VS geschiedenis van chemisch wapengebruik vergeleken met uitspraken van VS ambassadeur bij de VN Haley

Hare
kwaadaardigheid Nikki Haley, VS ambassadeur bij de VN, die keer op
keer het gore lef heeft om wie dan ook de les te lezen, moet
eindelijk eens kijken waarvoor haar eigen land, de grootste
terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, verantwoordelijk is….. Neem de
zogenaamd door de wettige regering van Syrië gepleegde
gifgasaanvallen die Haley keer op keer noemt als feit, terwijl de
enige bewezen gifgasaanvallen
* allen zijn toe te
schrijven aan de door de VS beschermde ‘gematigde rebellen’ (lees: terreurgroepen die zich schuldig maken aan moord, verkrachting, marteling en het gebruik van chemische wapens..)…… Daarmee maakt de VS zich ook nog eens schuldig aan vreselijke oorlogsmisdaden…….

De
schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, Brian Kalman heeft een
aantal oorlogsmisdaden van de VS op een rij gezet, o.a. waar de VS gebruik heeft gemaakt van
gifgas, en waaruit ten overvloede nog eens de enorme
hypocrisie van helleveeg Haley blijkt….. 

Voorts wijst de schrijver nog eens op het chemische wapenprogramma van de VS, een programma waar nog steeds aan wordt gewerkt en waar nog steeds onderzoek wordt gedaan naar nieuwe chemische wapens, ondanks dat de VS of beter gezegd de Vereniging van Terreurstaten het verdrag tegen de verspreiding van chemische wapens, ofwel Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) heeft getekend…… 

Het gestolen land VS ‘heeft zich voorts onderworpen’ aan de Organisatie voor het Verbod op Chemische Wapens (OVCW), die landen bij de les moet houden, een organisatie waar de VS lid van is……. De organisatie die e.e.a. controleert is het VN orgaan OPCW en is gezeteld in Den Haag, blijkbaar heeft die organisatie geen toegang tot de massamoord laboratoria van de VS…. (zie de PS notitie onderaan in dit bericht) Kortom de OPCW is een uiterst lamme organisatie (zoals de hele VN), maar dat past dan weer prefect bij het hypocriete Nederland, de hielenlikker van de VS…….

Nieuw voor mij is het feit dat de VS in meerdere buitenlanden laboratoria heeft voor ‘onderzoek’ naar chemische wapens 

US
History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor U.S. HISTORY OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS USE AND COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES

Before
pointing the finger at Russia and Syria, the U.S. should answer for
its own record

Written
by 
Brian
Kalman
 exclusively
for 
SouthFront;
Brian Kalman is a management professional in the marine
transportation industry. He was an officer in the US Navy for eleven
years
.


The
world is once again witnessing the height of U.S. hypocrisy as
members of the U.S. State Department ratchet up anti-Russian and
anti-Syrian rhetoric surrounding the use of chemical weapons in Syria
and the UK. Ambassador Nikki Haley has warned Syria, Iran and Russia
that they will be held accountable for their pre-determined use of
chemical weapons in Idlib on innocent civilians. No evidence was
provided to support her threats. The United States carried out cruise
missile strikes on two previous occasions, and each time provided no
evidence to prove their assertion that the Syrian government used
chemical weapons in attacking civilians, nor was any rational reason
given for such an obviously irrational decision on the part of the
Syrian state. No evidence has ever been provided to justify the clear
international crime of aggression committed by the United States on
these two earlier occasions. Now, the UK and the U.S. are both
attempting to accuse the Russian government of using chemical weapons
in an alleged attempted assassination of a Russian national on UK
soil. Once again, no real evidence has been presented, only
assertions and hearsay.      

On Thursday September 13th, Assistant Secretary of State Manisha Singh declared before the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee that the United States would level the most severe of sanctions against Russia, including breaking all diplomatic ties, if Russia refused to admit its guilt in perpetrating the Skripal assassination fiasco and refused to submit to International inspections by the OPCW of its alleged chemical weapons and biological weapons programs. She stated that Russia would have to meet this requirement by an arbitrary November 4th deadline, set by the United States in accordance with a U.S. law, not an international law. H.R. 1724 – Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 specifies in part:  

 Title III: Control and Elimination of Chemical and Biological Weapons – Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 – Declares it is U.S. policy to: (1) seek multilaterally coordinated efforts with other countries to control the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons; and (2) strengthen efforts to control chemical agents, precursors, and equipment.     

Requires the President to use the U.S. export control laws to control the export of defense articles, defense services, goods, and technologies that he determines would assist a country in acquiring the capability to produce or use such weapons.     

Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a list of goods and technology that would assist a foreign government or group in acquiring chemical or biological weapons. Requires a validated export license for the export of such items to certain countries of concern.

Requires
the President to impose certain sanctions against foreign persons if
he determines that they knowingly contributed to the efforts of a
country to acquire, use, or stockpile chemical or biological weapons.
Declares such sanctions to include: (1) denial of U.S. procurement
contracts for goods or services from such foreign persons; and (2)
prohibition against importation of products from such persons.
Authorizes the President to waive imposition of such sanctions if he
determines that is in the national security interests of the United
States.

Amends
the Arms Export Control Act to set forth similar provisions.

Requires
the President to make a determination with respect to whether a
country has used chemical or biological weapons in violation of
international law or has used lethal chemical or biological weapons
against its own nationals. Authorizes specified congressional
committees to request the President to make such determination with
respect to the use of such weapons.

Requires
the President to impose the following sanctions against foreign
countries that have been found to have used such weapons: (1)
termination of assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
(except humanitarian assistance and agricultural commodities); (2)
termination of arms sales and arms sales financing; (3) denial of
U.S. credit; and (4) prohibition of the export of certain goods and
technology. Directs the President to impose at least three of the
following additional sanctions unless such countries cease the use of
such weapons and provide assurances that they will not use, and will
allow inspections with respect to, such weapons: (1) opposition to
the extension of multilateral development bank assistance; (2)
prohibition of U.S. bank loans (except loans for food or agricultural
commodities); (3) further export prohibitions; (4) import
restrictions; (5) suspension of diplomatic relations; and (6)
termination of air carrier landing rights. Provides for the removal
and waiver of such sanctions.

Requires
the President to submit to the Congress annual reports on the efforts
of countries to acquire chemical or biological weapons.

Repeals
certain duplicative provisions of the Foreign Relations Authorization
Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993.

It
is important to note that nowhere in this law is there a legal
commitment made by the United States itself, to eliminate its own
chemical and biological weapons capabilities. This is not an
oversight, yet speaks to the imperial hypocrisy of the United States
and an acknowledgement that it alone has been the largest perpetrator
of chemical weapons use and proliferation for more than 50 years. It
currently maintains the largest stockpile of both chemical and
biological warfare agents of any nation on the planet, and continues
to expand its biological weapons research and development on a scale
far larger than any other country.

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

While
the U.S. Department of Defense maintains that its massive biological
research programs are meant to counter and defend against new
biological weapons being developed, they are in fact developing
bio-weapons in the process.

International
Obligations and the OPCW

Russia is one of 192 signatories (state and non-state parties) of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, along with the United States. On September 27th, 2017 it was announced by Russia and the OPCW, that Russia had verified the total destruction of its large chemical weapons stockpile dating from the years of the Soviet Union, estimated at 39,967 metric tons of chemical agents. Russia was obligated to do this by 2020, yet was able to accomplish the task three years ahead of schedule. Under the original agreement, both the U.S. and Russia were obligated to accomplish this by 2007, but both nations required an extension of the deadline.

Although
admitting to a total stockpile of 28,000 metric tons of chemical
agents, the U.S. admits to destroying 90% of its chemical arsenal.
The U.S. requested and was granted an extension out to 2023 to
achieve verified elimination of 100% of its chemical weapons. The
only other signatory of the law other than the United States not to
have already met the requirements is Iraq. It must be stated that
much of the chemical weapons in the Iraqi arsenal are based on the
chemical warfare agents supplied to the Saddam Hussein regime during
the height of the Iran-Iraq war by the United States and other
western nations. Saddam used some of these U.S. supplied weapons to
murder thousands of Iraqi Kurds in the town of Halabja in 1988.
Estimates range between 3,000 – 7,000 deaths and over 10,000
injured.  

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

Saddam
Hussein was a valued asset of the United States and its Western
allies for decades. Hussein pictured above with former French
President Jacque Chirac and U.S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Not
only did the United States, and France for that matter, provide
chemical weapons to the Saddam regime, but the U.S. intelligence
agencies provided the Iraqi military with vital battlefield
intelligence, including satellite imagery in aiding them in the war.
The U.S. was well aware that the Saddam regime had used chemical
weapons in at least four offensives during the war. Of course they
knew, they had facilitated the transfer of these weapons to help the
Iraqis prosecute a war of aggression against Iran. Declassified CIA
documents clearly show that the United States was well aware that the
Iraqis had used chemical weapons at least four times between 1983 and
1988. Iran had accused Iraq of using chemical weapons, and tried to
build a case to bring before the United Nations. The United States
withheld its knowledge of course, and continued to aid its ally in
perpetrating these crimes against humanity.

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

Perhaps
the most powerful photo taken of the Halabja chemical attack
perpetrated against Iraqi Kurds. This woman died running with her
child in an attempt to save her, yet could not escape the deadly
effects of the chemical agents used. Their embrace will forever
symbolize both human love and sacrifice, and unfathomable human
cruelty.

U.S.
Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley has lied through her teeth
repeatedly in her statements before the U.N. Security Council and the
General Assembly. She has stated repeatedly that Assad has used
chemical weapons against his own people in Ghouta in 2013, Khan
Shaykhun in 2017 and Douma in 2018, yet has not supplied one shred of
evidence beyond dubious social media posts of unknown provenance. She
has also stated that the United States is certain that it could only
be the Syrian government, as no other party in the conflict zone
could possibly possess chemical weapons. Here’s the problem with
her statement. Firstly, the United States and the OPCW verified that
Syria destroyed or surrendered all of its chemical weapons agents. On
its official website, the OPCW states:

Veolia,
the US firm contracted by the OPCW to dispose of part of the Syrian
chemical weapons stockpile, has completed disposal of 75 cylinders of
hydrogen fluoride at its facility in Texas.

This
completes destruction of all chemical weapons declared by the Syrian
Arab Republic.  The need to devise a technical solution for
treating a number of cylinders in a deteriorated and hazardous
condition had delayed the disposal process.

Commenting
on this development, the Director-General of the OPCW, Ambassador
Ahmet Üzümcü, said: “This process closes an important chapter in
the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapon programme as we continue
efforts to clarify Syria’s declaration and address ongoing use of
toxic chemicals as weapons in that country.”

Secondly,
the OPCW and the UN have both verified that opposition forces within
Syria have used chemical agents as weapons on numerous occasions
during the conflict. Not only has Carla Del Ponte, UN human rights
investigator, former UN Chief Prosecutor and ICC attorney stated that
opposition forces had used chemical weapons, but also the former OPCW
head field investigator in Syria Jerry Smith stated to the BBC that
he found it very unlikely that the government perpetrated these
chemical attacks.. As recently as October of last year the U.S. State
Department itself seemed to acknowledge the same truth in its warning
to U.S. citizens traveling to Syria. The travel warning stated:

Tactics
of ISIS, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, and other violent extremist groups
include the use of suicide bombers, kidnapping, small and heavy arms,
improvised explosive devices, 
and
chemical weapons.

They
have targeted major city centers, road checkpoints, border crossings,
government buildings, shopping areas, and open spaces
,
in Damascus, Aleppo, Hamah, Dara, Homs, Idlib, and Dayr al-Zawr
provinces.”


U.S. History of Using Chemical Weapons and Supporting Those that Do

The
last country in the world that should lecture anyone on the
possession and use of WMDs is the United States. Not only is the
United States the only country in history to ever target civilians
with multiple atomic bombs, it has used chemical weapons against the
populations of Southeast Asia and Iraq in the past. Now, they were
smart enough not to use mustard gas and anthrax, but the accumulative
effects of Agent Orange and depleted uranium in these populations has
been devastating, and will not only cause great harm and pain for
these populations, but will leave the land poisoned for generations.  

The
United States sprayed copious quantities of TCDD (dioxin
tetrachlordibenzo-para-dioxin), a class 1 carcinogen all over regions
of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in an attempt to defoliate the jungle
environment, and thus rob their enemy of an environment they excelled
at fighting in and hiding in as part of Operation Ranch Hand. Known
as Agent Orange, the chemical was banned in the U.S. in 1970.
Although extremely hard to quantify, the devastating effects of
dioxin exposure in the Vietnamese population are easily identifiable,
as the same effects were observed in U.S. veterans that returned home
after exposure to the toxin. Abnormally high levels of various
cancers and debilitating birth defects are present in Southeast Asian
populations in areas of greatest use of Agent Orange. Dioxins remain
in the soil and water table, as they do not degrade naturally. Dioxin
also bio-accumulates in the fatty tissues of animals and thus remains
in the food supply.

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

One
of the many young Vietnamese born long after the war with
debilitating, neurodevelopmental diseases and birth defects due to
Agent Orange exposure of their parents.

The
United States learned little from the crime it perpetrated in
Southeast Asia, nor did it seem to care as it repeated a similar
offense in two successive invasions of Iraq. Having failed to achieve
its aim of defeating Iran through its brutal Iraqi proxy, even after
helping the Saddam Hussein regime in chemical warfare attacks against
Iranian soldiers and Iraqi Kurdish civilians, the United States
largely ignored the numerous atrocities carried out by one of its
favorite dictators. The U.S. would turn on its erstwhile henchman in
1990, after Saddam decided to attack one of its favorite corrupt
emirates in the region. The resulting 1991 invasion of Iraq saw the
heavy use of depleted uranium armored piercing rounds. Depleted
uranium is extremely dense, and thus good for piercing hardened steel
or composite armor. The follow-on invasion of 2003 brought more death
and destruction, and more depleted uranium.

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

Locations
of depleted uranium munitions used by U.S. Airforce A-10 ground
attack aircraft in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. Depleted Uranium is
also used in anti-armor munitions utilized by all U.S. tanks and
armored fighting vehicles as well, so the true breadth of
distribution and employment of depleted uranium in the above map are
understated.

The
U.S. has not funded the reclamation and disposal of depleted uranium
contaminated scrap in Iraq. The new Iraqi government has started
cleaning up the approximately 350 sites identified as having depleted
uranium contamination in the country, mostly around Basra and
Baghdad, yet also scattered over the entire country. It is estimated
that between 1,000 and 2,000 metric tons of depleted uranium used in
various munitions fired during the invasion of 2003 alone. It is hard
to narrow down the exact amount as the U.S. military has failed to
provide any definitive numbers. Iraqi doctors have recorded and
reported higher cases of cancers in adult patients and increased
birth defects in children being born in Iraq since the invasion took
place. The U.S. government seems determined to undermine any attempts
to draw direct correlations between this recorded phenomenon and its
use of depleted uranium in two successive wars in Iraq. It has also
fought all attempts by U.S. war veterans suffering from various
cancers and neurological diseases from their similar exposure in both
wars.

Continued Support of War Criminals

Nikki
Haley fails to acknowledge the historic role of the United States
government’s support of some of the world’s most horrible regimes
in the past. From the Khmer Rouge and Saddam Hussein then, to Saudi
Arabia and Tahrir al-Sham now, the United States has supported many
of the world’s most deplorable violators of human rights. Yet Nikki
Haley has the arrogance and delusional belief that she has the moral
high ground in chastising Syria and Russia before the U.N.?

Just
this week U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo clarified that the
Saudi and UAE have acted in good faith in taking steps to reduce
civilian casualties in their military operations in Yemen and that
the U.S. military would keep providing both material and direct
support to both nations in prosecuting their illegal war. U.S.
manufactured and supplied bombs are being used to kill civilians in
Yemen regularly, amounting to an estimated 15,000 killed or injured
civilians over a period of three years. This does not take into
account the deaths and suffering associated with the humanitarian
crisis that has resulted from the Saudi-led coalition destroying
virtually all infrastructure in the Houthi controlled part of the
country. I am sure that it is also just another “unintended
consequence” that al-Qaeda has expanded and strengthened its
position in Yemen as a direct result of the conflict. When will any
member state in the U.N. finally tell Nikki Haley that the Security
Council must acknowledge that al-Qaeda has always been a proxy of
Saudi Arabia and the United States?

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

Children
injured when a Saudi airstrike targeted a school bus in Saada, Yemen.
A total of 51 civilians, 40 of them children below the age of 15 were
killed in the strike. The United States supplies the aircraft, bombs,
aerial refueling and intelligence gathering resources to support the
bombing campaign.

Nikki
Haley continues to claim that Russia is directly facilitating an
impending humanitarian disaster and war crime in the impending Syrian
military operations to retake Idlib province, destroy a host of ISIS
and al-Qaeda linked terrorist groups and liberate hundreds of
thousands of civilians. She said the same thing during the battle to
liberate Aleppo. Her lies were revealed when the SAA and Russia
finally liberated the city and Syrian civilians who were kept as
prisoners there by the Islamic terrorists were finally free of the
horror of their captivity. Is it no wonder that tens of thousands of
Syrian refugees displaced by the conflict are now returning to their
home country?

Apparently
Nikki Haley sees no issue at all in Imperial America supporting Saudi
Arabia and the UAE killing Yemeni civilians by the thousands in
Yemen. The U.S. not only supplies the bombs, but directly provides
in-flight refueling of the aircraft and the intelligence used to
conduct the “precision” strikes that target schools, hospitals,
funerals, and even school bus loads of children. Does this surprise
anyone? U.S. coalition airstrikes against ISIL in Raqqa and Mosul
killed an estimated 6,000 civilians. In Raqqa, U.S. aircraft
conducted 90% of the airstrikes, and the U.S. fired at least 30,000
artillery rounds into the city. The U.S. has yet to pay any political
or legal price for its indiscriminant destruction of these cities.

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

One
of thousands of airstrikes carried out on the Syrian city of Raqqa.
The U.S. led coalition was widely criticized for its blatant
disregard for civilian casualties in its targeting of the city as
part of its offensive to destroy ISIL. They have yet to be held
accountable for the estimated 800-1,000 civilians deaths caused.

The Russian Response

Russia
needs to finally accept the reality that there is nothing to be
gained by negotiating, or attempting to collaborate with the United
States in solving problems. It’s like a shepherd using a wolf to
defend his flock, or a detective enlisting the aid of a criminal to
solve a crime that the criminal is a co-conspirator in perpetrating.
It is illogical in the extreme. The Russian U.N. mission needs to
call out Nikki Haley and the U.S. on its own deplorable record and
hypocrisy and while seeking  the aid of other member states,
must also realizing that most of them are bought-off by Washington.
Hasn’t Haley repeatedly threatened to stop giving money to nations
that do not support her resolutions?

The
Russians need to realize that they can never have a mutually
respectful and beneficial relationship with the political and
financial elites that control the United States. Russia will always
find a friend in the American people, but Washington? This same elite
despises the American people more than it does Putin or Assad. If it
wasn’t for working class American citizens fed up with the U.S.
establishment elite, we would likely already be in a direct war with
Russia, China and Iran. I hope that the Russian political and
military leadership understands this. Stop trying to placate
Washington and start preparing to defend your nation. The Deep State
will not stop at Ukraine or Syria. They desire the complete
subjugation of Russia and a return to the Yeltsin days, or worse.

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*  Een aantal gifgasaanvallen vond niet eens plaats, zo bleek uit
onderzoek van o.a. de VN……

PS: Israël en Egypte behoren tot de weinige landen die het CWC niet hebben getekend en nog steeds chemische wapens produceren, opslaan en verkopen…….. Niet ondenkbaar dus dat de terreurgroepen in Syrië (‘gematigde rebellen) hun gifgas hebben betrokken uit Israël en/of Egypte, beiden grote vijanden van het Syrische Assad bewind…… Israël heeft al een paar keer aangegeven samen te werken met die terreurgroepen en zelfs samenwerking met IS niet uit de weg te gaan……. Dat deze terreurgroepen gifgas bezitten, waaronder sarin en chlorine deert het westen blijkbaar niet….. Overigens gebruiken veel westerse landen die het verdrag ondertekenden wel een chemisch wapen dat ze ook opgeslagen hebben, t.w. traangas……… Onlangs bleek overigens dat Nederland in het bezit is van nog veel gevaarlijker chemische wapens, die door TNO worden onderzocht……. (volgens het verdrag mag je ook geen chemische wapens in het bezit hebben…)

Zie ook:

BBC weer met anti-Syrische propaganda en veel aandacht voor de geweldige Turken en hun leider Erdogan‘ (met links naar ander gifgas gebruik in Syrië)

 

VS bewapening van Irak met chemische en biologische wapens valt onder leeftijdscensuur van YouTube‘ 

VS heeft al 4 keer het verboden chemische wapen witte fosfor gebruikt

Meer voorbeelden van grootschalige VS terreur:

VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

List of wars involving the United States

VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..

VS: openlijke militaire oefening met terreurgroep in Syrië……

NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO………

VS commando’s vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog………

De VS, een duivels imperium, dat achter haar psychopathisch moordende troepen staat??

De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht

Skripal: wat journalisten echt zouden moeten vragen aangaande ‘de aanslag met gifgas’

De
reactie, of beter gezegd de hysterie na de ‘aanslag’ gepleegd op Skripal en zijn dochter is
werkelijk ongelofelijk, zonder ook maar één flinter van bewijs werd
en wordt Rusland (het liefst gebruikt men de naam Putin) de schuld in
de schoenen geschoven…. Alsof het een oorlogsdaad betrof, wezen een aantal NAVO landen Russische diplomaten uit, nogmaals op
basis van nul komma nada bewijs…… VVD volksverlakkers Rutte en Blok spraken zelfs over ‘plausibel bewijs….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Drie dagen geleden werd bekend gemaakt dat de dochter van Skripal uit het ziekenhuis werd ontslagen, terwijl eerder vorige week werd gesteld dat wanneer de Skripals de aanslag zouden overleven, ze de rest van hun leven zwaar gehandicapt zouden zijn, als een soort van levende planten…….. Met het ontslaan uit het ziekenhuis van Skripals dochter werd de internationale hysterie nog eens verder aan de kaak gesteld en moeten er nog grotere vraagtekens worden gezet bij de beschuldigingen aan het adres van de Russen…………

Rob
Slane schreef eerder een artikel genaamd: ’30 More Questions That
Journalists Should be Asking About the Skripal Case’ (de link naar
dat artikel vindt je als eerste link in het tweede artikel van Slane,
dat hieronder is opgenomen). 30 vragen waarmee Slane duidelijk maakt
dat de Britse versie over de ‘aanslag’ is gebaseerd op lucht.

Intussen
is er weer heel wat meer bekend over de leugens waarmee Rusland
werd/wordt beschuldigd, reden voor Slane om een vervolg te schrijven
op zijn eerste artikel met de titel: ’20 More Questions That
Journalists Shoul be Asking About the Skripal Case’. (zoals gezegd hieronder te vinden)

Slane vraagt zich o.a. af hoe andere landen dan Groot-Brittannië op 26
maart het besluit hebben kunnen nemen Russische diplomaten uit te
zetten, terwijl de Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) het
onderzoek naar de zaak nog niet had afgerond en de bloedmonsters nog niet kon analyseren (voor toestemming dit bloed te onderzoeken door de OPCW, was godbetert een proces nodig….)…… 

Zelfs de analyse van de bloedmonsters door Porton Down laten vragen open……. (Porton Down is een instituut van de Britse overheid, dus gekleurde onderzoeksuitslagen, die in het straatje van de regering May passen, zijn niet te ontlopen, ofwel: Porton Down ondersteunt de anti-Russische propaganda* van de Britse overheid en de reguliere westerse media…..)  

Gezien alles wat intussen bekend is geworden, ‘zou je je zelfs af kunnen vragen’, of het hier niet om een false flag operatie gaat, ofwel een operatie gedaan om in dit geval een ander land (Rusland) in een kwaad daglicht te stellen. 

20
More Questions That Journalists Should be Asking About the Skripal
Case

 March
27, 2018
  Rob
Slane

To
my knowledge, none of the questions I wrote in my previous piece – 
30
questions That Journalists Should be Asking About the Skripal Case
 –
has been answered satisfactorily, at least not in the public domain.
Yet despite the fact that these legitimate questions have not yet
been answered, and many important facts surrounding the case are
still unknown, the case has given rise to a serious international
crisis, with the extraordinary expulsion of Russian diplomats across
many EU countries and particularly the United States on March 26th.

This
is a moment to stop and pause. A man and his daughter were poisoned
in the City of Salisbury on 4th March. Yet despite the fact that
investigators do not yet appear to know how they were poisoned, when
they were poisoned, or where they were poisoned, a number of Western
nations have used the incident as a pretext for the co-ordinated
expulsion of diplomats on a scale not witnessed even during the
height of the Cold War. These are clearly very abnormal and very
dangerous times.

I
pointed out in my previous piece that it is not my intention to
advance some sort of conspiracy theory on this blog. It remains the
case that I simply don’t have any holistic theory — “conspiracy”
or otherwise — for who carried this out, and I continue to retain
an open mind. But since the Government of my country has rushed to
judgement without many of the facts of the case being established,
and since this has led to the biggest deterioration in relations
between nuclear-armed nations since the Cuban Missile Crisis, it
seems to me that it is more important than ever to keep asking
questions in the hope that answers will come.

And
so, for what it’s worth, here are 20 more important questions that
I think that journalists ought to be asking regarding this case:

1. Have
the police yet identified any suspects in the case?

2. If
so, is there any evidence connecting them to the Russian Government?

3. If
not, how is it possible to determine culpability, as the British
Government has done?

4. In
her statement to 
the
House of Commons on 12th March 2018
,
the British Prime Minister, Theresa May stated the following:

It
is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with 
a
military-grade nerve agent
 of
a type developed by Russia. 
This
is part of a group of nerve agents known as ‘Novichok’
.
Based on the 
positive
identification
 of
this chemical agent by world-leading experts at the Defence Science
and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down” [my emphasis added].

In
the judgement at the High Court on 22nd March
 on
whether to allow blood samples to be taken from Sergei and Yulia
Skripal for examination by the Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons (OPCW), evidence submitted by Porton Down to the
court (Section 17 i) stated the following:

Blood
samples from Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal were analysed and the
findings indicated exposure to a nerve agent 
or
related compound
.
The samples tested positive for the presence of a Novichok class
nerve agent 
or
closely related agent

[my emphasis added].

So
the Prime Minister said that Porton Down had 
positively
identified
 the
substance as a Novichok nerve agent. The statement from Porton Down
says that their tests indicated that it was a Novichok
agent 
or closely
related agent
.
Are these two statements saying exactly the same thing?

5. Why
were the phrases “related compound” and “closely related agent”
added to the statement given by Porton Down, and is this an
indication that the scientists were not 100% sure that the substance
was a “Novichok” nerve agent?

6. Why
were these phrases left out of the Prime Minister’s statement to
the House of Commons?

7. Why
did the Prime Minister choose to use the word “Novichok” in her
speech, rather than the word 
Foliant,
which is the actual name of the programme initiated by the Soviet
Union when attempting to develop a new class of chemical weapons in
the 1970s and 1980s?

8. When
asked in 
an
interview with Deutsche Welle
 how
scientists at Porton Down had found out so quickly that the nerve
agent was of the “Novichok” class of chemical weapons, the
Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, was asked whether Porton Down
possesses samples of it. Here is how he replied:

They
do
.
And they were absolutely categorical and I asked the guy myself, I
said, ‘Are you sure?’ And he said there’s no doubt” [My
emphasis].

If
Mr Johnson’s statement is correct, and the Defence Science and
Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down has samples of “Novichok”
in its possession, where did they come from?

9. Were
they produced at Porton Down?

10. How
long have they had them?

11. Why
has the DSTL not registered possession of these substances with the
OPCW, which it is legally obliged to do under the Chemical Weapons
Convention (CWC)?

12. Does
this admission by Mr Johnson not indicate that “Novichoks” can be
made in any advanced chemical weapons facility, as indeed they were
under the auspices of the 
OPCW
in Iran in 2016
?

13. If
so, how can the Government be sure that the substance used to poison
Mr Skripal and his daughter was made in or produced by Russia?

14. In her
statement to the House of Commons on Wednesday 14th March
,
the British Prime Minister stated that there were only two plausible
explanations for poisoning of Mr Skripal and his daughter:

Either
this was a direct act by the Russian State against our country. Or
conceivably, the Russian government could have lost control of a
military-grade nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of
others.”

Other
than the actual substance used, is there any hard evidence that led
the Government to conclude these as being the only two plausible
scenarios?

15. On
March 26th, a number of countries expelled Russian diplomats in an
apparent response to the incident in Salisbury. Yet at this time, the
OPCW had not yet investigated the case, nor analysed blood samples.
Why was the clearly co-ordinated decision to expel diplomats taken
before the OPCW’s investigation had concluded?

16. Has
this not put huge pressure on the OPCW to come up with “the right”
conclusion?

17. It
is reckoned that the OPCW’s investigation into the substance used
will take at least three weeks to complete, whereas it took Porton
Down less than a week to analyse it. What accounts for this
difference?

18. Will
the OPCW be using the samples of “Novichok” that Boris Johnson
says are held at Porton Down to compare with the blood samples of Mr
Skripal and his daughter?

19. If
not, on what basis will this comparison be made, since the first
known synthesis of a “Novichok” was made by Iran in 2016?

20. If
the OPCW discovers that the substance is indeed a “Novichok”,
will this be sufficient evidence with which to establish who carried
out the attack on the Skripals or — given that other countries
clearly have the capability to produce such substances — would more
evidence be needed?

===================================

* Anti-Russische propaganda waarvan de zaak Skripal maar één voorbeeld uit velen is……

Moet wel toegeven dat ik de vraagstelling van Slane niet helemaal begrijp, immers de hijgerige reguliere westerse massamedia brengen met grote graagte zoveel mogelijk ‘nieuws’ (voornamelijk ‘nepnieuws’) waarmee Rusland als de slechterik wordt afgeschilderd….. Neem alleen al het continu volhouden door deze media van de leugen dat Rusland De Krim heeft geannexeerd, terwijl men dondersgoed weet dat de bevolking van De Krim (inclusief de oorspronkelijke bevolking) zich in een door internationale waarnemers als eerlijk en goed beoordeeld referendum hebben uitgesproken voor aansluiting bij Rusland. Vooral de VS coup tegen de door hen democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj, stak de bevolking van De Krim, waar de door de VS geparachuteerde fascistische junta (gecontroleerd door neonazi’s) de druppel was, die hen tot het besluit brachten te stemmen voor aansluiting bij Rusland……

Zie ook: ‘Novitsjok Skripal sprookje? Lees dit bericht!

       en: ‘Skripal vergiftiging roept steeds meer vraagtekens op…..

Skripal vergiftiging roept steeds meer vraagtekens op…..

        en: ‘Rusland schuldig verklaard voor aanslag op Skripal, echter onafhankelijke controle van ‘het bewijsmateriaal’ wordt geweigerd……

        en: ‘Novitsjok (Novichok) een Russisch chemische wapen >> één grote leugen, zoals de massavernietigingswapen van Saddam Hoessein

        en: ‘Rusland verlangt terecht een excuus van de Britse regering voor valse beschuldiging ‘aanslag’ op Skripal…..

        en: ‘Novitsjok (novichok) uitgelegd door wetenschappers, Groot-Brittannië zit ‘goed fout….

        en: ‘Skripal: geen (onomstotelijk) bewijs voor Russische schuld en toch stuurt Rutte 2 Russische diplomaten het land uit……..

        en: ‘Stef Blok (VVD minister BuZa): de Russische schuld voor de aanslag op Skripal is ‘plausibel…’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

        en: ‘Rusland mag niet deelnemen aan onderzoek naar ‘aanslag met novitsjok’ op Skripal

        en: ‘Brits ministerie van Buitenlandse Zalen geeft toe dat Porton Down niet heeft gezegd dat ‘novitsjok’ uit Rusland komt….. Blok (VVD) alweer met 10 km/u. finaal uit de ‘novitsjok-bocht’

        en: ‘Russisch zenuwgas verhaal is nonsens ook aldus Jeremy Corbyn….. Jimmy Dore met commentaar!

        en: ‘OPCW bevestigt: novitsjok (novichok) van aanslag op Skripal komt uit Rusland……

        en: ‘Skripal false flag operatie zakt als soufflé in elkaar…….

        en: ‘Nieuwe ‘novitsjok aanslag’ nadat de Skripal vergiftiging definitief kan worden afgeschreven als false flag operatie

        en: ‘Skripal: GB klaagt 2 Russen aan voor vergiftiging middels een sci-fi techniek: de 2 waren tegelijk op 1 plek, waar 1 Rus te zien was……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Novitsjok (Novichok) een Russisch chemische wapen >> één grote leugen, zoals de massavernietigingswapen van Saddam Hoessein

In
twee artikelen, van Craig Murray die Information Cleariung House
publiceerde, geeft hij aan wat een enorm oor ons werd en word aangenaaid aangaande het gifgas ‘novitsjok’ en de aanslag op Sergei Skripal en zijn dochter…….

De
constatering van May dat deze stof alleen in militaire laboratoria
kan worden gemaakt, is een leugen van formaat…


Nog één: Porton Down, het onderzoekscentrum gaf aan dat ‘de gevonden novitsjok’ uit Rusland kwam, echter dat is volkomen onmogelijk, daar Porton Down nooit beschikte over een Russische staal van dit spul. Porton Down heeft op basis van de formule het gif gemaakt, maar dat kan overal ter wereld gemaakt worden en bepaald niet alleen in ‘militaire laboratoria!’


Niet voor niets dan ook, dat de Britse regering een onafhankelijk onderzoek naar het gevonden gif weigert…… Dit weigert deze regering zelfs aan de OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons). Deze VN organisatie is trouwens 10 jaar lang bezig geweest met het vernietigen van de Russische voorraden chemische wapens en ook de centra waar deze stoffen werden gemaakt, zijn ontmanteld, ook die waar volgens een Russische getuige, Mirzayanov zogenaamd novitsjok werd gemaakt, zijn ontmanteld……


Waar niemand over lult, zijn de Israëliërs, die enorme voorraden gifgas hebben en nog steeds chemische wapens maakt en ontwikkelt…… Israël maakt geen deel uit van de Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), een organisatie die een internationaal verbod op chemische wapens wil bewerkstelligen, noch is Israël lid van de eerder genoemde OPCW. Ook buurland Egypte beschikt over grote voorraden chemische wapens. De gifgasaanvallen in Syrië door de ‘gematigde rebellen’ werden dan ook gedaan met voorraden uit of Israël dan wel Egypte, beiden landen die schijt hebben aan mensenrechten en/of oorlogsmisdaden……..


Het hele novitsjok verhaal is daarom precies zo betrouwbaar als het verhaal over de massavernietigingswapens van Saddam Hoessein, de enorme leugen die tot de illegale oorlog tegen Irak leidden, deze heeft tot nu toe aan dik meer dan 1,5 miljoen doden geleid…….


‘Je zou bijna gaan denken’ dat de VS en/of GB deze gifgasaanval hebben gepleegd om Rusland verder te demoniseren, ofwel de aanslag zou heel goed een ‘false flag operatie’ kunnen zijn…………. (‘false flag’ in dit geval: een aanslag plegen en deze op zo’n manier doen dat het op een vijandige aanslag lijkt….)

Lees
en het volgende artikel en geeft het ajb door, de kring van leugens
moet doorbroken worden, voordat er echt grote ongelukken gebeuren!

The
Novichok Story Is Indeed Another Iraqi WMD Scam

By
Craig Murray

March
16, 2018 “Information
Clearing House
” –
 As
recently as 2016 Dr Robin Black, Head of the Detection Laboratory at
the UK’s only chemical weapons facility at Porton Down, a former
colleague of Dr David Kelly, published in an extremely prestigious
scientific journal that the evidence for the existence of Novichoks
was scant and their composition unknown.

In
recent years, there has been much speculation that a fourth
generation of nerve agents, ‘Novichoks’ (newcomer), was developed
in Russia, beginning in the 1970s as part of the ‘Foliant’
programme, with the aim of finding agents that would compromise
defensive countermeasures. Information on these compounds has been
sparse in the public domain, mostly originating from a dissident
Russian military chemist, Vil Mirzayanov. No independent confirmation
of the structures or the properties of such compounds has been
published. (Black, 2016)

Robin
Black. (2016) Development, Historical Use and Properties of Chemical
Warfare Agents. Royal Society of Chemistry

Yet
now, the British Government is claiming to be able instantly to
identify a substance which its only biological weapons research
centre has never seen before and was unsure of its existence. Worse,
it claims to be able not only to identify it, but to pinpoint its
origin. Given Dr Black’s publication, it is plain that claim cannot
be true.

The
world’s international chemical weapons experts share Dr Black’s
opinion. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW) is a UN body based in the Hague. In 2013 this was the report
of its Scientific Advisory Board, which included US, French, German
and Russian government representatives and on which Dr Black was the
UK representative:

[The
SAB] emphasised that the definition of toxic chemicals in the
Convention would cover all potential candidate chemicals that might
be utilised as chemical weapons. Regarding new toxic chemicals not
listed in the Annex on Chemicals but which may nevertheless pose a
risk to the Convention, the SAB makes reference to “Novichoks”.
The name “Novichok” is used in a publication of a former Soviet
scientist who reported investigating a new class of nerve agents
suitable for use as binary chemical weapons. The SAB states that it
has insufficient information to comment on the existence or
properties of “Novichoks”. (OPCW, 2013)

OPCW:
Report of the Scientific Advisory Board on developments in science
and technology for the Third Review Conference 27 March 2013

Indeed
the OPCW was so sceptical of the viability of “novichoks” that it
decided – with US and UK agreement – not to add them nor their
alleged precursors to its banned list. In short, the scientific
community broadly accepts Mirzayanov was working on “novichoks”
but doubts he succeeded.

Given
that the OPCW has taken the view the evidence for the existence of
“Novichoks” is dubious, if the UK actually has a sample of one it
is extremely important the UK presents that sample to the OPCW.
Indeed the UK has a binding treaty obligation to present that sample
to OPCW. Russa has – unreported by the corporate media – entered
a demand at the OPCW that Britain submit a sample of the Salisbury
material for international analysis.

Yet
Britain refuses to submit it to the OPCW.

Why?

A
second part of May’s accusation is that “Novichoks” could only
be made in certain military installations. But that is also
demonstrably untrue. If they exist at all, Novichoks were allegedly
designed to be able to be made at bench level in any commercial
chemical facility – that was a major point of them. The only real
evidence for the existence of Novichoks was the testimony of the
ex-Soviet scientist Mizayanov. And this is what Mirzayanov actually
wrote.

One
should be mindful that the chemical components or precursors of A-232
or its binary version novichok-5 are ordinary organophosphates that
can be made at commercial chemical companies that manufacture such
products as fertilizers and pesticides.

Vil
S. Mirzayanov, “Dismantling the Soviet/Russian Chemical Weapons
Complex: An Insider’s View,” in Amy E. Smithson, Dr. Vil S.
Mirzayanov, Gen Roland Lajoie, and Michael Krepon, Chemical Weapons
Disarmament in Russia: Problems and Prospects, Stimson Report No. 17,
October 1995, p. 21.

It
is a scientific impossibility for Porton Down to have been able to
test for Russian novichoks if they have never possessed a Russian
sample to compare them to. They can analyse a sample as conforming to
a Mirzayanov formula, but as he published those to the world twenty
years ago, that is no proof of Russian Nukus origin. If Porton Down can
synthesise it, so can many others, not just the Russians.

And
finally – Mirzayanov is an Uzbek name and the novichok programme,
assuming it existed, was in the Soviet Union but far away from modern
Russia, at Nukus in modern Uzbekistan. I have visited the Nukus
chemical weapons site myself. It was dismantled and made safe and all
the stocks destroyed and the equipment removed by the American
government, as I recall finishing while I was Ambassador there. There
has in fact never been any evidence that any “novichok” ever
existed in Russia itself.

To
summarise:

    1)
    Porton Down has acknowledged in publications it has never seen any
    Russian “novichoks”. The UK government has absolutely no
    “fingerprint” information such as impurities that can safely
    attribute this substance to Russia.
    2) Until now, neither Porton
    Down nor the world’s experts at the Organisation for the
    Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) were convinced “Novichoks”
    even exist.
    3) The UK is refusing to provide a sample to the
    OPCW.
    4) “Novichoks” were specifically designed to be able to
    be manufactured from common ingredients on any scientific bench. The
    Americans dismantled and studied the facility that allegedly
    developed them. It is completely untrue only the Russians could make
    them, if anybody can.
    5) The “Novichok” programme was in
    Uzbekistan not in Russia. Its legacy was inherited by the Americans
    during their alliance with Karimov, not by the Russians.

With
a great many thanks to sources who cannot be named at this moment.



Of
A Type Developed By Liars

By
Craig Murray

March
16, 2018 “Information
Clearing House
” –
  I
have now received confirmation from a well placed FCO source that
Porton 
Down
scientists are not able to identify the nerve gas as being of Russian
manufacture, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on
them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation “of
a type developed by Russia” after a rather difficult meeting where
this was agreed as a compromise formulation. The Russians were
allegedly researching, in the “Novichok” programme a generation
of nerve agents which could be produced from commercially available
precursors such as insecticides and fertilisers. This substance is a
“novichok” in that sense. It is of that type. Just as I am typing
on a laptop of a type developed by the United States, though this one
was made in China.

To
anybody with a Whitehall background this has been obvious for several
days. The government has never said the nerve agent was made in
Russia, or that it can only be made in Russia. The exact formulation
“of a type developed by Russia” was used by Theresa May in
parliament, used by the UK at the UN Security Council, used by Boris
Johnson on the BBC yesterday and, most tellingly of all, “of a type
developed by Russia” is 
the
precise phrase
 used
in the joint communique issued by the UK, USA, France and
Germany 
yesterday:

This
use of a military-grade nerve agent, of a type developed by Russia,
constitutes the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since
the Second World War.

When
the same extremely careful phrasing is never deviated from, you know
it is the result of a very delicate Whitehall compromise. My FCO
source, like me, remembers the extreme pressure put on FCO staff and
other civil servants to sign off the dirty dossier on Iraqi WMD, some
of which pressure I recount in my memoir Murder in Samarkand. She
volunteered the comparison to what is happening now, particularly at
Porton Down, with no prompting from me.

Separately
I have written to the media office at OPCW to ask them to confirm
that there has never been any physical evidence of the existence of
Russian Novichoks, and the programme of inspection and destruction of
Russian chemical weapons was completed last year.

Did
you know these interesting facts?

OPCW
inspectors have had full access to all known Russian chemical weapons
facilities for over a decade – including those identified by the
“Novichok” alleged whistleblower Mirzayanov – and last year
OPCW inspectors completed the destruction of the last of 40,000
tonnes of Russian chemical weapons.

By
contrast the programme of destruction of US chemical weapons stocks
still has five years to run.

Israel
has extensive stocks
 of
chemical weapons but has always refused to declare any of them to the
OPCW. Israel is not a state party to the Chemical Weapons Convention
nor a member of the OPCW. Israel signed in 1993 but refused to ratify
as this would mean inspection and destruction of its chemical
weapons. Israel undoubtedly has as much technical capacity as any
state to synthesise “Novichoks”.

Until
this week, the near universal belief among chemical weapons experts,
and the 
official
position
 of
the OPCW, was that “Novichoks” were at most a theoretical
research programme which the Russians had never succeeded in actually
synthesising and manufacturing. That is why they are not on the OPCW
list of banned chemical weapons.

Porton
Down is still not certain it is the Russians who have apparently
synthesised a “Novichok”. Hence “Of a type developed by
Russia”. 
Note
developed, not made, produced or manufactured.

It
is very carefully worded propaganda. Of a type developed by liars.

UPDATE


This
post prompted another old colleague to get in touch. On the bright
side, the FCO have persuaded Boris he has to let the OPCW investigate
a sample. But not just yet. The expectation is the inquiry committee
will be chaired by a Chinese delegate. The Boris plan is to get the
OPCW also to sign up to the “as developed by Russia” formula, and
diplomacy to this end is being undertaken in Beijing right now.

I
don’t suppose there is any sign of the BBC doing any actual
journalism on this?

Craig
Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was
British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and
Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to
2010. 
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk

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  • See
    Also –

Russian
diplomat insists Moscow has never possessed novichok nerve agent

The
jingoistic fear of Russia is out of control
The
Salisbury poisoning has exposed the hysteria of Britain’s rulers.

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Zie ook: ‘Novitsjok Skripal sprookje? Lees dit bericht!

        en: ‘Skripal vergiftiging roept steeds meer vraagtekens op…..

        en: ‘Rusland schuldig verklaard voor aanslag op Skripal, echter onafhankelijke controle van ‘het bewijsmateriaal’ wordt geweigerd……

        en: ‘Rusland verlangt terecht een excuus van de Britse regering voor valse beschuldiging ‘aanslag’ op Skripal…..

        en: ‘Novitsjok (novichok) uitgelegd door wetenschappers, Groot-Brittannië zit ‘goed fout….’

       en: ‘Skripal: geen (onomstotelijk) bewijs voor Russische schuld en toch stuurt Rutte 2 Russische diplomaten het land uit……..

       en: ‘Stef Blok (VVD minister BuZa): de Russische schuld voor de aanslag op Skripal is ‘plausibel…’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Rusland mag niet deelnemen aan onderzoek naar ‘aanslag met novitsjok’ op Skripal

       en: ‘Brits ministerie van Buitenlandse Zalen geeft toe dat Porton Down niet heeft gezegd dat ‘novitsjok’ uit Rusland komt….. Blok (VVD) alweer met 10 km/u. finaal uit de ‘novitsjok-bocht’

       en: ‘Russisch zenuwgas verhaal is nonsens ook aldus Jeremy Corbyn….. Jimmy Dore met commentaar!

       en: ‘OPCW bevestigt: novitsjok (novichok) van aanslag op Skripal komt uit Rusland……

       en: ‘Skripal: wat journalisten echt zouden moeten vragen aangaande ‘de aanslag met gifgas’

       en: ‘Skripal false flag operatie zakt als soufflé in elkaar…….

       en: ‘Nieuwe ‘novitsjok aanslag’ nadat de Skripal vergiftiging definitief kan worden afgeschreven als false flag operatie

Dat was het voor deze dag mensen, morgen meer berichten; maak er als het even mogelijk is, een mooie dag van.