White Helmets oprichter 'vermoord door' vredesactivisten en kritische alternatieve media

De wereld weer eens geheel en al op de kop: James Le Mesurier, ex-militair inlichtingen officier en de oprichter van White Helmets benam zich het leven eerder dit jaar, de reden voor Public Broadcast Service (PBS), een o.a. door de VS overheid bekostigde tv zender, om te stellen dat de critici van Le Mesurier en zijn White Helmets hebben geleid tot de dood van Le Mesurier.... Zelfs het kritisch zijn op hoe de reguliere westerse media en politiek met Syrië omgaan zou tot de dood van mensen leiden..... 

Hoe ongelofelijk psychopathisch moet je zijn om het voorgaande te stellen, dus de stelling dat kritiek op Le Mesurier tot zijn dood heeft geleid en dat kritiek op westerse bemoeienis met Syrië leidt tot de dood van mensen*, zeker als je ziet dat datzelfde westen onder aanvoering van de VS (met hulp van andere NAVO-partners) Syrië voor een deel hebben platgebombardeerd en een enorm aantal slachtoffers hebben gemaakt......**

Reden Voor Caitlin Johnstone 'om in de pen te klimmen' en een artikel aan deze waanzinnige leugen te wijden. De White Helmets is een schimmige organisatie die vooral samenwerkt met en zelfs werkt voor terreurgroepen in Syrië, zolang men maar tegen Assad vecht, kan er gerekend worden op westerse hulp voor het geweld dat deze zogenaamde mensenredders uitoefenen.....

Le Mesurier was in feite een promotor en propagandist van de oorlog is Syrië en het geweld van de verschillende terreurgroepen en precies dat verwijt men nu de mensen die het lef hadden om tegen de stroom in de werkelijke aard van de White Helmets bloot te leggen en te openbaar te maken op het internet, een schande van jewelste........ Men durft zelfs te stellen dat er voor Le Mesurier geen plek was om zich te verstoppen op het internet..... (je zou je bijna doodlachen, wat een kul!)

Le Mesurier maakte gewoon deel uit van de VS oorlogsmachine die Assad zo snel mogelijk weg wilde hebben en zijn zogenaamde humanitaire White Helmets hebben zich aantoonbaar schuldig gemaakt aan een groot aantal geweldplegingen, het fabriceren van valse video's die het geweld van het Syrische bewind en de Russen moesten aantonen (een aantal van deze video's werden zelfs in Egypte en Turkije in elkaar gezet.....).....

Jammer genoeg is deze gang van zaken de gehele westerse reguliere media aan te rekenen, met grote agressie in de berichtgeving lepelt men met grote graagte de leugens op die de White Helmets, terreurgroepen en het Syrische Observatorium voor Mensenrechten (SOHR) naar buiten brachten (SOHR is een organisatie van een gewezen ordinaire misdadiger die op zogenaamd politieke gronden asiel kreeg in Groot-Brittannië, deze schoft bericht vooral wat terreurgroepen in Syrië hem voorschotelen....) In feite werken deze terreurgroepen, de White Helmets en SOHR samen om het bewind van Syrië zo zwart mogelijk te maken..... Zelfs Obama moest toegeven dat een Assad gelinkte gifgasaanval, in feite werd uitgevoerd door terreurgroepen in Syrië.... (een false flag operatie om de VS en de andere deelnemende NAVO-lidstaten te verleiden een aanval op het reguliere Syrische leger uit te voeren......

Nu is men dus zover dat men zelfs een suïcide van een gevaarlijke man, want dat was Le Mesurier wel degelijk, in de schoenen te schuiven van mensen die leugens doorprikken en wel eerlijk berichtten en berichten over de oorlog in Syrië..... 

Onlangs is een nieuwe westerse propaganda-oorlog gestart tegen het Syrische bewind, daar dit bewind terecht de provincie Idlib wil veiligstellen van de vele terroristen die zich daar ophouden en de aanval hebben geopend op de terreurgroepen waar deze terroristen deel van uitmaken, terroristen die in de reguliere westerse media 'rebellen' worden genoemd..... Zelfs de VN neemt deel aan de beschuldigingen dat het Syrische bewind burgers in gevaar brengt, terwijl een groot deel van de mensen in die provincie bestaan uit IS leden en leden van andere terreurgroepen, plus de aanhang van deze terroristen... Bovendien hoor je die westerse media niet over de gruwelen die deze terroristen uitoefenen op de gewone bevolking van Idlib, zoals ze dit vanaf het begin van de ellende daar niet hebben gedaan......

Lees het volgende artikel van Johnstone waar ze dieper op de beschuldigingen van PBS ingaat en zegt het voort, bijna dagelijks brengt zelfs de zogenaamde onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde NOS leugens over de strijd in Syrië, zoals deze zendgemachtigde dat vanaf het begin van de ellende in Syrië heeft gedaan, ellende die werd georganiseerd en geregisseerd door de CIA, zoals deze terreurorganisatie ook in Iran de boel opstookt en dat laatste heeft de VS zelfs toegegeven!!  

Narrative Managers Claim White Helmets Founder Was Driven To Suicide By Syria Skeptics

by Caitlin Johnstone

Imperialist spinmeisters are trial-ballooning a new Syria narrative that is so breathtakingly stupid that it needs its own article solely for the purpose of mockery.

On Christmas Eve PBS aired a bizarre segment on the death of James Le Mesurier, the former military intelligence officer who founded the extremely shady propaganda construct known as the White Helmets. The segment makes relentless, ham-fisted appeals to emotion, even attempting to associate the White Helmets with Armistice Day using wistful camera pans over poppy flowers and misty war memorial art exhibits, but by far the most yogurt-brained part is its repeated suggestions that Le Mesurier killed himself because people had been accusing him of being a propagandist.

"And now a story of a humanitarian trying to help Syria: the suspicious death in Turkey last month of James Le Mesurier, the co-founder of the White Helmets rescue organization in Syria," opens PBS News Hour's Judy Woodruff. "Friends and colleagues fear that he may have been murdered or driven to suicide by a campaign of character assassination."

"Whatever the cause, Le Mesurier was a victim of a very modern war," the special's narrator solemnly intones. "There is no hiding place in cyberspace. Le Mesurier was at the epicenter of a propaganda war, and his friends are appalled at what they regard as a campaign of character assassination."

"The amount of abuse, the amount of ill-placed propaganda, disinformation that's on social media and the Internet coming out of Russian bots and Syria, Syrian regime, and others was unbearable," Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon mourns.

This ridiculous narrative was picked up and run with by Syria narrative managers on Twitter.

"On lethal disinformation— a thread," tweeted virulent Syria narrative manager Idrees Ahmad. "This is a disturbing report by Malcolm Brabant on the lethal consequences of conspiracism. It shows how slander and disinformation may have pushed James Le Mesurier, one of the finest humanitarians, to his death. The report highlights the pernicious lies issuing from the self-described 'Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media', which is a small group of academics, none specialising in Syria or the Middle East, in alliance with a group of pro-Kremlin trolls like Vanessa Beeley et al."

It is true that both Beeley and the Working Group on Syria (WG), Propaganda and Media have accused Le Mesurier of running a propaganda operation on behalf of western governments using western government funding. But if Ahmad truly believed that accusing people of conducting propaganda caused them to kill themselves, he should turn himself in for attempted murder, because he accuses people of being propagandists constantly.

Here's a link to Ahmad calling journalist Max Blumenthal a "propagandist for Maduro". Here's a link to Ahmad calling Beeley a "pro-regime propagandist". Here's a link to Ahmad calling award-winning journalist Jonathan Steele "a fabricator and a propagandist". Here's a link to Ahmad calling CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou "a propagandist for Putin".

Talk about "lethal disinformation", Idrees.

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz

Alexander "I'm so far left I agree with Mike Pompeo on every foreign policy issue" Reid Ross also assures us that questioning establishment Syria narratives definitely kills people. https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1210627624592003075 …

 

Alexander Reid Ross @areidross

this is so incredibly sad. i can attest to the emotional toll the harassment takes, and would add that it's not just the conspiracy theorists but the systems in which they thrive—namely this here site, twitter dot com, set up by a big Tulsi funder.https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mysterious-death-of-white-helmets-co-founder-spotlights-toxic-propaganda …

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2:22 AM - Dec 29, 2019

But of course, no one really believes that accusations of conducting propaganda actually drive people to suicide. If they did, people like me would have thrown ourselves off a building years ago.

I am accused of being a propagandist nearly every day. At the height of Russiagate hysteria it happened many times a day in my blog post comments and social media notifications. Depending on what's in the news and how I've responded to it I've been accused of writing paid propaganda for the Kremlin, Assad, the Iranian government, Palestinians, Pyongyang, Beijing, Maduro, the alt-right, George Soros, and WikiLeaks, just off the top of my head.

Every anti-imperialist, anti-interventionist, and antiwar activist with any kind of platform has had this experience. Ever since the new McCarthyism of establishment-driven Russia hysteria took off, accusing people who question imperialist narratives of conducting psyops for foreign governments has become the norm in political discourse. It's created an extremely hostile and vitriolic environment in which productive conversations are vanishingly rare.

Where's our PBS special? Does anyone care? Is there any compassion from these hand-wringing establishment loyalists for the fact that Vanessa Beeley and the members of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media are hounded day in and day out by establishment narrative managers and their brainwashed followers with accusations of spreading propaganda, supporting genocide, and embracing war crimes? I know I've never had a garment-rending Idrees Ahmad thread written about concerns for my psychological well being, and I've been targeted by multiple online harassment campaigns over the years.

The amount of hateful vitriol that gets leveled at people for simply opposing imperialism, for wanting peace, is truly astonishing. Just for saying "Hey here are some reasons we should maybe reconsider toppling yet another government in yet another Middle Eastern nation" will bring in complete strangers calling you all sorts of names, calling you disgusting, calling you evil, calling you a monster. For supporting peace.

There are all kinds of people in the world who are very deserving of harsh words. Powerful exploiters, oppressors and manipulators. People who destroy the environment for profit. People who get rich selling weapons of war while paying politicians and think tanks to advance the cause of war. War criminals who've never faced justice. With all those people in the world who we can all agree are terrible, you wouldn't think peace activists should feature anywhere near the top of anyone's list. But they do. Because war propaganda is just that influential.

And, of course, nobody cares. None of these narrative managers care about what psychological burden they might be placing on people by assuring their audiences that it's perfectly sane and normal to hound and harass anyone who questions imperialist propaganda. Their concern is not and has never been about anyone's psychological health. Their concern is in managing narratives in a way that favors the US-centralized empire that they serve.

I do not know what caused Le Mesurier's death; to be in any way confident that a known spook committed suicide at all, or was murdered by Russians, is absurd. Maybe he killed himself because he failed to listen to the adage "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."

What I absolutely do know, with absolute certainty, is that only idiots believe that skepticism about western regime change agendas in the Middle East kills people.

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 *  Zeker als je bedenkt dat Le Mesurier dondersgoed wist wat een samerige organisatie hij op poten heeft gezet, met de opzet om propaganda tegen de regering Assad te maken in een poging om het westen tot ingrijpen te verleiden..... Het is zelfs heel goed denkbaar dat Le Mesurier heeft gezien waartoe zijn acties hebben geleid: false flag operaties waarbij een groot aantal burgers om zijn gekomen en hij zich daarom het leven heeft genomen.........

** Dezelfde VS heeft de gewelddadige opstand in Syrië georganiseerd en geregisseerd, met de voorbereiding daarvan was deze terreurentiteit al bezig vanaf 2006..... Mede samenzweerders hierin zijn o.a. Groot-Brittannie, Egypte en Saoedi-Arabië....... Zie o.a.: 'VS heeft opstand en daarmee de oorlog in Syrië georganiseerd, zo toont WikiLeaks ten overvloede nog eens aan.......'  
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Wat betreft de White Helmets zie: 
'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...........'

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

'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'

'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....)

'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' 

* Wat betreft de Nederlandse steun voor terreur met ons belastinggeld, zie ook:
'Blok (VVD minister BuZa) loog alweer: Nederland wist dondersgoed dat de hulp voor 'gematigde rebellen' werd gebruikt voor grootschalige terreur'

'Blok (VVD 'minister' BuZa) Nederland heeft zich met het leveren van hulp aan terreurgroepen niet schuldig gemaakt aan het stimuleren van terreur...... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'

'Stef Blok (VVD 'minister') probeert z'n handen met het bloed van Syriërs schoon te wassen >> steun aan terreurgroepen'

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

Novitsjok (novichok) uitgelegd door wetenschappers, Groot-Brittannië zit 'goed fout....'

Op deze plek heb ik een paar artikelen en berichten gebracht over de aanslag op ex-dubbelspion Skripalski en zijn dochter. Keer op keer blijkt het hele novitsjok (novichok) verhaal doorgestoken kaart om Rusland nog verder te demoniseren.

VVD volksverlakker Rutte stelde eerder nog dat hij onomstotelijk bewijs wil zien voor de Russische verantwoordelijkheid (en nee, dat had ik niet verwacht), echter een theekransje met leiders van EU landen was voldoende om z'n mening om te doen slaan, zo werd vanmorgen gemeld..... Het 'bewijs' dat Groot-Brittannie opvoert is nu wel voldoende voor het pedant onzelfstandige ventje......

Ook in het volgende artikel van Moon of Alabama op Information Clearing House, wordt het novitsjok verhaal doorgeprikt als onzin (o.a. met 'de onthulling' dat de georganiseerde misdaad in Rusland ook over dit soort gif beschikt):

Russian Scientists Explain 'Novichok' - High Time For Britain To Come Clean

By Moon Of Alabama

March 21, 2018 "Information Clearing House" -  A week ago we asked if 'Novichok' poisons are real. The answer is now in: It is 'yes' and 'no'. Several Russian scientist now say that they once researched and developed lethal poisons but they assert that other countries can and have copied these. 'Novichok', they say,  is a just western propaganda invention. They see the British accusations as a cynical plot against Russia. The people who push the 'Novichok' accusations have political and commercial interests.

The British Prime Minister Theresa May insinuated that the British-Russian double agent Sergej Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who collapsed on March 4 on a public bench in Salisbury, were affected by a 'Russian' nerve agent:

It is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia. It is part of a group of nerve agents known as Novichok.

Theresa May's claims are highly questionable. 

Maria Zakharova, spokeswomen of the Russian Foreign Ministry: "'Novichok' has never been used in the USSR or in Russia as something related to the chemical weapon research" - bigger

A highly potent nerve agent would hurt anyone who comes in contact with it. But the BBC reported that a doctor who administered first aid to the collapsed Yulia Skripal for 30 minutes was not affected at all. Another doctor, Steven Davies who heads the emergence room of the Salisbury District Hospital, wrote in a letter the London Times:

"... no patients have experienced symptoms of nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury and there have only been ever been three patients with significant poisoning."

The name 'Novichok' comes from a book written by Vil Mirzayanov, a 1990s immigrant to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union. It describe his work at Soviet chemical weapon laboratories and lists the chemical formulas of a new group of lethal substances.

AFP interviewed the author of the 'Novichok' book about the Salisbury incident:

Mirzayanov, speaking at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, said he is convinced Russia carried it out as a way of intimidating opponents of President Vladimir Putin.
...The only other possibility, he said, would be that someone used the formulas in his book to make such a weapon.

"Russia did it", says Mirzanyanov, "OR SOMEONE WHO READ MY BOOK" 

                                 
               

A 'Novichok' nerve agent plays a role in the current seasons of the British-American spy drama Strike Back which broadcasts on British TV. Theresa May might have watched this clip (vid) from the series. Is it a source of her allegations?

The Russian government rejects the British allegations and demands evidence which Britain has not provided. Russia joined the Chemical Weapon Convention in 1997. By 2017 it had destroyed all its chemical weapons and chemical weapon production facilities. Under the convention only very limited amounts of chemical weapon agents are allowed to be held in certified laboratories for defense research and testing purposes. The U.S. has such laboratories at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, the British lab is in Porton Down, a few miles from Salisbury. The Russian lab is in Shikhany in the southern Saratov Oblast. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) audits these laboratories and their declared stocks "down to the milligram level".

The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry and famous high heels folk dancer (vid) Maria Zakharova explains ina TV interview (vid, English subtitles) that 'Novichok' was not and is not the name of any Soviet or Russian program. The word was introduced in the "west" simply because it sounded Russian.

Western media claimed that Vil Miranzayanov is the developer of the 'Novichok' chemicals. It turns out that this is not the case. Interviews with two retired Russian chemists, both published only yesterday, tell the real story. The Russia news agency RIA Novostni talked with Professor Leonid Rink (machine translation):

Did you have anything to do with creating what the British authorities call the "Novice"?

- Yes. This was the basis of my doctoral dissertation.

At that time I worked in Shikhany, in the branch of GosNIIOKhT (State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, during Soviet times was engaged in the development of chemical weapons), was a leading researcher and head of the laboratory.

Professor Rink says that:

• 'Novichok' or 'novice' was never used as a program name. New Soviet formulas had alphanumeric codes.
• Several new nerve agents were developed in Shikhany in the 1970s and 80s.
• These new substances can cause immediate deadly reactions when applied to humans.
• Vil Mirzayanov was head of the chromatographer group, chemists who deals with the separation and analysis of various mixtures of substances. He was responsible for environmental control and not a developer of any new substances.
  

The Associated Press summarizes other parts of the interview with Professor Rink:

Rink told Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency Tuesday that Britain and other western nations easily could have synthesized the nerve agent after chemical expert Vil Mirzayanov emigrated to the United States and revealed the formula.

Echoing Russian government statements, Rink says it wouldn’t make sense for Moscow to poison Sergei Skripal, a military intelligence officer who spied for Britain, because he was a used asset “drained” by both Russia and Britain.

He claims Britain’s use of the name Novichok for the nerve agent is intended to convince the public that Russia is to blame.

The English-Russian magazine The Bell interviews another Russian scientists involved in the issue:

The Bell was able to find and speak with Vladimir Uglev, one of the scientists who was involved in developing the nerve agent referred to as “Novichok”. [...] Vladimir Uglev, formerly a scientist with Volsk branch of GOSNIIOKHT (“State Scientific-Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology”), which developed and tested production of new lethal substances since 1972, spoke for the first time about his work as early as the 1990s. He left the institute in 1994 and is now retired.

– The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs insists that there was no research nor development of any substance called “Novichok”, not in Russia, nor in the USSR. Is that true?

– In order to make it easier to understand the subject matter, I will not use the name “Novichok” which has is now commonly used by everyone to describe those four substances which were conditionally assigned to me to develop over a period of several years. Three of these substances are part of the “Foliant” program, which was led by Pyotr Kirpichev, a scientist with GOSNIIOKHT (State Scientific-Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology). The first substance of a new class of organophosphorous chemical agents, I will call it “A-1972”, was developed by Kirpichev in 1972. In 1976, I developed two substances: “B-1976” and “C-1976”. The fourth substance, “D-1980”, was developed by Kirpichev in the early 1980s. All of these substances fall under the group referred to as “Novichkov”, but that name wasn’t given to the substances by GOSNIIOKHT.

All four chemical agents are “FOS” or organophosphorous compounds which have a nerve paralyzing effect, but they differ in their precursors, how they were discovered and in their usage as agents of chemical warfare.

The four substances were developed by Pyotr Kirpichev and Vladimir Uglev. These substances were not readily usable by the military as they could not be safely transported and used in the field like binary chemical weapons can. Once synthesized they were extremely dangerous. Professor Leonid Rink, working later in a different group, tackled the problem but did not succeed. Uglev confirms that Vil Miranzayanov was not involved in the development at all. His group was responsible chemical analysis and for environmental control around the laboratory.

Vladimir Uglev, via The Bell - bigger

Vladimir Uglev, like Renk and Miranzayanov, notes that these agents "of a type developed by Russia" can now be produced by any sufficiently equipped laboratory, including private ones.
Uglev mentions a criminal use of one of the agents in the 1990s:

One of these substances was used to poison the banker, Ivan Kivelidi and his secretary in 1995. A cotton ball, soaked in this agent, was rubbed over the microphone in the handset of Kivelidi’s telephone. That specific dose was developed by my group, where we produced all of the chemical agents, and each dose which we developed was given its own complete physical-chemical passport. It was therefore not difficult to determine who had prepared that dose and when it was developed. Naturally, the investigators also suspected me. I was questioned several times about this incident.

Journalist Mark Ames, who worked in Moscow at that time, remarks:

This muddles the narrative a bit —"novichok" used in 1995 Moscow mafia poison hit on top mobster Ivan Kivelidi. So:
1) novichok [is] in mob hands too
2) used during reign of #1 Mobfather Boris Yeltsin, Washington's vassal

Uglev further notes that blood samples from the Salisbury victims, which Moscow demands but Britain has not handed over, can show what agent (if any) were involved and "where the specific dose was produced and by whom."

A new article in the New Scientists confirms the claims by the Russian scientists that the 'Novichok' agents which may have affected the Skripals may have been produced elsewhere:

Weapons experts have told New Scientist that a number of countries legally created small amounts of Novichok after it was revealed in 1992 and a production method was later published.

In 2016 Iranian scientists, in cooperation with the OPCW, published production and detection methods for such agents. It is likely that the various government labs secretly re-developed and produced these chemicals for their own purposes even prior to the Iranian publication.
[UPDATE] In an interview with Deutsche Welle British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson admits that Proton Down had (illegal?)  'Novichok' agents when the incident in Salisbury happened:

DW: You argue that the source of this nerve agent, Novichok, is Russia. How did you manage to find it out so quickly? Does Britain possess samples of it?

Boris Johnson: Let me be clear with you … When I look at the evidence, I mean the people from Porton Down, the laboratory …

DW: So they have the samples …

Boris Johnson: They do. And they were absolutely categorical and I asked the guy myself, I said, "Are you sure?" And he said there's no doubt.

But Porton Down did not agree with the British government to claim that the supposed nerve agent was "made by Russia." It only agreed to the compromise formulation "of a type developed by Russia" i.e. it could have been made anywhere. [End Update]

The claims by the British government that a. the Skripals were affected by a nerve agent and that b. Russia was involved in the Skripal incident because it has some exclusive access to these agents seem both baseless. Unless there is significant further evidence the British incrimination of Russia looks like a cynical plot invented for political and/or commercial purposes.

As usual in the military-industrial complex the people who push such scares, are the ones who profit from them.

The British Morning Star points to one former British military intelligence officer, Colonel (rtd) Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, as a common protagonist in the Skripal case, in the claims of Syrian chemical weapon use and in commercial interests around chemical weapon defense:

Quoted daily by multiple media outlets on the Skripal case, de Bretton-Gordon has become a very public expert, relied upon for unbiased comment and analysis by the British and foreign media on chemical weapon threats from Salisbury to Syria.

He is a former assistant director of Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Land Forces with the Ministry of Defence. Before that de Bretton-Gordon was commanding officer of Britain’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Regiment and Nato’s Rapid Reaction CBRN Battalion.

While his CBRN background is often mentioned, his military intelligence links are rarely referred to publicly.

Long before the Salisbury event, de Bretton-Gordon was urging greater government expenditure on chemical protection counter-measures and equipment.
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de Bretton-Gordon is managing director CBRN of Avon Protection Systems, based in Melksham, Wiltshire.
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In 2017, the company made £50m from its US military contracts and a further £63.3m from other “protection and defence” revenue.

The former(?) army intelligence officer is also deeply involved in the "moderate rebels" chemical weapon scams in Syria:

On April 29 2014, the [Daily Telegraph] reported that it “obtained soil samples collected from sites of chemical attacks inside Syria by Dr Ahmad — a medic whose real identity cannot be revealed for his own protection — who had previously received training in sample collection by western chemical weapons experts.

“Mr de Bretton-Gordon, a British chemical weapons expert and director of Secure Bio, a private company, was one of the trainers.”

And who carried out the tests? None other than de Bretton-Gordon himself.

The "White Helmets" propaganda group in Syria was founded and is run by the former(?) British army intelligence officer James Le Mesurier with British and U.S. government money. His former(?) colleague de Bretton-Gordon is running the parallel Syria chemical weapon scam. Both profit from their government financed operations.

Other British agents involved in the Skripal case are Pablo Miller who recruited Skripal for the MI6. He was a friend of Skripal, also lived in Salisbury and worked for Christopher Steele, the former(?) MI6 agent who produced the 'dirty dossier' about Donald Trump for the Clinton campaign. Both are involved with Russian mafia emigres in Britain like Boris Berezovski and the deceased Alexander Litvinenko who's father says that he was killed by an MI6 or CIA guy.

While the British government blamed the Russians just a week after the incident in Salisbury happened it now seems interested in delaying any further investigations. It took more than two weeks after the incident for the British government to invite the OPCW to help with the case. The head of the OPCW says it will take another three weeks for the organization to analyze the samples the British laboratory now handed over. The British police requires several months to find out what happened to the Skripals.

How could the British government be sure of "Russian" involvement within a week and even expel Russian diplomats when the primary chemical experts on the issue will need three weeks for their first analyses and the British police predicts a several months long investigation?

The Russian scientist and their government have explained their history and position in relation to 'Novichoks' and the Skripal incident. It is high time now for the British government, its scientists at Porton Down and its greedy mafia of former(?) British intelligence officer and their criminal Russian emigres to come clean about their own roles in it.

This article was originally published by "Moon of Alabama" -

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Previous Moon of Alabama reports on the Skripal case:

• March 8 - Poisioned British-Russian Double-Agent Has Links To Clinton Campaign
• March 12 - Theresa May's "45 Minutes" Moment
• March 14 - Are 'Novichok' Poisons Real? - May's Claims Fall Apart
• March 16 - The British Government's 'Novichok' Drama Was Written By Whom?
• March 18 - NHS Doctor: "No Patients Have Experienced Symptoms Of Nerve Agent Poisoning In Salisbury"
  

George Galloway' Interviews Peter Hitchens on Russia and the Salisbury Poisoning

Ex-mayor of London Ken Livingstone comments on UK-Russia scandal over Skripal case.

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