworpen, maar dat deze werden geplaatst op de plekken waar ze onbeschadigd werden aangetroffen...... De OPCW: de Organisatie voor het Verbod op Chemische Wapens, een organisatie die is verbonden aan de VN....

Verantwoordelijke partij voor het plaatsen van de cilinders was de aan Al Qaida verbonden terreurgroep (in het westen eerst weggezet als 'rebellengroep') Jaysh al-Islam, die Douma in handen had, zoals alle zogenaamde rebellengroepen, voor het overgrote deel bestaand uit buitenlandse terroristen die het bewind van Assad onderuit wilden halen....... (terroristen die martelen, verkrachten en op grote schaal moorden.....) 

Kortom de zogenaamde gifgasaanval was opgezet door Jaysh al-Islam om daarmee het Syrische leger te demoniseren en westerse terreurcoalitie te bewegen aanvallen uit te voeren op het Syrische leger en die opzet is gelukt, met instemming van het disfunctionerende kabinet Rutte 2 en andere partijen in de Kamer en dat ondanks dat men door de OPCW was gewaarschuwd dat deze aanval niet werd uitgevoerd door het Syrische leger (zoals de OPCW aanvankelijk nog liet weten*, later werd dit teruggetrokken door de OPCW en gaf men het Syrische leger wel de schuld voor deze 'aanval' en werd een belangrijk lid van de OPCW weggezet als een leugenaar en fantast.....).......

Eén van de leugens die de OPCW daarna wereldkundig maakte, bestond uit de verklaring dat het hiervoor aangeduide belangrijke lid van de OPCW, t.w. Ian Henderson, een Zuid-Afrikaanse inspecteur van de OPCW, niet aanwezig was bij het onderzoek naar de gifgasaanval in Douma...... Het gaat hier om de OPCW inspecteur die de eerste lekken naar buiten bracht over de onbeschadigde cilinders met chlorine. Intussen was het voor velen al duidelijk dat de OPCW beschuldiging aan het adres van het Syrische regime een leugen was en dat is nu, met de nieuwe OPCW-lekken, een bewezen feit......

Sterker nog: de directeur van de OPCW destjds, directeur-generaal Ahmet Üzümcü, heeft Henderson gevraagd om de leiding te nemen over het onderzoek op cruciale plekken in Douma, terwijl zijn opvolger Fernando Arias durfde te stellen dat Henderson maar een kleine rol had in het onderzoek..... Vergeet niet dat de OPCW in feite al flink voor paal stond en deze Arias heeft op meerder manieren geprobeerd de boel te bagatelliseren, zoals zijn leugen over Henderson...... 

Arias is een schoft die deze false falg operatie probeert te verdoezelen, terwijl zijn organisatie onafhankelijk en objectief zou moeten werken, onderzoeken en rapporteren.......  

Deze handelswijze van de OPCW zet nog grotere vraagtekens bij de bevindingen van de OPCW inzake de vergiftiging van de Skripals, een zaak waar je niets meer over hoort, maar die als de 'gifgasaanval' op Douma vol zit met tegenstrijdigheden, waar men met een paar beelden van Russen die Groot-Brittannië binnenkwamen, zou hebben bewezen dat de Russen achter deze vergiftiging zaten....... Een totaal ongeloofwaardig verhaal dat maar één zaak diende: de Russen demoniseren als de nieuwe grote vijand van het westen, terwijl de werkelijkheid laat zien dat juist het westen haar boekje bijzonder ver te buiten is gegaan en dat nog steeds doet, neem alleen al de voortdurende militaire oefeningen langs de Russische westgrens door de NAVO, onder militaire leiding van de VS, een plek waar de NAVO volgens afspraken met Gorbatsjov, de voormalige president van de Sovjet-Unie, zich niet eens zou mogen bevinden...... 

Hetzelfde geldt voor de hulp die Rusland het Syrische regime bood, terwijl de VS de de lont in het kruitvat stak en deze heeft aangestoken om daarna grootschalige terreur op de Syrische bevolking te doen neerdalen, neem de aanval op Raqqa, waar de VN de VS meermaals smeekte te stoppen met bombarderen, daar vooral burgers massaal werden vermoord met die bombardementen....... 

Dan het volgende:

• Niet Rusland begint de ene na de andere illegale oorlog......
• niet Rusland is verantwoordelijk voor duizenden doden die met drones worden gemaakt, waarbij zelfs het grootste aantal slachtoffers, t.w. meer dan 90%, uit niet verdachte personen bestaat.....
• niet Rusland is verantwoordelijk voor het instellen van illegale sancties die aan tienduizenden mensen het leven hebben gekost en waardoor nog dagelijks grote aantallen mensen sterven in landen als Iran en Venezuela.....
• niet Rusland is verantwoordelijk voor machinaties in andere landen om een democratisch gekozen bewind ten val te brengen.......

Nee voor al deze zaken is de VS verantwoordelijk, vaak met met hulp van haar NAVO bondgenoten..... Alleen bij de illegale oorlogen die de VS deze eeuw begon zijn al bijna 3 miljoen mensen om het leven gekomen (vermoord).....

Vergeet niet dat de oorlog in Irak in feite nog steeds gaande is., hetzelfde geldt voor Afghanistan, Libië en Syrië. Wat betreft de laatste, werd de opstand in Syrië, veelal met deelname van extremisten van buiten dat land, georganiseerd door de VS (CIA) dat ook zorgde voor de scherpschutters die op demonstranten schoten....... De VS heeft daarna vanwege uitblijven van succes (het omverwerpen van het Assad bewind) in samenwerking met Saoedi-Arabië en Egypte terreurgroepen als IS (ISIS) aangevoerd vanuit Libië via Irak naar Syrië..... Libië dat toen al één grote puinhoop was en waar de chaos compleet was en nog steeds is, met dank aan de VS en andere NAVO-lidstaten....... (als gevolg van deze illegale oorlog 'moest de NAVO ingrijpen' in Mali, waar ook een Nederlandse militaire missie werkzaam was.......)

Ongelofelijk dat een orgaan als de OPCW dat volkomen onafhankelijk zou moeten zijn, wordt gerund door een figuur die schijt heeft aan onafhankelijkheid en objectieve onderzoeken, met maar één doel: landen als Syrië en Rusland demoniseren, desnoods met grove leugens..... 'Desnoods?' Van meet af aan zal je bedoelen Azijnpisser!! 

Uiteraard is de OPCW niet echt 'onafhankelijk', immers de organisatie is verbonden aan de VN, waar de grootste netto bijdrage komt van de vereniging van terreurstaten, ofwel van de VS, dat al meermaals heeft laten weten betalingen stop te zetten als de VN het niet eens is met de handelswijze van de VS, of als de VN kritiek levert op staten als de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israel vanwege grove schending van mensenrechten, of het begaan van zware oorlogsmisdaden....... Dit zijn geen loze bedreigingen, immers de VS heeft dat de laatste jaren voor een paar organen van de VN daadwerkelijk gedaan, dus de bijdrage niet betaald en heeft zich bovendien teruggetrokken uit een paar organen van de VN...... 

Wat betreft de OPCW: de hoogste tijd dat de bezem door de OPCW wordt gehaald en men figuren als Arias de straat opschopt, de hoogste tijd dat landen als Rusland en China in de OPCW als gelijkwaardige partijen worden behandeld en evenveel in de pap hebben te brokken als de VS en andere westerse landen!!

Lees het onderstaande artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, die dieper op deze zaak ingaat.

New OPCW Leaks Prove They Are Lying To Us About Syria

by Caitlin Johnstone

The Grayzone's Aaron Maté has published some explosive new leaks 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.

In May of last year an Engineering Assessment signed by South African OPCW inspector Ian Henderson was leaked to the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, saying in direct contradiction of the OPCW's official findings that the chlorine cylinders allegedly dropped upon the scene via aircraft were in fact "manually placed" there. Since Douma was then occupied by the Al Qaeda-linked and Saudi-backed 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 launched airstrikes against the Syrian government on false grounds.

From the moment Henderson's leaked document first emerged, both the OPCW and the establishment spinmeisters responsible for managing the imperial narrative on Syria have been dismissing Henderson's Engineering Assessment on the grounds that he was not a part of the OPCW's Fact-Finding Mission (FFM), the team which went to Douma to investigate the incident. Since that time mountains of evidence have surfaced both corroborating Henderson's assessment and revealing that attempts to portray him as not a part of the FFM are disingenuous pedantic manipulations at best, but these new leaks by The Grayzone are the first hard proof we've seen that this spin job was actually an outright, bald-faced lie.

The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews

Exclusive: The Grayzone has obtained documents exposing falsehoods and misleading claims by OPCW Director General Fernando Arias to degrade the reputation of Douma whistleblower Ian Henderson.@aaronjmate presents further evidence of official deception:https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/06/opcw-douma-whistleblower/ …

Exclusive: OPCW chief made false claims to denigrate Douma whistleblower, documents reveal  | The... The Grayzone has obtained documents exposing numerous falsehoods and misleading claims by OPCW Director General Fernando Arias to degrade the… thegrayzone.com

452     7:52 PM - May 6, 2020

The leaked documents include an OPCW security-planning memo labeled "MISSION PERSONNEL" which plain as day lists Henderson as a member of the FFM. The documents also include a letter from the office of then-OPCW Director General Ahmet Üzümcü explicitly asking that Henderson take leadership of inspections in crucial locations, in direct contradiction of the assertion by current Director General Fernando Arias that Henderson only played "a minor supporting role in the investigation of the Douma incident."

He lied. The Director General of the OPCW lied to the world about the Douma investigation. These new leaked documents show clearly and unequivocally that Henderson was a part of the FFM and played a major role in the investigation, and that we were lied to about both of these things by OPCW officials.

"Let me first turn to the findings of the investigation with respect to Inspector A," Arias said in a statement this past February, with 'Inspector A' referring to Henderson. "Inspector A first worked for the OPCW from June 1997 to December 2005, eventually being promoted to Team Leader. He was rehired at a lower level in June 2016 and worked at the OPCW until May 2019. Inspector A was not a member of the FFM."

"Inspector A was not a member of the FFM, and his name is not included in the mandates issued for FFM deployments," reads a February note by the OPCW Technical Secretariat.

"He provided support to the FFM team investigating the Douma incident since he was at the command post in Damascus at the relevant time. It is customary for the inspector serving at the command post to provide assistance to the FFM. Inspector A played a minor supporting role in the FFM investigation."

These were lies, and they were smears. They've been repeated and reiterated in various ways since the OPCW scandal first emerged, and have been uncritically repeated as fact by news agencies like AFP and Reuters, as well as establishment narrative managers like Bellingcat, Idrees Ahmad, Nick Waters, Brian Whitaker, and Eliot Higgins.

They have been thoroughly discredited, and Maté reports that more is on the way, writing that a "part two of this article" will soon address the smears which have been leveled at the second OPCW whistleblower.

Idrees Ahmad ✔ @im_PULSE

 · May 18, 2019

Replying to @SusanSarandon and 5 others

So you posted Caitlin Johnstone's conspiracy theory without even checking its source material? Johnstone's conspiracy theory comes from the "Syrian Propaganda Working Group", a group of pro-Assad academics in Britain, one of him recently lost his job because of his conspiracism.

Idrees Ahmad ✔ @im_PULSE

Ian Henderson, a disgruntled OPCW employee, sent his speculative assessment to the "Working Group". But when the working group tried to establish his credentials, the OPCW confirmed that he was NOT part of the Fact Finding Mission. Which means, he had no direct access.

76      9:22 PM - May 18, 2019

It has been revealed over the course of the OPCW scandal that US officials have attempted to interfere in the investigation and cajole OPCW inspectors into coming to conclusions which implicate the Syrian government. This would not be the first time the US government threw its weight around to make the OPCW fall in line with its regime change agendas, with threats to cut organisation funding and John Bolton reportedly even threatening a Director General's children in order to help manufacture the case for the invasion of Iraq. Bolton, for the record, was Trump's National Security Advisor throughout the entirety of the Douma investigation.

We were lied to about Douma, and we're being lied to about the coverup. The US has a lot invested in its ability to launch military strikes based on scant or nonexistent evidence without international backlash, so there's a lot at stake for the corrupt mass murderers in charge of the most powerful military force in the history of civilization. It makes perfect sense that they are doing everything they can to hide the truth.

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* Zie: 'Gifgasaanval Douma: OPCW rapport maakt korte metten met de westerse beschuldiging aan adres Syrië, waar de NOS een meer dan levensgrote bok schoot' (later gaf de OPCW Syrië alsnog de schuld....)

Zie ook:
'VS sancties tegen Syrië zijn een voortzetting van de illegale oorlog tegen Assad en treffen het volk keihard: honger en een groot tekort aan medicijnen' 

'VS verantwoordelijk voor honger in Syrië en wil desondanks de sancties nog verder verzwaren op basis van nieuwe leugens'

'Tulsi Gabbard (Democratisch presidentskandidaat, verbannen uit debat-circuit vanwege kritiek op de oorlog tegen Syrië): OPCW klokkenluiders tonen haar gelijk aan'

'Douma gifgasaanval: OPCW baas gaf opdracht een rapport te verwijderen uit dossier en alle sporen te wissen'

'OPCW heeft vals rapport uitgebracht, VS propaganda-organen, inclusief Bellingcat, schieten te hulp' en zie wat betreft Bellingcat: 'Bellingcat wordt betaald door de VS overheid ha! ha! ha! ha!'

'Douma (Syrië): de 12 sterkste argumenten die aangeven dat de gifgasaanval een false flag operatie was'

'Douma, OPCW lek wordt door massamedia toegeschreven aan Rusland, waarbij men blijft volhouden dat de gifgasaanval plaatsvond'

'OPCW-lek laat ten overvloede zien dat de berichtgeving over gifgasaanval Douma er volledig 'naast zat''

'OPCW valt door de mand, klokkenluider: Douma gifgasaanval werd niet uitgevoerd door Syrische leger'

 

'Gifgasaanval Douma in elkaar gezet door 'gematigde rebellen''

'Dood al-Baghdadi: VS heeft haar eigen creatie vermoord....'

'Al-Baghdadi (top ISIS) vermoord, nu nog zijn bazen berechten'

'Syrische Koerden voor tweede keer verraden: VS blijft vanwege de olie'

'Nederland financiert terrorisme in Syrië........'

'Massamedia treuren over de dood van een door de CIA gesteunde terrorist'

'Avaaz valt met fake news en desinformatie 'fake news en desinformatie' aan.....'

'AVAAZ: een 'petitie site' met de vreselijke stank van lijken en oorlogshitserij.........'

'Avaaz haalt 1 miljoen op voor terreurorganisatie Witte Helmen.... ha! ha! ha! Nu nog een inzameling voor ISIS!!!' 

'Massamedia treuren over de dood van een door de CIA gesteunde terrorist'

'MP Chris Williamson confronts UK government with apparent evidence of ‘staged’ chemical attack in Syria' De gifgasaanvallen die het reguliere Syrische leger zou hebben gepleegd, zijn onderdeel van 'false flag' operaties, ofwel men begaat een oorlogsmisdaad en schuift die de vijand in de schoenen, zie o.a.: ''False flag terror' bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken..........'

'John Bolton geeft terreurgroepen in Syrië de opdracht een false flag gifgasaanval uit te voeren'

'Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!'

'Bernard Hammelburg (BNR): Assad is een monster waar we mee moeten samenwerken.........'

''Gematigde' terreurgroepen in Syrië kregen Nederlands belastinggeld om te moorden, verkrachten, martelen en om te roven.......' 

'Arrestatie Rutte, Koenders, Zijlstra en Blok wegens hulp aan terreurgroepen in Syrië van hoogste belang'

'Van Kappen (VVD) noemt 'stapelaanwijzingen' het bewijs en is blij met raketaanval VS op Syrische basis,  een aanval zonder enig echt bewijs voor Syrische schuld.......'

'Sico van der Meer ('deskundige' Clingendael) weet niet, dat Israël en Egypte grote hoeveelheden gifgas maken en op voorraad hebben..........'

'Koenders en SOHR melden gifgasaanval, reguliere media als NOS nemen bericht van SOHR (propaganda en 'fake news' orgaan) over'

'Rutte: raketaanval VS tegen Syrische basis was begrijpelijk en proportioneel, ook al is er geen bewijs voor Syrische schuld........'

'Haley (VS ambassadeur bij VN) herhaalde in VN, voorafgaand aan raketaanval, het smerige spel van Powell in 2002, aanleiding tot illegale oorlog tegen Irak.......'  

'Koenders (PvdA BuZa): Assad is schuldig aan gifgasaanval en is een 'criminele recidivist......' ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'

'Esther de Lange (CDA): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis 'was even nodig...........''

'Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!'

'Van Baalen (VVD) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'

'VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf.......'

Voor wapenleveranties e.d. aan terreurgroepen in Syrië, zie de berichten onder de volgende links (opvallend nogmaals dat de VS ISIS van wapens voorzag, neem de hysterie n.a.v. de moord op al-Baghdadi.....):

'Rutte en Koenders verantwoordelijk voor wapenleveranties aan IS!!'

'CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS.......'

US weapons supplied to Syrian rebels ended up with Islamic State: report

Tracing ISIS’ Weapons Supply Chain—Back to the US

ISIL weapons traced to US and Saudi Arabia

'Al Qaida de bondgenoot van de VS in de strijd tegen...... terrorisme! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!' 

'VS centraal commando werkt in Syrië samen met IS en verklaarde Rusland deoorlog.........'

'U.S Caught Red Handed Selling Arms to ISIS/AL-Qaeda (Part 1 of 2)'

'US TRAINED REBELS GIVE WEAPONS TO TERROR GROUP'

'Made in America: US-Trained 'Moderate' Rebels, With Blessing Of Americans, Seling US Weapons to ISIS'

'Exactly how the US trained and armed ISIS'

'Lt. General McInerney says Obama helped build ISIS with Weapons from Benghazi'

'Tulsi Gabbard (VS congres Hawaï): Trump is de beschermende Big Brother van Al Qaida' 

Voor meer berichten over terreurorganisatie White Helmets zie:
'White Helmets oprichter 'vermoord door' vredesactivisten en kritische alternatieve media'

'White Helmets oprichter overleden, het sein voor nog meer anti-Syrische propaganda'

'White Helmets worden als helden afgeschilderd in propaganda spel'

'White Helmets is een terreurorganisatie, zie de bewijzen op Facebook: foto's van de W.H. leden' 

'White Helmets >> terreurorganisatie, opgezet door Brits ex-officier en o.a. betaald door Nederland...........' 

'White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer.....' (met video over samenwerking tussen Al Qaida en de White Helmets, zie ook de andere links in dat bericht) 

'White Helmets: naast gebruik van terreur ook schuldig aan orgaanhandel, vernietigende VN video presentatie'

Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries

'Gifgasaanval Idlib: de komende 'kindslachtoffers' worden getraind door terreurgroep White Helmets.........'

'Avaaz haalt 1 miljoen op voor terreurorganisatie Witte Helmen.... ha! ha! ha! Nu nog een inzameling voor ISIS!!!'  

'Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld....' 

'Al Jazeera filmde een onderdeel van de 'gifgasshow' in Kahn Sheikhoun...........'

Mijn excuus voor de belabberde weergave.

VS geschiedenis van chemisch wapengebruik vergeleken met uitspraken van VS ambassadeur bij de VN Haley

Hare kwaadaardigheid Nikki Haley, VS ambassadeur bij de VN, die keer op keer het gore lef heeft om wie dan ook de les te lezen, moet eindelijk eens kijken waarvoor haar eigen land, de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, verantwoordelijk is..... Neem de zogenaamd door de wettige regering van Syrië gepleegde gifgasaanvallen die Haley keer op keer noemt als feit, terwijl de enige bewezen gifgasaanvallen* allen zijn toe te schrijven aan de door de VS beschermde 'gematigde rebellen' (lees: terreurgroepen die zich schuldig maken aan moord, verkrachting, marteling en het gebruik van chemische wapens..)...... Daarmee maakt de VS zich ook nog eens schuldig aan vreselijke oorlogsmisdaden.......

De schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, Brian Kalman heeft een aantal oorlogsmisdaden van de VS op een rij gezet, o.a. waar de VS gebruik heeft gemaakt van gifgas, en waaruit ten overvloede nog eens de enorme hypocrisie van helleveeg Haley blijkt..... 

Voorts wijst de schrijver nog eens op het chemische wapenprogramma van de VS, een programma waar nog steeds aan wordt gewerkt en waar nog steeds onderzoek wordt gedaan naar nieuwe chemische wapens, ondanks dat de VS of beter gezegd de Vereniging van Terreurstaten het verdrag tegen de verspreiding van chemische wapens, ofwel Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) heeft getekend...... 

Het gestolen land VS 'heeft zich voorts onderworpen' aan de Organisatie voor het Verbod op Chemische Wapens (OVCW), die landen bij de les moet houden, een organisatie waar de VS lid van is....... De organisatie die e.e.a. controleert is het VN orgaan OPCW en is gezeteld in Den Haag, blijkbaar heeft die organisatie geen toegang tot de massamoord laboratoria van de VS.... (zie de PS notitie onderaan in dit bericht) Kortom de OPCW is een uiterst lamme organisatie (zoals de hele VN), maar dat past dan weer prefect bij het hypocriete Nederland, de hielenlikker van de VS.......

Nieuw voor mij is het feit dat de VS in meerdere buitenlanden laboratoria heeft voor 'onderzoek' naar chemische wapens 

US History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

Before pointing the finger at Russia and Syria, the U.S. should answer for its own record

Written by Brian Kalman exclusively for SouthFront; Brian Kalman is a management professional in the marine transportation industry. He was an officer in the US Navy for eleven years.

The world is once again witnessing the height of U.S. hypocrisy as members of the U.S. State Department ratchet up anti-Russian and anti-Syrian rhetoric surrounding the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the UK. Ambassador Nikki Haley has warned Syria, Iran and Russia that they will be held accountable for their pre-determined use of chemical weapons in Idlib on innocent civilians. No evidence was provided to support her threats. The United States carried out cruise missile strikes on two previous occasions, and each time provided no evidence to prove their assertion that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in attacking civilians, nor was any rational reason given for such an obviously irrational decision on the part of the Syrian state. No evidence has ever been provided to justify the clear international crime of aggression committed by the United States on these two earlier occasions. Now, the UK and the U.S. are both attempting to accuse the Russian government of using chemical weapons in an alleged attempted assassination of a Russian national on UK soil. Once again, no real evidence has been presented, only assertions and hearsay.      

On Thursday September 13th, Assistant Secretary of State Manisha Singh declared before the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee that the United States would level the most severe of sanctions against Russia, including breaking all diplomatic ties, if Russia refused to admit its guilt in perpetrating the Skripal assassination fiasco and refused to submit to International inspections by the OPCW of its alleged chemical weapons and biological weapons programs. She stated that Russia would have to meet this requirement by an arbitrary November 4th deadline, set by the United States in accordance with a U.S. law, not an international law. H.R. 1724 – Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 specifies in part:  

 Title III: Control and Elimination of Chemical and Biological Weapons – Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 – Declares it is U.S. policy to: (1) seek multilaterally coordinated efforts with other countries to control the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons; and (2) strengthen efforts to control chemical agents, precursors, and equipment.     

Requires the President to use the U.S. export control laws to control the export of defense articles, defense services, goods, and technologies that he determines would assist a country in acquiring the capability to produce or use such weapons.     

Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a list of goods and technology that would assist a foreign government or group in acquiring chemical or biological weapons. Requires a validated export license for the export of such items to certain countries of concern.

Requires the President to impose certain sanctions against foreign persons if he determines that they knowingly contributed to the efforts of a country to acquire, use, or stockpile chemical or biological weapons. Declares such sanctions to include: (1) denial of U.S. procurement contracts for goods or services from such foreign persons; and (2) prohibition against importation of products from such persons. Authorizes the President to waive imposition of such sanctions if he determines that is in the national security interests of the United States.

Amends the Arms Export Control Act to set forth similar provisions.

Requires the President to make a determination with respect to whether a country has used chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law or has used lethal chemical or biological weapons against its own nationals. Authorizes specified congressional committees to request the President to make such determination with respect to the use of such weapons.

Requires the President to impose the following sanctions against foreign countries that have been found to have used such weapons: (1) termination of assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (except humanitarian assistance and agricultural commodities); (2) termination of arms sales and arms sales financing; (3) denial of U.S. credit; and (4) prohibition of the export of certain goods and technology. Directs the President to impose at least three of the following additional sanctions unless such countries cease the use of such weapons and provide assurances that they will not use, and will allow inspections with respect to, such weapons: (1) opposition to the extension of multilateral development bank assistance; (2) prohibition of U.S. bank loans (except loans for food or agricultural commodities); (3) further export prohibitions; (4) import restrictions; (5) suspension of diplomatic relations; and (6) termination of air carrier landing rights. Provides for the removal and waiver of such sanctions.

Requires the President to submit to the Congress annual reports on the efforts of countries to acquire chemical or biological weapons.

Repeals certain duplicative provisions of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993.

It is important to note that nowhere in this law is there a legal commitment made by the United States itself, to eliminate its own chemical and biological weapons capabilities. This is not an oversight, yet speaks to the imperial hypocrisy of the United States and an acknowledgement that it alone has been the largest perpetrator of chemical weapons use and proliferation for more than 50 years. It currently maintains the largest stockpile of both chemical and biological warfare agents of any nation on the planet, and continues to expand its biological weapons research and development on a scale far larger than any other country.

While the U.S. Department of Defense maintains that its massive biological research programs are meant to counter and defend against new biological weapons being developed, they are in fact developing bio-weapons in the process.

International Obligations and the OPCW

Russia is one of 192 signatories (state and non-state parties) of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, along with the United States. On September 27th, 2017 it was announced by Russia and the OPCW, that Russia had verified the total destruction of its large chemical weapons stockpile dating from the years of the Soviet Union, estimated at 39,967 metric tons of chemical agents. Russia was obligated to do this by 2020, yet was able to accomplish the task three years ahead of schedule. Under the original agreement, both the U.S. and Russia were obligated to accomplish this by 2007, but both nations required an extension of the deadline.

Although admitting to a total stockpile of 28,000 metric tons of chemical agents, the U.S. admits to destroying 90% of its chemical arsenal. The U.S. requested and was granted an extension out to 2023 to achieve verified elimination of 100% of its chemical weapons. The only other signatory of the law other than the United States not to have already met the requirements is Iraq. It must be stated that much of the chemical weapons in the Iraqi arsenal are based on the chemical warfare agents supplied to the Saddam Hussein regime during the height of the Iran-Iraq war by the United States and other western nations. Saddam used some of these U.S. supplied weapons to murder thousands of Iraqi Kurds in the town of Halabja in 1988. Estimates range between 3,000 – 7,000 deaths and over 10,000 injured.  

Saddam Hussein was a valued asset of the United States and its Western allies for decades. Hussein pictured above with former French President Jacque Chirac and U.S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Not only did the United States, and France for that matter, provide chemical weapons to the Saddam regime, but the U.S. intelligence agencies provided the Iraqi military with vital battlefield intelligence, including satellite imagery in aiding them in the war. The U.S. was well aware that the Saddam regime had used chemical weapons in at least four offensives during the war. Of course they knew, they had facilitated the transfer of these weapons to help the Iraqis prosecute a war of aggression against Iran. Declassified CIA documents clearly show that the United States was well aware that the Iraqis had used chemical weapons at least four times between 1983 and 1988. Iran had accused Iraq of using chemical weapons, and tried to build a case to bring before the United Nations. The United States withheld its knowledge of course, and continued to aid its ally in perpetrating these crimes against humanity.

Perhaps the most powerful photo taken of the Halabja chemical attack perpetrated against Iraqi Kurds. This woman died running with her child in an attempt to save her, yet could not escape the deadly effects of the chemical agents used. Their embrace will forever symbolize both human love and sacrifice, and unfathomable human cruelty.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley has lied through her teeth repeatedly in her statements before the U.N. Security Council and the General Assembly. She has stated repeatedly that Assad has used chemical weapons against his own people in Ghouta in 2013, Khan Shaykhun in 2017 and Douma in 2018, yet has not supplied one shred of evidence beyond dubious social media posts of unknown provenance. She has also stated that the United States is certain that it could only be the Syrian government, as no other party in the conflict zone could possibly possess chemical weapons. Here’s the problem with her statement. Firstly, the United States and the OPCW verified that Syria destroyed or surrendered all of its chemical weapons agents. On its official website, the OPCW states:

“Veolia, the US firm contracted by the OPCW to dispose of part of the Syrian chemical weapons stockpile, has completed disposal of 75 cylinders of hydrogen fluoride at its facility in Texas.

This completes destruction of all chemical weapons declared by the Syrian Arab Republic.  The need to devise a technical solution for treating a number of cylinders in a deteriorated and hazardous condition had delayed the disposal process.

Commenting on this development, the Director-General of the OPCW, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, said: “This process closes an important chapter in the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapon programme as we continue efforts to clarify Syria’s declaration and address ongoing use of toxic chemicals as weapons in that country.”

Secondly, the OPCW and the UN have both verified that opposition forces within Syria have used chemical agents as weapons on numerous occasions during the conflict. Not only has Carla Del Ponte, UN human rights investigator, former UN Chief Prosecutor and ICC attorney stated that opposition forces had used chemical weapons, but also the former OPCW head field investigator in Syria Jerry Smith stated to the BBC that he found it very unlikely that the government perpetrated these chemical attacks.. As recently as October of last year the U.S. State Department itself seemed to acknowledge the same truth in its warning to U.S. citizens traveling to Syria. The travel warning stated:

“Tactics of ISIS, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, and other violent extremist groups include the use of suicide bombers, kidnapping, small and heavy arms, improvised explosive devices, and chemical weapons.

They have targeted major city centers, road checkpoints, border crossings, government buildings, shopping areas, and open spaces, in Damascus, Aleppo, Hamah, Dara, Homs, Idlib, and Dayr al-Zawr provinces.”

U.S. History of Using Chemical Weapons and Supporting Those that Do

The last country in the world that should lecture anyone on the possession and use of WMDs is the United States. Not only is the United States the only country in history to ever target civilians with multiple atomic bombs, it has used chemical weapons against the populations of Southeast Asia and Iraq in the past. Now, they were smart enough not to use mustard gas and anthrax, but the accumulative effects of Agent Orange and depleted uranium in these populations has been devastating, and will not only cause great harm and pain for these populations, but will leave the land poisoned for generations.  

The United States sprayed copious quantities of TCDD (dioxin tetrachlordibenzo-para-dioxin), a class 1 carcinogen all over regions of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in an attempt to defoliate the jungle environment, and thus rob their enemy of an environment they excelled at fighting in and hiding in as part of Operation Ranch Hand. Known as Agent Orange, the chemical was banned in the U.S. in 1970. Although extremely hard to quantify, the devastating effects of dioxin exposure in the Vietnamese population are easily identifiable, as the same effects were observed in U.S. veterans that returned home after exposure to the toxin. Abnormally high levels of various cancers and debilitating birth defects are present in Southeast Asian populations in areas of greatest use of Agent Orange. Dioxins remain in the soil and water table, as they do not degrade naturally. Dioxin also bio-accumulates in the fatty tissues of animals and thus remains in the food supply.

One of the many young Vietnamese born long after the war with debilitating, neurodevelopmental diseases and birth defects due to Agent Orange exposure of their parents.

The United States learned little from the crime it perpetrated in Southeast Asia, nor did it seem to care as it repeated a similar offense in two successive invasions of Iraq. Having failed to achieve its aim of defeating Iran through its brutal Iraqi proxy, even after helping the Saddam Hussein regime in chemical warfare attacks against Iranian soldiers and Iraqi Kurdish civilians, the United States largely ignored the numerous atrocities carried out by one of its favorite dictators. The U.S. would turn on its erstwhile henchman in 1990, after Saddam decided to attack one of its favorite corrupt emirates in the region. The resulting 1991 invasion of Iraq saw the heavy use of depleted uranium armored piercing rounds. Depleted uranium is extremely dense, and thus good for piercing hardened steel or composite armor. The follow-on invasion of 2003 brought more death and destruction, and more depleted uranium.

Locations of depleted uranium munitions used by U.S. Airforce A-10 ground attack aircraft in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. Depleted Uranium is also used in anti-armor munitions utilized by all U.S. tanks and armored fighting vehicles as well, so the true breadth of distribution and employment of depleted uranium in the above map are understated.

The U.S. has not funded the reclamation and disposal of depleted uranium contaminated scrap in Iraq. The new Iraqi government has started cleaning up the approximately 350 sites identified as having depleted uranium contamination in the country, mostly around Basra and Baghdad, yet also scattered over the entire country. It is estimated that between 1,000 and 2,000 metric tons of depleted uranium used in various munitions fired during the invasion of 2003 alone. It is hard to narrow down the exact amount as the U.S. military has failed to provide any definitive numbers. Iraqi doctors have recorded and reported higher cases of cancers in adult patients and increased birth defects in children being born in Iraq since the invasion took place. The U.S. government seems determined to undermine any attempts to draw direct correlations between this recorded phenomenon and its use of depleted uranium in two successive wars in Iraq. It has also fought all attempts by U.S. war veterans suffering from various cancers and neurological diseases from their similar exposure in both wars.

Continued Support of War Criminals

Nikki Haley fails to acknowledge the historic role of the United States government’s support of some of the world’s most horrible regimes in the past. From the Khmer Rouge and Saddam Hussein then, to Saudi Arabia and Tahrir al-Sham now, the United States has supported many of the world’s most deplorable violators of human rights. Yet Nikki Haley has the arrogance and delusional belief that she has the moral high ground in chastising Syria and Russia before the U.N.?

Just this week U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo clarified that the Saudi and UAE have acted in good faith in taking steps to reduce civilian casualties in their military operations in Yemen and that the U.S. military would keep providing both material and direct support to both nations in prosecuting their illegal war. U.S. manufactured and supplied bombs are being used to kill civilians in Yemen regularly, amounting to an estimated 15,000 killed or injured civilians over a period of three years. This does not take into account the deaths and suffering associated with the humanitarian crisis that has resulted from the Saudi-led coalition destroying virtually all infrastructure in the Houthi controlled part of the country. I am sure that it is also just another “unintended consequence” that al-Qaeda has expanded and strengthened its position in Yemen as a direct result of the conflict. When will any member state in the U.N. finally tell Nikki Haley that the Security Council must acknowledge that al-Qaeda has always been a proxy of Saudi Arabia and the United States?

Children injured when a Saudi airstrike targeted a school bus in Saada, Yemen. A total of 51 civilians, 40 of them children below the age of 15 were killed in the strike. The United States supplies the aircraft, bombs, aerial refueling and intelligence gathering resources to support the bombing campaign.

Nikki Haley continues to claim that Russia is directly facilitating an impending humanitarian disaster and war crime in the impending Syrian military operations to retake Idlib province, destroy a host of ISIS and al-Qaeda linked terrorist groups and liberate hundreds of thousands of civilians. She said the same thing during the battle to liberate Aleppo. Her lies were revealed when the SAA and Russia finally liberated the city and Syrian civilians who were kept as prisoners there by the Islamic terrorists were finally free of the horror of their captivity. Is it no wonder that tens of thousands of Syrian refugees displaced by the conflict are now returning to their home country?

Apparently Nikki Haley sees no issue at all in Imperial America supporting Saudi Arabia and the UAE killing Yemeni civilians by the thousands in Yemen. The U.S. not only supplies the bombs, but directly provides in-flight refueling of the aircraft and the intelligence used to conduct the “precision” strikes that target schools, hospitals, funerals, and even school bus loads of children. Does this surprise anyone? U.S. coalition airstrikes against ISIL in Raqqa and Mosul killed an estimated 6,000 civilians. In Raqqa, U.S. aircraft conducted 90% of the airstrikes, and the U.S. fired at least 30,000 artillery rounds into the city. The U.S. has yet to pay any political or legal price for its indiscriminant destruction of these cities.

One of thousands of airstrikes carried out on the Syrian city of Raqqa. The U.S. led coalition was widely criticized for its blatant disregard for civilian casualties in its targeting of the city as part of its offensive to destroy ISIL. They have yet to be held accountable for the estimated 800-1,000 civilians deaths caused.

The Russian Response

Russia needs to finally accept the reality that there is nothing to be gained by negotiating, or attempting to collaborate with the United States in solving problems. It’s like a shepherd using a wolf to defend his flock, or a detective enlisting the aid of a criminal to solve a crime that the criminal is a co-conspirator in perpetrating. It is illogical in the extreme. The Russian U.N. mission needs to call out Nikki Haley and the U.S. on its own deplorable record and hypocrisy and while seeking  the aid of other member states, must also realizing that most of them are bought-off by Washington. Hasn’t Haley repeatedly threatened to stop giving money to nations that do not support her resolutions?

The Russians need to realize that they can never have a mutually respectful and beneficial relationship with the political and financial elites that control the United States. Russia will always find a friend in the American people, but Washington? This same elite despises the American people more than it does Putin or Assad. If it wasn’t for working class American citizens fed up with the U.S. establishment elite, we would likely already be in a direct war with Russia, China and Iran. I hope that the Russian political and military leadership understands this. Stop trying to placate Washington and start preparing to defend your nation. The Deep State will not stop at Ukraine or Syria. They desire the complete subjugation of Russia and a return to the Yeltsin days, or worse.

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*  Een aantal gifgasaanvallen vond niet eens plaats, zo bleek uit onderzoek van o.a. de VN......

PS: Israël en Egypte behoren tot de weinige landen die het CWC niet hebben getekend en nog steeds chemische wapens produceren, opslaan en verkopen........ Niet ondenkbaar dus dat de terreurgroepen in Syrië ('gematigde rebellen) hun gifgas hebben betrokken uit Israël en/of Egypte, beiden grote vijanden van het Syrische Assad bewind...... Israël heeft al een paar keer aangegeven samen te werken met die terreurgroepen en zelfs samenwerking met IS niet uit de weg te gaan....... Dat deze terreurgroepen gifgas bezitten, waaronder sarin en chlorine deert het westen blijkbaar niet..... Overigens gebruiken veel westerse landen die het verdrag ondertekenden wel een chemisch wapen dat ze ook opgeslagen hebben, t.w. traangas......... Onlangs bleek overigens dat Nederland in het bezit is van nog veel gevaarlijker chemische wapens, die door TNO worden onderzocht....... (volgens het verdrag mag je ook geen chemische wapens in het bezit hebben...)

Zie ook:
'BBC weer met anti-Syrische propaganda en veel aandacht voor de geweldige Turken en hun leider Erdogan' (met links naar ander gifgas gebruik in Syrië)
 
'VS bewapening van Irak met chemische en biologische wapens valt onder leeftijdscensuur van YouTube' 

'VS heeft al 4 keer het verboden chemische wapen witte fosfor gebruikt'

Meer voorbeelden van grootschalige VS terreur:
'VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen..........'

'List of wars involving the United States'

'VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII........'

'VS: openlijke militaire oefening met terreurgroep in Syrië......'

'NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO.........'

'VS commando's vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog.........'

'De VS, een duivels imperium, dat achter haar psychopathisch moordende troepen staat??'

'De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht'