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So to recap, Ian Henderson is an OPCW inspector who went to Douma, ran some experiments, and concluded that the cylinders alleged to have been dropped by Assad helicopters were rather manually placed, i.e. staged. An OPCW official actively had his report purged from the registry.
OPCW inspector tries to argue to FFM team leader Sami Barrek that the low levels of chlorinated organic chemicals need to be reported to avoid misrepresentation and confusion. Barrek says he'll unilaterally overrule the inspectors and omit the information. https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/document/Omission_of_ppb_levels_in_Interim_R_on_6-July/page-2/#pagination …pic.twitter.com/norATrlc7l
Inspectors were saying concentrations of chemicals found need to be included to keep people from reading the Interim Report as concluding that a chlorine gas attack occurred. Those concentrations were never once included in either the 2018 Interim Report or the 2019 Final Report.pic.twitter.com/eQlgAPCaIh
This is all coming out on the same day an ex-Newsweek journo revealed that multiple editors (one of whom had CFR ties) shut down his attempts to report on previous OPCW revelations, citing the assertions of a debunked Bellingcat article as their reason.https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1205929394390196224?s=20 …
This extremely important bit of information from the first draft of the 2018 Interim Report was excluded from the official publications of both the Interim Report and the Final Report. https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/document/FirstdraftInterimReport/page-3/#pagination …pic.twitter.com/9qHKndxAmI
Would've been nice to know this information too. Excluded from both the 2018 Interim Report and the 2019 Final Report.pic.twitter.com/DSmHMKUsBc
This lack of a satisfactory explanation was accounted for by the aforementioned Engineering Assessment by Ian Henderson, which concluded the cylinders were manually placed. None of this in either Interim or Final Reports.pic.twitter.com/RHF98UuOa9
Either they were killed by some means the FFM couldn't discern, or it was "a non-chemical-related incident." This hugely important section gets not a whisper in either the OPCW's Interim Report or Final Report.pic.twitter.com/4CzzsBouSj
My guess is that when he justifies this unilateral decision on the basis that he has the support of the 'majority of team members', he is referring to the 'country X' team that never entered Syria & appears to have been assembled specifically to provide preferred answers.
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