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Syrian medics 'subjected to extreme intimidation' after Douma attack
Guardian ^ | Tue 17 Apr 2018 13.25 EDT | Martin Chulov in Beirut and Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul

Posted on 04/17/2018 6:15:52 PM PDT by BeadCounter

The head of the largest medical relief agency in Syria claims that medics who responded to the suspected gas attack in Douma have been subjected to “extreme intimidation” by Syrian officials who seized biological samples, forced them to abandon patients and demanded their silence.

Dr Ghanem Tayara, the director of the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations (UOSSM) said doctors responsible for treating patients in the hours after the 7 April attack have been told that their families will be at risk if they offer public testimonies about what took place.

A number of doctors who spoke to the Guardian this week say the intimidation from the regime has increased in the past five days, a timeframe that coincides with the arrival in Damascus of a team from the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which aims to determine whether chemical weapons were used. All the medics insisted on anonymity, citing the fear for their lives and those of their families.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: douma; poisongas; putinsbuttboys; russia; syria

1 posted on 04/17/2018 6:15:52 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: BeadCounter

This shouldn’t surprise anyone....


2 posted on 04/17/2018 6:32:57 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: BeadCounter

Al Qaeda doctors have their own union...who knew?


3 posted on 04/17/2018 7:03:42 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: BeadCounter

“...A cylinder of the type used by the Syrian military to drop chlorine remains on the roof of the building, multiple witnesses have said. The Russian military and Syrian officers have had access to the house since last Thursday, raising fears that the site may have been tampered with. However, Smith said it was likely that residual samples of nerve agent would remain for at least another week, even after an attempted clean-up....
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Jeez, the “rebels” just a week ago release a picture of a cylinder laying neatly on an uncollapsed, bed still neatly made.


4 posted on 04/17/2018 7:06:23 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: BeadCounter

“...A former senior officer in the Syrian military chemical weapons programme, Brig Zaher al-Saket, who deserted in 2013, said Douma residents he worked with had buried close to 50 bodies in an undisclosed site in the area, hoping that they could be eventually recovered and used to confirm suspicions that some form of nerve agent was used in the attack....”
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So, the rebels have essentially hid the bodies of people who had supposedly been killed by nerve agents so they are now NOT available for autopsy and forensic analysis. How convient!


5 posted on 04/17/2018 7:12:06 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: mac_truck

How much you wanna bet the good Doctor is posing with an ISIS flag on his Facebook page?


6 posted on 04/17/2018 7:12:17 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: The Toll

Lol...he’s located in Birmingham UK so he must also be clairvoyant.

Typical Brit-fag propaganda.


7 posted on 04/17/2018 7:18:13 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: BeadCounter

Nothing that the Manchester Guardian publishes is believable, even if happens to be true.


8 posted on 04/17/2018 8:01:38 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

Guardian are big warmongers on Syria. ignore them.


9 posted on 04/17/2018 10:08:47 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: BeadCounter

Syria is not about Syria. Syria is about Iran.


10 posted on 04/18/2018 3:49:32 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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no, the war in Syria was started by the Wahabbi Sauds and Qataris and supported byt he Salafi-bent Erdogan of Turkey. They wanted to replace the secular dictator with an IslamicDictator.


11 posted on 04/19/2018 12:16:08 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos
no, the war in Syria was started by the Wahabbi Sauds and Qataris and supported byt he Salafi-bent Erdogan of Turkey. They wanted to replace the secular dictator with an IslamicDictator.

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Yes, but why? Because they, and the US and Israel, see Syria as a proxy for Iran and Hezbollah primarily, and as a proxy for Russia secondarily. Iran is the center of Shiite political and military power.

12 posted on 04/19/2018 3:42:50 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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Not really. Assad was maintaining his distance from everyone nicely before the "Arab Spring"

saudia needs to spread wahabbism globally - they've already moved Sunnis from Pakistan to nigeria away from Hanafi, Sufi etc. schools towards Salafiidom. They want to destroy the Shia and then everyone else

13 posted on 04/19/2018 10:58:03 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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