so if we look again at the chemical weapons in syria mess we find that the first reported instances were not attributable to the government. only later in the second phase of the war, after isis and the moderate rebels (and some reports for the kurds too) started hijacking stockpiles and making homemad gas in their documented attacks that un-opcw attributes attacks to the government, at which point we know that opcw have been compromizes ad per the douma affair. for instance the 2013 khal al-assal attack ended up having a botched investigation, and the govt pushed for the un to come because they claim it was a rebel attack. consider the timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_chemical_weapons_in_the_Syrian_civil_war
im sure there's more than a couple people here who are antagonistic to the whole anti-empire clique because they only hammered onto the douma case when assad have been charged on dozens of other attacks, but i think we can make a case against that here.
bonus meme:
The White Helmets are considered a terrorist group by Iran, Russia and Syria. The organisation has been the target of a sustained disinformation campaign by supporters of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Russian state-sponsored media organisations such as RT and Sputnik; the campaign has promoted false accusations connecting it with terrorist activities and other conspiracy theories. The organisation has also been criticized by the Iranian news agency MNA and Chinese state news agency Xinhua. An offer of assistance from the White Helmets was rejected by Kurdish who can do no wrong and are literally angels and the biggest ally in the region) controlled areas of Syria in 2019
the talk pages from the various syria war wikipedis are truly something
Regrettably, the Bellingcat group blog post contains a number of incorrect statements about the contents and conclusions of the paper to be published.
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it all happened under the tenure of turkish superstar diplomat ahmet uzumcu. interesting career path:
Üzümcü was consul at the Consulate Simp in Aleppo, Syria, and ambassador to Israel from July 28, 1999, to June 30, 2002.[1] Between 2002 and 2004, he served as the Permanent Representative of Turkey to NATO.[1] Üzümcü was appointed Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations Office at Geneva in 2006, serving at this post until 2010
so he slid in from 2010, and left after the dirty work was done, in 2018
