Something is Not Adding Up In Idlib Chemical
Weapons Attack
By Paul
Antonopoulos
April
04, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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“At
least 58 people were killed in an alleged
horrific gas attack in the Idlib Governorate
this morning“. However, even before
investigations could be conducted and for
evidence to emerge, Federica Mogherini,
the Italian politician High Representative of
the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and
Security Policy, condemned the Syrian government
stating that
the “Assad regime
bears responsibility for ‘awful’ Syria
‘chemical’ attack.”
The
immediate accusation from a high ranking EU
official serves as a dangerous precedent where
public outcry can be made even before the truth
surrounding the tragedy can emerge
Merely
hours after the alleged chemical weapons attack
in Khan Sheikhun, supposedly by the Syrian
government, holes are beginning to emerge from
opposition sources, discrediting the Al-Qaeda
affiliated White Helmets claims.
For
one, seen in the above picture, the White
Helmets are handling the corpses of people
without sufficient safety gear, most
particularly with the masks mostly used , as
well as no gloves. Although this may seem
insignificant, understanding the nature of sarin
gas that the opposition claim was used, only
opens questions.
Within
seconds of exposure to sarin, the affects of the
gas begins to target the muscle and nervous
system. There is an almost immediate release of
the bowels and the bladder, and vomiting is
induced. When sarin is used in a concentrated
area, it has the likelihood of killing thousands
of people. Yet, such a dangerous gas, and the
White Helmets are treating bodies with little
concern to their exposed skin. This has to raise
questions.
It also
raises the question why a doctor in a hospital
full of victims of sarin gas has the time to
tweet and make video calls. This will probably
be dismissed and forgotten however.
It is also worth
mentioning that Dr Shajul Islam has been struck
off the medical register in the UK.
It is known that about 250 people from
Majdal and Khattab were kidnapped by
Al-Qaeda terrorists last week. Local
sources have claimed that many of those dead
from the chemical weapons were those from
Majdal and Khattab. This would
suggest that on the eve of upcoming peace
negotiations, terrorist forces have once
again created a false flag scenario. This
bears resemblance to the Ghouta chemical
weapons attack in August 2013 where the
Syrian Army was accused of using the weapons
of mass destruction on the day that United
Nations Weapon’s Inspectors arrived in
Damascus.
Later, Carla del Ponte, a UN weapons
inspector said that there was no evidence
that the government had committed the
atrocity. This had however not stopped the
calls for intervention against the Syrian
government, a hope that the militant forces
wished to eventuate from their use of
chemical weapons against civilians in Ghouta.
Therefore, it is completely unsurprising
that Orient TV has already prepared a “media
campaign” to cover the Russian and Syrian
airstrikes in neighbouring Hama countryside
against terrorist forces, with the
allegations that the airforces have been
using chemical weapons. And most telling,
their announcement of covering the use of
chemical weapons by the Syrian government,
hours before this allegation even
emerged…….. Seems like someone forgot to
tell him that it would not occur for a few
more hours before his tweet.
Orient TV reporter : "tomorrow we are launching a media campaign to cover the airstrikes on Hama country side including the usage of CW"
pic.twitter.com/tZ5SWdnHp7
Meanwhile, pick up trucks have been
photographed around bodies of those killed.
Again, it must be questioned why there are
people around sarin gas without any
protective gear, and not affected at all
when it can begin attacking the body within
seconds? Also, the pick up trucks remain
consistent to what local sources have
said were used to transport many of the
victims identified as kidnapped by Al-Qaeda
terrorists from pro-government towns in
rural Hama.
Also, what is
brought into question is where the location
of the hose is coming from in the below
picture, a dugout carved into the rock. This
also suggests that the location is at a
White Helmets base where there are dug out
hiding spots carved into the mountainside
and where they have easy access to
equipment, as highlighted by Twitter user
Ian Grant.
The army “has
not and does not use them, not in the past
and not in the future, because it does not
have them in the first place,” a
military source said.
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And
this of course begs the question. With the
Syrian Army and its allies in a comfortable
position in Syria, making advances across
the country, and recovering lost points in
rural Hama, why would they now resort to
using chemical weapons in Nusra Front
occupied Idlib? It is a very simple question
with no clear answer. It defies any logic
that on the eve of a Syria conference in
Brussels and a week before peace
negotiations are to resume, that the Syrian
government would blatantly use the
non-existent stock of chemical weapons.
All
evidence suggests this is another false
chemical attack allegation made against the
government as seen in the Ghouta 2013 attack
where the terrorist groups hoped that former
President Obama’s “red-line” would be
crossed leading to US-intervention in Syria
against the government.
Most telling
however, is that most recent report shows
that the government does not deny striking
Khan Sheikhun. Al-Masdar’s
Yusha Yuseef was informed by the Syrian Army that
the air force targeted a missile factory in
Khan Sheikoun, using a Russian-manufactured
Su-22 fighter jet to carry out the
attack. Most importantly, the Su-22’s bombs
are unique and cannot be filled with any
chemical substances, which is different to
the bombs dropped from attack helicopters.
Yuseef was then told that the Syrian Air
Force did not know if there were any
chemical substances being stored inside the
missile factory in Khan Sheikhoun. It
remains to be known whether there actually
were chemicals in the missile factory
targeted by the airstrikes, or whether the
terrorist forces used gas on the kidnapped
civilians from the pro-government towns and
brought them in the lorry trucks to the site
of the airstrikes. Whether they were gassed
by the militant forces, or the airstrikes
caused a terrorist controlled chemical
weapon factory to explode, the gruesome
deaths of children, seen foaming in the
mouth because of the gas, lays in the hands
of the terrorists.
Therefore, it becomes evident that the area
targeted was definitely a terrorist
location, where it is known that the White
Helmets share operation rooms with terrorist
forces like Al-Qaeda as seen after the
liberation of eastern Aleppo. Civilians and
fighting forces, including Kurdish militias,
have all claimed that militant groups that
operate in Idlib, Hama and Aleppo
countrysides, have used chemical weapons in
the past.
Therefore, before the war cries begin and
the denouncement of the government from high
officials in power positions begin, time
must be given so that all evidence can
emerge. However, this is an important factor
that has never existed in the Syrian War,
and the terrorist forces continue to hope
that Western-intervention against the
government will occur, at the cost of the
lives of innocent civilians.
Paul Antonopoulos, Deputy-Editor at Al-Masdar
News, Lecturer at Charles Sturt
University and Researcher at Western
Sydney University. MA in International
Relations. You can follow on Twitter:
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See
also
Dozens killed in
suspected gas attack on Syrian rebel area:
An alleged Syrian government chemical attack
killed at least 58 people, including 11
children, in the northwestern province of Idlib
on Tuesday, a pro-rebel monitor, medics and
rescue workers in the rebel-held area said.
Lest we
forget:
Seymour
M. Hersh: Whose sarin?
The U.S. intelligence agencies produced evidence
that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group
affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the
mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of
manufacturing it in quantity.
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