The Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded in March that
chlorine was most likely used in the suspected April 2018 attack on the
city of Douma, which lies on the northeastern outskirts of the Syrian
capital.
Three
countries - the United States, the United Kingdom and France - carried
out airstrikes against Syrian government targets, justifying their
assault by claiming that the chemical weapons were allegedly used by the
Syrian Army.Wikileaks revealed that the OPCW's redacted version of the so-called fact-finding report on Douma's events had been intentionally doctored, misrepresenting the facts that the investigation team found on the ground in Syria after Western powers have attacked Syria.
According to the whistleblower organization, citing an e-mail sent by a member of an OPCW fact-finding mission to Syria to his superiors, this misrepresentation was achieved by selective omission, introducing a bias which undermines the credibility of the report....
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