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OPCW Investigator Testifies at UN that No Chemical Attack Took Place in Douma, Syria

by mosesman
  • Video of the UN Security Council session on the OPCW’s Douma report.
    Ian Henderson’s testimony begins at 57:30 in this official UN video.
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  • OPCW Investigator Testifies at UN that No Chemical Attack Took Place in Douma, Syria
    by Ben Norton, https://thegrayzone.com/
    In testimony before the United Nations Security Council, former OPCW inspection team leader and engineering expert Ian Henderson stated that their investigation in Douma, Syria suggested no chemical attack took place. But their findings were suppressed.
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    A former lead investigator from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has spoken out at the United Nations, stating in no uncertain terms that the scientific evidence suggests there was no gas attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018.
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    The dissenter, Ian Henderson, worked for 12 years at the international watchdog organization, serving as an inspection team leader and engineering expert. Among his most consequential jobs was assisting the international body’s fact-finding mission (FFM) on the ground in Douma.
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    He told a UN Security Council session convened on January 20 by Russia’s delegation that OPCW management had rejected his group’s scientific research, dismissed the team, and produced another report that totally contradicted their initial findings. “We had serious misgivings that a chemical attack had occurred,” Henderson said, referring to the FFM team in Douma.
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    The former OPCW inspector added that he had compiled evidence through months of research that “provided further support for the view that there had not been a chemical attack.”
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