Important read: Robert Fisk reports on the "Gas Attack" in Douma

[superpatriotman]

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-gas-douma-robert-fisk-ghouta-damascus-a8307726.html

This is the story of a town called Douma, a ravaged, stinking place of smashed apartment blocks – and of an underground clinic whose images of suffering allowed three of the Western world’s most powerful nations to bomb Syria last week. There’s even a friendly doctor in a green coat who, when I track him down in the very same clinic, cheerfully tells me that the “gas” videotape which horrified the world – despite all the doubters – is perfectly genuine.

War stories, however, have a habit of growing darker. For the same 58-year old senior Syrian doctor then adds something profoundly uncomfortable: the patients, he says, were overcome not by gas but by oxygen starvation in the rubbish-filled tunnels and basements in which they lived, on a night of wind and heavy shelling that stirred up a dust storm.

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[11cents]

1. I really don't want to get into a debate about this...

...so I'm just going to flatly state that whatever merits his reporting may have had years ago -- and they are debatable at best -- Fisk has for some years been an outright propagandist for Assad. There's not only ample evidence that the gas attacks took place, and that only the Syrian government could have committed them -- there's also evidence that witnesses, most especially including medical workers, who were witnesses are now being forced under threat of torture to lie about them. Fisk is a tool.