BBC producer says hospital scenes after 2018 Douma ‘chemical attack’ were staged

A BBC producer believes that scenes from a hospital in Syria’s Douma, which ignited a media frenzy in 2018 after showing children allegedly suffering from chemicals, were staged...



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BBC producer says hospital scenes after 2018 Douma ‘chemical attack’ were staged

Published time: 15 Feb, 2019 11:10Edited time: 16 Feb, 2019 10:50

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A BBC producer believes that scenes from a hospital in Syria’s Douma, which ignited a media frenzy in 2018 after showing children allegedly suffering from chemicals, were staged. But he says Assad did attack the town.

Emotive scenes of Syrian civilians, among them crying, choking, half-naked children, dominated the airwaves in April last year after rebel-affiliated mouthpieces reported yet another“chemical attack by the Assad regime” in the town of Douma. Disturbing reports, including some from the controversial White Helmets, claimed scores of people had been killed and injured.

Mainstream media quickly picked up the horrific (but unverified) videos from a Douma hospital, where victims were treated after this “poison attack.” That hospital scene was enough to assemble a UN emergency session and prompt the US-led ‘coalition of the willing’ to rain down dozens of missiles on Damascus and other locations.

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But Riam Dalati, a reputable BBC producer who has long reported from the Middle East, took the liberty of trying to sift through the fog of the Syrian war.

He believes Assad forces did attack the town, but that the much-publicized hospital scenes were staged.

After almost 6 months of investigations, I can prove without a doubt that the Douma Hospital scene was staged. No fatalities occurred in the hospital.

He said his sources among the White Helmets and the opposition were spoke to him from Idlib and the area of the Euphrates Shield operation staged by Turkey and Syrian rebels – territories outside of the Syrian government's reach – except for one person who was in Damascus.

Riam Dalati Screenshot from Twitter

Dalati also says that an attack “did happen” but that sarin, a weapons-grade nerve agent, was not used. He said, “we’ll have to wait for OPCW [Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons] to prove chlorine or otherwise.”

However, everything else around the attack was manufactured for maximum effect.

The journalist said Jaysh al-Islam, an Islamist faction that fought the Syrian army there, “ruled Douma with an iron fist. They co-opted activists, doctors and humanitarians with fear and intimidation.”

Riam Dalati Screenshot from Twitter

Dalati’s revelations could have become a bombshell news report, but instead it was met with a deafening media silence. His employer preferred to distance itself from his findings. The BBC told Sputnik in a statement that Dalati was expressing “his personal opinions about some of the video footage that emerged after the attack but has not claimed that the attack did not happen.” 

After a while, Dalati restricted access to his Twitter account which is now open only to confirmed followers.

Interestingly, his previous inputs did not sit well with the official narrative either. “Sick and tired of activists and rebels using corpses of dead children to stage emotive scenes for Western consumption. Then they wonder why some serious journos are questioning part of the narrative,” he said in a tweet which he later deleted over “the breach of editorial policy.”


https://www.rt.com/news/451538-bbc-douma-chemical-staged/

And?

Its the opinion of a puppet of Putin

I do not see any hard evidence to his claims, do you?

Since when did he become a chemical warfare expert, which experts proved chemicals were used?

What evidence...?

Tommy Monk wrote:


What evidence...?

The evidence collcted by the OPCW

I never knew you were a fan of the BBC reporters for honest reporting Tommy?  

What evidence...?


This BBC man is being honest... exposing the lies...!

Tommy Monk wrote:What evidence...?


This BBC man is being honest... exposing the lies...!

Is that why no credible media sources are taking his opinions seriously?

Only the Russian ones?

Oh Tommy, you do make me laugh

The OPCW found traces of chlorine, even after days of the Syrians and Russians trying to clean up the evidence

Have a good evening

Where is this evidence...???

Still not shown any evidenc3 to back up your claim dodge...!?

It was staged, I had the evidence, forgot it now !