He had been asked the question many times and never answered, so I gave up asking.
To summarise these briefly, Times The University of London continues its ongoing campaign to attack academics who have investigated the issue of the alleged chemical attack in Syria, even after scientists within the organization tasked with investigating the incident (OPCW) revealed to the world that the investigation into the alleged chemical attack in Douma was rigged. However, the journal never chose to reveal to its readers the fact that it was itself involved with individuals connected to British intelligence, Hamish de Breton-Gordon and James Le Mesurier (through their relationship with Emma Winberg), and the British government's propaganda operation (the Integrity Initiative). Nor did it pay any attention to Brendan Whelan and Ian Henderson, the two brave scientists who revealed that the Douma investigation was rigged.
I hope all of this is clear Times This would be a compromise that would in effect serve the interests of the British government.
But what is at stake here is not just the injustice of a reputable British newspaper targeting an academic who was and still is doing his job. In the Douma incident, 43 civilians were killed, many of them women and children. One of the facts revealed by the leaked OPCW documents is the systematic cover-up of the original toxicology report written by a NATO chemical weapons expert. The report concluded that the civilians were not killed by chlorine gas. If they were not killed by chlorine gas, why were the bodies found piled high in the Douma apartments?
