Gray Zone: The Director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons continues to cover up the scandal of false reports about the alleged Douma attack

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One lie after another, this is how the independent Gray Zone news website described what the Director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fernando Arias Gonzalez presented in an accountability session of the Security Council, trying to cover up the scandal of false reports prepared by the organization about the alleged chemical attack in Douma and the distortions and distortions carried out by senior officials of the organization facts for many years.

The site summarized and refuted the lies that Arias gave before the accountability session last June, which would not have happened in the first place, had it not been for the voices of some scientists from within the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, who revealed the falsehood of the reports prepared by the organization about the alleged attack in Douma in 2018, and the manipulation of the results of the investigations that took place. It coincided with the American and Western narrative in the context of the terrorist war against Syria.

In March 2019, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons issued the final Duma report, which was limited to lies and misinformation and led to the erasure of the main findings of the original report, so that in May 2019 a series of leaks and internal questions to the organization revealed for the first time that the inspectors who investigated the incident did not find any evidence of an attack with chemical weapons.

In an investigation prepared by journalists Aaron Matt and Pierce Robinson for Gray Zone, they highlighted the distortion and evasion of Arias during the impeachment hearing and his refusal to investigate or provide explanations about the systematic manipulation of the organization's investigation into the alleged attack, in addition to its ignoring and belittling of the scientists who protested the organization's report. distorted and confirmed its falsity.

Arias, according to the news site, rejected proposals to resolve the alleged Douma attack, claiming that the OPCW's Scientific Advisory Board had no authority to examine the evidence, claiming that he personally had no authority whatsoever to reopen this investigation and trying to discredit the work done in the investigation's original report. Which found no evidence of a chemical attack.

In order to perpetuate the American and Western narrative about the alleged attack and the lies contained in the OPCW report about it, Arias rejected the work of the inspectors who disagreed with him and revealed the manipulation of the report, claiming that what they had done was a personal conclusion and therefore not subject to re-evaluation. The original report on the alleged Douma attack continued to downplay the importance of five former senior officials of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, including the scientific coordinator and lead author of the team's original report, Ian Henderson.

Henderson had admitted in 2019 that the results of the organization's official report on the alleged attacks with chemical weapons in the city of Douma in the Damascus countryside "do not correspond to reality and contradict the engineering experience."

In the text of the engineering assessment on the allegations of chemical use in Syria, he said: “The tests that were carried out at two sites of the accident, along with the subsequent analysis, indicate that it is possible that the chemical cylinders were placed on the ground and did not fall from the air.” This completely refutes the OPCW report. Chemical weapons While the report prepared by a group of experts led by Henderson indicates that they conducted a series of tests that simulate the situation and concluded that in one of the alleged cases the effects of the chemical attack did not match the size of the alleged impact in which the toxic substance was supposed to be with the damage to the concrete roof at the scene of the accident.

Member of the European Parliament from Ireland Claire Daly confirmed during the Arias accountability session that the independence and credibility of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has become in doubt due to the controversy surrounding the file of the alleged chemical attack in Douma, rural Damascus, and the accompanying assertions of experts who participated in drafting the results of the investigation about the occurrence of falsification and misrepresentation of the results. Their findings confirmed that there was no evidence of a chemical attack in Douma.

Daly called on Arias to stop ignoring the accusations and information provided by investigators regarding the falsification of the report, stressing that ignoring these accusations or trying to discredit the experts will not cancel the fact that these questions exist and must be answered.

WikiLeaks had previously published four leaked documents from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that exclude the use of chlorine gas in the city of Douma, and former US Representative Tulsi Gabbard confirmed that the organization officials' distortion of the initial report submitted by investigators who visited Syria and examined everything on the ground and concluded that there is no evidence of the occurrence The alleged attack in Douma has put the credibility of the organization and the credibility of its previous and future investigations and reports to the test, and will make it open to questioning.

In addition, European Parliament Member Mike Wallace, during his intervention during the Arias accountability session, referred to the scandals of the fake initial reports issued by the organization and the leaks that came out from inside, which indicated the manipulation of those reports by the organization’s inspectors and scientists about the alleged chemical attack in Douma.

Basma Kanon