NPR's Lazy Chemical Weapons Propaganda to Justify al Qaeda Killing Him

by Scott Creighton (H/T T)

NPR has published a ridiculous piece of propaganda bringing up the old April 2018 supposed chemical weapon attack reportedly carried out by Assad forces on the 'rebel' (al Qaeda) controlled area of the city.

In it they cite a March 2024 UN report saying:

Then former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime crumbled and so did his government's lies.

Among the most brazen? That his forces never dropped chemical weapons on Syrian civilians despite the UN finding he did so repeatedly...

... But in this area on the outskirts of Damascus everyone knows what happened on April 7, 2018. It takes just a few questions to any passerby to find survivors of the toxic chlorine attack that residents here said allowed regime forces to retake the city of Douma in the district of Ghouta from rebel forces.  NPR

The UN report they link to doesn't say that. It doesn't conclude that. In fact, it is only Western backers of the regime change operation who are quoted in the report who try to make that claim.

In fact, they seem to find that ISIS, out proxy army, are the ones who used chemical weapons.

He also detailed the results of the 22 February 2024 report by the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team, which determined that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) deployed sulphur mustard gas during attacks aimed at capturing the town of Marea in September 2015 UN March 2024

What a despicable level of propaganda. They can't even find a report which backs up their lies about Assad so they just run with a link to a long one they hope their lazy, racist readers wont bother checking.

I guess they know their audience.

OPCW Modified Chemical Weapons Report on Syria's Douma, Crucial Details Omitted - Wikileaks (2019)

from  Sputnik News 2019

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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The OPCW and Douma: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Accused of Evidence-Tampering by Its Own Inspectors (2019)

from CounterPunch 2019

Claims that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have used chemical weapons are almost as old as the Syrian civil war itself. They have produced strong reactions, and none more so than in the case of the alleged attack in April last year on the opposition-controlled area of Douma near Damascus in which 43 people are said to have been killed by chlorine gas. The United States, Britain and France responded by launching airstrikes on targets in the Syrian capital.

Were the strikes justified? An inspector from the eight-member team sent to Douma has just come forward with disturbing allegations about the international watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was tasked with obtaining and examining evidence.

Involved in collecting samples as well as drafting the OPCW’s interim report, he claims his evidence was suppressed and a new report was written by senior managers with assertions that contradicted his findings.

Seems Like the White Helmets Were Paid $6.6 Million to Help Fabricate Bogus June 13, 2018 OPCW FFM Study

(The al Qaeda-led Syrian Islamist State has decided to dust off the old 'Assad gassed his own people!' propaganda in order to ready the public for the coming news that they actually murdered him and his family in order to take over in Syria. NPR is helping them. So to that end I feel the need to have to remind folks that it's total bullshit, like that story Clarrisa Ward did with that 'prisoner' she 'found' in a cell last week. Turns out that guy is Syrian intelligence and apparently they are all on board with helping al Qaeda justifying murdering him.)

(archived re-post from June 13, 2018)

by Scott Creighton

(If anyone can find a copy of this which includes the images, please link to it below so I can import them into this one. Thanks)

James Le Mesuier, founder of the hearts and minds campaign known as the White Helmets, jumped into the discussion on Twitter about the regime change operation in Syria and President Trump deciding to go back on his pledge to defund that operation early last month. James probably worried about his meal-ticket going bankrupt if social media were allowed to go on it’s own merry way exposing the fraud of his creation. So he decided to open his mouth and get involved and it’s my guess he kinda wishes he didn’t at this point.

The following is what I found after digging into this new Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fact Finding Mission study (OPCW FFM)

We will start off with quotes from the OPCW report dated June 13, 2018

“After the FFM became aware of allegations of use of a toxic chemical as a weapon in Ltamenah, in the Hama Governorate, the team assessed the credibility of the allegations based on information collected from open sources and information received from several non-governmental organisations (NGOs).”
“During the FFM deployment to gather facts related to the use of chemicals as a weapon in Khan Shaykhun on 4 April 2017, the team also received samples...”
“For both incidents (24 and 25 March), the FFM interviewed a variety of witnesses including health workers, witnesses, first responders, and casualties. The team received environmental samples collected from the sites of the incidents.”
“Once the impact locations of the incident on 24 March 2017 were determined during the interviews, the FFM coordinated the sample collection from these locations with an NGO.”
“After an incident was reported in the media concerning alleged use of chlorine that hit a field hospital in Ltamenah on 25 March 2017, the team conducted further open-source research and commenced the collection and review of all relevant information about the allegation. The majority of sources consisted, at an initial stage, of news media and the websites of various NGOs (Annex 2).”
“Subsequently, the FFM obtained further information from NGOs and expanded its search for potential interviewees and evidence regarding this allegation.”

The OPCW FFM (Fact Finding Mission) refused to visit the sites to collect their samples instead relying on samples provided by an NGO, the White Helmets, which receive funding from Saudi Arabia, England and the United States… all external players in this conflict who have been fueling the regime change operation since it’s inception.

They had been offered access to these sites and refused to inspect them themselves.

Why I Think Bashar al Assad Never Left Syria Alive

 

Recent NYT article inadvertently makes it clear that Bashar al Assad was removed one way or the other from power in Syria by his trusted generals. It wasn't Turkey that did it, it wasn't Erdogan. It was out influence on Syrian generals and perhaps the Prime Minister that ousted Assad before he could announce his plan to share power with the legitimate opposition in Syria. We did that, I believe, because its the only way to hand over Syria to the Greater Israel project.

Assad topic on my website https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/search/label/Bashar%20Assad

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Assad Was About to Announce a Power-sharing Deal with Political Opposition (not the terrorists) So We Whacked Him

by Scott Creighton

Bashar al Assad was setting up an historic press statement to tell the people of Syria he was going to share power with the political opposition in Syria so, as the cameras were being set up... the official story is... he ran away leaving staffers and family members without saying a word. Hmmm. And look at the cast of characters this bullshit story comes from: his sellout Prime Minister, al Qaeda, the MEK and Kurds from Iraq... and of course... our man in Turkey, Hakan Fidan. And the NYT publishes this bullshit without one single critical thought as to the sheer stupidity of it all.

from the New York Times

As rebels advanced toward the Syrian capital of Damascus on Dec. 7, the staff in the hilltop Presidential Palace prepared for a speech they hoped would lead to a peaceful end to the 13-year civil war.

Aides to President Bashar al-Assad were brainstorming messaging ideas. A film crew had set up cameras and lights nearby. Syria’s state-run television station was ready to broadcast the finished product: an address by Mr. al-Assad announcing a plan to share power with members of the political opposition, according to three people who were involved in the preparation.

Working from the palace, Mr. al-Assad, who had wielded fear and force to maintain his authoritarian rule over Syria for more than two decades, had betrayed no sense of alarm to his staff, according to a palace insider whose office was near the president’s.

The capital’s defenses had been bolstered, Mr. al-Assad’s aides were told, including by the powerful 4th Armored Division of the Syrian Army, led by the president’s brother Maher al-Assad, the insider said.

They had all been deceived.

After dusk, the president slipped out of the capital, flying covertly to a Russian military base in northern Syria and then on a Russian jet to Moscow, according to six Middle Eastern government and security officials...

The account of Mr. al-Assad’s fall, much of which has not been previously reported, is based on interviews with Syrian (pro-US opposition and his Prime Minister?), Iranian (MEK?), Iraqi (Iraqi Kurdistan?) and Turkish officials (US asset Hakan Fidan); Damascus-based diplomats; as well as associates of Mr. al-Assad and rebels who participated in his ouster (al Qaeda terrorists). Many of them spoke on the condition of anonymity

Assad was doing what he had been told to do by the advisors from places like Turkey and Egypt. He was making a deal to share power with the legitimate opposition in Turkey. But that wasn't enough. As Jeffrey Sachs  recently put it, Israel had other plans for that land. They wanted it for Greater Israel and a power sharing deal would not permit that so... we whacked him and concocted this bullshit story about him setting all this up then just taking a powder.

As I have said before, if he would alive he would have done an interview by now and they damn sure wouldn't have come out with that stupid Telegram message from him because they would have known he would come out and discredit it.

Welcome to the world of oligarchy.

from Bernie Sanders

New Telegraph Report Proves It: Stop Blaming Erdogan For What We Did!

Here is another example of me speaking truth ABOUT power to the powerless in order to empower them. Stop blaming Erdogan for what we did. All you are doing is helping THEM ready the masses for REGIME CHANGE. The new Telegraph report makes it clear... 

Telegraph report https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2024/12/us-prepared-syrian-rebel-group-to-help.html

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US 'bolstered' armed groups to oust Assad in Syria: Report

(Stop blaming Erdogan. You are just helping them make ready for the next part of the Greater Kurdistan project by getting rid of a leader who opposes Israel's ambitions in the region. According to this, the US and Britain trained, armed and financed the terrorists in Syria who overthrew Assad and Turkish-backed militias were ONLY involved it fighting PKK/YPG Kurds) 

(We were paying terrorists $400 a month, 3,000 of em, and arming them and training them making ready for the regime change operation. And I am sure part of that package includes promises to allow them entry into the US after completing their term of contract, if they survive.)

from PressTV

The United States prepared and bolstered an armed group in southern Syria weeks prior to the offensive that ousted President Bashar al-Assad, a Western media report says. 

In the first indication that Washington had prior knowledge of the offensive, the group known as Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA) revealed it had been told to scale-up its forces and “be ready” for an attack that could lead to the end of the Assad government, the Telegraph reported. 

The RCA fighters, trained by Britain and the US, were told "this is your moment" during a briefing by US Special Forces stationed in the Arab country before Assad was toppled on December 8, the report noted. 

The RCA fighters said Washington had prior knowledge of the offensive, which was mainly led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The RCA was told to increase its forces and prepare for a major attack that could "end" the Syrian government. 

Capt Bashar al-Mashadani, an RCA commander said in the weeks preceding the offensive, the RCA's ranks were expanded by smaller "freelance" units, all of which were briefed at the US al-Tanf air base.

“They did not tell us how it would happen,” al-Mashadani told The Telegraph from a former Syrian army air base on the outskirts of the city of Palmyra.

“We were just told: ‘Everything is about to change. This is your moment. Either Assad will fall, or you will fall.’ But they did not say when or where, they just told us to be ready.”

The RCA is an armed group established by defected Syrian Arab Army (SAA) troops and is headquartered in the al-Tanf area, near the Syria-Jordan-Iraq border area, in southern Syria. 

US forces are also stationed in the al-Tanf area, where they claim to be fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the region.

'On the US payroll'

According to the British newspaper, the RCA remains on the US's payroll, as Washington claims to require their assistance to prevent the resurgence of Daesh. All members of the force continued to be armed by the US and to receive their salary of $400 a month...

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US ‘prepared Syrian rebel group to help topple Bashar al-Assad’

(Stop blaming Erdogan. You are just helping them make ready for the next part of the Greater Kurdistan project by getting rid of a leader who opposes Israel's ambitions in the region. According to this, the US and Britain trained, armed and financed the terrorists in Syria who overthrew Assad and Turkish-backed militias were ONLY involved it fighting PKK/YPG Kurds)

from The Telegraph

The United States prepared a rebel force to join the offensive that overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad, fighters have claimed.

British and American-trained fighters in the Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA), a group aligned against Islamic State, were told “this is your moment” in a briefing by US Special Forces before Assad was ousted.

In the first indication that Washington had prior knowledge of the offensive, the RCA revealed it had been told to scale-up its forces and “be ready” for an attack that could lead to the end of the Assad regime.

“They did not tell us how it would happen,” Capt Bashar al-Mashadani, an RCA commander, told The Telegraph from a former Syrian army air base used by Russia on the outskirts of the city of Palmyra.

“We were just told: ‘Everything is about to change. This is your moment. Either Assad will fall, or you will fall.’ But they did not say when or where, they just told us to be ready.”