US ‘Deliberately Ignores’ OPCW Report Noting Douma Chemical Attack Was Staged

• US ‘Deliberately Ignores’ OPCW Report Noting Douma Chemical Attack Was Staged
  by https://sputniknews.com/
  Recent remarks made by the US State Department regarding Syria’s alleged intention to renew its use of chemical weapons show the agency is deliberately ignoring a report from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that stated last year’s chemical attack in Douma was staged, former UK Ambassador to Syria Peter Ford told Sputnik.
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  “The May 19 alleged attack in northwest Syria is part of a violent campaign by the Assad regime that violates a ceasefire that has protected several million civilians in the greater Idlib area,” the US State Department wrote in its press release Tuesday, referring to recent alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria. The release also adds that “the facts are clear” and that “the Assad regime itself has conducted almost all verified chemical weapons attacks that have taken place in Syria — a conclusion the United Nations has reached over and over again.”
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  ​In addition, the US and its allies continue to claim that the Syrian government is responsible for a series of chemical attacks, particularly one in Syria’s Douma on April 7, 2018, blatantly ignoring evidence that exonerates Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
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