Both inspectors were part of the team that deployed to Syria to investigate allegations of a chemical weapons attack in the eastern Damascus suburb of Douma in April 2018. The US government accused the Syrian government of a chemical attack, justifying missile strikes on the country by the US and its allies.
But the inspectors in Douma found evidence that raised serious doubts that a chemical weapons attack ever occurred, and which pointed instead to the staging of the incident by anti-Assad extremists. Their findings were suppressed by OPCW leaders who re-wrote their initial report, then excluded the investigators from the ensuing process.
The letters by the two whistleblowers are a response to a recent OPCW inquiry that dismissed them as rogue actors "who could not accept that their views were not backed by evidence," and which baselessly accused them of "deliberate and premeditated breaches of confidentiality."
Comment: For more on the series of leaks, see the following:
- Scandal-ridden OPCW now using Twitter's "hide replies" function to silence dissent
- Peter Hitchens: Kafka comes to The Hague - OPCW shamefully throws whistleblowers under the bus
- New Leaks Shatter OPCW's Attacks on Douma Whistleblowers
The OPCW covered up the truth - plain and simple. Now the only thing they can do to hang on to their non-existent credibility is to smear the only individuals trying to uphold the OPCW's stated mission. That's what happens when you let the CIA tell you what to do. Unfortunately, it looks like they'll get away with it, fake credibility intact. Because so far, only the Daily Mail and maybe 1 or 2 other mainstream publications are even reporting on the scandal. That makes practically the entire MSM complicit, not only in the cover-up, but the war crime that resulted from it.