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Chemical Weapons are being used in Ukraine— WHERE IS OPCW?
The UN watchdog has abandoned its mission and become nothing but a shameful shill for Western interests.
The OPCW has become a joke
Like many people, the first time that I started to pay attention to the UN’s OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), was during the U.S. “dirty war” in Syria, when the Al Qaeda affiliated “rebels” that America was supporting levelled accusations against the Syrian government, claiming that the government forces had used chemical weapons against them in Douma.
The subject again came up when OPCW whistleblowers revealed that the results of the OPCW’s “fact finding mission (FFM) had been “doctored” at the behest of the US, UK and France. It seems the Western powers had been looking for an excuse to bomb Syria, and use of chemical weapons was a good enough reason.
The only problem: THERE WERE NO CHEMICAL WEAPONS AT DOUMA.
In fact, the lead OPCW investigator, Ian Henderson, gave this damning testimony to the United Nations:
The findings in the final [Fact Finding Mission] report were contradictory, were a complete turnaround with what the team had understood collectively during and after the Douma deployments.
In my case, I had followed up with a further six months of engineering and ballistics studies into the cylinders, the result of which had provided further support for the view that there had…