French “Evidence” about Syrian Sarin another Weapon of Mass Persuasion?


nsnbc : Following the publication of a six-page report on Wednesday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said France came to the conclusion that the “Syrian regime” was responsible for the recent use of Sarin after comparing samples from a 2013 Sarin attack in Syria that matched the new ones. What Aryault did not mention that the alleged “evidence” used in 2013 were samples journalists who entered Syria illegally allegedly had smuggled out of Syria.  Aryault has thus no credible chain of evidence for the for the blood samples from 2013 and 2017.

Alleged Chemical Weapons victim_Idlib_Syria_Apr 2017The “evidence” French Foreign Minister Aryault cited for the alleged recent use of Sarin is, according to Aryault, based on “credible sources”.  Aryault qualified his statement by admitting that the samples and the fact the nerve agent was used are not enough to prove who was behind it.

However, he claimed that France knows “from sure sources” that “the manufacturing process of the Sarin that was sampled is typical of the method developed in Syrian laboratories.” He added “This method bears the signature of the regime and that is what allows us to establish its responsibility in this attack.”

Aryault underpinned that France is working to bring those behind the “criminal” atrocities to international justice. The French Foreign Minister claimed blood samples were taken from a victim in Syria on the day of the April 4 attack in the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, which killed more than 80 people. Neither Aryault nor the six-page report provided a credible chain of evidence for the admissibility of the blood samples according to international standards.

Moreover, there are two facts that turn the few drops of blood Aryalult referred to into a weapon of mass persuasion rather than underpinning their credibility as “evidence. The first one is that the manufacturing procedures Syria used before it abolished chemical weapons under international supervision are known to the French government and that it would be relatively easy to reproduce a small quantity. This is, however, the weakest argument against Aryault’s claims.

A far stronger fact is that Aryalult builds his case base on a comparison of the recently acquired samples with samples from 2013. The blood samples which were used by France in 2013 were “smuggled out of Syria by Le Monde journalists” who claim that the samples had been provided to them by local doctors. The journalists were allegedly in Syria illegally and managed to leave the country with the samples illegally again. It is a highly questionable “chain of evidence” which most likely would not have standing in any court worse its salt, but it is excellent for rhetoric use and for justifying an illegal war by using a weapon of mass persuasion like Le Monde.

CH/L – nsnbc 27.04.2017



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