American professor at the University of MIT has proved that the site of chemical attack in Syria’s Khan Sheykhun was tampered with and that Washington’s report slamming Damascus for an alleged chemical attack “cannot be true”.
American expert finds errors in US report on Syria chem attack
16 Apr 2017 - 8:35
American professor at the University of MIT has proved that the site of chemical attack in Syria’s Khan Sheykhun was tampered with and that Washington’s report slamming Damascus for an alleged chemical attack “cannot be true”.
In a six-page addendum written in reaction to the US government report on the incident, MIT Professor of Technology and National Security Policy Theodore Postol examined photographs of the the alleged attack site and concluded that the report endorsed by the White House “could not be true,” RT reported on Saturday, noting that Postol had shared his findings with the Russia-based news outlet.
Postol stated that his data “unambiguously shows that the assumption in the WHR (White House report) that there was no tampering with the alleged site of the sarin release is not correct.
This egregious error raises questions about every other claim in the WHR.”
Postol further insisted that such assumption was “totally unjustified,” and “no competent intelligence analyst would have agreed that this assumption was valid.”
By implication, he added that the report was not reviewed and released by competent intelligence experts – “unless they were motivated by factors other than concerns about the accuracy of the report.”
The professor’s key argument, according to the report, is based on a series of photographs of the crater where the container holding sarin was purportedly air-dropped, pointing out specifically to a photograph of several men inspecting the site while wearing loose clothing and medical gloves.
“If there were any sarin present at this location when this photograph was taken, everybody in the photograph would have received a lethal or debilitating dose of sarin,” he wrote. “The fact that these people were dressed so inadequately either suggests a complete ignorance of the basic measures needed to protect an individual from sarin poisoning, or that they knew that the site was not seriously contaminated.”
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