Vanmorgen
op zo ongeveer alle landelijke nieuwszenders in West-Europa het
bericht dat de Britten via camerabeelden hebben besloten dat Russen
‘inderdaad’ de Skripals hebben vergiftigd met novitsjok…… Welke
beelden vraag je je af? Simpel, beelden van Russen die voor deze
‘aanslag met novitsjok’ GB waren binnengekomen en daarna het land weer
verlaten hebben…… ha! ha! ha! ha! Dagelijks komen er vele
tientallen Russen het land in, om van een paar dagen tot weken daarna
weer terug te reizen naar hun moederland…… Voor de Britse geheime
diensten en politie is dit het bewijs dat de Russen
verantwoordelijk zijn voor de vergiftiging met novitsjok……
Over
novitsjok gesproken: als de Skripals daadwerkelijk met dit chemische
wapen werden vergiftigd, hadden ze bij wijze van spreken al lang en
breed onder de groene zoden gelegen, novitsjok is dodelijk, zelfs tot
op vele tientallen meters van de plaats van vergiftiging!! (ofwel dan
waren er veel meer slachtoffers gevallen…) Men had Sergei Skripal zelfs al in de Russische gevangenis kunnen vermoorden……
Bovendien hebben de Russen herhaaldelijk gevraagd om een staal van het gif, zodat men dit zelf kan onderzoeken, verzoeken die telkens weer worden afgewezen door de kwaadaardige regering May……..
Zoals
zo vaak op deze plek betoogt: -de Russen hadden er totaal geen belang
bij de Skripals te vergiftigen, zeker niet in de aanloop van het WK voetbal in Rusland, -niet omdat de Russen al van alles wat
er mis gaat op deze planeet worden aangewezen als dader (en zoals gezegd: als
Rusland Sergei Skripal dood wilden hebben, was hij dat al lang en
breed geweest, zonder dat iemand de doodsoorzaak zou hebben kunnen
toeschrijven aan de Russen….)…. Bovendien zijn er genoeg dodelijke
stoffen, die niet uit de voormalige Sovjet-Unie komen (daarnaast hadden ook
andere voormalige Sovjet staten de formule voor novitsjok en
voldoende mogelijkheid dit gif te maken…..)
Gezien
dat laatste is het zeer goed mogelijk dat bijvoorbeeld Oekraine
Rusland in een kwaad daglicht wilde stellen, ofwel had een false flag
operatie kunnen uitvoeren in GB…. Met de toevoeging dat dit niet
met novitsjok is gebeurd, zoals eerder betoogd……
De
tweede vergiftiging met novitsjok zou best eens kunnen zijn
uitgevoerd met het echte spul….. Een vergiftiging waaraan een vrouw, die op geen enkele manier te verbinden is met Rusland, na een week
overleed…. Goed mogelijk dat deze vrouwe moest sterven puur en alleen om het publiek te overtuigen dat de Skripals
inderdaad met novitsjok werden ‘aangevallen…’
Zonder
enig commentaar op de vergiftiging met novitsjok, bijvoorbeeld met de
toevoeging dat de vergiftiging met novitsjok van de Skripals
feitelijk onmogelijk is en te wijzen op het totaal ontbreken van
bewijs voor deze leugen, berichtten de reguliere media vanmorgen dat
het bewijs voor de vergiftiging met novitsjok is geleverd…….
De
leugen dat de Skripals zijn vergiftigd met novitsjok is totaal
ongeloofwaardig en uitermate belachelijk!! Ofwel de reguliere
westerse media hebben zoals gewoonlijk een enorme berg fake news
(nepnieuws) gebracht en daarmee het zoveelste geval van (ongefundeerde) anti-Russische propaganda!!
Tot slot nog de volgende vraag: waarom mogen de Skripals geen contact hebben met de pers….??? Is men in GB bang dat met dergelijk contact het novitsjok verhaal en de beschuldiging aan het adres van Rusland al helemaal als belachelijk te boek komt te staan???
Het
volgende artikel van Philip Giraldi over de novitsjok vergiftiging
komt van Information Clearing House, overgenomen van Unz Review:
A
Tale of Two Poisonings
Shaping
a story to fit the agenda
By
Philip Giraldi
July
18, 2018 “Information
Clearing House” – Poisoning
enemies has a long history with Augustus Caesar’s wife Livia
allegedly a master of the art, as were the Borgias in Renaissance
Italy. Lately there has been a resurgence in allegations regarding
the use of poisons of various types by several governments. The
claims are particularly damaging both morally and legally as
international conventions regard the use of poisonous chemical
compounds as particularly heinous, condemning their use because they,
when employed in quantity, become “weapons of mass destruction,”
killing indiscriminately and horribly, making no distinction between
combatants and civilians. Their use is considered to be a “war
crime” and the government officials who ordered their deployment
are “war criminals,” subject to prosecution by the International
Criminal Court in The Hague.
There
are two important poisoning stories that have made the news recently.
Both are follow-ups to reporting that has appeared in the news over
the past few months and both are particularly interesting because
they tend to repudiate earlier coverage that had been largely
accepted by several governments as well as the media and the
chattering class of paid experts that appears on television.
The
first story relates to the poisoning of former Russian intelligence
agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March. There was quite
a bit that was odd about the Skripal case, which relied
from the start “…on
circumstantial evidence and secret intelligence.” And there was
inevitably a rush to judgment. British Foreign Secretary Boris
Johnson blamed Russia less than forty-eight hours after the Skripals
were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury England, too soon for
any chemical analysis of the alleged poisoning to have taken place.
British
Prime Minister Theresa May threw gasoline on the fire when she
addressed Parliament shortly thereafter to blame the Kremlin and
demand a Russian official response to the event in 36 hours,
declaring that the apparent poisoning was “very likely” caused by
a made-in-Russia nerve agent referred to by its generic name
novichok. The British media was soon on board with a vengeance,
spreading the government line that such a highly sensitive operation
would require the approval of President Vladimir Putin himself. The
expulsion of Russian diplomats soon followed with the United States
and other countries following suit.
Repeated
requests by Russia to obtain a sample of the alleged nerve agent for
testing were rejected by the British government in spite of the fact
that a military grade nerve agent would have surely killed both the
Skripals as well as anyone else within 100 yards. As the latest
British account of the location of the alleged poison places it on
the door handle of the Scripals’ residence, the timetable element
was also unconvincing. That meant that the two would have spent three
hours, including a stop at a pub and lunch, before succumbing on a
park bench. Military grade nerve agents kill instantly.
The
head of Britain’s own chemical weapons facility Porton Down even
contradicted claims made
by May, Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, and British Ambassador in
Moscow Laurie Bristow. The lab’s Chief Executive Gary Aitkenhead
testified that he did not know if the nerve agent was actually
produced in Russia, a not surprising observation as the chemical
formula was revealed to the public in a scientific paper in 1992 and
there are an estimated twenty countries capable of producing it.
There are also presumed stocks of novichok remaining in independent
countries that once were part of the Soviet Union, to include
Russia’s enemy du
jour Ukraine,
while a false flag operation by the British themselves, the CIA or
Mossad, is not unthinkable.
Nevertheless,
the politically weak May government, desperately seeking a formidable
foreign enemy to rally around against, insisted that Russia, almost
certainly acting under orders from Vladimir Putin himself, carried
out the killing of a former British double agent who had been
released from a Kremlin prison in a spy swap and who was no longer
capable of doing any damage to Russia. Putin apparently did all that
in spite of the fact that he had an election coming up and would be
the host of the World Cup in the summer, an event that would be an
absolute top priority to have go smoothly.
Now
there has been an actual death in Amesbury near Salisbury that has
been attributed to novichok. On June 30th,
Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess were admitted to hospital after
being found unconscious. Sturgess died eight days later. The May
government has not yet blamed it on Putin or even on a clumsy Russian
operative that might have inadvertently
left behind a
vial of poison or a used syringe, though Home Secretary Sajid Javid
came close to that when
he suggested that
Russia was using Britain as a “dumping ground for poisons.”
Police suggestions that the poisoned couple appear to have handled
novichok infused material of some kind before succumbing appears to
be contradicted by inability to find the actual source of the alleged
exposure.
British
government dancing around the issue notwithstanding, there have been
suggestions that the closest source of more novichok might well be
the U.K. government labs at nearby Porton Down, only seven miles from
Salisbury and Amesbury, which increases suspicion about the original
story promulgated by Downing Street. Would the British government
actually poison an expendable ex-Russian spy and his daughter to
divert attention from a domestic political problem at home? It’s
worth considering as the “blame it all on Putin narrative”
becomes even less credible.
The
second story comes from Syria, where there is also a Russian hand as
Moscow is aiding the government of Bashar al-Assad. The by now
notorious April 7, 2018 alleged chemical attack on the rebel-held
Syrian city of Douma was widely blamed by Western countries and the
mainstream media on Assad’s forces. This resulted in a decision by
U.S. President Donald Trump to order massive U.S.-led retaliatory
airstrikes against targets reportedly involved in chemical production
in and around Damascus.
Trump
blamed “animal
Assad” for “using
nerve agents” and
both the media and most European governments followed that line,
concluding that Damascus had ordered the chemical attacks a mere
moments after videos purporting to show scores of chemical attack
victims first surfaced from rebel sources, long before U.S.
intelligence could have made its own assessment. A 5-page White
House assessment released
on April 13th, just days after the alleged attack asserted
that sarin was used at Douma,
claiming that “A significant body of information points to the
regime using chlorine in its bombardment of Duma, while some
additional information points to the regime also using the nerve
agent sarin.”
Independent
sources warned at the time that not
a single neutral observer was on the ground to
confirm that chemical agents launched by the Syrian government had,
in fact, been used, but were ignored. All of the sources reporting
the attack were either affiliated with the rebels who occupied the
area or were not physically present in Douma.
Now,
finally, three months later, there has been a credible independent
report on what was determined about the attack through chemical
analysis of traces recovered in Douma. A preliminary report published
last Friday by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons (OPCW) found no traces of any nerve agent like sarin at the
site. The OPCW reportstates
this clearly:
“No organophosphorous nerve agents or their degradation products
were detected in the environmental samples or in the plasma samples
taken from alleged casualties.”
This
means that the Trump Administration claimed to have details relating
to an event in a foreign country that it did not know and could not
actually confirm to be true. And it used that as a justification for
ordering an airstrike that killed people and destroyed targets in
Syria. Will the White House respond to the OPCW report and apologize,
possibly to include reparations for an unjustified attack on another
sovereign nation? Don’t hold your breath.
The
Salisbury and Douma attacks are illustrative of just what happens
when a government is prepared to dissimulate or even lie to go the
extra mile to make a case to justify preemptive action that otherwise
might be challenged. Theresa May is, unfortunately, still in power
and so is Donald Trump. In a better world an outraged public would
demand that they be thrown out of office and even possibly subjected
to the tender ministrations of the International Criminal Court in
The Hague. With power comes accountability, or at least that should
be the rule, but it is a dictum that has for some time been ignored.
Even given that, one might hope that the blunders will not be
repeated, but there is not even any assurance that either May or
Trump is much given to “lessons learned” or that a Mike Pence or
Boris Johnson would be any better. That is our tragedy.
Philip
M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the
National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation
that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle
East. Website is www.councilforthenationalinterest.org, address
is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is
inform@cnionline.org.
This
article was originally published by “Unz
Review“ –
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Zie ook:
‘Rusland mag niet deelnemen aan onderzoek naar ‘aanslag met novitsjok’ op Skripal‘
‘Novitsjok (novichok) uitgelegd door wetenschappers, Groot-Brittannië zit ‘goed fout….‘
‘Skripal: wat journalisten echt zouden moeten vragen aangaande ‘de aanslag met gifgas’‘
‘Russisch zenuwgas verhaal is nonsens ook aldus Jeremy Corbyn….. Jimmy Dore met commentaar!‘
‘OPCW bevestigt: novitsjok (novichok) van aanslag op Skripal komt uit Rusland……‘
