As the blame game over the alleged chemical attack in Syria escalates ahead of what is expected to be an imminent, if contained, air strike campaign by the US, UK and/or France against Syria, on Friday morning, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow had “irrefutable evidence” that the attack – which allegedly killed more than 40 people in an April 7 chemical weapons strike on the former rebel outpost of Douma -was staged with the help of a foreign secret service.
“We have irrefutable evidence that this was another staged event, and that the secret services of a certain state that is now at the forefront of a Russophobic campaign was involved in this staged event,” he said during a press conference according to AFP.
Speculation that said “certain state” was the UK was confirmed shortly after, when Russia’s defense ministry alleged that Britain was involved in the suspected chemical attack.
According to Moscow’s defense ministry spokesman Major General Igor, the Kremlin has evidence that Britain was behind the attack. Quoted by Reuters, he said: “We have… evidence that proves Britain was directly involved in organising this provocation.”
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As RT further adds, the Russian Defense Ministry has presented what it says is proof that the reported chemical weapons attack in Syria was staged. It also accused the British government of pressuring the perpetrators to speed up the “provocation.” During a briefing on Friday, the ministry showed interviews with two people, who, it said, are medical professionals working in the only hospital operating in Douma, a town near the Syrian capital, Damascus.
In the interviews released to the media, the two men reported how footage was shot of people dousing each other with water and treating children, which was claimed to show the aftermath of the April 7 chemical weapons attack. The patients shown in the video suffered from smoke poisoning and the water was poured on them by their relatives after a false claim that chemical weapons were used, the ministry said.
“Please, notice. These people do not hide their names. These are not some faceless claims on the social media by anonymous activists. They took part in taking that footage,” said ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov.
“The Russian Defense Ministry also has evidence that Britain had a direct involvement in arranging this provocation in Eastern Ghouta,” the general added, referring to the neighborhood of which Douma is part. “We know for certain that between April 3 and April 6 the so-called White Helmets were seriously pressured from London to speed up the provocation that they were preparing.”
According to Konashenkov, the group, which was a primary source of photos and footage of the purported chemical attack, was informed of a large-scale artillery attack on Damascus planned by the Islamist group Army of Islam, which controlled Douma at the time. The White Helmets were ordered to arrange the provocation after retaliatory strikes by the Syrian government forces, which the shelling was certain to lead to, he said.
One of the interviews published by the ministry showed a man who said his name was Halil Ajij, and who said he was a medical student working at Douma’s only operational hospital. This is how he described the origin of the footage:
“On April 8, a bomb hit a building. The upper floors were damaged and a fire broke at the lower floors. Victims of that bombing were brought to us. People from the upper floors had smoke poisoning. We treated them, based on their suffocation.”
Ajij said that a man unknown to him came and said there was a chemical attack and panic ensued. “Relatives of the victims started dousing each other with water. Other people, who didn’t seem to have medical training, started administering anti-asthma medicine to children. We didn’t see any patient with symptoms of a chemical weapons poisoning,” he said.
The first photos claiming to show the aftermath of the alleged chemical attack on April 7 were published online on the same day, and featured the bodies of many people, including children, some with foam around their mouths and noses. Footage from the hospital was released on Sunday, with the sources behind it claiming that it had been shot on Saturday.
Konashenkov said Russia hoped that international monitors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is due to investigate the circumstances of the incident, will help establish the truth. He added Eastern Ghouta is currently trying to return to peaceful life after being liberated from militant groups by Syrian government forces. He called on other nations and international organizations to provide humanitarian aid, which is badly needed in the area. Russia is already supplying food, medicine, building materials and other essential supplies to the neighborhood, he said.
Residents of the neighborhood, who previously fled violence, are returning to their homes now that the area is relatively safe, the Russian official said. The latest reports from the ground say about 63,000 people have returned, which is over half of the displaced residents, he added.
The reported chemical weapons attack escalated tensions over Syria, just as Damascus was about to seize full control of Eastern Ghouta. The US and allies such as the UK and France threatened military action in response to what they claim is an atrocity committed by the Syrian government. Russia insists the incident was staged and said it reserves the right to counter any attack on Syria.
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On Wednesday, Russia made the first allegation that the chemical attack was staged by Western powers, in this case by the infamoous “white helmets,” a US-funded NGO lauded by mainstream media for their humanitarian work, while long-suspected of performing less-than humanitarian deeds behind the curtain.
Speaking with EuroNews, Russia’s ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizov, said “Russian military specialists have visited this region, walked on those streets, entered those houses, talked to local doctors and visited the only functioning hospital in Douma, including its basement where reportedly the mountains of corpses pile up. There was not a single corpse and even not a single person who came in for treatment after the attack.”
“But we’ve seen them on the video!” responds EuroNews correspondent Andrei Beketov. “There was no chemical attack in Douma, pure and simple,” responds Chizov. “We’ve seen another staged event. There are personnel, specifically trained – and you can guess by whom – amongst the so-called White Helmets, who were already caught in the act with staged videos.”
Russia said previously that it sent experts in radiological, chemical and biological warfare – along with medics, in order to inspect the Eastern Ghouta city of Douma where the attack is said to have taken place.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that the experts “found no traces of the use of chemical agents,” following a search of the sites, adding “All these facts show… that no chemical weapons were used in the town of Douma, as it was claimed by the White Helmets.”
“All the accusations brought by the White Helmets, as well as their photos… allegedly showing the victims of the chemical attack, are nothing more than a yet another piece of fake news and an attempt to disrupt the ceasefire,” said the Russian Reconciliation Center.
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In any case, if Russia indeed has “irrefutable evidence”, it is probably just a matter of time before it is made public in an attempt to sway public opinion, ideally before the Syrian airstrikes begin afresh. If confirmed, it would be a major slap in the face of neo-con forces across “western democracies”, if hardly a shock: after all the US using a fabricated pretext to wage war or simply to effect a much needed distraction from domestic affairs, in the middle east is a painfully familiar narrative.
Meanwhile, as we wait for Trump to announce what happens next, late on Thursday we reported that US National Security Advisor John Bolton and Defense Secretary James Mattis are reportedly feuding over the strategy in Syria, with Mattis favoring a more cautious approach, even as France and Britain are crafting broad strike plans and are willing to pursue any military strategy, even though as noted, a readout of a Thursday phone conversation President Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May suggests that military action may be days away, instead of hours.
There is a difference between claiming to have evidence and presenting it.
I’m waiting to see what it is.
If Russia is able to do this, it will be an interesting development that will be a major influence it will be highly influential in future thinking about such events.
Since when have facts influenced thinking? The main fact is that it would have been totally stupid for Assad to have used gas. The bombing alone by the Syrian government purportedly killed ~ 700 people. How would killing an additional (supposed0) 40 with gas have made any tactical difference?
Actually Anon, there is a difference between Russia saying they have evidence and the US just saying Russia did it without even bothering with niceties like evidence or even claims of evidence.
Just sayin’
It’s clear that Assad hired Saddam and Elvis using Saddam’s WMD to attack the suburb!
Some or several here said in the past couple days that it was ……….. DA JOOS!!!
Looks like I’m not the only Dumbfuk Predictor around here.
Then again, maybe it was them pesky BRITISH Joos.
Da Joos ordered Da Limeys to do it. Duh!
Well the Jews did imediately follow up with an air strike on T4, funny that.
The Brits are the Israeli Zionist Jews bitch just like we are. We both do as we are told.
The truth is anti Semetic.
I trust a used car dealer turned politician turned child molester more than our mass media, so if CNN, CNBC, NYT, and the rest of the neocon acolytes tell me the Syrians did it, I automatically think, liars! Hell, if they said the sun will rise tomorrow, it wouldn’t.
It’s come to this: I trust the Russians more than the Americans or British, and I believe RT over our own mass media. I need a drink–whiskey, not vodka.
That fucking gadfly Sebastian Gorka was guest-hosting for the good-hearted but mildly retarded Mike Gallagher this morning on conservatard radio. Gorka said people shouldn’t believe the “conspiracy theories” about Assad and implied that we should really believe that Assad would and did use gas “again”. Gorka is a joke.
you are correct – MSM in full CIA control
Is it me or does this guy remind you of “Hopper” in the movie ‘A Bug’s Life’?
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I was thinking more in line with this guy
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I am officially changing my position. WW3 will not begin in Syria for now. This thing has gotten too ridiculous for that…even for Trump.
Bolton and his Jewish masters in Israel will just have to settle for taking out their aggressions on their wives.
I read where the SAA advanced so rapidly on Douma that they captured some Brits + other n0n-Syrians.
So the evidence to be presented just might be a video of Brits admitting they and the Scum Helmets staged a False Flag event.
Listen, girls. Trump is playing hardball, not just chess. You want to know what has been “weaponized” by Trump? Chaos. No one can predict what he is up to until his tactic debouches from the tangled jungle like a jaguar leaping on a tapir. The IG report today names McCabe and by association Comey, the very day the latter’s book comes out and Comey will be talking it up all over the place. What he says will be recorded for the courts to listen to. Just in time, always just in time.
As for war, c’mon. Absolutely no one wants that but the deep state. Least of all Xi, Putin, and Trump. Nothing to gain and the losses would be incalculable and unpredictable for each of these heads of state. What is happening is the exposure of the deep state. That is the game. That is the war.
My money says that Xi, Putin and Trump are priming the weapon of chaos together, all in the same club, and will continue to expand their joint efforts until something like a bio/chemical release on U.S. soil……then REAL CHAOS begins! More winning for the American plebes….USA, USA, USA…..annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum. Most don’t have a clue as to how evil these Lucy Ferrian freemasons really are!!
My money says they are all in it together, Trump Xi and Putin. After, say, a bio/chem attack of US soil….comes the USA, USA, USA………..and then finally the novus ordo seclorum. It will give cover for the fall of the global hegemony of the petro dollar, and with the rise of the gold backed yuan and rubble; add a dash of islime Mahdi, and global clashes of many different military forces and it just may be “necessary” to establish a one world religion, government, and military force. Just seems to me the dominoes are getting stacked perfectly in line. Bring in the extra dimensional beings (or extra terrestrial, to some), and VIOLA ! The Lucy Ferrians freemasons will have their novus ordo seclorum!
Perfidious Albion indeed. Reports claimed over 200 British passport holders were on the buses that took jihadest from the the ” rebels” holdout to the north of Syria . It seems these most unwelcome guests will probably head back to Britain and be let free to mingle with the general population. Alt right figure from Canada is denied entry but if you’re a head chopping mass murderer they love you.
Fuck, so much for hope.
While you poor state bound bastards are cowering under desks and tables, I will be sipping a nice scotch.
And some folks say I should have stayed. Hahahahahahahahaha!
Until the Aussies are dragged in via the UK and the Chinks annex the whole island.
I’m shocked. No shit. I thought the situation had become too ridiculous to be taken seriously. Now is war. Stupidity and treason reign.
I hate that adulterous c*cks*cking traitor now. F*ck him. I hope the Democrat f*ggots sent his ass to prison.
Even if it was true that Assad used chemical weapons, it’s still just muzzies killing muzzies. Something that should actually be encouraged. The real “tragedy” is that only 40 died.
So now the million-dollar cruise missiles will fly (got Raytheon stock?) for no useful purpose. Meanwhile, there are probably 40 Christians hacked to death every day by muzzies in sub-Saharan Africa.