UPDATE: OPCW Confirm Leaked Report is Genuine
Kit Knightly
The leaked OPCW report appears to have been confirmed genuine.
The report, titled “Engineering Assessment of Two Cylinders Observed at Douma Incident”, came to public prominence a few days ago after The Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media released their analysis of the text.
Since then it has gotten a lot of play all across the alternate media (you can read our original report here, but there were many others too).
It has received virtually zero coverage in the mainstream media, of course. And that doesn’t appear likely to change any time soon.
The report spells out, in unambiguous language, that the two chlorine gas canisters were likely planted, rather than dropped from a helicopter.
In summary, observations at the scene of the two locations, together with subsequent analysis, suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being dropped.”
This finding adds to the pile of evidence which makes it appear very likely the whole event was staged.
The only question was whether or not the document could be confirmed genuine. And now it has been.
Peter Hitchens, for a long time the only mainstream voice to express any doubts about the “official narrative” on Douma, wrote to the OPCW to ask about the leaked report.
He wrote a column about it. We suggest you read it, but the most important passage, taken directly from an OPCW statement, is this:
Pursuant to its established policies and practices, the OPCW Technical Secretariat is conducting an internal investigation about the unauthorised release of the document in question.
Note the language. Nowhere is it disputing either the findings of the document, nor the veracity. Instead, they are “conducting an investigation” into its “unauthorised release”.
That is as close to an admission as makes no difference. For now, we can safely conclude the document is real, and the findings genuine.
That means, not only that the Douma “chemical attack” was likely staged, but that the OPCW knew this and chose to cover it up.
A very distressing series of events, and one that could easily have lead to an all-out war between Syria, Russia and NATO.
We welcome the OPCW’s admission that this document is genuine. However, we would suggest the question is not “How was it leaked?”, but rather “Why was it suppressed in the first place?”
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We all knew that OPCW was compromised by the US/EU/NATO Soviet collective. After all, who would be prepared to risk their career, reputation, their home and family safety to reveal the actual truth about Douma and how the FUKUS risked WW3 using “evidence” produced by the Al-Queda head choppers, the very same ilk that murdered 3000 on 9/11, 50+ on 7/7 in London and thousands more worldwide? The FUKUS bombed on Al-Queda “evidence”. This is truly astonishing.
I am now concerned for the safety and well being of the brave OPCW insider who leaked the Henderson report.
The complicity of our leaders and media must be exposed. Do the elite really think they would be safe while hiding in their nuclear shelters? Or are they happy just to lie for the elite and collect their fat salaries and risk the slide to WW3?
This is a rerun.
A previous attempt to provoke further attacks on Syria by way of a false flag – bomb
demolition scenario was itself neatly demolished by Patrick Armstrong
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2016/09/26/bellingcat-proves-the-russians-didnt-do-it/
The OPCW seems to have adopted the Bell End/ Bellingcat approach to evidence. Ask what predetermined conclusion your backers and paymasters want, then look for anything to support that, no matter how dodgy the content and its provenance. Don’t bother visiting the scene, just accept without question anything provided through the Neocohens’ pet proxy head choppers and throat slitters. If you tried to convict someone of stealing a bicycle using that approach, you’d get laughed out of court.
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Given the current draconian atmosphere surrounding whistleblowing a la Assange and Manning to name but a few, I have nothing but the deepest admiration for the OPCW employee who made this ‘unauthorised release’ possible.
Given the fact the NATO war machine could have very easily used the original OPCW Report as a pretext for the invasion and destruction of Syria, the importance of this new information cannot be overestimated.
Clearly, like the former head of the OPCW Jose Bustani who stood up to the threats made to his family by that psychopath John Bolton, there are no doubt many OPCW expert employees who diligently seek the truth, only to find their research and findings surpressed and/or misrepresented.
As the great social critic/comedian Mort Sahl once memorably wrote in his 1976 autobiography Heartland: “How many lies do you have to believe before you become part of the lie?”
Clearly this anonymous whistle-blower refused to become part of the lie and I just hope s/he and any collaborators at the OPCW have covered their tracks well enough not to be discovered (and/or there are so many employees who knew the truth and were unhappy with the barrel bomb deception that it is impossible to single one person out.)
https://www.voltairenet.org/article206340.html
Macron and the plans long laid down for the little island and Notre-Dame
https://russia-insider.com/en/node/27042
An article on the incredible concentration of wealth in the US. Three organisations control 80% of all S&P 1500 companies.
http://www.passportmagazine.ru/article/2495/
In defence of Putin. An article written in 2012.
Interesting article in that it lays the blame for Russia’s post-communist ills not at the feet of Yeltsin but of Gorbachev – something I’ve not seen before and find hard to believe in the bald terms stated.
Novichok has been such a fantastic success it surely will magically reappear again but with a laden twist and a pike thrown in. Iran and the OPCW jointly developed likely binary nerve agents which have become described as in 2016 in order to develop remedies and treatment protocols for same. Given Iranian suffering at the chemical weapon hands of Iraq in the 1980’s one can understand why Iran would partner with the global chemical watchdog in such an undertaking. However, if one thinks about things a wee bit one might come to the conclusion that a force acting within the OPCW arranged for Iran to have such an opportunity for the express purpose of fitting the Iranians up in the not too distant future in a false flag chemical weapons attack with an agent if not identical then very close to samples generated in the OPCW-Iran collaboration.
Slightly off topic…
I have long supported Mozilla ( and OffG ) as and independent and impartial organisation
with an opensource browser (FireFox)
However this turned up on my inbox
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/mozilla/FMfcgxwCgVbNVCfXtLwJwcCfdWHvQnWL
Its a RahRah article by Jon Lloyd Head of European Campaigns, Mozilla Foundation
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Hey David,
Two weeks ago I loaded a giant thank you card onto the Tube in central London to deliver a message of thanks to the Guardian newspaper, on behalf of 27,000 of you. The Guardian is preventing misinformation by adding more context to news articles when they are shared on social media, so we decided to say “thank you” in a really big way.
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Given the detailed and unrefuted analysis by Tim Hayward on the machinations of the Integrity Initiative
[“PROFIT BEFORE PEOPLE”]
https://timhayward.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/integrity-grasping-the-initiative/
this seems a betrayal of all that mozilla [ “PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT “] stands for.
Certainly it made me feel physically sick
Jon Lloyd is a kiwi with a commerce degree from Auckland, and a background in fundraising for
“good causes’; no noticeable awareness of the march of totalitarianism.
I’ m writing to Mozilla Head Office saying I can no longer support them, with reasons why
and to Tim Hayward FUI.
Maybe we could start a petition to Mozilla advising of the Guardians efforts at misinformation??
Mozilla joined in the enable spyware game years ago when they were completely OK with NSA pressure on the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to weaken encryption on AES & DES which (more AES than DES now) are used as the base of the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption which Mozilla uses to secure its browser.
IIRC it was Snowden who first drew attention to the flaw on about 99% of the population’s internet security.
The sleazy NYT wrote an article on it a coupla years back (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-reveal-nsa-campaign-against-encryption.html?_r=0) which IMO means US penetration of the net is prolly even more invasive and basic than these likely outdated methods.
One thing is for sure Mozilla will never tell us cos they are right on board with the empire and like Netscape before ’em, are faux resisters.
I use a browser called Pale Moon, it seems to be based in Russia but it uses the firefox engine. I don’t use it because I believe it to be more secure than firefox, but as a way of not patronising out and out arseholes. I don’t believe there is a truly secure browser anywhere, but I do believe the middle aged x86 windows VM I run in conjunction with a version of PGP I compiled myself is as good as I can get it, nevertheless it is same as it always was, the only way to send a guaranteed secure message is to cup your hands around your mouth while you quietly whisper into the recipient’s ear.
Nevertheless Mozilla have deliberately set out to try and fool all the people all the time with their dinky padlock & key icons, their talk of ‘safe’ encryption and shouldn’t be given the time of day much less hard earned dollars.
Thanks for the update and technical advice. Appreciated 🙂
But is does seem to be that Mozilla IS telling us they are right on board with the empire,
as evidenced by Jon Lloyd of Mozilla and his 27,000 signature thank you’s to the Guardian
“IIRC it was Snowden who first drew attention to the flaw on about 99% of the population’s internet security.”
Snowden absconded with a load of ungainsayable evidence detailing the presence of the NSA’s grubby fingers in a lot of unhygenic pies but it was the remarkable Moxie Marlinspike, now of the Signal Foundation (publishers of the Signal messaging app), who first conclusively demonstrated the significant technical holes in the SSL encryption system.
The Guardian is preventing misinformation? Are we now inhabiting a parallel universe? Am almost incredulous at how they believe their own dogpoo.
The Mozilla Foundation’s integrity does not need an initiative to be of questionable independence from the wrong quarters.
Rinse ,Lather ,Repeat.
Just look at the repeated lies by the legacy media and the western officials on Iran, Venezuela and Russia to date. Everything that they have been saying about these countries has been debunked multiple times. But hell why stand in the way of a good yarn to justify ones crimes against humanity.
Nuremberg 2 anyone ???????
Of course there’s been a cover up. Of course there’s been silence from the Empire’s stenographer slime. Of course the only ones reporting this are quality independent news sites. This is our brave new world. This is George Orwell territory. To report this would destroy the narrative that these creatures have relentlessly pumped out to the gullible masses about Syria. And don’t even get me started on the odious White Helmets.
I had an amusing past encounter with the OPCW. On 19 April 2017, during the investigation of the Khan Sheikoun incident, the Director General of the OPCW made a high-profile public announcement (prominently reported throughout the Western media) claiming that the evidence that the victims had been exposed to Sarin gas was “incontrovertible”.
I wrote to the OPCW asking how they could be sure of the chain of custody of the evidence, given that no one from the OPCW had been anywhere near the site.
I received a reply from “Magdalena”, a pompous representative of the Public Affairs Directorate, snootily informing me that “the OPCW does not comment on ongoing investigations”.
I wrote back to her as politely as I could, pointing out that my question had been triggered by a widely-reported announcement on the part of the Director General, which was prominently displayed on their website, on the subject of the “ongoing investigation”.
She wrote back to me and told me that she was sorry, but the OPCW could be of no further assistance…
I’ve just been through the extracts of the final published OPCW report which Peter Hitchens quotes on his blog, comparing the wording to the suppressed FFM technical report. I was trying to see if the content of the technical report had simply been carefully edited by the main OPCW in order to arrive at false conclusions or whether the deception went much further. It was only on doing this that I truly appreciated the minute detail that the technical report goes into, based on an extensive range of expert evaluations and reconstructions.
Other than summarising very simplistically the investigation team’s M.O, the final OPCW report says the complete opposite of the investigation team’s report. The latter is categorical throughout in demonstrating that in every respect the damage to the cylinders and their surroundings is entirely inconsistent with the narrative that they had been dropped from a helicopter above. On this basis their conclusion is confidently emphatic and not based on a ‘balance of probabilities’. So the OPCW could not even contend that the investigation team had only been able to provide alternative possible scenarios and that they’d selected the one that was consistent with other evidence available to them.
The only conclusion I can draw from this, therefore, is that someone within the ‘command level’ of the OPCW has consciously gone to great lengths to completely ignore the expense and time expended by the investigation team in their endeavours to investigate and report, in order to provide a final report containing entirely false information and not just be selective about what they chose to publish.
The OPCW’s new blame squad, the Investigation and Identification Team or IIT is due to become active next month.
Syria will no doubt be their first target.
The OPCW covered it up? Of course they did, if they don’t do as their told, they get a phone call from John Bolton to tell them they know where their kids are. This is how the US does business. John Bolton personally threatened Jose Bustani, the first director-general of the global chemical weapons watchdog Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) over his refusal to lie about Iraq’s WMD’s.
“diplomatic efforts and peacemaking did not sit well with Washington, because “they had plans already to take some action – military action – against Iraq,” Bustani claims. Shortly afterwards, the Bush administration began to aggressively lobby for his removal, and it became “a tragic story” for him, he said.”
“I got a phone call from John Bolton – it was first time I had contact with him – and he said he had instructions to tell me that I have to resign from the organization, and I asked him why,” Bustani told RT. “He said that [my] management style was not agreeable to Washington.”
“He resolutely refused to resign, only to see Bolton again at OPCW headquarters in The Hague several weeks after the phone conversation. “He came to my office and said: ‘You have to resign and I give you 24 hours, this is what we want. You have to leave, you have to resign from your organization, director-general.’
“Bustani said he “owed nothing” to the US, pointing out that he was appointed by all OPCW member states. Striking a more sinister tone, Bolton said: “OK, so there will be retaliation. Prepare to accept the consequences. We know where your kids are.”
According to Bustani, two of his children were in New York at the time, and his daughter was in London. He told Bolton: “My family is aware of what’s going on, so [they’re] prepared to face consequences.” The reply shocked Bolton, who then left the office.
On April 21, 2002, a special meeting was finally held in The Hague, and Bustani’s removal was carried out by a vote of 48–7, with 43 abstentions. The diplomat said those who abstained were from developing countries, and that his own government in Brazil “left me behind.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/423477-bolton-threat-opcw-iraq/
THESE PEOPLE ARE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF CUNTS. WE NEED TO GET RID OF THESE CUNTS, THEY ARE DESTROYING OUR BEAUTIFUL WORLD
“THESE PEOPLE ARE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF CUNTS.”
Correction: KUNTS (from KONTEN – Afrikaans and Dutch plural of KONT: vulgar: persons or a person of all the negative attributes intended).
— David Ditchburn, brother of Christina Gascoigne (wife of Bamber Gascoigne) and husband of Junie Morosi (Principal Private Secretary to and unofficial shadow of Jim Cairns, a Deputy Prime Minister in the Australian Labor Party’s Whitlam Government).
Pleased to be of lexical assistance.
Once upon a time,
we had Empires ruled by Emperors.
Then came kingdoms ruled by Kings.
Today, we have countries, ruled by …
Pleased to be of objective assistance 😉
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Peter Hitchens has acted as a professional journalist should. He should be respected for that.
All the OPCW have done is accept that it was theirs, by simply stating that they are investigating its unauthorised release. They make no claim that it was taken into consideration in the final version of their investigation.
Any half baked spin doctor could acknowledge it was an OPCW original, but ‘on further investigation, after receiving more detailed evidence was revised/rejected/ couldn’t be confirmed/ blah, blah,…..’ What if that scenario turns out to be true?
They do seem to be on the back foot now though, so come on Kit, ask the OPCW, “was this the final version of the report, or not.” This story is not finished on the slab yet.
I’m just an anonymous poster on a blog site, they wouldn’t respond to me… _
I’m delighted that Hitchens has managed to extract from the OPCW a much clearer acknowledgement that the report is theirs and genuine. (I managed to get myself censored on the previous thread for trying to support your position – maybe Peter Hitchens read my post 😉 )
We don’t censor people, not even for gross pedantry or flagrant concern-trolling. Your comment was dropped in the spam folder, but has now been rescued.
You’re welcome
Lighten up guys. I think you’re being unreasonable accusing DiggerUK of concern-trolling and me of pedantry. (S)he raised a valid point and I am delighted it has now been dealt with in a much more unequivocal manner.
I am very pleased to know that you don’t censor comments as it would be very disappointing if a site that was set up by people fed up with being censored on CiF was to do the same thing themselves. However for future reference I would appreciate knowing why my comments found themselves in the spam folder. I post from China and often have to go though a VPN, but none of my previous comments have ever disappeared. Was it because I posted too many comments too quickly?
If there is to be any justice for the Syrian government, someone (but who?) must confront our ‘esteemed’ parliamentary representatives and mainstream media about this report. Surely, with all the recent hypocritical bleating from the latter about the need for freedom of information in the public interest, none of them can now have the audacity to condemn this leak. And, as @crank below says, the implications are manifold; not least that the report proves in no uncertain terms that the sources of evidence that the msm and our parliamentarians have been relying on in Syria are repugnant and disreputable.
Unfortunately, playing devil’s advocate, the OPCW will probably now say that they didn’t release the report because they didn’t trust that the evidence collected necessarily reflected the investigation team’s conclusions. If my suspicion proves to be correct, I would like to believe that such an excuse can be ripped to shreds by more leaked information. We can only hope that the need for this has already been anticipated and is being worked on.
Peter Hitchens I think has covered and studied the reports of all the Syrian staged events. He writes particularly about the Khan Sheikhoun incident and his concerns about the lack of chain of custody of the evidence (inspectors did not visit the site and relied on Al Qaeda as the main source of evidence)
It might be useful to keep an eye on his Sunday Mail blog. I expect in light of this, he may have a lot more to say about these events in the near future. This is truly shocking – yes we all knew or suspected it, but having the confirmation really does hit home the scale of evil which has taken over – from governments who most likely had advance knowledge of this, the media – promoting this lie amounting to collusion with mass murder and risking an escalation – to the OPCW – which looks like collusion to cover up mass murder.
In the meantime, to keep the momentum going there needs to be journalists who still have some integrity to swallow their pride and admit they have got things terribly wrong. If they don’t come forward soon, it may be too late to avoid a re-occurrence in Idlib and quite possibly a very unhappy ending for all concerned. Bolton has his sights on Iran – how many more wars do they need to start before the penny drops with the wider public? It really is stuff an 8 year old could work out given half an hour of research.
“It really is stuff an 8 year old could work out given half an hour of research”
Yes, Loverat, precisely. Unfortunately, from reading public comments on msm and from conversations with my own acquaintances, I have come to the conclusion that the majority of the wider public have the analytical faculties of 7 year olds (maximum) and non-existent moral judgement capabilities.
I think the coverage in the independent media has been surprisingly mute to be honest.
The depth of the implications of this are too obvious to re-state.
In a way reminiscent of other ‘deep events’ of the past, it may be just too consequential for many of the still mentally corralled people to get their heads around, whilst for the ‘red pilled’ it evokes the opposite sentiment of “well, of course the OPCW are complicit in the fakery, that much was obvious – they had to be”.
Thanks Kit. I’ve been following this story since Piers Robinson and OPS broke it. That Mail columnist Peter Hitchens is the only mainstream journalist to cover it is to his credit – and the shame of ‘liberal’ media – but consistent with recent history. Just as American Conservative has challenged dominant but mendacious narratives, most recently on Assange, Hitchens is a much needed lone wolf in the sheep pack into which MSM have degenerated.