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© 2018 AFPChemical experts finally enter Syria's Douma
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PTownsend
Should we believe this article which says the 'experts are finally entering Douma', or the JT posters who’d used RT as a source, claiming the experts were on site several days ago?
That the Syria debacle is Rashomon-esque is undeniable. I’ve stopped believing most of what I read about it. I think, however, that those who’d use a poisonous gas on civilians would have to be those with the most to gain from maintaining control in Syria. Assad wants to keep his position; Putin wants to expand his empire and further his control over oil and gas markets.
No side seems to care one whit for the Syrian peoples who’ve suffered too long.
CrazyJoe
Since when have we required actual proof of WMD before attacking a country?
The OPCW was called in to validate the findings that Novichok was used in the UK attack. The OPCW verified the British findings
Russia immediately called the OPCW liars.
Goodlucktoyou
About a week after loads of journalists have already been there and interviewed witnesses and actors for the terriorists.
lostrune2
If they're not guilty, it is to Assad's advantage that the inspectors get to the site as fast as possible. Any delay would only hurt their prospects due to the results becoming less conclusive as increased lapse time introduces more possible reasons and variables
And yet, they kept delaying the inspectors. Rebels wouldn't be putting booby traps and mines where their own families lived - if the place gets bombed, those traps and mines would only kill more of their own people, so that would be stupid
Anybody with enough smarts and skill has the capability to erase as much evidence as possible that time doesn't erase on its own. There are some people who are very capable
lostrune2
And yet, the investigators keep getting delayed, when it would had been to Assad's advantage not to, if he wants to definitely prove his innocence
And a good chance is just that - still just a chance. Who would delay their own innocence on the line for a chance, one that decreases over time at that
The US could remove evidence of their doings; they're not the only ones
RichardPearce
The folks who posit that the time it took to secure the area from the gunmen who had captured it and held people hostage is evidence of a cover up would have looked at an effort to secure it faster (mass bombardment and killing anything that moved) as evidence of a cover up, too.
And while war correspondents are fairly accepting of the risks of going somewhere that they may be shot at, forensic scientists insist on secured areas.
theFu
They will only find Lysol disinfectant at this point.
lostrune2
The rebels already surrendered and they and their families were bused away to Idlib in a safe-passage deal; Russian soldiers already been in the area for days; no more fighting there and nobody's getting killed - we would had liked the inspectors to find out what happened there with the utmost certainty and least variables (more variables only breed more speculations)