This article discredits itself and reveals the writer’s true intent when it inserts unsubstantiated smears on those who cast doubt on the Douma incident.
Helmut Lohrer, whose previous involvement with Syria included a call, in 2015, for sanctions to be lifted. He was clearly motivated by compassion and what he actually said was “Stop starving out the people of Syria! End the embargo, so that Syria can live in peace!” (And I agree with that)
Günter Meyer … “a long-standing Assad supporter”. Being opposed to the West’s attempted intervention to illegally remove the leader of a sovereign nation is not exactly the same thing as being a supporter of that leader.
“Seymour Hersh, the author of several *discredited* articles about chemical weapons in Syria.” Discredited? Oh yeah? The link provided has no authority whatsoever. And this last smear was only inserted as a desperate attempt to proxy-smear Elizabeth Murray of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence.
I see that the writer is a former Grauniad editor. The same Grauniad that I stopped reading in 2003 because it was just parroting all the lines the Bliar establishment wanted it to. The same Grauniad that currently provides a platform for the deep-state liar Luke Harding (of ‘Manafort visits Assange’ notoriety — they still haven’t retracted that gem).
I myself have always doubted the claims about the use of sarin at both Douma and Khan Sheikhoun. The clues were a) in the timing — too fortuitous for the rebels; b) the western establishment’s synchronised sycophantic reaction to it — immediately apportioning blame even before the full facts were known; c) the ludicrous idea that the Syrians would twice do something of little tactical benefit and potentially (for them) catastrophic strategic consequences; d) the images produced as ‘evidence’ invariably included people standing around the alleged site in civilian clothes and shod in ‘flip-flops, or physically handling the alleged sarin-delivery-canister as if it were a movie-set prop.