Istanbul MP Eren Erdem - Facing Treason Charges ... Turkey ISIS Sarin Supplier

ꕤ Article SOURCE https://www.rt.com/news/326084-erdem-rt-interview-treason/ Turkish MP faces treason charges after telling RT ISIS used Turkey for transiting sarin Published time: 16 Dec, 2015 09:56 Edited time: 16 Dec, 2015 10:53 An investigation on treason charges has been opened against a Turkish MP who alleged in an exclusive interview to RT that Islamic State jihadists used Turkish territory as a transit route to deliver deadly sarin gas to Syria. Ankara’s Chief Prosecutor's Office opened the case against Istanbul MP Eren Erdem of Republican People's Party (CHP) after his interview about sarin was aired on RT on Monday. "Chemical weapons materials are being brought to Turkey and are being put together in Syria in ISIS camps, which was known as Iraqi Al-Qaeda at that time." Erdem noted that the chemicals used for the production of weapons did not originate from Turkey. “All basic materials are purchased from Europe. Western institutions should question themselves about these relations. Western sources know very well who carried out the sarin gas attack in Syria,” Erdem told RT. As Turkish media reported Wednesday, the prosecutor’s office is planning to send a summary of proceedings to the Ministry of Justice on Thursday. Following that, the summary could be forwarded to the Turkish parliament, which could vote to strip Erdem of his parliamentary immunity. Once Turkish mass-media reported the criminal investigation had been opened against Erdem, the hashtags #ErenErdemYalnızDeğildir - #ErenErdemYouAreNotAlone began to circulate in Turkish social networks. On Tuesday, MP Erdem issued a written statement in his defense, saying he had become the target of a smear campaign because of his statements made in parliament. As for his accusations about Turkish businessmen being involved in supplying Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) with the poisonous gas sarin and other reactants needed for chemical warfare, Erdem maintained this statement was made based on the results of a Turkish court investigation in 2013. Erdem revealed that five Turkish citizens had been arrested by the Adana Chief Prosecutor's Office as a result of an investigation coded 2013/139. A Syrian national was prosecuted in Turkey for procuring chemical agents for Islamist groups in Syria. At the same time, Erdem noted all the persons arrested within the framework of the 2013/139 investigation were released a week later. In his statement Eren Erdem claimed he had received death threats over social media following the publication of his interview to RT. Eren Erdem said that the Turkish paramilitary organization Ottoman Hearths has published his home address on Twitter in an effort to enable at an attack on his house. “I am being targeted with death threats because I am patriotically opposed to something that tramples on my country's prestige,” MP Erdem said. In an interview to Turkey’s Kanal 24 on Tuesday, Cem Küçük, a columnist at the pro-government Star daily, said that Erdem's claims about sarin gas should be regarded as treason. Erdem should be stripped of his parliamentary immunity to “pay for his deeds,” Today’s Zaman cited Küçük as saying. The most widely-reported chemical attack in Syria took place in the early hours of August 21, 2013, in Ghouta, on the outer fringes of Damascus. Rockets containing sarin gas were reportedly fired, killing more than 1,400 people, including no fewer than 426 children. It was on the very day a UN team of inspectors arrived in the city to investigate the alleged March 19 chemical attack in Khan al-Assal, northern Syria. https://www.rt.com/news/326084-erdem-rt-interview-treason/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT I think everyone knows about Turkey, ISIS and Sarin. Syria Under Attack - the Great Satan & the Little Imp, Turkey - Plus their al-Qaeda Proxies - Mayhem in the Middle East Post Link  |  here ꕤ

Syria: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) - Fraud

ꕤ Video | Transcript BBC FRAUD - SYRIA ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ☢  ☢ Transcript [ Confirm Audio / Video For Quotation Purposes ] The Truth Seeker Daniel Bushell RT News Daniel Bushell RT News Stunning fakery in the alleged chemical weapons attack, according to a former UK ambassador. Coming up. Other narration: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is accused of staging chemical weapons attack. The CIA admits planting CNN reporters. And international lawyers call for journalists inciting violence to be expelled. Daniel Bushell RT News August 2013. NATO leaders can't get the public on side for the imminent bombing of Syria. Suddenly, BBC says it was filming a small rural hospital and a game-changing atrocity happens right there, the moment they were filming. CUTS TO FILM CLIP:  'Syria Crisis', Ian Pannell, BBC (August, 2013) BBC Narrator Ian Pannell "... we were filming the doctors working at this hospital when victims of an incendiary bomb attack on a school playground started pouring in." CUTS TO FILM CLIP:  'Syria Crisis', Ian Pannell, BBC (August, 2013) Female - [kitted up in dramatic face-mask] "Absolute chaos and carnage here. It must be some sort of napalm." [At issue:  BBC footage August 2013 vs BBC Footage September 2013] Daniel Bushell RT News But a highly sceptical public stayed hostile to military intervention. Exactly one month later, the leaders are trying to pin a chemical weapons attack on Syria, without success. The BBC airs exactly the same footage, but digitally alters the word 'napalm' for 'chemical weapons', hoping no-one will notice. CUTS TO FILM CLIP:  'Saving Syria's Children', Ian Pannell, BBC (September, 2013) Female - [kitted up in dramatic face-mask] "Absolute chaos and carnage here. It must be some sort of chemical weapon." Daniel Bushell RT News Not only did folks notice, but it's unleashed a massive public investigation which made some extremely disturbing findings. Robert Stuart This is the total fabrication, from beginning to end, of an atrocity, with BBC 'reporter' Ian Pannell standing amidst a tableau of very bad actors.  This is completely beyond the pale'. Daniel Bushell RT News This audio analysis by media investigator Robyn Upton shows both versions [of BBC audio] are identical and from the same speech. The BBC then altered the words from 'napalm' to 'chemical weapon', the EXACT justification  NATO was finding difficult prove. That game-changing allegation was made by two doctors have travelled with the BBC, who claimed the number of sudden casualties is "overwhelming". What kind of doctor, notes media investigator Robert Stuart, gives interviews when she is surrounded by supposedly seriously burned and dying teenagers. Translated English overdub: "Get anyone who isn't a patient out out of here." Daniel Bushell RT News When a nurse does finally start to help, her order to "get anyone who isn't a patient out of here" doesn't apply to the cameramen. Even worse, notes Stuart [Roberts], is the bizarre acting which starts when the man in the centre gives the sign. 'Doctor Rola', on whose sole claim the BBC sends 'napalm chemical weapons' allegations around the world is actually the daughter of Syrian rebel Mousa al-Kardi. The parallel to the Gulf War and [the testimony of] Nurse Nayirah is stunning. Congressmen said the nurse's tearful testimony that Iraqis were killing children swung their vote in favour of war. [Cuts to footage of 'Nurse Nayirah' - 'Lies Pushed US to Bomb Iraq', Courtesy C-Span] 'Nurse Nayirah' tearful footage: " ... and left the children to die on the cold floor."  [sniff, sniff] Daniel Bushell RT News Nurse Nayirah became the mainstream's darling, but once the vote had safely passed, she admitted INVENTING the whole thing and was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Washington, lying to get the public to back war. UK Member of Parliament joins us. Thank you very much for coming on. Why do we get almost identical claims before each war, which then prove lies? George Galloway UK Member of Parliament: Well, the 'Bush and Blair Corporation' [ie the BBC], as it became in the run-up to the Iraq war, has almost entirely lost its reputation for journalistic integrity. A full inquiry must be lodged into why the BBC used a piece of material which was not just wrong, but was falsified and falsified with the purpose of propelling out country into war. That's not what the British public pays its BBC licence fee for, so that it can be tricked into a war. Daniel Bushell RT News In a statement, the British Broadcasting Corporation says it stands by its report. The Syrian opposition denies the allegations. Investigators such as Robert Stuart note there are many questions sent to the Corporation [BBC] remaining unanswered. There are also numerous such precedents both in this war and in previous invasions. 'Brilliant' is how a top Western called tricking the public through routine faking of atrocities, commonly aired on mainstream bulletins. Nightly news shows just a few cases of what happened next, after mainstream cameras ended their reports. Male Voice American 'Nightly News': "It shows people putting on, you know, fake wounds; it shows -- look, there some guys there, there's their head wounds, peace everybody -- you know, we're doing the right thing, we're creating fake propaganda.  I mean, it's not even real atrocities so they're lined up; there's another video showing a guy kicking his leg and with a fake blood wound.  Here's a guy who wakes up from his funeral. Watch this -- oh, he's awake.  He's not even really dead.  So, I mean, this is just crazy what goes on.  There's another video that was shot of a supposed massacre and it cuts -- you don't see the whole thing.  When you go to the Al Jazeera footage it shows real quick clips of a guy kicking his leg and he's got blood coming out.  It turned out to be fake blood." Daniel Bushell RT News The so-called activists behind the fakes are by far the most popular source of despite them never being verified and regularly disproved as fabrications to justify more NATO arms. The term 'activist' may sound like a well-meaning Western campaigner or charity, but the Foreign Policy Journal notes it's just newspeak for insurgents. The official source of Syria casualties, or what mainstream claims is official, is an impressive sounding organisation THE SYRIAN OBSERVATORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. Reuters exposed the fact three (3) years ago it was not an organisation at all, or even working in Syria. It's a single pro-insurgent supporter living in Coventry, England. Here pictured at the Foreign Office after instructions from Britian's Foreign Minister himself. In leaked footage, ordinary Syrians told the BBC they're tired of its lies and the insurgents they're cheer-leading are a tiny minority led by foreign gangs. [Cuts to footage:  males challenging female American sounding journalist and asserting that Assad is widely supported by most of the 22-million Syrians and that very small minority, number in the thousands, are in opposition.] Daniel Bushell RT News Pro-war media is forced to resort to colossal lies since intelligence chiefs reveal to America's top investigative reporter Sy Hersh: "Obama's cronies are making it up.  All the evidence actually points to the jihadis staging the chemical attacks. SY HERSH Author:  'Whose Sarin?' The 'attack was not the result of the current regime', the high-level intelligence officer wrote in an email to a colleague. ‘The guys are throwing their hands in the air and saying, “How can we help this guy” – Obama – “when he and his cronies in the White House make up the intelligence as they go along?”, said a former intelligence official." Daniel Bushell RT News The distortion, he said, reminded him of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. [RT on film:  'Wag the Dog', Barry Levinson, New Line Cinema (1997)] Daniel Bushell RT News The thought a US President would start a horrific foreign war by staging a pretty female front as a victim made people laugh. [Cuts to film footage] [Film:  'Wag the Dog', Barry Levinson, New Line Cinema (1997)] [Subsequently cuts to: [Film:  'I Am A Ukrainian', Appleseed Entertainment (2014)] Daniel Bushell RT News Meet 'Julia' (if that's her real name), the celebrated face the mass media called the creator of a viral video asking the US to help Ukraine. It was actually created by the [US] State Department's National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to mask the fact that Washington joined Ukraine thugs and murdered their way to power. A leaked phone call with EU Foreign [Catherine] Ashton revealed the opposite planned and executed the infamous sniper violence of Kiev, shooting both the police and their own supporters in the back. A study found a total of 250 mainstream sources lied that the snipers belonged to Yanukovych. Only seven (7) of the entire mass media even mentioned the bombshell leak, and those that did, framed the report to suggest it couldn't possibly be true. Former Wall Street Journal editor, Paul Criag Roberts, called the coverage in Ukraine a new low in the history of the mainstream, which is now simply what he described as a ministry of lies. Investigative reporter John Helmer's uncovered mainstream staging demonstrations and attempts to provoke disorder. He joins us. Great to speak to you. One US scholar notes the coverage has become Orwellian.  What's going on? John Helmer Investigative Reporter So the weaker your government, the more interested the leader might be in threatening Russia to look strong at home, when it's obvious he's not strong at home and couldn't get re-elected. That's particularly true of, let's say, the French president, or Prime Minister Cameron at the moment. Arguably President Obama is not only a lame duck, but having great difficulty in putting together a winning coalition for the Democratic Party's next candidate for president. When you've got weak political leaders, you need to look stronger than you are in public opinion in the media.  So there's this process of misleading and disinforming. Daniel Bushell RT News The Senate Committee enquiry revealed CIA running mainstream media in a vast operation known as Mockingbird. More than 400 journalists and media chiefs claiming to watchdog the government were the exact opposite:  joining to mask US government crime at home and abroad. The operation continues despite [CIA] agency denials. Counterpunch discovered CIA imposing agents on firms like CNN. Former CIA [officer] Michael Scheuer notes British media are even closer to intel targets. Scheuer adds that BBC now takes the lead in regime change operations that cause 'anarchy' and violence. Let's speak to Francis Boyle, professor of international law at Illinois University. Great to talk to you. How can nations stop war media that now perform the CIA's covert operations? FRANCIS BOYLE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS Certainly, have their visas revoked and sent packing home, because I really don't understand why some of these countries keep, you know, European journalist, certainly in the United States, why they let them into the countries; because they're just using their cover to provoke war and military intervention at home. [Split Screen / Cut to footage: ABCNews #ABCWorldNews - Crisis in Ukraine, Blood in the Streets LiveCNN - Crisis in Ukraine - Breaking News - 'Putin Threatens More Military Action'  |  Anderson Cooper depicted] In addition, Bush junior administration lifted what was supposed to be the previous prohibition that intelligence agents were not supposed to infiltrate the media. You know, you have to be very careful, certainly dealing with US reporters, whether or not they're intelligence agents. Daniel Bushell RT News [???] active units of the military, also known as Wall Street media, show how serious the situation now is.  They're policies aren't popular with their own viewers. Mainstream audiences are in free-fall. CNN and MSNBC have shed half their entire viewership in the last year alone. The question is, how many more coups they will stage or help, before they lose the public's trust altogether. Seek truth from facts. This is the Truth Seeker. [end audio/video] Whose sarin? Seymour M. Hersh Vol. 35 No. 24 · 19 December 2013 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin ꕤ

Syria Under Attack - the Great Satan & the Little Imp, Turkey - Plus their al-Qaeda Proxies - Mayhem in the Middle East

ꕤ Article SOURCE https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/07/syri-a07.html New exposé by Seymour Hersh: Turkey staged gas attack to provoke US war on Syria By Patrick Martin 7 April 2014 In a lengthy article published Sunday by the London Review of Books, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports that the sarin gas attack on a Damascus suburb on August 21, 2013 was actually carried out by Syrian “rebel” forces acting at the behest of Turkey, for the purpose of providing a pretext for a US attack on Syria. The gas attack killed many hundreds of people in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, and the Obama administration and the corporate-controlled US media immediately blamed the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad for the atrocity. The New York Times, in particular, published a lengthy analysis by its military “expert,” C. J. Chivers, which purported to show, based on rocket trajectories, prevailing winds and other technical factors, that the gas shells could only have been fired from Syrian army artillery positions. For several weeks, the Ghouta attack became the pretext for a warmongering campaign by the White House and the US and European media. Obama threatened immediate air strikes, claiming that the Syrian government had crossed a “red line” against the use of chemical weapons, which he had laid down in 2012. The US president then abruptly reversed himself and announced he would seek congressional approval first, only to call off any overt military action in favor of a deal brokered by Russian President Vladimir Putin in which Assad agreed to the supervised dismantling of his chemical weapons stockpiles. By Hersh’s account, “Obama’s change of mind had its origins at Porton Down, the defence laboratory in Wiltshire. British intelligence had obtained a sample of the sarin used in the 21 August attack and analysis demonstrated that the gas used didn’t match the batches known to exist in the Syrian army’s chemical weapons arsenal. The message that the case against Syria wouldn’t hold up was quickly relayed to the US joint chiefs of staff… As a consequence the American officers delivered a last-minute caution to the president, which, in their view, eventually led to his cancelling the attack.” The US military leadership also knew that White House claims that there could be no other source for the sarin gas than the Syrian army were false. “The American and British intelligence communities had been aware since the spring of 2013 that some rebel units in Syria were developing chemical weapons,” Hersh reports. “On 20 June analysts for the US Defense Intelligence Agency issued a highly classified five-page ‘talking points’ briefing for the DIA’s deputy director, David Shedd, which stated that al-Nusra maintained a sarin production cell…” Hersh quotes extensively from this US government document, which the office of the US director of national intelligence now denies ever existed: “Al-Nusrah Front’s relative freedom of operation within Syria leads us to assess the group’s CW [chemical weapons] aspirations will be difficult to disrupt in the future… Turkey and Saudi-based chemical facilitators… were attempting to obtain sarin precursors in bulk, tens of kilograms, likely for the anticipated large scale production effort in Syria.” Hersh notes that members of al-Nusra were arrested in Turkey last May in possession of two kilograms of sarin. They were charged in a 130-page indictment with “attempting to purchase fuses, piping for the construction of mortars, and chemical precursors for sarin.” All have since been released pending trial, or had charges dropped altogether. Those arrests followed chemical weapons attacks in Syria in March and April 2013, where a UN investigation found evidence implicating the Syrian “rebels.” One source told Hersh, “Investigators interviewed the people who were there, including the doctors who treated the victims. It was clear that the rebels used the gas. It did not come out in public because no one wanted to know.” The “no one,” of course, was the US government, its European allies, and its UN stooges—as well as their political apologists in the media and the pseudo-left groups such as the International Socialist Organization that were either openly campaigning for military intervention in Syria or justifying it by portraying the US-financed “rebels” as the bearers of a democratic revolution. When the August 21 attack took place, Obama ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for bombing Syria, and, as a former intelligence official told Hersh, “the White House rejected 35 target sets provided by the joint chiefs of staff as being insufficiently ‘painful’ to the Assad regime.” The US bombing plan ultimately envisioned “a monster strike” involving two wings of B-52 bombers equipped with 2,000-pound bombs, as well as Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from submarines and surface warships. Hersh continues: “The new target list was meant to ‘completely eradicate any military capabilities Assad had,’ the former intelligence official said. The core targets included electric power grids, oil and gas depots, all known logistic and weapons depots, all known command and control facilities, and all known military and intelligence buildings.” The bombing attack drawn up at the direction of the Obama White House would have itself constituted a war crime, causing thousands if not tens of thousands of casualties and crippling Syria as a functioning society. Hersh then passes on to his most important revelation: that US officials believed the Turkish government, or its intelligence agencies, had instigated the gas attack in Ghouta. He cites concerns among US military and intelligence leaders that “there were some in the Turkish government” who supported “dabbling with a sarin attack inside Syria—and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat.” This was reinforced by the British military intelligence finding on the type of gas used in Ghouta. This included a message to the Americans: “We’re being set up here.” This was followed by a further message about the Ghouta attack that “a senior official in the CIA sent in late August: ‘It was not the result of the current regime [i.e., Assad]’. UK & US know this.” Hersh suggests that the bitter controversy over the attack on a US consulate and CIA mission in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, which killed four Americans including the ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, is directly linked to the infighting over Syria. It has been widely reported that the CIA organized the shipment of Libyan weapons stockpiles from Benghazi to the Syrian rebels. Hersh cites a “highly classified annex” to the report of the Senate committee that investigated the Benghazi attack. This document “described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and [Turkish] Erdogan administrations… By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American soldiers, who didn’t always know who was really employing them, were hired to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when it became known he was having an affair with his biographer.” According to Hersh, after the Benghazi fiasco, the CIA was pulled out, but the Libya to Turkey to Syria pipeline continued, possibly including “manpads”—portable surface-to-air missile launchers, which the Obama administration had opposed supplying the rebels out of concern that they would be used to attack civilian airliners.   Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan tasked Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) with engineering a provocation that would give a pretext for direct US military intervention. Hersh quotes his source: “‘The MIT was running the political liaison with the rebels, and the Gendarmerie handled military logistics, on-the-scene advice and training—including training in chemical warfare,’ the former intelligence official said. ‘Stepping up Turkey’s role in spring 2013 was seen as the key to its problems there… Erdogan’s hope was to instigate an event that would force the US to cross the red line. But Obama didn’t respond in March and April.’” Two sources described to Hersh a working dinner during Erdogan’s visit to Washington in May 2013 in which Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon met Erdogan, foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu and MIT chief Hakan Fidan. Erdogan appealed for Obama to attack Syria, telling him “your red line has been crossed.” Obama then pointed at Fidan and said, “We know what you’re doing with the radicals in Syria.” Hersh cites a “US intelligence consultant” who describes a classified briefing for Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, prepared before the August 21 gas attack. The briefing noted “the acute anxiety” in the Erdogan regime over the military setbacks for the Syrian rebels and warned that the Turkish leadership felt “the need to do something that would precipitate a US military response.” In the period following the gas attack, Hersh’s former intelligence official source explained, communications intercepts and other data supported the suspicion that Turkey had organized the Ghouta attack. “We now know it was a covert action planned by Erdogan’s people to push Obama over the red line,’ the former intelligence official said. ‘They had to escalate to a gas attack in or near Damascus when the UN inspectors’—who arrived in Damascus on 18 August to investigate the earlier use of gas—‘were there. The deal was to do something spectacular. Our senior military officers have been told by the DIA and other intelligence assets that the sarin was supplied through Turkey—that it could only have gotten there with Turkish support. The Turks also provided the training in producing the sarin and handling it.’” Only a week ago, evidence surfaced that supports the credibility of Hersh’s report. A video was posted on YouTube of a meeting of Turkish officials, including Fikan, in which the intelligence chief suggests that Turkish agents should mount an attack on a Muslim shrine inside Syria to provide a pretext for a Turkish invasion of the country. Hersh’s account is his second long exposé in four months of the “false flag” gas attack in Damascus. Both articles were published in the British journal because no major US newspaper or magazine will any longer publish material from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Beginning with his reporting of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam for the New York Times, Hersh has specialized in developing sources in the US military and intelligence apparatus, frequently those with policy differences with the current administration in Washington. Hersh left the Times for Newsday, and then wrote for the New Yorker for many years. Both the New Yorker and the Washington Post refused to publish his first report on the Ghouta gas attack, which charged that the sarin attack had been carried out by Syrian rebels in the al-Nusra Front, forcing Hersh to find a British publisher for his account. The US press was largely silent on that report, and it has so far blacked out the latest exposure. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/07/syri-a07.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Wow, this is good stuff. Hersh sounds like a hero ... but he's also a conduit for factions within the US government (via inside sources), so I don't know that this is a fully-fledged hero, or if it is just another establishment voice.  *Discovered he's 'blacklisted' by major US media, as they refuse to publish him.  So Hersh's probably cool.  What Turkey is capable of is mind-blowing. I don't mind the PKK giving it to them, now. US media refusing to publish Hersh, and Hersh having to publish outside the country shows us just how controlled the media is in the land of the 'free'. CIA strikes again.  That David Petraeus guy played a part, as well. I'm not sure if that UK analyist has anything to do with David Kelly, who was killed, probably by UK intelligence (I'm guessing). Daily Mail UK 22 April 2012 Suicide riddle of weapons expert who worked with David Kelly: Scientist tells wife he is going for a walk, then takes his life in a field... just like his friend A weapons expert who worked with Dr David Kelly at the Government’s secret chemical warfare laboratory has been found dead in an apparent suicide. In circumstances strongly reminiscent of Dr Kelly’s own mysterious death nine years ago, the body of Dr Richard Holmes was discovered in a field four miles from the Porton Down defence establishment in Wiltshire. It is not yet known how he died. Mr Holmes, 48, had gone missing two days earlier after telling his wife he was going out for a walk – just as Dr Kelly did before he was found dead at an Oxfordshire beauty spot in July 2003. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances in the latest case but revealed that Dr Holmes  had ‘recently been under a great deal of stress’. He resigned from Porton Down last month, although the centre yesterday refused to explain why. Inevitably, the parallels between the two cases will arouse the suspicions of conspiracy theorists. Despite Lord Hutton’s ruling eight years ago that Dr Kelly committed suicide, many people – among them a group of doctors – believe his inquiry was insufficient and have demanded a full inquest. Some believe Dr Kelly, who kept an office at Porton Down right up until his death, was murdered. He was outed as being the source of a BBC report that Downing Street ‘sexed up’ evidence of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war. Although it is not clear if the two scientists were close, one source told The Mail on Sunday that they were friendly when they worked at Porton Down in the Nineties. At the time, Dr Holmes ran a project organising the installation of chemical protection equipment in RAF Sentinel spy planes, while Dr Kelly was head of microbiology and frequently toured the former Soviet Union as a weapons inspector. After the first Gulf War, Dr Holmes is also thought to have worked on the production of chemical protection suits for troops. In 1991 he was the joint author of a scientific paper about an RAF chemical and biological protection system. Yesterday, a Porton Down spokesman confirmed Dr Holmes had quit his job but declined to comment further. ‘It is not our policy to speak openly about any individual who works for us,’ she said. Before finding his body, Wiltshire Police made a public appeal for information but warned people not to approach Dr Holmes for their own safety because they believed he had been ‘looking at information on the internet regarding self-harm and the use of toxic substances’.  [Wiltshire Police spin-doctoring to shape public perceptions?  Hard to say what's going on here.  British scientists and intelligence officers seem to die frequently and suspiciously (think of the one found dead in the zipped up bag in a bath).  Whatever this is, it's occurred before the sarin attack in Ghouta.] Friends of Dr Holmes say this disclosure irritated his family, who questioned why a scientist engaged in chemical warfare research would ‘need to Google toxic substances’. Dr Holmes’s widow, Susan, is  a chemist who also works at  Porton Down as head of business administration. One of the Government’s most sensitive and secretive military facilities, the site has long been the focus of controversy. Three years ago hundreds of ex-servicemen who were used as chemical warfare guinea pigs there between 1939 and 1989 were given compensation and an apology from the Ministry of Defence. They were tested with the nerve agent sarin, but some of those involved claimed they had been  told they were taking part in cold-remedy trials. Many suffered serious illnesses after exposure to the gas, which was developed by the Nazis during the Second World War. An inquest into Dr Holmes’s death was opened and adjourned by Wiltshire Coroner David Ridley last week. Coroner’s officer Paul Tranter said Dr Holmes’s family had grown concerned for his wellbeing after  he failed to return from a walk on April 11. A search party involving police and members of the other emergency services began combing waste ground close to his home in the Bishopsdown area of Salisbury. Police discovered his body half a mile away in a field used regularly by dog-walkers and joggers in the village of Laverstock. Mr Tranter said the results of tests carried out to establish the cause of death would not be known for several weeks. He added: ‘Police do not consider this death to be suspicious in any way, nor do they believe there was any third-party involvement.’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133201/Dr-Richard-Holmes-Suicide-riddle-weapons-expert-worked-David-Kelly.html Recapping Sarin gas attack, Ghouta  (suburb Damascus, Syria) - 21 Aug 2013 carried out by al-Nusra Front al-Qaeda linked 'rebel' Western proxy opposition as pretext for US attack on Syria killed hundreds compliant corporate US media points at Assad New York Times is big-time US foreign policy shill publishes report of CJ Chivers purporting to show gas shells could only have been fired by Syrian Army (Assad's) Porton Down Defence lab in Wiltshire, UK analysis sample sarin {obtained by British Intel} demonstrated gas used in Ghouta attack did not match existing Syrian batches case against Assad/Syria could not hold Obama cancels well-planned attack aiming to totally wipe out Syria govt military [reported by Patrick Martin, WSWS, 7 April 2014] Days later TWO YEARS EARLIER 22 April 2012 - Daily Mail UK Dr Richard Holmes head of microbiology {who worked with murdered (2003) Dr David Kelly} Porton Down Defence lab in Wiltshire, UK ... just happens to 'commit suicide' ... just like Dr David Kelly happened to  *bullshit* Dr David Kelly revealed UK intelligence report re illegal attack on Iraq 'sexed up' Dr David Kelly Died:  2003 Dr Richard Holmes head of microbiology Dr Richard Holmes Died:  2012 Porton Down lab no match Ghouta attack with Syria / Assad govt NOTE 21 Aug 2013 = Sarin attack, Ghouta, Syria Dr Richard Homes died year prior presumably no link to Sarin  More on Dr David Kelly: Ten Years Ago: The Death of Dr. David Kelly. Murdered on the Orders of Her Majesty’s Government? By Dr. David Halpin and James Corbett Global Research, July 19, 2013 GRTV 13 October 2011 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ten-years-ago-the-death-of-dr-david-kelly-murdered-on-the-orders-of-her-majestys-government/5343229 White House lied that sarin source was Syrian army / Assad & US military leadership knew it Both American & British intel knew 'rebels' (ie proxies) in Syria were developing chemical weapons Evidence Seymour Hersh (journalist) relies on US Defence Intel - 5-page briefing proves this DIA Dep. Dir, David Shed states al-Nusra maintained sarin production cell Turkey & Saudi-based chemical facilitators --> US government denied existence of document Not brought to public attention Kept hushed by: US govt European allies UN stooges political apologists media pseudo-left groups Obama had Pentagon draw attack plans re Syria 35 such plans rejected - not sufficiently destructive monster strike planned - 2,000 pounds bombs intended to completely destroy Assad military US attack on Syria would have: constituted another US war crime (like Iraq) killed thousands crippled Syria as functioning society produced another Libya (civil war 4 years) Hersh reports: Turkish government or its Intelligence (comment:  which is partner & co-conspirator of Turkish govt as evidenced by leaked audio - Syria false flag plot) INSTIGATED SARIN GAS ATTACK IN GHOUTA This assertion is reinforced by British Porton Down lab finding that Ghouta sample is NO match for Syria government & UK & US know this Infighting re Syria linked to Benghazi, Libya US Consulate & CIA Mission Attack 4 dead Americans incl. Ambassador to Libya CIA was arranging shipments  of Libya weapons stockpiles from Benghazi to Syria proxies 2012 secret agreement b/w Obama & Turkey funding for weapons from: TURKEY, SAUDI ARABIA, QATAR CIA + MI6 running arms from Gadaffi arsenals Libya to Syria al-Qaeda linked 'rebel' proxies attacking Syria govt front companies set up for cover, incl. Australian entities retired US military hired to manage procurement & shipping op run by Gen David Petraeus, CIA Director CIA reportedly pulled out post Benghazi LIBYA to TURKEY to SYRIA weapons rat run continues manpads / portable SAM launchers supplied to al-Qaeda linked 'rebel' proxies capable of air attacks MIT tasked by Erdogan to stage provocation, as pretext for US intervention MIT runs liaison w/  al-Qaeda linked 'rebel' proxies gendarmerie (military that is policing civilian sector) handled logistics, training etc on site gendarmerie (ie Turk military) training incl. chemical warfare leaked Turkish authorities + intel audio supports suspicion Turkey arranged Ghouta attack Sarin supplied via Turkey w/ Turkish support + handling training No major US newspaper or US magazine will publish any material from Seymour Hersh any longer -- ie he must be blacklisted New Yorker & Washington Post refused to publish Seymour Hersh Ghouta gas attack first report that indicated al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda linked, Turkish & Western backed 'rebel' proxy) linked to Ghouta chemical attack Original Seymour Hersh Article The Red Line and the Rat Line Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels Vol. 36 No. 8 · 17 April 2014 pages 21-24 | 5870 words http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line David Cameron's Shameless Attack on Russia http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/russia-west-gas-attack-syria Is Dave aware that Hersh has exposed the lot of them? ꕤ