Someone, somewhere (France?) says these are the Sarin/chlorine/WeDunno bombs.
Chlorine gas is over twice as heavy as air. No bombs necessary.
Two different news organizations (OAN and some Brit outfit) are reporting that 1) there was no gas—none of the residents in the area heard, saw, or smelled anything; and 2) the ER video was pure fiction. The docs merely responded to the screaming which was done by the camera-carrying adults. No patients were kept in hospital, none died. But the camera crew ran like Hell after they got some footage.
Methinks The President was suckered by pix of crying children.
Someone, somewhere (France?) says these are the Sarin/chlorine/WeDunno bombs.
From the article:
The Associated Press spoke to rescuers, medics and numerous residents of Douma for their accounts of what took place. Some were reached in rebel-held areas in northern Syria where they were evacuated after the attack, while others were still in Douma.
Witness Ahmed now living in rebel controlled area:
Soon after the attack, Ahmed was among thousands evacuated from Douma as the town surrendered to government forces.
He believes the attack was clearly carried out by Syrian government forces. “It was like an earthquake,” he said, speaking to the AP from northern Syria. “The town was facing an earthquake.”
Witness now in rebel controlled area.
Abu Humam took video footage that showed one apartment with at least a dozen bodies, including at least seven toddlers and young children. None had any wounds, and one woman in the footage appeared to have foam around her mouth
“Some were in the bathroom and were trying to wash, but nothing saved them. They all lost their lives,” Abu Humam said, speaking from the rebel-held town of al-Bab in northern Syria.
It has been said that the story of the chemical attack was a hoax prepared by terrorist rebels who were about to be defeated by the Syrian army.
After the supposed gas attack the terrorist rebels were transported to rebel controlled territory.
It appears that the AP sources for this story were the terrorist rebels who are said to have made up the story of the gas attack.
In December of 1915 at Ypres the Germans released 88 tons of gas from 3000 cylinders. It was a far more deadly chlorine-phosgene mix. 69 were killed and 1069 were wounded. The Germans released it in the very gas friendly wet environment of Belgium in December.
Now Assad, famous for being -far- more efficient then any German ever dreamed of, uses a mere TWO cylinders of chlorine and nerve gas to kill the same 70. It is a near 100% fatal rate. No thousands of badly wounded being evacuated to western hospitals are anywhere to be seen. And the nerve gas is some advanced variety that kills the victim, yet none of the rescuers are affected in the slightest. The only protection they need is a bandana and a bottle of water.
This is a third rate propaganda effort. I miss the days when they respected us enough to at least put some effort into the war propaganda.
Assad didn’t conduct a one helicopter, two cylinder attack, that outperformed the Germans doing it with 1500 cylinders per each one used by Assad. This is deep state intel community BS. It is certified by McCain and his diseased brain and the Dingbat Theresa May and Macron who wants to curry favor with jihadis to mollify his own radicals.
Pure BS.
When I hear the arguments for bombing Syria because it used chemical weapons against it’s own citizens I have to wonder what the official reaction would be to a country that killed seventy six people with a banned chemical weapon?
Debunked, other than to the Neocons here.
Let’s have a thorough investigation and allow AP to submit whatever it has, including cross-examination, witness protection follow-up, and rebuttal. Who is afraid of doing this? So far, not the Russians.
Chlorine has been a hallmark of the Al-Qeada/ISIS idiots over there.
Every prior chlorine attack has been those f-wits.
They just used basic chlorine cylinders, attached wings and dropped them. If it ruptured or broke the valve neck it released the gas, if not nothing. One broke the valve neck and released, the other remain complete and failed.
ML/NJ
A doctor in Douma has told British reporter Robert Fisk that it was oxygen deprevation down some tunnels due to the bombing and a storm. The doc and locals say no gas attack.
Once lived in a small town where a company wanted to build a chlorine plant. There was a public hearing, at which one of the residents asked “If there’s a breach, where do we go?” The honest answer was “Heaven or hell”.
I’m sure President Trump had a good reason to bomb, whether Assad gassed his people or not. Funny, if it was Clinton or Obola nobody in the media would be questioning it and Republican protests would get zero air time. So tired of the double standard.