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The British Daily Mail newspaper revealed new documents proving the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons manipulated the final report on the alleged chemical attack in Douma in April of 2018 and made major changes to the field investigators' evidence, noting that a high-ranking official in the organization ordered the concealment of an important document that undermined allegations that were aired The Syrian Arab Army used chemical weapons.
The newspaper said in its issue today that it obtained the original internal report prepared by the fact-finding team on the alleged chemical attack in Douma before being subject to the supervision of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and making major amendments to it, indicating that the original report differs significantly from all copies issued later by the organization with this Particular.
The newspaper pointed out that the organization's final report alleges that there are "reasonable grounds" for the use of chlorine gas in Douma, but one of the organization's experts confirms the falsehood of these allegations, saying that "only small quantities of chlorine were found in forms that could be found in any home."
The newspaper pointed out that the original report of the fact-finding team also expressed, for the first time, doubts about the source of the cylinders used in the alleged attack, always indicating that the minor damage that appeared on these cylinders is not consistent with the allegations of dropping them from the air compared to the damage caused by falling on the roofs built with armed cement The original report also questioned the source of the cylinder, which was found lying on a bed in a location without evidence of penetration into the ceiling.
The newspaper pointed out that the draft report prepared by the inspectors of the fact-finding team after their visit to the site of the alleged chemical attack in Douma indicates the inconsistency of the image published for the victims of the alleged attack with the allegations of the use of "sarin" gas which was said to have been used and no samples taken from the site showed any The presence of this gas.
Regarding the symptoms that appeared on the victims of the alleged attack, the newspaper pointed out that the original report questioned its association with allegations of the use of sarin gas, and this was confirmed by poison experts who were consulted by the fact-finding team during a visit to Germany in June 2018, and as a result the team concluded two possible explanations. Regarding the photos of the alleged victims, "the first is that they were exposed to another highly toxic chemical element that led to the appearance of the symptoms that were observed and not yet discovered. The second explanation is that the deaths resulted from an accident that is not related to the chemicals ... and there is no evidence of any Chemical attack origin a".
The newspaper said that the original report called for further studies to clarify the suspicions and facts that do not have a logical explanation, and one of these studies was conducted by Ian Henderson, a veteran inspector at the Chemical Weapons Organization and a specialist chemical engineer with military experience who visited the alleged attack site in Douma and questioned Allegations of dropping gas cylinders from the air.
The newspaper added that Henderson concluded, at the end of his study, after consultations with other experts, that there was "a high possibility that the two discs that were found were placed manually and were not thrown from the air."
The newspaper considered that what is more surprising than all the facts mentioned in the original report are the actions of a senior official in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, whose identity has not been known yet, but he is known as "Voldemort" among the employees of the organization, noting that Henderson requested that his findings be included Results in his research with the final report of the organization, but after he found that this research would be excluded, he kept a copy of it in the archives of the documents record as a natural procedure in the event of secret documents, but the official known as Voldemort ordered to remove all traces related to Henderson's research and delete them permanently from the archive.
The newspaper pointed out that Henderson's research was not the only one that was deleted from the final report. There is also detailed evidence in the original report that was also deleted and replaced with quotes from witnesses who were selected without providing any of the facts reached by the investigation team.
The newspaper pointed out that it had seen an internal memo in the Chemical Weapons Organization, which indicated that twenty experts in the organization expressed their concern that the final report that was issued does not reflect the views of the inspectors who visited the site of the alleged attack in Syria and questioned the manipulation of evidence and information contained in the report.
Among those who criticized the organization’s final report, was one of the experts who participated in the fact-finding mission, who in turn sent a secret message to the Director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Fernando Arias, in which he confirmed, according to the Wikileaks news site, that there is a major defect in the organization’s final report and its inconsistency with the findings of the investigators team .
The unidentified expert confirmed that the organization's report on the alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma 2018 does not reflect the views of all members of the team of experts who were sent to Douma, noting that the request he made on behalf of these experts to receive all updates on the progress being made In this regard, the review of the draft report of the fact-finding mission was rejected.
The expert explained that he was excluded from the work of the fact-finding team a few weeks after being given the task of analyzing and evaluating the projectiles for the two cylinders that were found in Douma without any clear reasons but he insisted on completing his own investigations and put a report in which he incorporated the observations of the members of the fact-finding team and tried to submit it to Team leader to no avail, so he only saved it in the archives of the documents record.
The expert pointed out that his attempts to know the exact date of the issuance of the final report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on the alleged attack in Douma were unsuccessful, indicating at the same time that members of the fact-finding mission team were unanimous in the presence of serious contradictions in the final report and its results, which later turned towards a completely opposite direction after The exclusion of all team members except for a small cadre that was deployed again in Douma in October 2018.
The Daily Mail newspaper revealed in a previous investigation published last month that an expert employed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a leaked email that the investigations on the ground in Douma did not reach strong evidence about the alleged gas attack, stressing that the facts were deliberately hidden in Organization reports.
Tariq Haddad, a journalist working for the American magazine Newsweek, also submitted his resignation at the beginning of this month after the magazine refused to publish his investigation documenting the details of the manipulation and forgery that took place through the survey of the Organization for the Prevention of the spread of chemical weapons, important parts of the reports of its international experts in Syria.
Basma Kanoun and Khaleda Makarim
