BBC has made a statement, and the rest of the London press as well as media in the Middle East have stated, that the reports about a Syrian government chemical weapons attack on Syrian citizens in Douma on April 7, 2018 were false. Two Anglo-American-French cruise missile attacks on Syria April 13, the trigger for those attacks and for the “Caesar sanctions” of the U.S. Congress, has been admitted to be a false report. On Sept. 7 the BBC Executive Complaints Office found that journalist Peter Hitchens was correct in saying the documentary was false concerning a chemical weapons inspector’s finding that the Douma “attack” was staged.
BBC acknowledged “glaring errors” and “serious flaws” in its November 2020 documentary about Douma on BBC4, entitled “Mayday: The Canister on the Bed.” These interesting phrases appear to mean the documentary was lying. In fact, already two years ago a BBC producer, Riam Dalati, told Iran’s PressTV that he could demonstrate the alleged chemical attack was staged. “After almost six months of investigations, I can prove without a doubt that the #Douma Hospital scene was staged. No fatalities occurred in the hospital.” The Russian military police mission in Syria had warned in advance that a chemical attack was going to be staged there.
Now the BBC has withdrawn its disgraced documentary, but only after much damage done by this kind of warmongering, sanctions-provoking propaganda. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has actually been politicized and seriously split over this matter. Several of its experienced former professionals have, along with investigative journalists, called on the OPCW to stop suppressing its own inspectors’ reports which demonstrated the chemical canister involved was not dropped from a Syrian war plane, but planted.
