Murder in The SunMorgue

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Murder in the SunMorgue ~ The Ghouta Massacre

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Murder In The SunMorgue
A Critique of the Sarin Myth and a
Cyber-Investigation of the Ghouta Massacre
Denis R. OBrien, PhD

Penury Press Online Publishing ~ Here, There, Everywhere
Copyright 2014, Denis OBrien

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Dedicated to
the memory of
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Bunny
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and her playmates.
They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense.
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

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Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to Adam Larson and Charles Wood for
reading the manuscript and identifying errors and points that required
further consideration. Mr. Larsons efforts in raising public awareness of
this project are particularly appreciated. His review of Murder in the
SunMorgue can be found here.

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TABLE of CONTENTS
Primary Conclusion of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Purpose of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
PART A
Two Axioms, Three Hypotheses, and a Caveat
Chapter One ~ The Pooh Corner Caveat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter Two ~ The Logical and Philosophical Groundwork . . . . . . . . 27
PART B
The Kafr Batna Death Complex: A Tale of Two Morgues
Chapter Three ~ The Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter Four ~ The Syringes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chapter Five ~ The Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
PART C
Read Their Lips:
The Ghouta Massacre as a Biological Mystery
Chapter Six ~ The Biological Basis of Chemical Asphyxiation . . . . 102
Chapter Seven ~ The Color of Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Chapter Eight ~ Testing the Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Chapter Nine ~ The Sarin Myth: Where Did It Come From? . . . . . . 158
PART D
Evidence When Viewed In a New Context Is New Evidence
Chapter Ten ~ The 5-Step Pathway to Who: Shifting the Context . 166
Chapter Eleven ~ How to Kill a Corpse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Chapter Twelve ~ The Murder of M-015: What it Means . . . . . . . . . 196
EPILOGUE
Ones Own People
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APPENDICES
Appendix I ~ Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Appendix II ~ Details & Diversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Appendix III ~ Methods & Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Appendix IV ~ The Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Sarin often goes by the NATO moniker GB. which I use in the tables.
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THE PRIMARY CONCLUSION OF THE STUDY
The primary conclusion of this study, based on a
pharmacological analysis of the video and photographic evidence, is that
the Ghouta Massacre near Damascus on Aug21.2013 was not a sarin
rocket attack carried out by Assad or his supporters. It was a false-flag
stunt carried out by the insurgents using carbon monoxide or cyanide to
murder children and use their corpses as bait to lure the Americans into
attacking Assad.
THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
In this paper I review the standard US Government/mainstream
media (USG)/(MSM) assertion that those loyal to the government of
Bashar al-Assad perpetrated a chemical weapons (CW) attack against
Syrian civilians on Aug21.2013 in areas adjacent to Damascus, Syria,
areas collectively referred to as Ghouta. More specifically, I examine
what has become, by means of incessant repetition, a demotic myth that
the Ghouta Massacre was carried out with an organophosphate
neurotoxin, specifically sarin. I present two alternative hypotheses that
the toxin employed was carbon monoxide or cyanide. I then test all
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three hypotheses with the available evidence, and by available I mean
visual evidence to which anyone in the world with an Internet
connection has access.
This study is designed as an interactive investigation interactive in
the sense that tools and evidence are provided to allow you to make your
own observations and come to your own conclusions. I encourage you
not to read this work just to see if I have anything interesting to say, but
to join in, look at this evidence, probe my assertions of facts and my logic
and conclusions, and say something interesting yourself.
The subject-matter a crime against humanity for which blame has
yet to be determined is worthy of your attention. This is a mystery in
real life that unfolds on your computer screen in near real-time, and I am
convinced that concerned citizens of the world can go a long way in
solving it with what evidence is available online. I provide you with links
to all of the evidence I rely on and links to tools for analyzing that
evidence. I would like to think of this work as initiating a new genre of
cyber-literature for the 21 century: crowd-sourced real-life murder
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
FACTS
A few days following the Aug21.2013 Ghouta Massacre the Obama
Administration released a suite of 13 videos as authenticated proof
that the massacre was a CW attack perpetrated by the Assad regime.
These 13 videos were packaged into a DVD by Senator Dianne
Feinstein for distribution to Congress and uploaded to the internet.
They are referred to herein as the DiFi package.
Videos #2, #7, and #11 of the DiFi package show two rooms in a
building complex in Kafr Batna (KB), which is one of the
neighborhoods in Ghouta that was allegedly attacked.
Eight additional videos that are not a part of the DiFi package show
two more rooms and a patio area of the same building complex, the
KB complex. These additional eight videos are all connected to
videos #2, #7, and #11 of the DiFi package. These 11 videos are
referred to collectively as the KB videos.
The parts of the KB complex that are visible in these KB videos and
in numerous photographs comprise two distinct areas: one at
ground-level, the other subterranean.
The ground-level area is a large room filled with scores of bodies of
children, women, and men. Because it is shown bathed in strong
sunlight, I refer to it as the SunMorgue or SM.
The subterranean area of the KB complex is a hell-hole that
comprises so far as we can see a number of hallways, three small,
dimly lit rooms, and a patio. It also contains numerous bodies and a
smaller number of victims who were alive when they were videoed,
but not by much. I refer to this area as the DarkMorgue or DM.
A total of 120-125 victims are shown in the KB videos. A precise
count is not possible because many victims are covered and it is not
always possible to tell whether the same victims are shown in
different views and in different rooms.
With few, but dramatic, exceptions, the victims in the KB complex,
like the Ghouta victims as a whole, do not display traumatic wounds.
As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has concluded, it is clear that
they did not die as a result of burns, gunshots, shrapnel, or explosive
devices. The most likely cause of death of such a large number of
people without obvious trauma is poisoning. The evidence from the
KB complex supports that widely held conclusion: these people were
poisoned.
Organophosphates such as sarin produce a number of unmistakable
clinical symptoms. Among these are fecal and urinary incontinence,
grand-mal like seizures, copious watery salivation, copious tearing,
bluish skin (cyanosis) in victims who are alive, and a dark blue or
dark purple staining of the skin post-mortem.
Not one of these symptoms is unequivocally present in any of the
scores of victims in the KB complex.
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conspicuous agents of choice in the history of modern warfare and
capital punishment for executing individuals and for exterminating
groups of people. Both agents are easy to obtain and are relatively
easy to handle. Neither CO nor CN are considered CWs and they
are not used in military-style attacks. Both of these agents are also
well known to be rubigenic that is, they can cause the skin color
of victims to become bright pink or red, and to cause bright pink or
cherry-red staining of the skin post-mortem.
Many, if not most, of the living victims seen in the KB complex
display very noticeable, and in some cases shockingly, red skin. In
those cases where post mortem staining of the skin can be seen, it,
too, is cherry-red or brick red.
The KB complex is virtually empty of any furniture. There are no
examination tables or other indications that the KB complex was a
clinic or medical facility.
Various views of the SunMorgue show it either empty, nearly empty,
or completely full of bodies. Unlike the DM, no living victims are
shown in the SM videos.
Many videos/images of the SM show it being littered with syringes,
some of which contain blood or a straw-colored fluid presumed to be
plasma. One video shows two phlebotomists taking blood samples
from childrens corpses.
Two videos of the SM taken in bright light clearly show the corpse of
an adult male lying on the floor. Analysis of the videos establishes
that he was hemorrhaging profusely from the throat shortly before
the videos were taken, or, possibly, while the videos were being
taken. The videos show that none of the workers in the SunMorgue
attempted to care for or assist the bleeding man.
Videos of the DM show numerous bodies. Many, but not all, of those
bodies are also seen in the SM at a later point in time. Timeline
analysis establishes that the videos of the DM were taken at night
and precede the daylight videos taken in the SM.
The DM contains numerous gas cylinders of about 44 liters in
volume, mostly scattered randomly about on the floors of different
rooms. There are no protective valve caps on the cylinders; there are
no valve handles. No flow meters, masks, or medical devices are
attached to the cylinders. It appears that the contents of the
cylinders were released directly into the air.
CONCLUSIONS
Contrary to the assertions of the USG/MSM, it is virtually a
pharmacological certainty that the victims seen in the KB videos
were not poisoned with sarin or with any organophosphate
neurotoxin.
The victims shown in the KB videos were poisoned with a rubigenic
toxin, most likely CO or CN, neither of which are used as CWs, and
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executions.
Because the Ghouta area, including Kafr Batna, was under the
control of the insurgents on and prior to Aug21.2013, only the
insurgents could have carried out a mass-execution in that area.
Consequently, the Obama administrations assertions that the
Ghouta Massacre was carried out by Assadists using sarin are
factually flawed and verifiably false on the basis of the same video
evidence the administration itself has described as authenticated.
The totality of the evidence virtually requires the conclusion that the
victims of Kafr Batna, and, by extension all of Ghouta, were poisoned
by the insurgents using CO or CN. In other words, the Ghouta
Massacre was a mass-execution perpetrated by the insurgents.
This conclusion is supported by numerous pieces of indirect or
circumstantial evidence. One example is the man who was
hemorrhaging profusely from the throat on the floor of the
SunMorgue. The evidence indicates he was murdered after he was
brought into the SM and placed on the floor. There is additional
evidence of another body in the SM with a slit throat.
Based on timeline analysis and sequencing the video and photo
evidence, the DM may have been area where victims were poisoned
with CO or CN and then their bodies were removed to the SM in
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PART A
Two Axioms, Three Hypotheses, and a Caveat

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Chapter One
The Pooh Corner Caveat
I am Salvadoran. I don't know why a Salvadoran has to be fighting
a war in Iraq when no Salvadorans are dying there.
Winnie-the-Pooh
[0001] This is an odd study about an odd story about a mass-murder
of scores of women, men and children. The study is odd because it is
written by an ex-pharmacologist/retired lawyer sitting at his desk day
after day, week after week, for six months, looking up from his computer
screen now and then to stare blankly at the distant Canadian Rockies
half a world away from where the murders he is writing about took place.
And yet the evidence he is seeing is so clear and so fresh he can almost
smell the blood on the morgue floor. He sees the victims gasping for
breath, he hears the children crying, and he plays the scenes over and
over, looking for clues.
Had the Ghouta Massacre of Aug21.2013 not been a biological
event, and had I not been trained in neuropharmacology, the Ghouta
story would never have become such an obsession for me. After all,
verdant, peaceful British Columbia is about as far away from the deserts
and death of Syria as you can get. But when I saw those initial videos
flooding out of Ghouta juxtaposed with the USGs allegations that
Bashar al-Assad had gassed his own people with a neurotoxin called
sarin, my ears pricked up. And my first impression was that the sarin
allegations could not possibly be right. I was certain that the victims I
was seeing in the Ghouta videos the same videos that the USG was
presenting as proof of their allegations had not been poisoned with
sarin or any other organophosphate. And so, I decided to have a closer
look.
Six months later, Im still looking, but heres well over 250 pages
worth of what I have found so far. And it aint pretty.
http://www.thejournal.ie/us-senators-syria-videos-chemical-weapons-1074178-
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Sep2013/
The DiFi Package of 13 Ghouta videos is listed as Video 000 in my
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Table of
Videos., but it is easier to watch them as individual units, which are given in
the Table as Videos 001-013.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/164269962/U-S-Syria-Intelligence-AsseSunMorgue
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http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-30/world/41606688_1_chemical-w
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eapons-damascus-suburbs-syria
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/10/remarks-president-add
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ress-nation-syria
My labels for all of the videos relied on in this paper and links to those videos
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The DiFi Package
[0002] Back in late August and early September of 2013, during the
USGs initial knee-jerk-reaction phase to the Ghouta Massacre, Barack
Obamas administration provided Congress with 13 Ghouta videos as
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authenticated proof that Assad was responsible for the massacre. The
videos were meant to serve as a justification to Congress and the public
for why the US should attack Assad. Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of
the Senate Intelligence Committee, who, like a lot of us, had been
whipped up into a right-rage at what was in those videos, ordered all 13
of them packaged into a DVD and distributed to every congressperson.
That video-package was also uploaded to the Internet via the Senates
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servers. I refer to these 13 videos as the DiFi Package. Soon thereafter
the administration also released an anonymous, undated intelligence
assessment and Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry began
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pounding the war-drum for a retaliatory attack on Assad. (See, for
instance, Kerrys Aug30.2013 address and Obamas
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address. )
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Of those 13 videos in the DiFi package, at least three depict scenes
from a building in the town of Kafr Batna (KB), which is a part of the
Ghouta region adjacent to Damascus and one of the areas alleged to
have been attacked. These three KB videos form a sort of evidentiary
kernel around which the present study is wrapped.
One of those videos stands out as being more surreal than the rest,
but it is also more valuable from an evidentiary point of view. It has been
viewed on YouTube far more times than most of the others. Although
this video is only 1 minute and 22 seconds long, I have spent hours
reviewing it in excruciating detail because it contains so much
information and so many oddities, all of which constitute evidence of
what happened there. I have labeled this video SM-a. It shows a
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bright, sun-filled room somewhere in KB, according to its source. The
room is filled to capacity with dead people women, men, children. Men
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But thats not the surreal part, for if the devil is in the details, then
he is deeply embedded in these KB videos. Look closely at that video and
youll see that the room is filled with syringes heaps of syringes, some
containing blood, some containing what looks like plasma, some empty.
And there is more weirdness. One body has a coin lying directly over its
heart in some, but not all, images. Gunshots can be heard periodically.
One body is bloody and looks like the last step the person took was into a
puddle of blood judging from blood on the sole of his shoe and his
throat may have been cut. There is another corpse bleeding profusely
from his throat incredibly bright red blood spilled out onto the white
morgue floor moments before the cameraman arrived. Thats the sort of
the macabre weirdness going on in this sunny room of death, to which I
have applied the most ironic term I could come up with: the
SunMorgue, or SM.
Later I found a second video (SM-b) of the SM, which was, as I
demonstrate, shot a short while after the first, but still in bright sunlight.
This video is 1 minute and 28 seconds long. These two videos together
are referred to as the sun-videos and they form the bulk of the
evidence evaluated in this report.
Eventually a much longer, third video of the SM emerged SM-c.
This video was taken late at night and informs us that the SM is a part of
a larger complex, which I call the KB complex. In addition to these
three SM videos, numerous still shots of the SM are found on the
Internet that were taken over some indeterminable period of time, but
presumably all in the day following the massacre. These photos show the
SM in various phases of being filled and then emptied of bodies from
dawn to late afternoon or evening.
I kept digging, and eventually I realized that two other videos in the
DiFi Package were uploaded from Kafr Batna. While it is immediately
obvious that both of these videos were shot in the same room an eerie,
windowless, stygian place filled with both dead and suffering people
there was no immediate way to realize that this dark place, which I call
the DarkMorgue, or DM, is in the same complex as the bright
SunMorgue. But as I perused the wider collection of Ghouta videos and
still images on the Internet, I began to see these same places, and people,
and bodies from different angles and at different times, and it started to
come together.
[0003] Initially it was all more than just a little confusing. It was
like being inside one of the old-time Southern county fair fun-houses
that were contained in a single 30' trailer, but once you got inside it
seemed like miles to the exit door. How could anything so simple on the
outside be so vast and complicated on the inside? For weeks I looked at
images from the SM and the DM before it struck me that these two
morgues are not just both in KB, theyre in the same building! By the
time I sat down to start writing up what I had found, I had almost a
dozen videos and even more still shots showing various rooms and
hallways of this place, the KB complex. I was able to deduce the spatial
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relationships between these rooms and map those parts of the KB
complex shown in the videos and still shots. By juxtaposing these
different views of the KB complex, a timeline and a very troubling
picture emerges. A troubling picture that is a 180-degree reversal from
what we are being told by the USG and the MSM about the Ghouta
Massacre.
[0004] The end result of my online sleuthing is a set of conclusions
about how the KB victims were killed, what toxin was used, and who was
responsible; conclusions that are diametrically opposed to the allegations
of Obama, Kerry that the Ghouta Massacre was the result of a sarin
rocket-attack by Assad allegations parroted by most of the Western
MSM. In Part C I explain the biology of chemical asphyxiation so you
can see where I am coming from when I conclude this could not possibly
have been a sarin attack.
But I am not offering this report as the final word on any of these
issues. I am offering it as an invitation to you to look at these videos and
images with your own eyes, and to follow this evidence through to your
own conclusions. I am hoping that you will spot details I have missed and
any errors I have made (including dozens of typos), and that you can
tighten up on my logic and deductions and offer better ones of your own.
This report, large as it is, barely scratches the surface of what could be
accomplished by an Internet community dedicated to solving the mystery
of this horrible crime of infanticide and pediocide, and to seeing that the
guilty parties whoever they may be get adequately punished. An
online discussion page can be found here.
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The Caveat
[0005] But I have to warn you that this paper will not be felicitous,
recreational reading, and if you find it to be so, you seriously need to
book some overtime with your shrink.
There are many emotionally difficult issues here: there are biological
details about how toxins asphyxiate people; there are awkward forensic
points about bodies changing color; there are bodies with their pants
pulled down; there is blood pooling on the floor and a ghastly blood-soak
rag. And there are waaay too many unpleasant images of dead and dying
people, mostly children. In other words, this aint Pooh Corner. And the
graphics you are about to see are not exactly E. H. Shepards drawings of
Pooh, Tigger, and Eeyore. In fact, Ghouta could easily be considered the
emotional antipodes of Pooh Corner.
No, this material is not rated PG; it is disturbing adult-only stuff.
Please proceed with that understanding. And if you are not an adult,
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shoot some hoops or hang with your friends . . . and try to understand
what a privilege being a kid is even though the adult world fails so many
of you so badly so often.
[0006] The evidence I rely on to make my points is ghastly and
gruesome because, well . . . what happened in Ghouta was ghastly and
gruesome. This is reality-YouTube, as much as I wish for the people of
Syria that it wasnt. The bodies are real; the blood is real; the dead
children are real. A. A. Milne probably did not have a single thought in
his entire lifetime the likes of which make up the bulk of this report.
So, while I dont want to overly spook you right from the get-go, if
bodies and suffering people viewed up close and analyzed in detail make
you queasy, its probably best to just stop now. The Executive Summary
lays out my main points without the background information, the science
yada yada, and the grisly graphics. But then, relying on the Executive
Summary defeats the interactive objective of this paper, which is to allow
you to look at the evidence and come to your own conclusions.
[0007] The report is organized into four nominated parts and a very
significant collection of appendicies:
Part A presents information of an overview or background character
that is necessary for understanding how the evidence was collected,
where it came from, etc. I present a geographical description of Kafr
Batna and the KB complex, or at least as much as I know. I discuss
the logic and philosophy relied on throughout this paper, including
the postulates underlying my arguments. I justify focusing on just
Kafr Batna out of a dozen Ghouta communities the US State
Department says were attacked. I briefly identify three working
hypotheses regarding what drugs were used to poison the victims
seen in the KB videos.
Part B focuses on the KB complex. I present a series of schematics and
maps to pull together the KB videos into a coherent picture of the
physical lay-out of the KB complex. I show how the SunMorgue is
physically connected to the DarkMorgue and how the three rooms of
the DM that are visible to us are connected to one another and to a
patio area. I also introduce a number of victims that play important
roles in understanding what happened. Just as important as the
spatial relationships, I propose a rough idea of the temporal
relationships of the events shown in the KB videos and photos.
Part C gets into the science. I present the biological basis for
interpreting the evidence the way I have. I explain the
pharmacological basis of how sarin, carbon monoxide (CO), and
cyanide (CN) each produce their own unique chemical asphyxiation.
More importantly, I explain how the pharmacology of these toxins
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what symptoms will not be displayed by people poisoned with them.
Then I closely scrutinize the video evidence from Kafr Batna and
inventory what symptoms are seen and what relevant symptoms are
not seen, and I use this information as a basis for testing the three
hypotheses and for excluding one.
Part D presents circumstantial evidence that the Ghouta Massacre was
a mass-execution. I present what I call The 5-Step Pathway to
Who, which is a set of deductive steps that begin with the unproven
USG allegations that Assadists carried out the Ghouta Massacre
with sarin and lead to the fact-backed conclusion that the Ghouta
Massacre was a mass-execution carried out by the insurgents.
Having turned a contextual corner as to what really happened in
Kafr Batna and, by extension, all of Ghouta, I look more closely at
the KB videos for details that support the mass-execution theory.
Specifically, I present clear evidence that one adult male victim
shown in the SM was murdered by having his throat cut or stabbed as
he lay on the SM floor. I also present less conclusive evidence that a
second adult male victim had his throat cut prior to being brought
into the SM. I conclude that the evidence is not consistent with the
KB complex being used to provide assistance and succor to victims of
a sarin attack.
Epilogue In this concluding section I summarize the evidence and
present my closing arguments, pretty much what I would argue if I
were trying this case to a jury. There are really four cases here. First,
there is the case against the Sarin Myth a virtually irrefutable case
proving that sarin was not used to kill the people we see in the KB
videos. The second case is nearly as strong: the people in the KB
videos were victims of a mass-execution carried out, most likely, with
CO or CN. The third case is more circumstantial: that a murder was
committed in the SunMorgue by cutting or stabbing one of the
victims in the throat and letting him bleed out. The fourth case is
that most Westerners dont really care about the other three cases,
and dont really care about what happened in Ghouta. I express my
concern that a number of governments, including the US, Israel,
Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, are using the Ghouta Massacre and the
entire Syrian civil war to help them achieve their geopolitical goal
of regime-change in Syria, and in achieving that goal they are
content to support the same insurgents who are willing to execute
children in a false-flag PR exercise to draw America into the conflict.
Kafr Batna Background

[0008] Kafr Batna is an insurgent-held neighborhood that shows up
on Google Earth as being about 6 miles east of downtown Damascus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafr_Batna
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https://blogs.state.gov/stories/2013/08/30/syrian-governments-use-chemical-we
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Wikipedia gives the population in 2004 as 22,500. That was a decade
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ago and things have gone seriously downhill since then. Mother Superior
Agnes-Mariam, whom we will meet in Chapter Seven, is a Carmelite nun
who has lived in Syria for over 20 years. She claims that the whole
Ghouta region had become a ghost-town prior to Aug21 because of
intense fighting there. The map below, which was produced by the US
State Department, locates Kafr Batna with respect to the other
communities alleged to have been attacked on Aug21. There are a dozen
of these communities, lying south and east of Damascus in a band that
runs SW to NE. This band extends well beyond what is technically
recognized as Ghouta, but to simplify the discussion, the USG and the
MSM use the word Ghouta to refer to these 12 communities, and I
follow that practice. Looking at that map, I have no idea how anyone
gets from the airport into downtown Damascus without a Kevlar vest and
helmet.

Fig. 1. US State Dept. map of neighborhoods attacked in the Ghouta Massacre.
Source.
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[0009] To be honest, Im not even sure where this KB complex is
located, precisely, other than in Kafr Batna, and I say Kafr Batna only
because thats what the videos say. I would not be able to point the
actual building out to you on Google Earth. I mean, for all I know of my
own personal knowledge and from what I can see in the videos, this KB
complex could be a suite of vacated medical and dental offices being
foreclosed on in Trenton, New Jersey. However, three of the eleven KB
http://acloserlookonsyria.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
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videos that I rely on are a part of the DiFi package that has been
authenticated by the USG, and, as you will see, I am able to conclusively
tie the rest of the eight KB videos to those three. And so, on the whole,
it is not unreasonable to accept that we are looking at a building complex
in Kafr Batna.
Furthermore, there is a guy named Petri Krohn at the website A
Closer Look On Syria (ACLOS) who is a wizard at looking at a place
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shown in still images and videos and finding the place on Google Earth.
In this case Petri has seized upon a view in one of the videos where you
can see through a window of the SM to the adjacent buildings, and he
has deduced that the morgue is precisely at 3330'55.24" N 3622'25.13"
E . Im not sharp enough to follow Petris complex geo-location
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process, and so I cant confirm or certify his results, but hes good at this,
and so I throw these coordinates out there in case you want to have a
look. At the very least Petris analysis pinpoints the Kafr Batna
neighborhood so you can use Google Earth to have a look around.
What is more important than the street address of the KB complex,
assuming its not in New Jersey, is that the videos filmed in the complex
form a self-contained, homogenous body of evidence pointing toward a
very ugly truth. The building and its morgues could be in Moadamyeh, or
Irbin, or Duma, or any of the other neighborhoods alleged to have been
attacked and it would make no difference as long as what happened there
is a part of the larger massacre, and I dont think there is any doubt about
that. After all, the USG has provided three of these videos as
authenticated proof of the attack.
Kafr Batna Players

[0010] Victims I use the term KB victims in this report to mean
the dead and suffering children, women, and men we see in the videos
and still images of the KB complex. I use the term Ghouta victims to
mean the entire population of people killed and injured in the Damascus
area on the night of Aug21.2013.
I cannot provide a precise figure for how many KB victims there are
because of the way victims are moved around and are covered with cloths
or otherwise obscured, but a good estimate would be 120-125. About
100 of them are dead. What living victims there are are seen only in the
DM, and these are all men and children I believe only one woman
victim is alive in the videos or photos, which is, perhaps, an observation
with its own cause for concern. Gender-distinctions are found in a
number of respects in the KB complex, and I hit this point pretty hard
later in the report.
The ID numbers used throughout this paper relate to a series of tables of
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victims I have compiled that contain information on the wider population of
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[0011] Many of the victims in the KB complex appear in multiple
images that were obviously taken at different times and in different
places, and this allows timelines of events to be deduced. I use the term
body continuity to indicate the ability to connect two distinct rooms to
each other because the same bodies are seen in both rooms.
There have been a number of erroneous claims online to the effect
that bodies in KB are also seen in other communities. I believe this
report is the first time the various rooms of the KB complex have been
tied together and mapped so that it becomes clear that all of these
different rooms are not in different communities, they are in the same
building. However, I have no doubt that on examining other Ghouta
videos carefully, bona fide examples of inter-community body-continuity
would be found. There is only one example of a living victim shown in
more than one part of the KB complex, and that victim is also shown
in another community as well, Zamalka.
I hate having to resort to ID numbers to refer to these victims, but, of
course, I dont know their names. I wish I did. I provide a Victim
Locator Table in Appendix I that will help you keep track of which
rooms and which videos many of the KB victims are seen in.
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[0012] Perpetrators As for referring to the perpetrators of these
crimes, I rely on a simplifying binary-suspects axiom, which is to say
that I consider it indisputable that the Ghouta Massacre was carried out
by either Assadists or insurgents. Just two possibilities. I formally define
the terms Assadists and insurgents below.
These are painfully non-specific terms, but thats as far as I am
willing to take it in this analysis because it is not possible, yet, to lay the
blame at the feet of any individuals, or even individual groups. The best
we can hope to do with what evidence we have is to point a finger in one
direction or the other toward the Assadists or toward the insurgents
and, hopefully, the UN or the International Criminal Court will be able
to assign guilt to the depraved individuals are responsible.
And that much we do know: whoever pulled off this stunt was
depraved, and they had to have acted in concert with other many other
depraved people. This massacre was too large in terms of number of
victims and geographical area to have been carried out by one or a few
individuals. It was too well coordinated. If the Assadists committed this
crime, then it was likely a military-style CW attack, and a couple dozen
individuals with the right military gear might have been sufficient. If the
insurgents are the guilty party, then it was likely a mass-execution,
possibly of Shia or Alawite prisoners captured in northern Syria, and it
would likely have taken 100 or more individuals, not counting the PR
people taking all of the videos and photos.
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[0013] I use the term Assadists to mean combatants in the Syrian
civil war who are supporting the Assad government, including the Assad
government itself; the Syrian Arab Army (SAA); local militias that are
loyal to the Assad government such as the National Defense Force and
Shabiha; foreign elements such as Hezbollah and the Iranian
Revolutionary Guards. And, of course, Bashar al-Assad. The party that
is guilty of the Ghouta Massacre could be one of these pro-Assad
elements or it could be a combination of them. Maybe it is none of them.
As I say, the best I can do is refer to the general class of pro-Assad
entities. Generally, these Assadist groups are Shia and Shia-related
sects/political groups such as Alawites and Baathists.
[0014] I use the term insurgents to refer to the second half of the
binary-suspects axiom: a complex, poorly defined but well organized and
well funded collective of 20-60 distinct Sunni organizations, according to
media reports. Some of these groups have openly been trying to bring
down the Assad government for over two years, others joined the fray
just weeks or months before the Ghouta Massacre.
I refer to these people collectively as the insurgents because
presently the sectarian extremists originating from outside of Syria are
dominating the consortium of anti-Assad groups. I admit that
insurgents is not 100% technically correct since a lot of these people
are Syrians and thousands are even ex-SAA guys. But the tag is more
accurate than the ones used by the MSM and various governments
seeking regime-change in Syria, who apply much more generous labels,
such as rebels, or the opposition, or the good guys, although there
is precious little about these people that could be considered good even
by the devil himself. Even if insurgents does not accurately describe
every anti-Assad fighter, the term is sufficiently accurate for my purposes.
Besides, a minor semantic inaccuracy like that does not deter the USG
from labeling its indigenous enemies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
as insurgents, so I wont let it bother me here.
These Syrian insurgents are now predominately Sunni/Wahhabi
extremists and include ultra-violent al-Qaeda spin-offs like the al-Nusra
Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL). They
are, in fact, among the most brutal and blood-thirsty collection of
humans on the planet. They seem to get off on executing civilians en
masse, amputating and decapitating victims, eating hearts they have cut
out of their enemies bodies and uploading the videos to YouTube.
See, for instance, the Jan20.2014
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de Silva Report on torture and executions by
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Fig. 2. Examples of post-Ghouta Massacre headlines
of the insurgents brutality.
[0015] And the reason I note the insurgents public displays of
violence is that when the Ghouta Massacre took place, the UN Mission
to investigate CW attacks in Syria had just arrived in Damascus, and it
seems most likely that the timing was not coincidental, but that the
massacre was designed to be a public display of gratuitous violence for
the benefit of the UN and their press entourage. To the extent this
speculation is valid, each sides history in engaging in such displays has to
be a clue as to which side is more likely to be guilty.
I mean, just in terms of which side has shown a penchant for
employing public brutality as a PR tool, the insurgents would have to be
viewed hands down as most likely to be the guilty party even before we
start looking at the Ghouta evidence. For, unlike the insurgents, the
Assadists do not seem to take delight in cutting peoples heads off and
uploading mp4's of such events to YouTube. That is not to say I expect
any of the Assadists groups or Assad himself to be nominated for a Nobel
Peace Prize. Assads predilection for brutality and repression are well
documented even if videos of his brutality are not constantly played on
YouTube.
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Although the present report concludes that the Assadists were not
responsible for the Ghouta Massacre, I would not want my readers to
take that conclusion as an endorsement of Assad or his style of
leadership. I am simply following the evidence relative to this
particular massacre. I have no interest whatsoever in the outcome or
conclusions of this work other than that they be as close to the truth as I
am able to get.
[0016] It is also helpful to keep in mind the larger picture, both
geographically and theologically. Syrias civil war was never a civil war
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romatically on their civil war as an unfortunate, but understandable,
conflict between virtuous white guys fighting and dying for their
principles. Even the word rebel has a certain romantic cachet, which is
why the USG uses that term for their allies, the Syrian insurgents. The
American Civil War was fought over limited and well-defined issues, it
lasted barely four years, and it ended as suddenly as it started, at which
point everybody kissed and made up (at least figuratively) and the
country got back to the business at hand, which was finishing off or
displacing millions of Amerindians.
In contrast, the Syrians war including the Ghouta Massacre is
one more chapter in the Shia-Sunni sectarian bloodbath that has
dominated Islam since Muhammad died almost 1400 years ago. I mean,
these people are still killing each other in retaliation for insults and lost
battles that happened 30 generations ago. This long-term hatred between
Shia and Sunni must be kept in mind as we try to grapple with the
brutality of the Ghouta Massacre, not in order to excuse what happened,
but in order to comprehend what happened.
When trying to understand contemporary, violent, sectarian disputes
between Muslims, particularly in the Middle East, and in trying to
understand who is killing whom and why, it helps to do what I call a
balance of the hatreds analysis, because it is often more complicated
than just Shia vs. Sunni. If, for instance, a first Shia group hates a
second Shia group more than it hates a Sunni group, and if the Sunni
group hates the second Shia group more than it hates the first Shia
group, then the first Shia group and the Sunni group will likely team up
to brutalize the second Shia group. After the second Shia group is
eliminated, then the remaining Shia group and the Sunni group will turn
on each other. Its the way things have been done for 1400 years, and
particularly in Syria where many of the most brutal Muslim-on-Muslim
atrocities have occurred, such as the Abbasids extermination of the
Umayyads in Damascus in the 8 century CE.
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And within Syria today, with scores of Sunni extremist groups
squared off not just against Assadist Shia and Alwites but also against
each other, the whole thing can seem just too complex to understand.
None of us have the time or inclination to keep track of scores of
insurgent extremist groups and who is killing whom and why. On the
other hand, those who over-simplify will likely miss the truth by a desert
mile. They will conclude that Ghouta was controlled and occupied by
the insurgents i.e., Sunni therefore, the Ghouta Massacre must have
been carried out by Assadists i.e., Shia. But that over-simplified
assessment ignores the reality that the Sunni extremist groups in Syria
are turning on and butchering other Sunnis. And so, even if the people
who were massacred in Ghouta were Sunnis, that says nothing about
which side of the Shia/Sunni divide their killers were on.
Given this confusing situation, it is helpful to have in mind at least a
basic picture of the geo-sectarian distribution of the Assadists and
insurgents. Such a simplified picture is provided in Fig. 3.

See Seymour M. Hersh,
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The Red Line and the Rat Line London Review of Books,
Apr17.2014. Vol 36, No. 8, pp 21-24

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Fig. 3. A terminal case of cartographical hepatitis as
seen on Google Earth
[0017] Fig. 3 is an abbreviated and simplified pastel representation
of the complex distribution of major religious sects that are relevant to
the Syrian civil war. For those who, like me, see Syria as being pretty
much liver-shaped, then Fig. 3 is the closest cartographical analogy to
fatal hepatitis youll likely ever see, and during the autopsy it very well
may end up being dissected as shown.
The two lilac bands in the north represent two main concentrations
of Syrian Kurds, who are playing what is now a minor role in the conflict.
The dark pink area along the west coast and north into Turkey
represents the Alawites, who are a sub-sect of Shia. The lighter pink
finger extending south to Damascus represents non-Alawite Shia. Not
explicitly indicated on the map are the Sunni because they represent
everything else, except for a few pockets of Christians and Druze, also
not shown. Of course, most of what is not in pink or lilac is dirt, so the
Sunni are not in as good shape as their over-sized portion of the map
suggests.
The largest city in Syria, Aleppo, lies right in the over-lap area of
Sunni, Alawites, and Kurds, which helps to explain why it has been the
bloody focus of the war. It is also close to the Turkish border, where
large numbers of insurgents and arms have been flowing in, especially
before the Benghazi fiasco when the CIA cut off their so-called Rat
Line arms smuggling operation from Libya through Turkey.
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The eastern edge of those pink areas is a pretty good approximation
where most of the carnage has occurred up to now, and it runs through
Ghouta. The farther west one goes from that edge, the safer it has been
to be a Shia or Alawite; the farther east one goes the safer it has been to
be a Sunni. The area marked Latakia is the Alawite stronghold and the
home of Basahr al Assad. And so, as for my Assadists vs. insurgents
nomenclature, the Assadists are represented by pink and the insurgents
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Christians.
[0018] Workers and loafers. Sometimes it seems that the KB
videos show almost as many non-victims as victims. For want of better
terms, I call these non-poisoned people workers and loafers. Since
Ghouta is entirely held by the insurgents, and because KB is an insurgent
stronghold, one presumes that the workers and loafers are insurgents.
Watch the videos carefully not just the KB videos, but all of the
Ghouta videos. Even those workers who appear to be tending to victims
are doing so in the most superficial way. Most of them are moving
dramatically from victim to victim, but doing nothing helpful. In some
cases they just stand there and watch victims withering in apparent
agony. I do not see anyone who appears to be doing anything that makes
sense within a medical context, much less within a context of treating
sarin intoxication. For instance, the world has been told that thousands
of doses of the sarin antidote atropine were administered that night but
there is not a single example of evidence of any atropine administration
in all of the KB videos that I have seen. Most of the syringes and syringe
wrappers are seen in the SM, which is filled only with the dead, who are
far beyond needing atropine.
What we see are repeated examples of desultory people futilely
squeezing ventilator bags twice or thrice and then moving on to another
gasping victim and repeating the same, whereas it would probably require
hours of constantly ventilating a sarin victim in order to do him or her
any good. We see two phlebotomists drawing blood samples . . . from
corpses, which could have neither a therapeutic nor palliative objective.
There is an armed guard patrolling the bodies in the SM. There is an
army of workers who have access to an endless supply of green plastic
bottles containing water, which they use to dramatically douche any
victim who is right in front of the camera lens. All of these folks I refer
to as workers. Kerry calls them heroic first responders. Kerry and I
differ on a number of points related to Ghouta.
[0019] The loafers are even less helpful. They just seem to be
loitering about without any apparent objective or purpose. They are so
ubiquitous that you almost mentally stop seeing them as they wander
through the morgues slowly, looking at bodies, chatting, as if in an art
gallery. These videos are taken mere hours after the alleged deadly
attack. One would think that in the hours after a horrible sarin attack
that killed up to 1700 of their family, friends, and neighbors, every single
one of those who survived would either be running in the direction of
fresh air or pitching in to help treat or comfort those who have been
poisoned (or pitching in to help dig their graves) rather than standing
among the corpses making small-talk. These are the loafers.
[0020] PR jocks These people are distinct from the workers and
loafers. If you watch the edges of these videos carefully, now and then
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about their task of recording the gruesome scenes in still images and
videos for immediate uploading to the Internet. For the most part these
cameramen and videographers take care to keep each other out of their
shots, but even when you cant see the PR people themselves, often their
camera flashes going off tell you they are there.
In Appendix II, More Oddities from the SunMorgue, I document the curious
case of two of these PR people recording each other for prosperity, and
maybe prosecution.
Of course, the person holding the camera that is recording what you
are seeing is also one of these PR people, and what you see is what he
wants you to see, and nothing more, which is why they rarely show the
faces of Kerrys heroic first responders. But whether they know it or
not, they are all busy making an evidentiary record that will, hopefully,
some day perhaps with your help be entered into evidence and will
lead to large numbers of convictions.
[0021] The insurgents PR network is impressive. It includes
numerous organizations operating both inside Syria and outside, and I
cant think of anyone who could use some PR help more than a pack of
blood-thirsty hyenas who persist in showing the world videos of
themselves killing old women and beheading prisoners, and then asking
the world to support them.
Fig. 4. Insurgents logos
that are commonly
displayed on the KB
videos.
Some of this PR machinery is inside Syria sending images, and videos,
and information to the PR machinery on the outside. Wittingly or not,
virtually the entire Western MSM has become a part of this external
insurgent PR apparatus particularly the biggies like the Guardian,
Washington Post, and New York times, who rely on their insurgent
sources for virtually all of their Syria reporting.
Eliot Higgins (aka Brown Moses) in London is a good example. He
has become internationally acclaimed for his Syrian-conflict website and,
judging from his family contacts with Turkey and his anonymous
contacts with the insurgents, he appears to be a part of the insurgents
PR organization. He lists hundreds of these local insurgent PR teams on
It is pro-insurgent websites like these that the MSM rely on for information
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about what is happening inside Syria. Because so many journalists have died in
the conflict, I dont believe there are any Western journalists currently
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his website. Another outlet for the insurgents propaganda is the website
Syria Observatory on Human Rights, which is run by Rami
Abdulrahman, an anti-Assad Sunni who escaped to London after serving
three terms in a Syrian prison.
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But for better or worse, the propaganda groups, aka coordinating
committees, inside Ghouta are our eyes and ears in Kafr Batna, for they
had access to morgues, and emergency clinics and, perhaps, even gas
chambers, and they videoed part of what was going on in those places on
the night of the massacre.
[0022] As I say, we rarely actually see the PR people themselves, but
we will get to know one videographer and one photographer in particular
because most of the visual images of the KB complex were produced by
these two individuals.
The videographer is a man in charcoal trousers and black shoes who
has produced at least five of the 11 KB videos. His feet make brief,
alternating cameos as he walks briskly through the SM and DM videoing
the chemical carnage on the wet floors. His images get constantly photo-
bombed by his errant camera strap that swings in and out of the video
frame. He strikes me as a latter-day Minnie Pearl, whose signature price
tag dangled from her hat, conspicuous to everyone except, apparently,
her. I refer to him affectionately as Mr. Minnie.
For someone who is trying to focus on every detail in this guys
videos, the intrusive camera strap is annoying in that it seems to be timed
to block exactly the thing you are trying to see, but it, too, has
information. It identifies which videos were shot by Mr. Minnie for one
thing and that helps us stitch seemingly disparate videos together into a
sequence. The dangling strap also tells us hes using a camcorder and not
an iPhone, and that means that videos were not sent directly from the
recording device to YouTube through a wireless network but were
perforce transferred to a computer to be uploaded, and, therefore, those
files are more amenable to editing.
[0023] Mohammad al-Abdullah is the photographer who seems to
have taken the bulk of still shots from Kafr Batna. All of the al-Abdullah
photos of the Ghouta Massacre I have seen that were taken in strong
noon light are of street scenes. It appears that he arrived at the KB
complex in the late afternoon of Aug21 and photographed the SM in
waning light a near-empty state. Much of his work is published by
Reuters. When I mention al-Abdullah photos, Im talking about these
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Chapter Two
The Logical and Philosophical Groundwork
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M.C. Escher
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four
Assumptions, Axioms, and Philosophy

Underlying This Study
[0024] Nobody knows how many people were killed in Ghouta on
Aug21.2014. Even now, many months after the massacre, there is no
good guess. The Syrian nun, Sister Agnes-Mariam, said that her people
reviewed the videos in the DiFi package and counted over 500 dead
victims. Obamas intelligence assessment said there were 1429
fatalities. In other words, we have a massacre without known scope.
The bodies disappeared so fast we will likely never know how many there
were. When the UN Mission went into Ghouta four days after the
massacre to find evidence of sarin, they did not take a single sample from
a single body so far as I know, not a single DNA sample remains from a
single victim. Not even from a dead pigeon or cockroach. But for the
YouTube videos, this massacre never happened.
Yet the number of videos is enormous. Hundreds. And out of those
hundreds of videos and images showing hundreds of victims I limited this
study to just the evidence that I could connect to the KB complex. The
whole was just too much to deal with, the boundaries too uncertain. But
once I understood that there was this KB complex that comprised a
single physical location, then I realized that the KB videos document a
coherent, fairly large sub-population of victims who were all connected in
time and space and manner of death in an inescapable tragedy in the
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By concentrating on just this part of the larger Ghouta Massacre I
felt that perhaps I could avoid being swamped by the YouTube deluge
coming out of Syria. If I could come to some understanding of what
happened in KB, I would be close to the truth of what the Ghouta
Massacre was all about in the same way that if you could prove what
brought down the North Tower, youd have a pretty good idea about
what happened to the South Tower, the Pentagon, and United Flight 93.
After all, there is no reason to think that Kafr Batna was any different
than any of the areas in Ghouta that the USG said were attacked, and
there is no reason to think that the event whatever it was was not
homogenous across the whole of Ghouta.
But more important, the video evidence pointing to the cause of the
suffering and demise of this sub-population is the clearest and the most
comprehensive I have. By the time you finish Part B, I believe you will
agree that the KB videos tell a cogent and coherent story that is complete
in and of itself.
Some may argue that by focusing on a single, sub-population of
victims this study is too narrow to draw any conclusions about the
massacre as a whole and, therefore, is of little value. I couldnt disagree
more. Even if the evidentiary scope is limited to just one building
complex and ten dozen victims, the tragedy we see in that complex is
quite extraordinary and more than sufficient to justify a close look and to
demand an explanation.
We can be pretty certain from the video evidence shown and
discussed below that over 100 souls lost their lives in KB that night,
including dozens of infants and children. With careful, patient, detailed
observation and by applying logic, common sense, and a few
pharmacological principles, we can conclude that the sarin attack story
that was initially published by the insurgents and echoed by the MSM
and USG cannot possibly be true. Not for Kafr Batna, anway. And if
something else killed the people in the KB complex, then the entire sarin
story must go out the window.
And so, resolving what actually did happen in a particular building
complex in KB has value as a story in search of the truth, and stands on
its own as a worthwhile research project. Furthermore, because there is
compelling evidence that these people were the victims not of a CW
attack but of a mass-execution, and because there is compelling evidence
that at least one persons throat was cut as he lie on the floor of the SM,
there is value in this story as a mystery story of enormous proportions a
crime against humanity that can be witnessed by the entire world. That
is worthy of the telling, hopefully as a first step in bringing the killers to
justice.
But as with any crime, were going to have to know what happened
before well be able to say who did it. If we can deduce who was
responsible for the murders of the people we see in the KB complex then,
by virtue of a second axiom the unitary agency axiom, discussed below
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[0025] My first axiom the binary-suspects axiom is that either
the Assadists or the insurgents are responsible for the Ghouta Massacre.
I am limiting the universe of potential perpetrators to just this binary
choice because 1) that simple postulate is supported by virtually
everything we know about the Syrian crisis, 2) it is obvious, 3) it
comports with common sense, and 4) it simplifies the analysis. I mean,
anyone who would suggest that the Syrian Christians or Druze or Kurds
are likely candidates as the guilty parties would be way, way out there.
There well may be subsidiary or third-party actors such as the USG,
Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and/or other governments or groups
supporting the people who carried out these crimes, but as for the
primary actors, all bets must be on either the insurgents or the Assadists.
Eliminating one as the potential perpetrator automatically implicates the
other, and I think we can do that quite convincingly.
[0026] My second axiom is that of a unitary agency, which is to say
the postulate that whoever killed the scores of people in KB are the same
people responsible for the entire Ghouta Massacre. Again, this axiom is
based on simplicity, plain common sense, and lack of alternatives. For it
would be laughably irrational to propose that the Assadists attacked the
people in KB while the insurgents attacked the people in Irbin or Douta,
at the same time and on the same night, and then they both upload
hundreds of videos to YT simultaneously.
The power and purpose underlying these two axioms is that they
allow us to generalize in a limited way from KB to the whole Ghouta
Massacre, and yet they are simple, straight-forward and virtually beyond
dispute: either the insurgents or the Assadists are responsible for the KB
deaths on Aug21.2014, and whichever one it is, they are also responsible
for the entire Ghouta Massacre.
[0027] But note that these generalizing axioms do not extend to the
means by which the people were poisoned. I cannot, and do not, assume
that any toxin that was used in KB, also had to have been used in the
other communities. Such an assumption would not be supported by any
evidence I have, nor would it be demanded by common sense or logic.
However, if the evidence forces us to reject the idea that sarin was
used in KB, then that conclusion would be sufficient to shift the burden
of proof to those, such as Obama and Kerry, who allege that Assad
attacked all of Ghouta with sarin-loaded rockets. Lets look more closely
at their syllogism and logic.
[0028] The official USG logic set forth by both Obama and Kerry is
based on the following syllogism:
Premise #1: Only the Assadists had access to sarin and the means of
using sarin to attack Ghouta.
Premise #2: Sarin-loaded rockets were used to attack Ghouta.
Conclusion: Ergo, the Assadists were the ones who attacked Ghouta.
Patrick J. McDonnell, Syrian rebel groups sought sarin gas material, Turkish
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prosecutors say. LA Times, Sep13.2013
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-syrian-rebels-sarin-gas-2013
0913,0,4224285.story#axzz2xY3NhFUM
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Saudi Arabias Chemical Bandar behind Syrian
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chemical attacks? RT, Sep05.2013
http://rt.com/op-edge/saudi-chemical-behind-syrian-attack-421/
Seymour Hersh
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Whose sarin? Dec19.2013 London Review of Book
Note, however, that Hersh does not touch the second premise of Obamas
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syllogism. Like virtually all MSM sources, he assumes as a fact that the Ghouta
Massacre was carried out with, and only with, sarin-loaded rockets. I return to
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The sleight of hand here is that the Obama administration states
Premise #1 as a fact when it is not a fact at best it is an assumption; at
worst, a prevarication. And the logical flaw inherent in the premise is
that no one can ascertain the negative fact that the insurgents did not
have access to sarin, least of all when insurgents comprises over
150,000 jihadis divided into 20-60 undefined, spooky groups.
Misrepresenting assumptions as facts is precisely the con-game that GW
Bush and his neocon buddies used to gin up their war in Iraq. It would
be a travesty if Obama was to employ the same type of dishonesty to gin
up a war in Syria.
Like Bushs assertions about Saddam, Obamas Premise #1 had all
the patina of pigeon poop on the pump handle right from the get-go, and
it has become even more dubious since the get-go. For as soon as the
allegations were out of his mouth, contrary reports started surfacing
alleging that these insurgent groups had been seeking components to
make sarin in Turkey and were being supplied with the components for
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synthesizing sarin by the Saudi Arabian war monger Bander bin Sultan.
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More damning still was Seymour Hershs London Review of Books piece,
Whose Sarin?, published on Dec08.2013, which virtually flattened
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Obamas Premise #1 by bringing to light evidence that not only did the
insurgents have both access to sarin and the capability to synthesize it,
but Obamas administration knew that at the time Obama was asserting
the opposite.
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Obamas Premise #2 is the subject of the present work, except that I
dont address the rockets issue. My background limits my comfort zone
to biological issues, like examining the truth of the USGs the assertion
that the neurotoxin sarin was used. And I think that turns out to be
more than sufficient.
[0029] The greatest advantage of focusing just on Kafr Batna is, of
course, that by picking one community as a representative sub-
population of all of the victims of the Ghouta Massacre, I can greatly
reduce the volume of evidence that must be reviewed and the amount of
analytical effort required to come to an initial conclusion about what
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and, as you will see, the amount of evidence that can be gleaned from
even a 30 second clip can be very, very substantial. It would take a small
army of people willing to subject themselves to hours of strabismus-
inducing video-gazing in order to come to a conclusion based on all of
the Ghouta videos. In fact, one reason so much information was dumped
onto the Internet may have been to discourage this sort of detailed
analysis.
[0030] Once I realized that the SM and the multiple dark basement
rooms of the DM were all a part of the same complex, I began to
understand the gravity of what I was seeing, and what I was seeing was a
process. The KB videos show a single, coherent population of about 125
victims who were exposed to some poison. Some of them are dead,
others are suffering and, presumably, dying. Bodies initially seen at night
in the DM are later seen packed into the SM near noon, laid out in neat,
tight rows. Then the SM is shown later in the day, almost empty as bodies
are being carried out. And so you can almost see in this one building
complex a process unfolding a process that should be understood by the
world to be a crime against humanity.
Of course, all of the Ghouta videos taken together could properly be
characterized as evidence of a crime against humanity, and so there is
nothing special or unique about the KB videos in that respect. But the
whole of it is too much to comprehend. The videos are so chopped up
into 30-second segments that repeat themselves two or three times
within a single video that it would take one person years to sort them all
out. But here in one physical place, in one manageable collection of a
dozen videos is a representative microcosm representing all of those who
died in that larger, horrible event.
A Triad of Testable Toxin-Hypotheses

[0031] With respect to Ghouta there is one huge, over-riding,
universal observation that immediately eliminates many hypotheses from
consideration: the obvious lack of trauma to the bodies. As Kerry put it
in his Aug30 speech, not a scratch, not a shrapnel wound, not a cut, not
a gunshot sound. While he overstated the actual video evidence
somewhat, he makes the point that the absence of trauma to the great
majority of the bodies must mean that the cause of death of most of the
victims in Ghouta was a chemical, or biological, or nuclear agent of some
sort. Where Kerry really over-reached was with his outrageously illogical
conclusion that since a chemical agent was used, it must have been sarin
and, consequently, Assad must be guilty. That sort of logic is just plain
blue-bonkers crazy, as I have suggested above and as I demonstrate
below.
But then, blue-bonkers crazy pretty much describes the universal
party line from the USG and MSM as far as the Ghouta Massacre goes.
Prior to the present paper there has been, for all I am aware, only one
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hypothesis as to what toxin was used in Ghouta: sarin. In fact, the sarin-
hypothesis is so dominant that when the UN Mission went into Ghouta
to collect evidence, the only thing they were looking for was, apparently,
sarin. There is not a word in the UN Missions Report on the CW attack
near Damascus, aka the Sellstrom Report, about sampling for any other
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possible toxin. In fact, no other toxin is even mentioned. For one whose
background is science and law, I find the UNs method of using
preconceived conclusions to generate not just a report but an entire
investigation that could be used to justify killing a lot of people and
possibly igniting a regional or global war both infuriating and frightening.
[0032] And so what Im doing in this paper is trying to breathe some
sanity into this mess and some discipline into the analysis. Instead of
assuming for a fact that the toxin was sarin and then sending the UN
guys in to look for sarin and only sarin, I suggest that we propose that
sarin is one possibility. Then package that possibility as a formal
hypothesis and see what we can do to verify or discard that hypothesis.
It seems like the least we can do. After all, a lot of peoples lives could be
at stake if Obama plays this thing the way Bush played the yellow cake-
hypothesis. Or the aluminum tubes-hypothesis. Or the mobile biological
agents production facility-hypothesis.
Better still, borrowing a page from the play-books of the best
scientific labs, we should propose multiple hypotheses and test them
against each other to see which ones can be eliminated and which ones
cannot.
And thats what Ive done in this investigation. I present and test
three competing hypotheses about the toxins that were used to poison
the victims we see in the KB complex.
[0033] But . . . whats a hypothesis? Even those of us who have
spent most of our working lives in science will disagree about what a
correct answer to this question looks like. The best I can do is give you
the answer I have used with reasonable success in my life and research,
and continue to use in this investigation: A hypothesis is an educated
guess about what is possible that is stated as an assertion of fact i.e,
stated in such a way that it has the potential to be disproved by logic or
evidence. The emphasis here is on educated and potential to be
disproved.
Being an educated guess is what distinguishes a valid hypothesis from
a wacko conspiracy theory. An educated guess is one that is not merely
pulled out of thin air, but has a solid basis in what is already known.
There must be a factual starting point.
The other defining characteristic is that the hypothesis must be
I would like to express my appreciation to Dr. D.J. Longley, who, 40 years ago,
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formally stated in such a way that the statement can be examined
logically and tested empirically by field observations, experiments, or
other forms of fact-based analysis. A man much wise than myself warned
me when I was a graduate student that a hypothesis is a powerful tool,
but if you dont organize it properly, it will bite you in the bum for sure.
What he meant is that it is important to state the hypothesis in a way
that it can be ripped to pieces if its properly tested and if its wrong. If
you do your best to put the hypothesis to the test and it cannot be shot
down, then it might be pointing you in a worthwhile direction. It tells
you what is possible, and if it fails, it tells you what isnt. And if there is
only one hypothesis standing when you have tested them all, then that
one is the equivalent of the county fair Kewpie doll.
[0034] There are basically two ways to test a hypothesis: trying to
burn holes in it with laser-logic (a priori arguments) and trying to blow it
to pieces with dynamite-evidence (a posteriori arguments).
Testing a hypothesis with logic means first identifying the necessary
consequences the ramifications of the hypothesis and then asking
whether those necessary consequences are possible. Take the Santa
Clause Hypothesis, for instance. One necessary consequence that follows
from the SC-H is that a fat man has to be able to visit the home of
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every boy and girl in the world in a single night. By the time a kid gets
old enough to see that this consequence has to occur if the SC-H is true,
O
then he/she is also old enough to realize that even with GPS and radar
guidance systems it just aint going to happen. Thats when, and thats
why, the SC-H eventually goes out the mental window of every kid who
O
once bought it. It doesnt matter how much evidence the kid has
supporting the SC-H or how strong that evidence is, like a plate of half-
O
eaten cookies on Christmas morning, the logic itself trumps the
evidence. The point is that when defeating a hypothesis with such a
priori arguments, you dont have to collect one iota of evidence; the
hypothesis essentially rejects itself by virtue of the impossibility of its
ramifications.
But note I said impossibility. One rejects a hypothesis on the basis
of laser-logic because the consequences of the hypothesis are impossible,
not because they are improbable. Probability has little or no role to play
in this analysis. Sherlock Holmes said it best in that quote above: once
you have rejected every explanation but one as being impossible, then
that sole remaining explanation has to be the answer regardless of how
improbable it is.
It is rare in the public world of academic science for hypotheses to be
rejected purely with logic. And thats because the people presenting
scientific hypotheses are usually smart enough to see any necessary but
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a lot of embarrassment by not putting logically flawed hypotheses out
there. The MSM and the US government are, apparently, far less
concerned with their appearances.
[0035] The second way to test a hypothesis is empirically, which is
to say with experience or experiments or other sources of facts that come
to us through our senses, not through pure thought processes. This is the
way we will go about testing the three KB toxin hypotheses. Our
evidence will be the videos and still images of the KB complex that have
been uploaded to the Internet.
[0036] Let me state this triad of hypotheses formally:
The sarin-H : The victims shown in the KB complex were
O
poisoned by sarin.
The CO-H : The victims shown in the KB complex were
O
poisoned by carbon monoxide.
The CN-H : The victims shown in the KB complex were
O
poisoned by some form of cyanide.
I did not simply snatch these hypotheses out of the air. As I state
above, to avoid being properly considered a wacko conspiracy theory, a
hypothesis has to be an educated guess there has to be some accepted
knowledge backing it up before its even proposed.
Given this point of view, the sarin-H is problematic because there is
O
no valid, educated basis for it. In fact, I would not even consider sarin as
one of the competing hypotheses based on what I have seen from the
Ghouta videos. But sarin has been hyped by the insurgents, by Obama,
and by the worlds MSM as the agent that was used. And the UN
mission went into Ghouta looking for sarin and, not surprisingly, came
out with sarin in hand. Consequently, the sarin assertion has to be dealt
with and I do that by including it as one of the hypotheses to be tested.
As for CO and CN, they are included because they are toxins with a
nasty history of being used to kill large numbers of civilians incident to
military campaigns, and because they both are well known to produce
peculiar symptoms that are widely seen in the Ghouta victims. I explain
all of this in detail when I describe the pharmacology of all three toxins
in Part C.
[0037] And so we have three competing hypotheses: the sarin-H ,
O
the CO-H , and CN-H . The primary task, then, is to determine
O O
whether any of these hypotheses are so inconsistent with the evidence
that they must be rejected. If more than one hypothesis cannot be
reasonably rejected, then the secondary task is to attempt to determine
which of the remaining hypotheses is most likely a true statement of fact.
This is referred to, not coincidentally, as the competing hypothesis
approach. No stronger method for getting to the truth of a matter is
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could have been used in Ghouta and, hence, other possible hypotheses
exist the unique symptoms caused by CO and CN make them far and
away the most likely alternatives to sarin for reasons that will become
evident in Part C.
Given the pharmacological context we are working in, the way we go
about trying to reject these hypotheses is straight forward. Each of these
three toxins produce specific syndromes arrays of symptoms that can
be ascertained by studying the clinical and research literature. These
syndromes will overlap to some extent between two agents, and a few
symptoms, like convulsions, are caused by all three agents. On the other
hand, each agent also produces symptoms and biological signs that the
others do not.
And so, the evidence will fall into two categories with respect to each
of the three toxins. First, there is the positive evidence. That means
seeing symptoms that we know a toxin must produce or seeing symptoms
that we know the toxin cannot produce either way the evidence
consists of what is actually seen. Second, and equally important, is
negative evidence, which means failing to see symptoms that we know a
toxin must produce. For instance, if sarin is well known to turn corpses
blue and the corpses we see in the KB videos are pink, then that would be
negative evidence that sarin must be rejected as an explanation.
The value of this pharmacological approach to sorting out what
happened in Ghouta is that biology is not driven by polemics, or politics,
or neocon agendas, or sectarian hatred. It doesnt matter whether a
victim is Sunni or Shia or Simba the Lion King, if his lips and ears and
fingertips are blue, then he almost certainly was not poisoned by CO. In
other words, biology doesnt give a flip who you are, how you worship, or
which dictator you support.

Techniques and Sources of Information
[0038] There are many free tools on the Internet that facilitate
citizen forensic adventures like this one, and there is an enormous
amount of visual evidence on the Ghouta Massacre that has been
digitally passed from street-level right into the lap of anyone who wants
to have a go. I cannot think of another example in human history where
ordinary people have tools that give them access to the scene of a crime,
much less a crime of these proportions, so they can do their own
investigation.
There is nothing unique or innovative about my methods and
nothing spooky about my sources everything is open sourced, both the
evidence and the tools. Although this paper has grown so large that I
had to edit out significant amounts of redundant evidence that supports
individual points, all of the evidence I do present is accessible to anyone
who wants to have a look. I give the links to all of the videos and try to
provide the precise time-point in the videos where each relevant image is
seen. Unlike many government allegations and MSM articles, this report
The dates recorded on YT uploads are Pacific time zone dates. Most of the
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is not based on the ubiquitous Anonymous Source, who is relied on to
control the message with information that cant be verified.
I encourage you to download the tools, look at these videos yourself,
check my facts, and form your own conclusions rather than relying on
me, or relying on Barak Obama, John Kerry, Lindsay Graham, the NYT
or any of the other overt hawks who have pushed for an attack on Assad
in retaliation for the Ghouta Massacre.
[0039] Following this analysis of the KB complex and what
happened there, and testing the hypotheses will be a relatively
challenging task, but it will be much easier if you actually see the
evidence for yourself as I discuss it. In both Chapter Three and
Appendix I, I present a table of links to all of the videos I rely on, with
annotations as to what part of the KB complex each video shows. All of
the still photographs I rely on are provided with links to the sources.
Ideally, to examine the videos you will have a media player that
allows you to move around in a video easily, including stop-frame, frame-
by-frame, and reverse. I have found the free media player, VLC, to be
more than adequate. The methods and software (with links) I used to
download the videos, analyze them, capture screen-shots and highlight
areas of interest are provided in the methods appendix, Appendix III.
[0040] The evidence I rely on in this report essentially comes down
to 11 videos and several still images. Most of these videos were uploaded
from Ghouta just a few hours after the massacre, which is said to have
taken place from about 2am to 5am on Aug21.2013, Damascus time.
That was 4pm to 7pm, Aug20, Pacific Daylight Savings Time, which
determines the date marked on YouTube uploads.
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Above I mentioned that the DiFi Package comprises 13 videos,
which can fairly be thought of as Obamas evidence for going after Assad.
These 13 videos represent only a tiny part of all of the videos that the
insurgents uploaded to YouTube in the hours and days following the
Ghouta Massacre, but because Obama, Kerry, and Feinstein have
presented these 13 videos as authenticated by US intel services, they
have a particular gravitas as evidence. For instance, should the evidence
gleaned from the DiFi videos not support Obamas sarin allegations,
having signed off on the videos as being authentic, the USG would not be
able to cover itself by asserting that the DiFi videos must have been
faked. Videos #2, #7, and #11 of the DiFi package were shot in the KB
complex and are used extensively as evidence herein. Under my
nomenclature they are videos Rm3-a, Rm3-b, and SM-a, respectively.
I am aware of a number of videos and still shots purporting to be of
KB that are not included in this report. These videos are of buildings
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complex, at least I have not been able to make the connection. If the
connection is there, I would be grateful if someone would point it out to
me. While I cannot connect these other scenes to the KB complex, what
I can say is that, so far as I have seen, all of the observations I make
regarding the victims in the KB complex apply to the victims in these
other buildings purported to be in KB. In fact, with a couple of fairly
clear exceptions, all of the conclusions I make with respect to the KB
complex apply to all of the Ghouta videos I have seen.
[0041] In wading through these KB videos or any of the Ghouta
videos for evidence, it is critical to keep a number of caveats in mind.
Foremost, one must not lose track of the obvious: these videos were all
produced by insurgents and uploaded by local insurgent PR committees
who support the insurgency and are trying to take down Assad. In other
words, like virtually all of the evidence in this mystery, these videos are
tainted by virtue of their source, and this opens all sorts of problems and
possibilities.
For instance, videos can be staged, and some of the Ghouta videos
obviously are. Some of the things seen in these videos will strike any
normal person as being really weird, given the context, and alarm bells
should go off.
For instance, when you see the same victims suffering or dead in
different places miles apart, it has to make you pause. And there is no
way to know that an image or video is what it is advertised as being. At
least one widely disseminated image of the Ghouta attack turns out to be
an image from the Egyptian uprisings of a year earlier.
Sometimes in these videos you see people acting in ways you would
not expect of someone in the dire, tragic situations that the videos are
supposed to show. The screen-grab in Fig. 5 is from a video that is a good
example of such suspicious behavior. That video shows a couple of kids
goofing around and laughing in the background of an otherwise hyper-
dramatic scene of a crowd solemnly staring at a pile of very neatly dressed
dead boys. This is especially bizarre because the dead boys no girls
look to be the same age as the kids who are yucking it up. Presumably,
these laughing boys were (or are) all school friends of the dead ones.
Its hard to avoid the suspicion that these laughing kids are witnessing
not a horrible loss of their schoolmates but, rather, a big joke that the
insurgents are putting over on The Stupid Americans to get them to pull
the trigger on Assad.
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Fig. 5. Something is definitely funny here. Source.
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[0042] Another potential problem with the Ghouta video evidence
is that these videos are heavily edited to make the most dramatic impact
possible and to exclude information that may conflict with the
insurgents intended message, which is that the Assadists killed the
people in the videos with sarin. The problem with doing an online
forensic investigation from 6500 miles away is that you cannot analyze
what isnt in the video, which is frustrating when you know the person,
or body, or blood you want to see is just barely to the left or right of
where the camera is pointing. Nor can you control the lighting. This is
particularly frustrating because much of the biological evidence I rely on
is skin color, which is notoriously dependent on lighting. But those
frustrations are minor compared to the ones arising from knowing that
the people making the videos may well be intentionally pointing their
cameras away from what we really need to see.
[0043] Nevertheless, these videos are a powerful source of
information. For instance, videos of the same room have been produced
at different times by different PR people. You can tell that by the
YouTube upload information and the logos embossed on the videos, and,
often, by the angle of the sun. The people who are in one room
including the dead people change from video to video. The same
bodies show up in different rooms. A specific body may be associated
with one group of bodies in one video, but with a different group of
bodies in a different room in a subsequent video, thereby tying the two
groups of bodies and the two rooms together i.e. body-continuity.
The childrens bodies are easier to track because of their brightly colored,
distinctive clothing.
For morgues, the SunMorgue and DarkMorgue are incredibly
dynamic places, and by keeping track of who is where and with whom,
you can begin to build timelines for individual victims and rooms. And
those timelines imply that a process a very sinister process it taking
place.
Another interesting aspect of the video-evidence is that as YouTube
videos come increasingly under scrutiny in online discussions, those
videos become more likely to disappear. My guess is that by now 20% of
the original videos have disappeared. And it is not just the videos, entire
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YouTube channels of the insurgents are disappearing. Virtually all of the
evidence once on Facebook has been removed. This destruction of the
evidence is in itself suspicious. In Chapter Three and Appendix I, I
provide mp4 versions of all of the videos in my KB video-stable. If you
find that a YouTube channel has been taken down, the mp4 is there as a
back-up.
[0044] One last point regarding sources of information and
evidence: the present paper pretty much ignores the Sep15.2013 UN
Report on the CW attack near Damascus, aka the Sellstrom Report, as
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a source of evidence. One would have hoped that the Sellstrom Report
would have been the ultimate source of objective and scientifically sound
information on the issue, but to the contrary, as I have already described
in detail , all of the evidence that the Sellstrom Report is based on is
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tainted because it was all provided by the insurgents. The Report was
not the product of an independent inquiry; it was the product of a
collaborative effort between the UN Mission and the same insurgents
who may very well be the guilty parties. Not a single piece of data and
not a single conclusion of the Sellstrom Report is beyond suspicion, and
according to the principle that no proof can be stronger than the
evidence used to support it, it would be an act of inexcusable intellectual
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PART B
The Kafr Batna Death Complex:
A Tale of Two Morgues

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Chapter Three
The Sun

You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
Ayn Rand
[0045] Gamers develop a special mental skill that is not at all unlike
a lab rats ability to find their way around a maze in the dark. I think its
one part spatial instinct and two parts finely developed short-term
memory. Back in my short but intense gamer period I honed that special
mental skill to a sharp enough edge that I could descend into the bowels
of Level I of the 1990's favorite, Descent, find the red key, rescue the
hostages, blow the reactor, and (sometimes) find the escape hatch in time
to get out before the expanding fireball scorched my tush.
But Ive lost my edge. The schematics of the KB complex you will
find in this Part B represent months of effort that probably would have
taken a mediocre gamer an day or two. Even now Im not sure that Ive
got it all 100% right and that I wont get my tush scorched by a bunch of
bright gamers or maze-busting lab rats with iPads and Facebook accounts
who are a lot better at sussing out labyrinths than I am.
[0046] Assembling the various views from a dozen videos into a
coherent picture of the KB complex was not that difficult. The difficult
part was first determining which of scads of Ghouta videos were showing
the same complex. What you see in most of the videos is just a few
seconds of suffering or death without any narrative or context you have
to add both. When a cameraman moves through dim hallways from one
room to another, you can be sure that the room he left is spatially
connected to the one he arrives at, but most of the videos are shot
entirely within the confines of a single room. For instance, all you might
see is a single individual lying on a wet floor next to the wheel of a cart,
and that wheel is all you have to connect that video to another one of
the same room. And rooms change from one video to the next bodies
are moved around, bodies come, bodies go, 44 liter gas cylinders appear
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layout changes its appearance each time you boot the game.
I have developed headaches and slight nausea running these videos
on two screens simultaneously while trying to establish spatial
congruence. Ive experienced wee, tiny panic attacks thinking Ive gotten
myself lost in that DarkMorgue and may end up on the floor dead,
cherry-red, and with my hands bound on my stomach like the rest of
them. And then there is the unpleasant experience of repeatedly getting
jerked out of faux-gamers mode and back into reality by periodic spasms
of recognition that these videos are not subsequent levels of a computer
game; they are videos of hundreds of real, poisoned people who are
suffering, and hundreds more who stopped suffering forever sometime
before the PR people arrived with their camcorders to make a final,
digital record that they ever existed.
After months of looking at these victims daily trying to figure out
what really happened to them, they have almost become friends, in the
saddest way. Friends without names, mostly, only my victim ID numbers.
And I feel an odd sense of being privileged to be the one to introduce
them to you, and to tell you what I have deduced about the story of their
final moments a story that is really a pretense for getting the word out
that these unknown friends of mine, these kids particularly, existed, not
just as victims, but as people. But for that story to make sense, you have
to know something about the place where they died.
[0047] The schematic in Fig. 6 shows the spatial relationships
between four areas that comprise the KB complex as deduced from the
various videos and still shots that have been uploaded to the Internet.
Most conspicuous in the schematic and in the videos is a large, bright,
ground-level room filled with bodies the SunMorgue. The SM is
connected by an external walkway to a subterranean area the
DarkMorgue, which comprises at least three rooms and an outdoor patio.
The DM is likely a lot larger than what I show, but what I show is all I
have. Many of the schematics I present look a bit disjointed because the
videos they are derived from dont show every wall, hallway, and
doorway. I have excluded walls I cannot see in the videos or that I
cannot fairly deduce must exist.
[0048] I have color-coded the video-views in the schematic with
video links in Table 1. In referring to these videos throughout this
paper, when I wish to draw your attention to a particular scene, I place
an approximate time marker following a slash.
All of the schematics in this paper are oriented the same as Fig. 6.
The indicated direction north is entirely arbitrary but is consistent from
one schematic to the next. It has nothing to do with magnetic north; I
merely use north, east, west, and south to facilitate descriptions
of movements through and between these rooms. If you get disoriented,
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Fig. 6. Schematic of the KB complex indicating the areas shown in each KB video.
Not drawn to scale. North arbitrary.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Vby7TdnL8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzpLeXcfNJk
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Table I
Vid ID Location Time of day Upload
date
mp4 link
SM-a SM ~ Mid-day Aug20 mp4
27
SM-b
28
Afternoon or
evening
Aug22 mp4
SM-c SM
DM
Room #2
Night Aug20 mp4
29
Rm1-a
30
DM
Room #1
Night Aug20 mp4
Rm1-b
31
Not known Aug20 mp4
Rm2-a DM
Room #2
Night Aug20 mp4
32
Rm2-b
33
Night Aug21 mp4
Rm3-a
34
DM
Room #3
Night Aug20 mp4
Rm3-b
35
Night Aug21 mp4
Rm3-c
36
Night Aug20 mp4
Pat-a
37
DM Patio Night Aug20 mp4
The YouTube links to these videos have been taken down or access denied. Please
access the mp4 links.
Because a lot of the Ghouta videos are being taken off of YT, if you hit a dead
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link, try the mp4 link given in Table I.

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The SunMorgue Before the Sun Came Up
[0049] The sunlight flooding the SunMorgue figures large in
understanding the KB videos. Not only does it light up the evidence in
the SM, it gives us a clue as to the time of day and how much time passes
between videos. In addition, because it is so bright, the SunMorgue
serves as a psychological home-base or anchor point. Compared to the
DarkMorgue it is a virtual oasis it is above ground, it opens on to the
street, it is almost cheerful. Its occupants are past their final suffering.
I have three videos of the SunMorgue: SM-a , SM-b, and SM-c.
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They all show the same room at different times. Video SM-a is
particularly important because it is video #11 in the DiFi package. Fig. 7
below is a schematic of the SM showing the paths taken by the three
videographers as they wandered through the SM taking their videos. I
have added four screen-grabs taken from the three videos. What I know
about the SunMorgue comes from these three videos and a hand-full of
still images, most of which were taken by Mohammad al-Abdullah. The
videos have a aggregate running time of approximately 3:40. Thats it:
three minutes, forty seconds, and much of it repetitive, but what an
enormous amount of evidence is there, as you are about to see.
[0050] From bodies lying on the floor, I estimate the floor-tiles of
the SM to be about 17 inches square. This gives a rough guess of the
dimensions of the SM as 28 feet x 50 feet. It has four large windows in
the south wall, a main entrance to the east, and a side entrance to the
north all directions are diagram-directions, not geographical. There is
a foyer adjacent the side entrance. There may also be a foyer adjacent
the main entrance as shown above, but you cant see it well in the videos.
The main entrance opens onto a sidewalk adjacent a street.

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Fig. 7 Images from the three SM videos showing gender and age segregation of bodies.
Colored lines with arrows indicate paths taken by cameramen, color coded to lines connect to
their images. Not drawn to scale.

[0051] Image A above is from video SM-c. This video was
obviously shot at night, presumably between 2AM and sun-up on Aug21,
local time. It was shot by Mr. Minnie and is an extremely important
video for a number of reasons, the first one being that it shows what the
SM looked like before it was completely filled with bodies.
The video starts off outside of the building in a dark, ambiguously
chaotic street scene. Children are crying and clinging to adults. People
carrying green plastic bottles scurry around; others are hosing down the
sidewalk. Three people lying or sitting on the wet sidewalk are being
tended to.
And yet the chaos is not homogenous. In fact most of the people are
milling around without showing any angst or anxiety at all. A few of
them are sitting nonchalantly on a low wall, watching the action around

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them. A few cars can be seen moving in the background. People are
chatting. Still, other people look sincerely panicked.
After sweeping this sidewalk scene with his camera a couple of times,
Mr. Minnie goes through the main entrance, past the foyer, and into the
SM. Of course, at night there is nothing sunny about it, but it is brightly
lit with overhead fluorescent lights, and I find that a bit queer, too, at
least within the context of a nocturnal sarin rocket attack. For I have
had my share of terrifying nights sitting through rocket and mortar
attacks, and, as I recall, the first thing one does when the explosions and
sirens start screaming is to turn the lights off. And you leave them off
until the sun comes up because experience and common sense suggest
that incoming rounds at night naturally gravitate toward light because
thats were the people i.e. targets are. And yet here we see recorded
in SM-c the chaotic dark hours during or immediately following an
alleged rocket attack by Assadists intent on raining down death on
Ghouta . . . and the SM is lit up like a Wal-Marts during a midnight
special in the ladies department.
[0052] But what is most striking about the SM in SM-c is that it is
virtually empty, save a half-dozen or so young people of both genders
sitting around on the floor. One of them is supine, but is being ignored
by the rest. They dont look traumatized, injured, or poisoned not even
excited. They hardly look like people who have just been through a
sarin-rocket attack, or any rocket attack. Mostly they just look tired and
bored, as if they just finished a really long shift at Arbys and are hanging
out at the local morgue, waiting for it to fill up. One would think that if
people were dying all around them from sarin, these kids would be at
least a little worked up about it and looking for their folks. And if sarin
was wafting in the late night breeze, they would probably be dying
gruesome deaths themselves. A window is open, suggesting they are not
trying to escape from a poisonous gas outside.
[0053] There is not a single piece of furniture in the SM, and no
indication there ever was. And what is equally striking if you have seen
the videos of the incredible destruction Ghouta has sustained in the 18
months prior to the attack, is that this building appears perfectly OK.
The windows, walls and floor are in excellent repair. The lights have
bulbs and power. This seems odd when you consider that the percussive
effects of an artillery round can blow out windows a hundred yards away.
[0054] As shown in the schematic above, the SM has two pillars
placed along the midline of the room; they serve as important landmarks
for our analysis. The room has a generic rubbery greyish beige baseboard.
The tiles are probably ceramic, off-white. In some views the tiles look
like they are single squares, but in other views the tiles reflect the light in
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Another conspicuous feature of the SM in SM-c is the mess the floor
is in. It looks like it has just been jet-sprayed, leaving muddy pools. A
window is open, suggesting rain could have come pouring in, but the
weather in Damascus that night was clear. Fig. 8a is a foot-selfie taken
by Mr. Minnie wading through the SM puddles, his camera strap
dangling.
Fig. 8a. Mr. Minnies foot-selfie, camera
strap, and the muddy SM floor. SM-c/00:48
Fig. 8b. Another foot-selfie by Mr. Minnie
in the SM with fru fru, pink-toed friend. SM-c/00:49
Mr. Minnie, like all the other PR people filming the KB morgues, is
careful to keep his camera pointed toward the ground when moving from
place to place. Although he shows a number of young people sitting on
the floor as he enters the SM, he is careful to keep his camera pointed
straight at his feet as he leaves so that we dont see the young people
again. But what we do see is the dazzling, fru-fru thong and salmon-pink
toes of his companion. (Fig. 8b.) Upon emerging from the SM Mr.
Minnie descends into the DM where we will catch up with him and his
friend once we have completed our tour of the SM.
For comments on the many pink toes and fingers seen in the SM, see
Appendix II, More SunMorgue Oddities.
The Sun-Videos: Bodies In, Bodies Out

[0055] The other two SunMorgue videos Vids SM-a and SM-b
(collectively, the sun-videos) were taken in bright daylight, which has
to mean they were taken quite a number of hours after SM-c, and, more
importantly, quite a few hours after the sarin attack. The floor appears
clean and mostly dry in these later videos. As the schematic in Fig. 7
shows, the two cameramen who recorded the sun-videos took very

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similar paths as they moved through the SM from east to west and back
again.
But there are differences in these two sun-videos that suggest that a
significant amount of time passed between them the change in the
strength of the sunlight, for instance. Here are two similar views of the
western wall of the SM as shown in SM-a (Fig. 9) and SM-b (Fig. 10).
Figs. 9 & 10. Difference in sunlight
between the two sun-videos suggests
the passage of time, but which view is
earlier?
The sunlight is obviously much stronger, direct, and at a higher
angle in the view from SM-a, Fig. 9. Note, for instance how sharp the
shadow is of the body in the lower left corner. Given that the weather
data for Damascus on Aug21.2013 indicate 0% cloud cover all day, we
can dismiss passing clouds as the reason for the softer light of SM-b. It
looks to me that SM-a was taken at about noon, with the sunlight
streaming straight in the window from a high angle. And so, I use SM-a
as a temporal reference point for other videos and still shots of the SM.
http://www.worldweatheronline.com/Damascus-weather-history/Dimashq/SY.a
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spx

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.
Fig. 11. The weather in Damascus was clear during the Ghouta Massacre
and the entire following day. The temperature maxed at 95EF. Source
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The main limitation of this analysis is that we cant tell whether
SM-b was shot earlier or later than SM-a. Fig. 10 could show the room
in the softer light of morning or evening. In other words, while
differences in the strength of the sunlight may give us some feel that a
considerable amount of time passed between the two videos, it doesnt
tell us the sequence of the videos. Deducing that sequence is vital, but
will require additional evidence.
[0056] The bodies in the SM have been segregated as indicated in
Fig. 7. My best attempt at taking a body count yields 86 bodies shown in
video SM-a, and 80 in SM-b. SM-a shows the room filled just about to
capacity; in SM-b you can see openings in otherwise closely packed rows.
But, of course, not knowing the sequence of the two videos, we dont
know whether the video with the fewer bodies was taken before or after
the SM was at full capacity.
The childrens corner is the SE corner of the room, as shown in
image D of Fig. 7. The bodies of 18 colorfully dressed infants and
children, mostly girls, are lying beneath the window closest to the main
entrance. Other than a couple of older boys who might be considered
children but who are laid out in the mens section, all of the children are
in this corner, at least in these videos. Unlike the men and women, the
number of children does not change between SM-a and SM-b.
Image C of Fig. 7 shows a portion of the 37 mens bodies that fill the
remainder of the south half of the SM, adjacent the windows. All but
four of the men are arranged in six rows. I have not found a shot of the

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mens section that shows it in its entirety. Two shots are shown in Figs.
9 & 10, and here is another partial view showing four of the six rows:
.
Fig. 12. Another partial view of the mens section
of the SM. SM-b/00:33
For the most part a wide path separates the men and women the
body with the blue leg-covering in the photo above is a woman; the
womens area is out of frame to the right. Like the children, no attempt
has been made to cover the mens faces, with two exceptions.
The womens section is also well organized into rows, as shown in
image B of Fig. 7. I count approximately 31 women organized in five
rows along the north wall in video SM-a, and approximately 29 women
in video SM-b. Im hedging with approximately because unlike the
men and children, the women are wrapped or covered with blankets and
its difficult to interpret all of the lumps.
If you look closely at image B, which was taken from SM-b, you will
note the gaps one each in the second and third rows from the front.
These gaps are filled in SM-a, which accounts for the difference in 2
womens bodies. The other major difference between the women in the
two videos is that in SM-a all of the womens faces are covered whilst in
SM-b most of the womens faces can be seen.
[0057] In sum, I count six more bodies in SM-a than in SM-b four
men and two women. Another way to say this is that there are six gaps
in SM-b that do not appear in SM-a. All of the children in both sun-
videos are the same and in the same place. In fact, all of the bodies that
are seen in both videos are pretty much in the same position, and, largely,
in the same pose, so far as you can tell, but its difficult to say with 100%
certainty because somebody was swapping blankets around, which
confuses the issue.
The differences in the body counts and the differences in the lighting
between SM-a and SM-b suggest two possible sequences: 1) SM-b was
shot first, in the morning while the room was filling up and the six gaps
were not yet occupied, or 2) SM-b was shot second, in the evening while
the room was being emptied and the six bodies had been removed,
leaving the gaps. With additional information we will be able to sort out
the sequence, but for the moment all that is beyond doubt is that SM-c
shows the SM in an empty, nocturnal state while SM-a shows the SM at
mid-day, near capacity state. All of the rest of the videos and stills show
the SM in softer light and in intermediate states in which the room is
It is worth noting that many of these KB shots are credited to insurgent PR
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photographer Mohammed al-Abdullah, who sells to Reuters. I refer to these
soft-light SM photos as the al-Abdullah photos even though not all of them
carry credits. We will return to Mr. Abdullah in Part D.
http://www.independent.ie/photos/syrian-gas-attack-massacre-29519765.html
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Photo credit: Mohammed al-Abdullah.
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http://acloserlookonsyria.shoutwiki.com/wiki/File:CW_821_KafrBatna_6.jpg
Photo credit: Mohammed al-Abdullah
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http://acloserlookonsyria.shoutwiki.com/wiki/File:Kafar_Batna_girls_removed.j
pg
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/syria-crisis-paris-idINDEE97K0FK201
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30821
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/mod/photo-gallery/8202
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Ibid
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being filled or emptied. Here are examples of still shots of the SM in a
mostly empty state.
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Figs. 13-15. The childrens corner, intermediate stages. Fig. 13 Source
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Fig. 14 Source ~ Fig. 15
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Source
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Figs. 16-19. The womens section, intermediate stages. Fig. 16. Source. ~ Fig. 17,
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source has been taken down ~ Fig. 18. Source ~ Fig. 19
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Source
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Photo credit REUTERS/Mohamed Abdullah
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/21/five-reasons-
the-u-s-doesnt-act-on-syria-chemical-weapons-reports/
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Figs. 20 & 21. The mens section, intermediate stages. Please note that the young man
in Fig. 21 is in the distance in Fig. 20, beneath the window. He is also seen in the lower
left corner of Figs. 9 & 10. Fig. 20. Source ~ Fig. 21.
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Source.
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[0058] Figs. 16 and 17 exemplify the odd dynamics of the SM. The
body of the young man designated M-011 is indicated in these figures for
reference. He is sort of a constant because he is seen in many of these
SM shots in precisely the same position and pose. We will see him again
when we get to the DarkMorgue. The woman in Fig. 16 wrapped in the
colorful cyan and pink cloth whom I have labeled W-001 is rarely seen in
the still shots and not at all in the videos or at least her cyan cloth is
not seen, we cant see enough of the body to be sure it is not one of those
under another cloth. Indeed, she is missing from Fig. 17. Her feet can
be seen in Fig. 20. One might surmise that W-001 is so rarely seen in the
SM images because she was only in the SM for a very short while, and
was not there when the sun-videos were shot. This is the only body seen
in any of the videos or still shots whose head is toward the east end of the
room
Unlike the rare appearance of W-001, the two women in Fig. 16
labeled W-002 and W-003 are present in almost all of the still photos of
the SM and both sun-videos. However, both women are missing from
Fig. 16. In Fig. 17, W-003 is covered with a black cloth, but in other
views, it is W-002 that is covered with the black cloth, and in at least one
view they both are.
[0059] What do these dynamics suggest about the purpose of the
SM? Of course, all we can do at this early stage of the analysis is
speculate, and the problem with speculation is that it requires context
and we dont have enough information yet to determine the overall
context of what the KB complex is all about. We are just scratching
around for the moment, trying to get a preliminary sense of what we see.
It looks to me like these photos show the SM being emptied late in
the afternoon. There came a point rather late in that process when most
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which time the photo in Fig. 17 was taken. Subsequently, these two
bodies were removed from the SM, perhaps one of them is on that
stretcher in Fig. 20. After W-002 and W-003 were removed, W-001 was
brought in and the photo shown in Fig. 16 was taken. In other words,
this is not a first-in-last-out situation in which bodies were brought into
the SM until it was full, and then bodies were taken out in reverse order
until it was empty again. Rather, it looks like bodies are coming and
going out more or less randomly and simultaneously. The gaps in the
rows suggest the same thing: bodies were not merely brought in, laid on
the floor at the west end working toward the east end, and then the ones
closest to the door taken out first. The random gaps suggest that certain
bodies were selected to be removed before other bodies.
[0060] And so my initial impression is that the SM appears to be
some sort of dynamic staging area bodies are brought into it and held
for a while before being taken out, perhaps for burial before the sun sets.
But its more complicated than that. Why would they be bringing a body
W-001 into a morgue they are emptying? Why not take that body
directly to the burial site? Why wouldnt they have been more efficient
removing the last bodies in, the ones nearest the door, first rather than
stepping over bodies and leaving gaps in rows? Why would they have
removed 14 of the childrens bodies and left those four in Figs. 13 and 14,
three of which are right in the middle of the room and nearly blocking
the entrance? The way the childrens bodies were removed gets even
more odd when we look at the syringes left behind, below.
And where would these bodies be coming from? Were they victims
that died in their beds (fully clothed), or on the street fleeing the alleged
sarin attack? No, the evidence I will present below shows that many of
the bodies, and virtually all of the children, were brought to the SM from
the DM, where they probably died.
But the present speculation presumes, among other things, a timeline
that we have not yet established. I mean, for all we know, the still photos
may have been taken in the morning when the room was being filled and
before either of the sun-videos was taken. Indeed, any explanation of
what is going on in the KB complex is not going to be much use without
a timeline. The clearest way to suss out this timeline is by following the
action with the syringes.
Although I have handled thousands of pre-packaged syringes, I am embarrassed
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to say that even after searching the Internet for images of syringes, I cannot
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Chapter Four
The Syringes

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels;
they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
[0061] In this section we begin examining individual bodies in the
SunMorgue closely. As we do please take note of their color. We can
tell by the sunlight that SM-a was shot near noon, which is to say at least
9-10 hours after the sarin attack was supposed to have happened,
according to the insurgents sarin scenario. And, as I demonstrate in this
section, video SM-b was shot after SM-a. So all of these people in the
sun-videos have been dead for many hours, at least according to the
sarin scenario. But what you are going to see is bodies with such
incredibly fine natural color that one would be hard-pressed to
distinguish them from sleeping individuals. Figs. 22 and 25, below, are
examples.
This is very important and I am going to discuss it in detail in Part C,
but I am alerting you to this healthy coloration called rubicundity
now because it is the most important clue in this entire mystery.
Partial Inventory of the SunMorgue Syringes

[0062] Syringes are almost as much a feature of the SM as the sun
and the bodies are syringes and their packages are everywhere in videos
and still images of the SM. In fact, I initially considered calling it The
Sunny, Syringe Morgue. The syringes are of the plastic disposable type,
probably 3 ml. or 5 ml. They have a Luer-type screw connector for the
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needle. The needle is not pre-attached. Given that there are no other
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medical facility, one wonders how these people came by all of these
syringes, but I guess the answer to that depends on who these people are.
Here are a few examples of the dozens of syringes seen in the sun-
videos:
Figs. 22-27. Syringes in the SM, some of which can be seen in both sun-
videos, help establish the timeline.
[0063] At least two dozen syringes can be seen in the sun-videos,
but it is hard to keep count because the syringes do not appear at the
same places in both videos and often the loafers wandering around in the
SM prevent clear views of some of the victims. Whilst one can see
numerous syringes in SM-a they are mostly in their wrappers or empty
and lying on the floor, as in Figs. 26 & 27, whereas in SM-b the syringes
are more prominently seen containing blood and lying on the bodies
stomachs. If the syringes are 5 ml., it looks as though 2 ml or so of blood
was collected. In a few examples, even though the quality of the video is
not sufficient to see the blood, you can see that the syringe plunger is
pulled back and the black rubber stopper at the front end of the plunger
is positioned away from the tip of the syringe, as opposed to a fresh
syringe right out of the package, where the plunger will be pushed all the
way into the barrel and the black stopper will be evident at the front end
of the barrel.
The syringes in Fig. 24, for instance, obviously contain blood, but in
other cases its difficult to say. For instance, the victim in Fig. 22 is M-
006. He is seen in a number of these videos and still shots, both in the
SM and the DM. The syringe on his chest is difficult to interpret. It
could be one that has not been used (yet?). On the other hand, it could
be one of a few of these syringes that do not contain blood, but rather
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.
Fig. 28. Most of the children in SM-b but not SM-a have syringes on
their stomachs. SM-b/00:10
[0064] Fig. 28 shows how prevalent the syringes are on the children
in SM-b. On close inspection, most of them have blood in them. By
contrast, Fig. 29, below, is the same view from SM-a and there are no
syringes on the children, with a single exception; however, there are
numerous packages of unopened syringes to the right of the girl in the
orange shirt, G-004. This indicates that blood was drawn from these
bodies after SM-a was taken but before SM-b. You will note the lady in
white working on the Bunny, the girl in cranberry. We will come back
to them.
.
Fig. 29. In SM-a only one childs body has has a syringe on it. SM-a/00:06
In Fig. 28 above I have highlighted the syringe on the girl in purple
because on closer examination it looks as if that syringe is larger than the
other syringes. 20 ml? Also please take note of the syringe on Bunny on
the far right. That syringe will help us determine beyond any doubt the
sequence of videos SM-a and SM-b. Im just getting you oriented here.

[0065] Although many of the men and children have syringes on or
near them, victim W-003 shown in Fig. 30 is one of only two examples I
found of a syringe associated with a woman. This screen shot is from
SM-b, which is also the only imagery I have found of the SM where the
womens faces are uncovered. This syringe implies that blood samples
were drawn from the womens bodies, too, but that the syringes were not
generally placed on the womens bodies like they were with most of the
men and children.


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Fig. 30. The only instance of
a syringe associated with a
woman. SM-b/01:22
[0066] The little girl in the orange top and white tights, right in the
middle of Fig. 28, G-004, is conspicuous in many views of the SM, both
when it is full and when it is nearly empty. Either she was one of the
first bodies to be brought in or one of the last ones taken out, or both.
The photos below (Figs. 31 & 32) of her and the infant next to her were
taken when the SM was nearly empty. Although most of the bodies have
been removed, a number of syringes remain on the floor, and this raises
an interesting point. Good research procedures, forensic procedures, and
medical procedures require one to always label a container before putting
a sample in it. This is true for test tubes, plastic evidence baggies,
syringes . . . whatever. A million times I must have said to my students in
various lab classes: Label your tubes first. If samples are put into
unmarked containers, it is too easy to get things scrambled before the
labels are applied. But in the SM none of the syringes empty or full
have labels. When you look at the syringes on the floor with blood in
them left behind after the bodies have been removed, there is no way to
associate those blood samples with the bodies from which they were
drawn. Here is an example:
Figs. 31 & 32. Two views of syringe containing clear fluid, likely plasma.
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There are several still shots online of the infant shown in Fig. 31 and
of G-004, shown in Fig. 32. Her head is adjacent to the infants left calf.
(c.f. Figs 28 & 29) That is the same syringe you see in both photos,
shown from two different angles you can tell by the way it is positioned
across the corner of the tile in both shots. The syringe is capped, and you
can see it has been used because the black plunger is not seated in the
forward part of the barrel. It looks like there is no blood in the syringe,
but look closely and youll see that this is one of the syringes containing a
yellowish fluid, which is almost certainly plasma.
Several views of the syringe make it obvious that, like all of the other
syringes that can be seen closely enough, there is no label. Is that plasma
from the infant, or from G-004, or some other victim? Who knows?
Apparently, no one cares.
[0067] Evidence of sloppy blood-handling work like this is all over
the SM. The photos below are taken from the same collection as Figs. 31
& 32 i.e., same scene and same children. Look at Figs. 13-15, above, to
see the whole scene and the arrangement of these childrens bodies when
the SM was near full. They were in the same positions in Figs. 33-35.
Figs. 33-35. Empty SM syringe lying on the floor with exposed needle. Fig. 33.
Source: CLOS ~ Source for Fig. 35, Shaam.org, has been taken down.
In Fig. 33, G-004's right arm is on the right of the image. The girl in
pink whose left shoulder is on the left is G-010. Fig. 34 is a close up of
Fig. 33 showing the empty, unused syringe lying on the floor between the
two girls. You can tell it has not been used because the black plunger is
seated all the way to the front end of the barrel. Also note the lack of a
label. But what is particularly odd is that there is no cap on the needle.
There is a cap, however, lying on the floor on the other side of G-004,
next to her left elbow as shown in Fig. 35.
There are at least half a dozen photographs of this scene on the
Internet taken from different angles and at different times, and they all
show that same syringe with the bare needle lying on the floor. Look
closely at Figs. 13 -15, for instance. Blow them up, you will see the bare
needle.
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[0068] Now, I am not a phlebotomist but I have worked in an ER
and I have drawn blood a few times under the supervision of a
phlebotomist, and I have watched it being drawn hundreds if not
thousands of times. Leaving bare needles lying around is definitely not
an accepted practice. As I recall the process of drawing blood, having
screwed a capped needle onto a syringe, most people would then grab the
needle cap with their teeth, pull the needle out of the cap, and hold the
cap in their teeth until ready to put it back on the needle.
The problem is that you dont want to lose sight of the needle cap
while you draw the blood or youll end up searching for it for the rest of
your shift. Of course, if you have a surgical mask on or if the boss is
watching, the teeth option is out, but at the very least you would keep
the needle cap close at hand so you dont lose it and so you can
immediately put it back on the needle after you have drawn the sample.
Some digitally dexterous phlebotomists can hold the needle cap between
their little finger and ring finger while they draw the blood. I have seen
one stick the needle cap in his ear.
Whatever technique is used, its important not to lose that blinkin
needle cap. This is important for a number of reasons, the most obvious
of which is to avoid injuries and infecting people by accidental sticks.
And once a syringe has been filled, the plunger is necessarily pulled part
way out of the barrel of the syringe and is susceptible to being pushed
back in accidently, spewing the contents everywhere. Having the needle
capped helps prevent this by providing a resistance to the plunger being
moved. It also prevents the contents from leaking out of the syringe
through the uncapped needle. Getting the cap back on the needle is a
virtually a necessity.
But in this case it looks like the syringe with the bare needle was
dropped to the floor on one side of G-004 and the cap was dropped to the
floor on other side before the syringe was used. One can tell by the way
the phlebotomists are moving around the SM (see below) that they are
not under any stress or pressure. This is not like an ER in crisis-mode,
its a morgue and nobodys going to get any deader. It is anybodys guess
how the syringe with the bare needle ended up on the floor to the right of
G-004 and the needle cap ended up on the floor to her left, but it
certainly does not suggest we are seeing the work of people who know
what they are doing, or who care.
[0069] It also seems that for all of the trouble the insurgents went to
get that blood, they were awfully cavalier with it once it was out of the
bodies and into the syringes. Figure 36 is a portion of Fig. 14 that has
been magnified to show a girl in blue G-005. She appears in both of the
sun-videos but this image is one of the al-Abdullah still photos. A
syringe with quite a bit of blood can be seen lying next to her right foot.
Note the position of the syringe with respect to the tile-line lying on
the joint between the second and third complete tiles from the eastern
wall, which is to the left.
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Fig. 36. Victim G-005 and blood-filled syringe. Magnified from Fig. 14.
Fig. 37 is a view of the same corner of the SM; it is taken from Fig.15
and magnified. Obviously, G-005 is not there; however, the syringe is in
precisely the same position, judging by the tile-line it has not moved a
millimeter. We cannot know whether these images show the syringe
lying there before G-005 was placed on the floor next to it, or whether
the syringe was left where it is when she was taken away. Either way,
someone would have to have carefully stepped around the syringe
without touching it when G-005 was brought in or taken out. Why?
Not only why would they step around it, but why would it be there? The
blood sample is not labeled and it does not seem possible that a blood
sample lying in isolation on the SM floor could be properly identified to
any victim. What is the point of blood samples that cannot be identified
to the source?
Fig. 37. Victim G-005 is gone; the syringe remains.
Magnified from Fig. 15.
The SunMorgue Phlebotomists

[0070] Video SM-a is particularly valuable because, whilst there are
numerous videos and still shots of the Ghouta Massacre in which
syringes can be seen lying around, this video shows the syringes actually
being used. Let me walk through these sequences carefully because a lot
of heat and confusion have been generated online over what is going on
here. For instance, this pro-Assad site, Syrian Free Press Network,
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ISTEAMS Report on the Ghouta Massacre, Sep11.2013
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injecting them with something. And there is the Syrian Carmelite nun,
Mother Superior Agnes-Mariam, who published a very influential
ISTEAMS Report soon after the massacre in which she speculates that
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the kids are being injected with a soporific so they will look dead for the
cameras. I call this the Juliet Hypothesis and we will come back to it in
Chapter Seven. I think the truth of the matter is quite clear from SM-a:
The syringes are being used to take blood samples, not to inject
something.
[0071] Mortia. In the opening seconds of SM-a you can see a
woman dressed in a white coat, white hijab, white rubber gloves, green
surgical mask, and blue pants. Lets call her Mortia. In addition to the
videographer there was at least one photographer in the SM at this time,
for there are a number of still shots on the Internet of Mortia stepping
amongst these bodies, or squatting down next to one of them: a little girl
in a cranberry outfit with Bunny on the shirt. I have given this child
the ID number, G-006, but I prefer to call her Bunny. As a personal
aside, I would just like to note here for the record that for some reason I
see Bunnys body lying on the floor of the SM as a particularly palpable
encapsulation of what is so terribly wrong with this world the idiot
adults.
The first thing to note is that in video SM-a there is no syringe on
Bunnys stomach. As the videographer proceeds through the SM and
occasionally pans back toward the childrens corner, you can see Mortia
in the background, always in the same position, bent over Bunny. At the
end of the video, which is 82 seconds long, Mortia is still there, still
hunched over Bunny. Mortias interactions with Bunnys body are very
informative.

Fig. 38. Mortia working on
Bunny. Note syringe in Mortias
hand. SM-a/00:05
[0072] The first point worth making about this woman, Mortia, is
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dozens of workers buzzing aimlessly around in the Ghouta videos, and
dozens of loafers standing around looking down at victims struggling for
breath or dead on the floor, and virtually none of these healthy
insurgents are women. With the sole exception of Mortia, all of the
women we see in the sun-videos are corpses.
Whats up with that? Why are all of these scenes so gender-tilted?
Were there no female doctors or nurses in Ghouta that night? Did only
men care enough about these poor people suffering from the alleged
sarin attack to come to their assistance? Did the women just all stay
home? How did so many children become separated from their mothers?
Did none of these children have mothers, or aunts, or grandmothers who
stayed with them? The gravitas of these questions will be fully
appreciated in the Epilogue when we discuss evidence that the victims we
see in KB may have been women and children kidnapped by the
insurgents 150 miles away in Latakia, days before the Ghouta Massacre,
in which case it was the insurgents who determined whether or not the
kids were with their mothers when they died.
[0073] Although Mortia is conspicuous in SM-a, she is not seen at
all in SM-b. But Bunny is, and there is a syringe on her stomach. There
is also what looks to be a dark hematoma on the inside surface of her left
elbow. This is where we really need to lean in.

Fig. 39. Mortia is not present in SM-b, but a plasma-filled syringe
has appeared on Bunnys tummy. SM-b/00:10.
[0074] There can be an awful lot of information in just a second or
two of video. First of all, look at this childs color, how rosy her left
cheek, ear and neck are. But according to the insurgents story and
timeline, she was supposed to have been poisoned by sarin at least 9-10
hours previously. As I will explain in Part C, this obvious rubicundity
virtually eliminates any possibility that this young girl was poisoned by
sarin.
Look closely at the magnified view of the syringe. The cap is on the
needle and the plunger is pulled more than half way out of the barrel: it
has obviously been used. The syringe is half filled with a clear, yellowish
fluid likely plasma. After all the time working on Bunny, as seen in
SM-a, apparently this was all Mortia could produce. No blood.
But what is most important is to establish unequivocally that this
used syringe with plasma in it is not seen in SM-a. And the reason its
important is because the plasma-filled syringe showing up first in SM-b
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vignette is likely the best evidence we have to determine the sequence of
SM-a and SM-b. Because the sequence of these two videos will turn out
to be so important a little farther on down the trail, please bear with me
as I step through what Mortia is doing, frame-by-frame.
First of all, please note that there is no syringe on the girls shirt in
SM-a. Here:

Fig. 40. Bunny at the point Mortia
begins work on her.
SM-a/00:10.
If you watch the first 10 seconds of SM-a very closely, frame by
frame, you can see Mortia put the needle on the syringe and then turn to
begin work on Bunny. The camera angle doesnt let us see whether she is
working on the childs left arm or on her left inguinal, or lower
abdominal, area.
Below is an enhanced screen-grab taken nine seconds into SM-a as
Mortia prepares the syringe. She takes the syringe out of the package.
She does not label it or mark it. You can see her take the cap off of the
needle and drop the cap on the floor near Bunnys left leg. And then,
with the needle bare, she turns to her right and dives in on Bunny like
only a phlebotomist can.

Fig. 41. Close-up of Mortias right hand with
syringe. The panel on the right is the same image
enhanced. SM-a/00:09.
The image to the left above is the native screen-grab showing the
fresh syringe being held in Mortias right hand. The contrast and gamma
correction have been modified on the right to enhance the syringe.
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black stopper end of the plunger is all the way toward the needle end of
the barrel, as one would expect having just put the needle on the syringe.
In other words, its a fresh syringe.
The point of this yada is that in SM-a we see a fresh, unused syringe
being opened next to this childs body, and in SM-b we see a used syringe
containing a straw-yellow fluid lying on the childs stomach. We have
every reason to presume its the same syringe. The only reasonable
interpretation of this video-evidence is that in SM-a Mortia assembled
the syringe, spent at least 82 seconds trying to withdraw blood and
obtained only plasma. She then re-capped the syringe, put it on the girls
stomach, and left. Sometime thereafter possibly hours, judging from
the waning light SM-b was taken and the plasma-filled syringe is seen,
still on Bunnys stomach.
For a more detailed look at the way odd things associated with Bunny,
including the hematoma, contributed to the Juliet Hypothesis, see
Appendix II, Evidence in Support of the Juliet Hypothesis.
[0075] Mort. The second phlebotomist in SM-a, is a pants-pulling
phlebotomist, Mort, which is going to take some explaining.
The place to start is the observation that a great number of the
bodies in many of the Ghouta videos, not just KB, have their pants pulled
down and their shirts pushed up as if somebody weird was examining
their belly--buttons. But watching Mort at work in SM-a (like Mortia, he
doesnt appear in SM-b) gives us a pretty reasonable idea of what is going
on there.
In image C of Fig. 7 we see Mort bending over a body as the
cameraman approaches from behind. In Fig. 42, below, we get a good
look at him a few moments later when the cameraman is heading in the
opposite direction Mort has just dropped a packaged syringe and is
squatting to pick it up. It is not very often in these videos that we see a
workers face, but he squatted down right into the cameras view. His
co-worker, Mortia, can be seen over his left shoulder, working on Bunny.

Fig. 42. Mort and Mortia at
work. SM-a/01:00.

Earlier in SM-a from about 00:20 to 00:25 when the cameraman
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shoulder to see that he is working on a boy in navy blue nylon jogging
pants. I list this boy as B-004. Mort has pulled the boys pants down and
appears to be drawing blood from the kids lower right inguinal area. Fig.
43 is a sequence of screen-grabs from SM-a taken as the cameraman
passes by. The yellow circles in panels A and C indicate syringes that
have been placed on the stomachs of the two men to the right of B-004.
From various views we can tell that these syringes both have blood in
them. Neither of the two men to the left of B-004 have such syringes,
although the man, M-015, directly to the left of the boy has a number of
unopened syringe packages on his belly.
Fig. 43. Mort intently working on B-
004. SM-a/00:20-00:25
Later in SM-a the cameraman has gone all the way to the west end of
the SM, turned, and come back toward the main entrance. That is when
you can see Mort in Fig. 42, squatting down picking up a syringe he has
just dropped. At that point Mort has moved away from B-004, and when
the camera gets to B-004 you guessed it a blood-containing syringe is
on his belly, just like his companions. (Fig. 44) Later, when SM-b was
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Figs. 44 & 45
[0076] Whats going on with Mort? The only sequence of events
that makes sense to me is that in SM-a Mort is working his way from his
left to right taking a blood sample from each corpse, placing the syringe
with the blood in it on the corpses stomach, and moving on to the next
corpse to the right. When the camera comes up behind Mort, he is just in
the process of drawing blood from B-004's inguinal area. After the
camera passed, Mort finished that blood-draw, put the capped syringe on
B-004's stomach and moved on. When the cameraman came back a
minute later, Mort had moved to the end of the row and we see him drop
a fresh syringe on the floor.
Video SM-b was filmed later in time and the syringe was still lying on
B-004. As noted above, given how much softer the light is in SM-b, a
considerable amount of time must have passed between the two videos.
The bodies and syringes were not disturbed during that inter-video
period.
In summary, it looks like Mort is going through the same process
with B-004 that Mortia is going through with Bunny, giving us
additional, consistent evidence that SM-a was shot before SM-b.
[0077] These brief video-vignettes of Mort and Mortia resolve a
peculiar question: why so many of the children and men had their pants
pulled down and shirts pulled up? The action of Mort is particularly
helpful in sorting this out. (Because all of the women are wrapped-up we
dont know whether their clothing was rearranged, too, but see the
discussion of W-005, below.)
Here is one of the most extreme examples of what Im talking about,
it is a man against the western wall of the SM. He is shown in both of
the sun-videos, but in SM-a (Fig. 46) his pants have been pulled down to
his knees, whilst in SM-b (Fig. 47) they pulled back up. Knowing the
sequence of the sun-videos allows us to deduce this sequence. The blood
stain on his stomach may have been due to a syringe that leaked, given
that a dozen or more of these victims had blood-filled syringes placed on
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not what one would expect from a corpse 9-10 hours after death, as I
explain in Part C. Also, look at clean the soles of his feet are, another
piece of evidence we will return to - just flagging it for now.
Figs. 46 & 47
[0078] And so the process seems to be that the phlebotomist would
get the victims clothing out of the way in order to access the inguinal
area. They would draw the blood, and then the phlebotomist might or
might not replace the clothing. In fact, in SM-a it is only by a few
seconds that we miss seeing Mort going thorough this pants-pulling
process with one body a process he apparently started and then
stopped.
The man to the immediate left of B-004 I have labeled M-015. His
pants are not disturbed in either of the sun-videos and he does not have
a blood-filled syringe on his stomach, but he is a special case: he was
murdered and his blood is all over the floor, so Mort might have given
him a bye. More on M-015 inPartD.
To the left of M-015 is a man who shows up in a lot of these KB
videos, including in the DM. I have labeled him M-014. Early in SM-a,
when Mort is working on the boy, we can see that M-014's belt is
buckled. (Fig. 48, below) In all of the shots of M-014 in the DM, his belt
is also buckled, so I think we can safely presume that he died with his belt
buckled and it stayed buckled until he was moved to the SM and the
pants-pulling phlebotomist came by.
The cameraman taking SM-a passes M-014 heading west while Mort
is working on B-004. When the cameraman gets to the end of the room,
he turns around and returns to M-014 almost exactly one minute later,
when Mort is squatting on the left hand side of M-014 picking up the
dropped syringe. That is the view you see in Fig. 42. As the camera gets
closer, you can see that M-014's belt has now been completely undone.
The buckle is flipped open and the loose end is free. (Fig. 49)
Looking at SM-b, at about 38 seconds into it, M-014's belt remains
undone, providing even more evidence that SM-b was taken after SM-a.
But there is no indication in either of the videos that M-014's pants were
opened or pulled down, and there is no syringe on his stomach as there is
with the other victims. Apparently, Mort began to work on M-014 and
then changed his mind. Who knows why. We know he didnt run out of
Fig. 30 shows very clearly the woman W-003 with the blood-sample. The other
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syringe is almost impossible to see. In video SM-b at about 30 seconds there is
a body to the right of the screen covered with a soft lime-colored blanket. A
syringe is on her stomach. As with almost all of the syringes, it is not seen in
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syringes because we can see him dropping an unopened syringe package
on the floor. The last we see of Mort SM-a/01:10 he is tossing a
packaged syringe onto M-014, just 4 seconds before two gunshots are
heard. Maybe he got distracted.
Figs. 48 & 49. The unbuckling of M-014's belt.
And the Womens Blood Samples . . . ?

[0079] One of the most interesting questions, which is totally
unresolved in my mind, is what went on with the women in the SM?
Was their blood drawn? There are about 30 women in the SM and only
two of them have syringes lying on them, and of those two only one
clearly has blood in it. What about the other 28 or 29?
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And the reason it occurs to me to ask is because given Muslims
strictures on modesty, even with respect to corpses, moving garments and
under-garments around in a public morgue in order to get a needle into a
womans lower abdomen would likely be a fundamentalist phlebotomists
nightmare, certainly a male phlebotomist. Perhaps that explains the
presence of Mortia the only woman worker in all of the KB videos or
still shots.
You have to scratch around for evidence on whether the female
bodies generally were sampled, but I believe we can get some insight by
observing very carefully a brown blanket that covers two of the women.
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Figs. 50 & 51. The ubiquitous brown blanket is seen in both of the sun-
videos, numerous still shots of the SM, and in numerous images of the DM.
[0080] But first, just a word about this blanket a bit farther down
the trail it plays a huge role in the analysis of Room #2 in the DM. In
Room #2 the blanket covers this same womans body, but it also covers a
number of childrens bodies that are later shown in the SM. And so, the
same bodies and the same blanket are all seen in two different places at
two different times.
You can see in Figs. 50 and 51 that W-005 is the closest body to the
main entrance of the SM. This suggests that she was the last body
brought in, or one of the last. It is unlikely that the insurgents would
have carried her body in first, dropped it right in front of the entrance,
and then stepped around it to get the other 86 bodies in. And so, once
again, knowing these facts and deducing a rough timeline, we get a very
strong sense of the process that was going on in the KB complex. But at
the moment we were looking for clues that blood samples were taken
from more than just one or two women.
[0081] Figs. 50 & 51 show the brown blanket in the SM covering
W-005, who is dressed in black with a rather conspicuous pink hijab.
Fig. 50 is taken from SM-a and Fig. 51 is taken from SM-b. The view in
both images is from the west end of the room toward the main entrance.
Neither camera gives us a close enough view to be able to see the
blankets complex pattern except for the checkerboard design along the
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Figs.15-17, taken when the SM was nearly empty.
Now, if you look closely enough youll see something very interesting
going on in Figs. 45 & 46. Recall, once again, that SM-a precedes SM-b,
and note, once again, that in SM-a all of the womens faces are covered
as in Fig. 50 and in SM-b all of the womens faces are exposed as in
Fig. 51. And so we know that sometime after Fig. 50 was taken, the
blanket was pulled away from W-005's head, and then Fig. 51 was taken.
Comparing the two images carefully, you can tell that there has been a
major rearrangement of the blanket without it being completely removed:
the edge of the blanket was not simply pulled down the whole blanket
was pulled down toward her feet and then raised back to her chest.
Heres my reason for saying that.
First of all, by looking at Fig. 51 you can see that the blanket is
actually covering two women there is a small woman with a white hijab
lying to the left of W-005. Shes in Fig. 50, too, but youd never know it
without the other view. I suspect that the pointed clump of blanket at
the far end of the bodies on the left is where the second womans feet are.
The shape of the clump and the design of the blanket that comprises that
clump are constant between the two images, which indicates that the
blanket was not completely removed from the bodies.
In Fig. 50 the left edge of the blanket is tucked in between the
smaller woman and a third body, which is covered with a pink blanket.
When the brown blanket was pulled away from the two womens faces,
this left edge was pulled free and was then spread out a couple of feet
over the third body and its pink blanket on the left. So we know the
closest edge of the brown blanket was not merely pulled a few inches
toward the womens feet. That entire end of the blanket was pulled free.
Furthermore, look at the dark brown diamond pattern in the blanket
between W-005's spread feet in Fig. 50. It is no longer seen in Fig. 51,
which suggests to me that the head-end of the blanket was pulled all the
way down toward the womens feet and then pulled part way back up,
leaving their heads exposed.
If you are wondering what I am blathering on about, it is this: We
cant tell whether or not blood was drawn from any of the women except
the one with the full syringe on her chest. Given that the women are
wrapped up so tightly, drawing blood especially from the inguinal area
would have been a difficult undertaking. This blanket analysis suggests
that for some reason, between the time the two sun-videos were shot
there was a very major rearrangement of the blanket covering W-005.
The analysis is consistent with the top edge of the blanket being pulled
down to or toward her feet before being lifted back to her shoulders. In
other words, I see this likely scenario: When SM-a was taken, the
blanket was covering both womens faces and the left edge was tucked in
that we can see. Sometime later someone pulled the edge of the
blanket toward the feet of W-005 and her companion so that blood
samples could be taken. Then the blanket was pulled back up, but not all
the way to their faces. Sometime after that SM-b was taken.
Heres why it matters: If the same process was carried out on all of
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the women that is, if blood was collected from all of them then
somewhere there are dozens of blood/plasma samples in addition to the
ones we can see lying on the floor and on the stomachs of the men and
children. I mean, there could be 70, 80, or more blood samples from the
SM victims. Why?
What The Syringes Tell Us

[0082] To be honest, the syringes have me stumped. But here is an
inventory of the facts we can take away from this analysis:
Plastic disposable syringes were used to draw blood from these corpses.
That seems dreadfully obvious after this analysis, but I point it out
because some people have suggested that the syringes were used to
inject something into the bodies, not remove blood from them. In
fact, some people have suggested as I originally also wondered
that these are not corpses at all but living people who are play-acting
and being injected with soporifics. Given the blood and plasma filled
syringes, that idea is no longer tenable. A closer look at these bodies
inPartC will also demand rejection of the playing-dead idea.
It seems reasonably clear from Mort and Mortias activities that the
blood/plasma is being removed from the inguinal area of the bodies.
This is consistent with the preferred forensic technique for drawing
post-mortem blood, which is to access the femoral vein in the lower
abdomen. This would require moving or removing clothes to
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expose this region of the bodies. My main grounds for hesitation in
proposing this is that I have never seen a femoral vein blood sample
taken, and I dont know whether the needles we see in the SM would
be long enough.
However, the failure to label any syringes and the way some of them
were left lying around on the floor some empty, at least two with
blood samples speaks of incredibly sloppy technique that is
inconsistent with professional forensic procedures or objectives.
Additionally, if the samples were taken for DNA analysis, there are
far, far easier ways to collect DNA from bodies than trying to find
the femoral vein with a needle.
In some cases plasma was collected. This is likely the result of red
blood cells settling out of the blood hours after death, leaving the
plasma as a supernatant in the large vessels. In a large vein, like a
femoral vein, that is holding stagnant blood, one would expect
separation of the cellular elements from the stagnant fluid. This
would suggest that these people had, indeed, been dead for some
time, in spite of their cherry-red cheeks and healthy appearance. I
mean, look at Bunny. Her cheeks look like she is in perfect health
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In a lot of these cases the victims clothes have not been put back into
their proper place, and, given Muslim sensitivities for modesty, this
almost suggests a disrespect toward these victims, particularly when
pants have been pulled down or removed. My guess is that these
workers would not treat their own people with such disrespect. This,
in turn, suggests that the victims were enemies of the
workers/phlebotomists perhaps on the opposite side of the
Shia/Sunni divide and/or on the opposite side of the conflict. Or
perhaps the victims are not be Muslims at all I dont know what the
customs of Syrian Christians and Druze are like with respect to
wearing the hijab. Either interpretation would, of course, be
completely inconsistent with the sarin scenario that these people
were killed by Assadists and the videos show Assads victims being
cared for by their own people.
[0083] But so what? I mean, why are these insurgents going to so
much trouble to collect blood from these bodies and then, in some cases,
leave the unmarked, blood-filled syringes lying around on the floor? I
have no answers; all I can offer is speculation.
Guess #1. The whole syringe thing could be for the cameras. In fact
the entire Ghouta Massacre could be for the cameras. But going
through this whole femoral vein thing for the sake of cameras would
be extreme play-acting, particularly given how wide-spread the blood
sampling practice is, judging by the dozens and dozens of victims in
the Ghouta videos with their pants yanked down and their shirts
pushed up. Would taking femoral blood samples really enhance any
shock value of a false flag operation? Cant imagine. Furthermore, if
blood samples were obtained from the womens bodies, it was done
off-camera, which would have no PR value.
Guess #2. The blood samples are taken for DNA analysis to identify
the victims. I find that a bit hard to believe, too. I mean, you dont
need 5 ml of blood for a DNA analysis. And you dont need to go to
the trouble of finding the femoral vein, which cant be easy. All you
need is a cheek scraping or a snip of tissue from a fingertip. And
besides, none of these syringes are labeled or marked in any way to
identify from whom the sample came gender, age, location, etc. If
this drawing of blood is for DNA analysis, it is very sloppy and
incredibly unnecessary work.
Guess #3. Knowing that the UN Mission to investigate sarin attacks
in Syria was staying just a few miles away, the blood samples were
drawn to provide evidence to that mission that a sarin attack took
place.
Now, this idea raises all sorts of red flags for a fair-minded
skeptic. For what is very suspicious is that each one of these post-
mortem blood samples dozens of them would contain absolutely
conclusive evidence of a sarin attack, assuming there was such an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcfIj6WLqRk
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attack. Just days after these blood samples were drawn the UN
Mission investigated clinics, and patients, and alleged rocket impact
sites at Zamalka, which is just around the corner from the KB
complex. If the Mission had been given just 0.5 ml. from those KB
blood samples, they could have analyzed the bjeezus out of them,
and they could have dug up the bodies and taken tissue samples in
order to confirm the source of the samples. And, if the blood tests
came back positive for sarin and the if DNA in the blood matched
the DNA in the exhumed bodies, then there would be no doubt
whatsoever that sarin was used, and there would be huge, justified
repercussions, and I wouldnt be spending six months writing a 200
page paper that proves that sarin wasnt used, and you wouldnt be
reading it.
But the UN Report says nothing about receiving any blood
samples from dead victims. In fact, as the UN High Representative
for Disarmament Affairs, Angela Kane, famously admitted, the UN
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Mission did not obtain a single sample from anyone who died that
night not a single sample of any type from a single deceased man,
woman, or child. Obama claimed that over 1429 people died in a
CW attack that was perpetrated by the Assadists and not a single
one of those bodies was sampled. Its a mind-boggler how those two
videos SM-a and SM-b show dozens of syringes filled with blood
that would provide absolute and unequivocal evidence of the sarin
attack that the USG and the insurgents claimed happen, and not a
single drop of blood was turned over to the UN and OPCW for
analysis. It just beggars belief.
[0084] The meaning and purpose of these blood samples are
obviously very significant; I wish I could come up with a viable
explanation of why they were taken. But thats why I have you on the
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Chapter Five
The Dark

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Arlo Guthrie

[0085] This is where things begin to get downright stygian. We are
leaving the sunlight behind and descending into the stuff of nightmares.
I mean, this DarkMorgue place is thirty degrees west of weird and well
beyond the Twilight Zone. My guess is that if you ever happen to be in
Ghouta and you fall into the wrong hands, a place like this DM is where
youll end up for a brief, unpleasant stay before you are laid out in some
sunny morgue to wait for your grave to be dug.
The schematic in Fig. 52 shows the basic physical relationships
between three rooms and a patio area of the DM. This is about the
extent of what I have been able to find of the DM in the Ghouta videos,
but I suspect there is a lot more out there in cyberspace. I also suspect
that there are other rooms in this DM that we will never see on videos.
There is nothing spatially complex here, although the description that
follows is bound to get somewhat difficult because there is just a lot going
on. Stay with me as we move back and forth between these rooms and
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Fig. 52. Schematic of the (known parts of the) DarkMorgue. Not to
scale.
The lay-out looks pretty straightforward on paper, but these videos
are all just floating around in cyberspace, unconnected to each other or
to anything else. It took a lot of staring at tile patterns, and scars in
wallboard, and conspicuous clothing on bodies to tie these three
crepuscular DM rooms together. I looked at videos of Room #2 and
Room #3 for months before finding the key video that showed me they
are right next to each other and connected by a doorway. And it took a
while longer to catch on to the fact that the DM is in the same complex
of buildings as the SM. But once I found SM-c things came together
fairly quickly. I am grateful to Pitor and Adam at the Closer Look on
Syria project for putting together an extensive collection of links to KB
videos, which is where I came upon that important link between the SM
and DM. Having made that connection, it became quite clear where the
bodies in the SM were coming from many of the bodies we saw in the
SM are also seen in the DM.
[0086] As noted above, out of my collection of 11 KB videos, three
are part of the DiFi package that has been authenticated by Obamas
intelligence services as being the real deal. We have just connected
videos Sm-b and Sm-c to Sm-a, which is one of the authenticated DiFi
videos. In the next few pages I will connect all 11 videos together in time
and space, at which point they will all fall under the penumbra of the
USGs authentication. If the videos now prove that Assad did not kill
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First, the USG could publicly withdraw its previous assurances that the
DiFi videos are authentic, in which case those videos would no longer be
the causus belli for attacking Assad. Second, the USG could admit that
its assessment as to who was responsible for the Ghouta Massacre was
180 degrees wrong, in which case the retaliation demanded by Obama,
Kerry, McCain, Graham and all of the other hawks must be directed at
the insurgents, not Assad.
For the most part, the rooms and videos of the KB complex can only
be inter-connected by deduction and by observing bodies and people who
appear in multiple rooms in multiple videos i.e., body-continuity. Mr.
Minnie, easily identified by his grey trousers, black shoes and errant
Minnie Pearl camera strap, graciously guides us through much of the
DM. His five videos actually turn out to be 2 videos cut into five pieces,
and that gives us some helpful continuity.
In an attempt to provide as much structure as possible to this
difficult discussion, I will step through the four DM areas one at a time,
video by video. Fig. 53, below, summarizes these DM videos. Nine of the
eleven videos I have been working with are of the DM, but only the five
most important ones are indicated in Fig. 53. Each one is color-coded to
the room and area in which the video was taken. Links to all of the
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Fig. 53. Color-coded schematic of the DarkMorgue and the relevant videos. Not to
scale.

Connecting the SunMorgue to the DarkMorgue
[0087] Video SM-c [Dark blue lines in Fig. 53.]
We have already looked at the first part of this video where Mr.
Minnie makes a quick visit to the SM at night. When we left him, he
was just exiting the SM and headed down to the DM.
Upon exiting the SM at 55 seconds into SM-c, Mr. Minnie turns
sharply to his left (diagram north)and enters near total darkness for a few
seconds. When he emerges from the darkness, he is descending a set of
steps. At the bottom of the steps he passes a few people milling around
taking a smoke-break. Odd. A couple of hours into a sarin attack
massacre and these guys are shooting the breeze while lighting up in the
stairwell.
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hallway. He is in the DarkMorgue. He continues down the hallway for
10 or so steps and turns to his left through an open door into a second
hallway, which is oriented north-south. It is shown in the schematics as
Hallway A. (See Fig. 52.) Two men are lying prostrate in the middle of
the hallway, as shown in image F, above. Two workers look like they are
trying to find a vein in one mans left arm. Unopened packages of
syringes are scattered in the hallway.
Mr. Minnie stops in the hallway. There is a doorway into a room to
his left. This is Room #2. Sticking out of this doorway is a leg in bright
fuchsia pants Fuchsia Lady, shown in image E, above. There is an
empty black shoe on the threshold and, just beyond Fuchsia Ladys leg,
you can see a little bit into Room #2 where there is the bottom end of a
blue gas cylinder lying on the floor. A different view of the gas cylinder
shown in image H.
[0088] Hallway A outside Room #2 is short. There are more bodies
in the doorway at the far end. In the very last frame of SM-c we can see
blood on the floor in front of the entrance to Room #2. We can also
make out the corner of a red rug in the upper left corner of the frame.
The two suffering men are lying on a pink blanket. These will be
reference points when Mr. Minnie approaches Room #2 from the
opposite direction in a moment.
[0089] This is as far as Mr. Minnie goes in SM-c. He does not enter
Room #2 at this point, and we can see only a couple of feet into it, and
so this video doesnt give us a lot of useful information about the DM per
se, and virtually none about Room #2. But the video does connect
Room #2 to the SM by way of a staircase and a couple of hallways. That
is extremely important, for it means that this area is in the basement of
the same complex that the SM is in. But more than that thanks to
Fuchsia Ladys conspicuous pants, the dangling camera strap, and a few
other reference points we can also connect Room #2 to Room #1,
thereby establishing a larger DM area and its connection to the SM.
DarkMorgue Room #1
[0090] Video Rm1-a [Magenta lines in Fig. 53]
When SM-c ended, Mr. Minnie was standing in Hallway A just
outside of Room #2. I suspect, but cant prove, that next he stepped
over the two bodies and blood in the hallway and continued to the end of
Hallway A, which is where Rm1-a begins the junction of Hallway A
and Hallway B in Fig. 52. At that point he had to step over two more
bodies at the north end of Hallway A, but we dont actually see them
until he returns to the same spot in video Rm2-a, discussed below.
At any rate, video Rm1-a begins in dimly lit Hallway B with Mr.
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pass a green gas cylinder lying on the floor to the left, which becomes a
landmark in the next video. They also pass two blue gas cylinders
standing upright in the middle of the hallway. Keep track of these gas
cylinders, they are all over the place in the DM.
Mr. Minnie steps past a bare-chested man lying supine on the floor
M-020 (Image B, Fig. 53) and then he quickly passes two children,
prostrate on the floor, as he enters a well lit room, Room #1.
[0091] Once in Room #1, Mr. Minnie breezes right past a few kids
on the floor, but he pauses momentarily at a small boy, B-005, on a
wooden desk. The boy is alive and is being tormented by a man who
wipes mucus from the boys nose directly onto the boys bare chest.
(Image A, Fig. 53.) The boy has exceptionally red lips. In fact, all of the
children we see on the floor are in good color. An image of this boy has
become one of the most iconic MSM images of the Ghouta Massacre.
There is a stethoscope lying on the same wooden desk the boy is on.
There is a black rag on one side and a pile of white rags on the other. In
the corner of the room there is a small, wheeled cabinet that looks like
something you might see in a clinic. A yellow wastebasket next to the
cabinet is over-flowing with white towels, one of which appears blood-
stained. There is a very low, stainless steel foot-stool. All of the workers
have their faces covered with white towels or surgical masks.
The reason Im pointing out these details, is that unlike any other
room in the entire KB complex, this tiny room has at least minimal
indicia of a clinic of some sort.
Mr. Minnie proceeds out the other end of Room #1, does a sudden
U-turn, and heads back toward victim M-020, the bare-chested man.
When he reaches him, Rm1-a ends and Rm2-a begins. Like many of Mr.
Minnies videos, one is a continuation of the other. In fact, it appears
that videos SM-c, Rm1-a, and Rm2-a were originally a single video now
chopped into three.
[0092] It is noteworthy how, as Mr. Minnie moves through the SM,
the DM hallways, and Room #1, there is a guy with a green bottle of
water following him and constantly reaching out to douse children in the
face just as the camera gets to them. The guy with the fru fru white
thongs in Fig. 8b is one such pediatric hydration specialist, but the one
we see in Room #1 is different, judging by his stodgy brown sandals. He
accompanies Mr. Minnie through Room #1, moving just ahead of the
camera like a roving TV evangelist. He performs his green- bottle-John-
the-Baptist routine for the camera, anointing at least three small,
suffering children in Room #1, including the small boy, B-005. He does
not help these children, he does not comfort them in what may be their
last moments. Rather, he throws water in their faces and moves on.
I dont want you to think that this stuff is getting my goat, but, yes,
this really annoys me. It looks totally staged, and as I go back through
other Ghouta videos, I see the same thing over and over: people with
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as the cameras get to them. They are not tending to the kids or helping
them, they just splash them and move on with the PR guys and the
cameras. I do not see a single example of any child actually being
comforted, just as I do not see a single example of any women with these
children. If I was a 2 year old kid suffering from some sort of poisoning,
the last thing I would want would be some creepy guy in fru fru sandals
pouring water down my nose. I would want my mom. There is
something really wrong with this whole picture; it has to be a huge clue
as to what was really going on here.

Fig. 54. Water being poured
down the nose of boy B-005 in
Room #1. Rm1-a/00:35.

[0093] Video Rm1-b [Not indicated in Fig. 53]
This video is very short but just as disturbing as video Rm1-a. It
shows the same boy, B-005, on the same wooden desk in Room #1. The
stethoscope has not been moved an inch. There are two wadded white
towels on the desk that were not there in video Rm-1b but I think we
would have to presume that the two videos were shot very close together.
B-005 is in exactly the same position on the desk. He is coughing
and still being tormented, but this time by a different guy: meet Mr.
Cranberry.
Lets look at this guy. Hes noteworthy because hes wearing a gas-
mask, hes dramatically pissed-off, and he shows up dramatically pissed-
off and wearing the gas mask in Room #2, too.
Fig. 55. The only gas mask youll see in
the KB complex, and one of the few workers
faces. Rm1-b/00:03.
http://gas-mask-forum.wikia.com/wiki/GP-5
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http://gasmaskandrespirator.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_GP-5_Gas_Mask
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http://www.allerairsolutions.com/activated_carbon.html
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The man is very distinctive with his cranberry shirt, cranberry face,
and ancient Soviet gas mask. In video Rm1-b he is shown in Room #1,
momentarily ventilating boy B-005, tapping the boy on the chest,
squeezing his head, and all the while engaged in a furious Arabic
philippic for the camera. (Fig. 55)
I have learned that his gas mask is a second generation, black rubber
Soviet GP5 style the crown-type sealing ring makes this identification
quite certain. It looks like an original cannister with a 40mm NATO-
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style fitting. If so, then the filter would be activated charcoal and at least
25 years old because the original masks and filters were only
manufactured from 1970 to 1989.
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Activated charcoal, even if it was fresh, would be of little use against
carbon monoxide, slightly better against hydrogen cyanide. If it was
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very fresh it would provide some protection against sarin gas, but, of
course, not with the mask pushed back up on his head. Nor would the
mask, even properly in place, protect against dermal absorption of sarin,
which would be the main problem in a clinic or morgue setting treating
patients with sarin in their clothes and hair.
And the reason Im bringing this to your attention is that this gas
mask is curious. It is the only gas mask seen in all of the KB
videos/images; Im not sure Ive seen one in any of the other Ghouta
videos, either. No one else in the DM is taking any precautions against
sarin, all they have are ineffectual surgical masks and bandanas,
presumably to hide their identities from the cameras. (Mr. Cranberry has
no qualms about appearing in the videos.) Perhaps Mr. Cranberry was
using the gas mask prior to when we see him in these videos. His red skin
color is remarkable.
DarkMorgue Room #2
[0094] Video Rm2-a [Cyan lines Fig. 53] (The YouTube video is
now blocked unless you have a YT account. This link is to an mp4
version, that will require a media player.)
This video is the continuation of Mr. Minnies Rm1-a video.
Having made a 360 degree circuit through Room #1, Mr. Minnie is now
back at M-020, where Rm2-a begins. Image B of Fig. 53 is from this
video and we see that the tiles around M-020 are blood stained and the
mans left hand is wrapped in a bloody cloth. There is some blood on his
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dead, but other than his hand there is no obvious trauma. I cannot
identify this body in the SM.
Mr. Minnie steps over M-020 and turns down the same hallway,
Hallway B, where video Rm1-a began. He takes a few steps and, at 00:06
he steps over the green gas cylinder lying on the floor noted above, and
then he steps over two more bodies as he turns right into yet another
hallway: hes back in Hallway A outside Room #2.
Having made a complete circuit to Room #1 and back, Mr. Minnie
is now approaching Room #2 from the opposite direction than he did in
SM-c. There are a number of ways to ascertain this. The two bodies in
the doorway that Mr. Minnie steps over in Rm2-a are visible at the end
Hallway A in SM-c. The two men lying on the pink blanket, the blood
stain on the floor, and the red rug, all noted above, are seen in both
videos. But the most reliable reference point is the bright fuchsia pant
leg of Fuchsia Lady. (Image D, Fig. 53.) As Mr. Minnie, camera strap
swinging in and out of the picture, enters Room #2, he steps right over
Fuchsia Lady and walks past the blue gas cylinder that was barely visible
in SM-c.
[0095] Room #2 is crowded with bodies, gas cylinders, workers
squatting over victims, PR people, and lots of loafers just milling about.
The noise is deafening. Having entered the room at its east end, Mr.
Minnie works his way through the crowd to the west end, where we see a
conspicuous brown blanket on the floor in the northwest corner this is
the same peripatetic brown blanket we examined in the SM. (See Fig.
50.)
Mr. Minnie stops, turns, and sweeps the room, which is shown in
images H and J of Fig. 53. There are more than a dozen victims in the
small room a mixture of men, women, children. Some appear dead;
some are definitely still alive; others you cant tell. Camera-flashes
bounce around the room as other insurgent PR-ghouls gobble up the
photo-ops. While that gaggle of dudes that Mr. Minnie passed moments
ago are having their smoke break and calmly shooting the breeze in the
stairwell, numerous men no women appear to be dramatically trying
to revive victims who are prostrate on the floor of Room #2 just a few
feet away from that same stairwell. The incongruity of the nonchalance
of the stairwell-nicotine junkies juxtaposed with the chaos of Room #2
would be almost funny if this wasnt such a horrible scene.
Because many of the workers in Room #2 are squatting next to
victims, they could not avoid having their faces in the cameras frame.
But they are not recognizable because they all have their faces covered
with bandit-like bandanas or surgical masks except one guy. You
guessed it . . . Mr. Cranberry.
[0096] Watch Rm2-a carefully beginning at 00:20. This is Mr.
Cranberry at his dramatic best. As Mr. Minnie approaches Cranberry at
the west end of Room #2, Cranberry sees the camera coming. He pushes
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handle the body of a girl on the floor. This girl is G-010 whom we saw in
the SM with the bare needle next to her. (c.f. Figs. 13, 15, 29 & 33.)
She can be identified by her red shirt with glittery figures on it, her pony
tail, and her distinctive white hair band.
Figs. 56a 56c
As Cranberry bends over G-010, at 00:22, we get a good look at the
gas mask and its circular eye-holes, further confirming its a Soviet GP5,
but, oddly, there is a surgical mask strapped to the outside of the gas
mask. (Fig. 56a.) Mr. Cranberry dramatically rips the gas mask/surgical
mask combination off of his head, tosses it on the floor, and launches
into another loud tirade, gesticulating at G-010, lifting her, and placing
the girls body back on the floor next to the brown blanket, just a few feet
away from where she was lying originally and not bothering anyone.
Flash bulbs go off, indicating other PR people in addition to Mr. Minnie
are getting a piece of this DM drama. You almost expect to hear Rod
Serling holler Take!! The Hollywood atmosphere in this room is
palpable.
The flashbulbs seen in Mr. Minnies video suggests that he may have been
caught in another PR guys image. I demonstrate this incogitant reciprocal
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[0097] Video Rm2-b [Green lines Fig. 53.]
Video Rm2-b is almost as difficult to understand as it is interesting,
and it is a pivotal video in this collection because it connects a lot of stuff
together. Except for the first 10 seconds or so, this video shows the
western end of Room #2, which is where Mr. Minnie ended video Rm2-
a. But unlike video Rm2-a, we do not see the entire length of Room #2,
we only see the northwest corner as shown in Panel I in Fig. 53. The
confusing part is that the scene looks almost entirely different in the two
videos, mostly because there are two different populations of bodies.
With respect to Rm2-b, the body-continuity between Room #2 and
the SM is very high many of the childrens bodies seen in the sun-
videos are also seen in video Rm2-b. Video Rm2-a, on the other hand,
shows different bodies, almost none of which are seen in the SM. The
only exceptions to this generalization that I can see is one girl, G-010,
and woman W-005, both of whom can be seen in both of the Room #2
videos and in the SM.
I defer to Appendix II the rather complex analysis identifying Room #2 by
means of videos Rm2-a and Rm2-b. See Room #2 Confusion and the Brown
Blanket.
[0098] At this point we have reviewed five videos showing two DM
rooms and the connection of the SM to the DM is complete. Its a good
place to briefly recapitulate.
The Minnie video sequence SM-c Rm1-a Rm2-a appears to be
one video chopped into three. All three were shot by Mr. Minnie as he
walked from the SM, down into the DM, past Room #2, to and through
Room #1, and back to Room #2. When he got back to Room #2, Mr.
Minnie entered at the east end and proceeded to the west end, where we
saw Mr. Cranberry, G-010, and the brown blanket. G-010, is our first
example of body-continuity; i.e., the same body seen in two different
places. She is prominently seen in both Room #2 and the SM.
Video Rm1-b is a separate view of Room #1 and is not a part of the
Mr. Minnie sequence. We know that because Rm1-b places Mr.
Cranberry in Room #1, while Mr. Minnies Rm1-a Rm2-a sequence
places Cranberry in Room #2. Given that the positions of the toddler,
B-005, and various items on the wooden desk barely change between
Rm-1a and Rm-1b, it would be a safe bet that not much time passed
between those two videos of Room #1, but the sequence cant be
determined with what we have.
Many of these video-sequence issues are discussed in more detail in
Appendix II. See Timeline of the Videos.
There is only one more DM room and a patio to be connected to
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little more squirrelly.
DarkMorgue Room #3
[0099] Room #3 is long, narrow, and disturbing the most
disturbing of all of the KB rooms, in my opinion, because of what it
implies about what is going on in whole KB complex. There is very high
body-continuity between Room #3 and the SM almost all of the dead
men in Room #3 are also found in the SM.
The room is parallel to Room #2, separated from it by a wall. A
doorway connecting the two rooms at their western end opens onto the
brown blanket corner of Room #2. Like Room #2, Room #3 has no
windows, but it does have an exit to the outside a door on the west end
that opens to a patio or court-yard area.
I have found three videos that were shot entirely within this room:
Rm3-a, Rm3-b, Rm3-c. In addition, the first few seconds of Rm2-b
contain important information about Room #3 before the cameraman
moves into Room #2. A fifth video, Pat-a, begins in Room #3 and
proceeds out the door to the patio.
No women are shown in Room #3 or the patio, and by that I mean
no womens bodies, no suffering women victims, no women workers, no
women loafers. One video (and one only) shows a few seconds of a small
girl, G-007, alive, lying near the doorway between Room #2 and Room
#3, but other than her, all the victims in Room #3 are men. But then,
keep in mind that we only have a few moments of video to which our
observations are restricted in any of these places, compared to hours that
passed after the alleged attack. Who knows what these rooms looked
like, what went on in them, or what victims were in them a few minutes
before or a few minutes after the cameramen were present?
I will quickly step through each of the Room #3 videos.
[0100] Video Rm2-b Although it is primarily a view of the
western end of Room #2, the first few seconds of Rm2-b give us a brief,
morbid look at Room #3. It also allows us to connect Room #3 to
Room #2.
When Rm2-b opens, the cameraman is following a cortege of men as
they enter Room #3 and then turn to their left and proceed into Room
#2. Although we cant tell it from just this video, the men are actually
entering Room #3 from a patio that is adjacent to Room #3. We dont
see this external doorway in this video, but I will soon confirm its
presence.
There are a couple of particularly disturbing aspects of the first 10 or
so seconds of Rm2-b. One is a partial face-view of one of the guys in the
group. You get the feeling hes some sort of honcho. Hes wearing a
shoulder-holster over a crisply starched white shirt. As he enters Room
#3, he steps past five dead men on the floor and proceeds into Room #2,
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blanket. The disturbing thing is that this guy seems to have a smirk on
his face. And Im thinking to myself, what could possibly be funny?

Fig. 57. Amused.
Rm2-b/00:05
Over the last few months I have scratched around in my memory,
trying to recall whether I have ever in my life seen anything less funny
than the KB complex and this particular scene with these dead kids.
And whilst the hard drive between my ears has packed into it a few
unpleasant neuronal video clips that persist through one decade and into
the next, including tragic scenes of children dying, Id have to say that
the children in Room #2 shown in Rm2-b is high on the list of the least
funny things I have ever seen in my entire life. But this guy with the
smirk seems to be just fine with it. Something tells me that if we could
get hold of this guy who smiles when stepping over bodies and walking
into rooms containing dead children, and if we asked him the right
questions in the right way like Whats so freakin funny? he could
give us a pretty good idea of who those children were and why they were
killed.
[0101] If you look past or through the group of men passing through
Room #3, you can get glimpses toward the eastern end of the room. It
looks almost tranquil. The audio of Rm2-b, like all of the videos, is
excruciatingly loud, but Room #3 looks eerily quiet. It is nearly empty.
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Fig. 58. Room #3: empty,
eerie, tranquil. Rm2-
b/00:02
Unlike the other views of Room #3 we will see, here we see no
chaos, no gas cylinders lying around, no victims foaming at the mouth
and rolling in agony. There is, however, the residue of this chaos: the
bodies of six men who appear in the more frantic Room #3 scenes, and
all of whom appear in the sun-videos. One body, M-014, is lying on the
floor next to the table, exactly were he is seen in the other Room #3
videos. He can be seen very, very briefly in Rm2-b.
Five bodies are neatly positioned near the entrance to Room #3.
(Fig. 59) And it is these bodies, carefully arranged near the door to the
patio, that suggest to us that Rm2-b was recorded after the other videos
of Room #3 that we will examine. They look as though they have been
moved out of the middle of the floor and into a neat pile where they are
patiently waiting to be carried up to the SM. A blue gas cylinder is seen
standing in a corner next to M-006. We will see a lot more of it.
Fig. 59. Five bodies waiting to be moved to SM. Rm2-
b/00:08
All five of the victims seen in Fig. 59 are very conspicuous in the
sun-videos. They are all found at the east end of the SM, near the main
entrance, which suggests that they were added to the SM after most of
the other adult bodies. This is consistent with and informs my view of
the DM as being the area of the KB complex where people were actually
dying, after which their bodies were carried up to the SM for photo-ops
and staging pending burial. The bodies in Fig. 59 play a larger role in this
The still shots are found at
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Room #3 story and in the murder case I will build in Part D when we will
come back to them. We have already seen M-011. He is conspicuously
seen in the SM as it was being emptied. (See Fig. 16.) And we have seen
M-006 in the SM in Fig. 22.
[0102] Videos Rm3-a, Rm3-b, Rm3-c These videos do not
exactly jump out at you as being taken in the same room, but they were.
Videos Rm3-a and Rm3-b are both a part of the DiFi package. Video
Rm3-c is another Mr. Minnie piece in search of a Pulitzer Prize. I will
discuss them all together.
Fig. 60 below is a compilation of the three videos taken within Room
#3. The diagram shows the paths the cameramen took as they moved
through the room, and also shows the approximate placement of some of
the bodies and the displacements of those bodies from one video to the
next. The videos summarized are: Rm3-a (Box 1), Rm3-a (Box 2), and
: Rm3-c (Box 3). Once again, the lines are color-coded for each video. I
have add a couple of still shots H and I. Source.
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Fig. 60. Schematic of DM Room #3 showing the paths taken by cameramen taking the respective
videos.
[0103] As noted above and shown in Fig. 58, Room #3 has a large,
belly-high table on wheels in the southeast corner. Above the table are
some sort of unusual strips of silvery metal or tape that help distinguish
this room from other similarly looking rooms. The table and silvery tape
serve as our reference points. I have marked the table T in the
schematics, including Fig. 60. The table has different people on it and
around it in different videos. The bodies and suffering victims on the
floor also change from one Room #3 video to the next.
The three videos of Room #3 are among the most distressing of all of
the Ghouta videos because of the suffering they show, but they are also
some of the most interesting from an evidentiary point of view. In
contrast to the nearly empty view of Room #3 seen in Fig. 58, the videos
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The victims are all young men, with the exception of the small girl, G-
007 (Image C). This girl, with Baby on her shirt is seen lying on the
floor gasping right in front of the entrance to Room #2, which is full of
dead children. ( See Appendix II ) As I explain in Part C, generally
speaking, people who are gasping for air are also turning blue, and people
who are gasping for air because they have been gassed with sarin are most
definitely going to be turning blue. This girl seems to be gasping for air,
but she is shockingly bright red, and that turns out to be a very important
clue to this mystery. I have not seen G-007 in any other videos. She is
the only child in the videos of Room #3, and she only appears in video
Rm3-a. Her body is not seen in the SM. Maybe shes OK.
[0104] Some of the victims in Room #3 are dead, the others, like G-
007, are alive but in deep distress. One man seems to be exhibiting
abdominal cramps. (Image E.) Two men are foaming at the nose and/or
mouth. One young man, M-014, is motionless, he is shown in exactly the
same place and in the same pose in all of the videos of Room #3. (Image
A) He is also very conspicuous in the SM, his head is lying in a pool of
bright red blood and in exactly the same pose as in Room #3, with his
head turned to his right and his hands on his stomach, bound with a
beige cloth. If you look very closely at the first few seconds of Rm2-b, M-
014 can be seen in the same pose at the east end of the otherwise empty
room.
[0105] But M-014 is unusual in being so static. All of the other
bodies in Room #3 are moved around from one video to the next.
Images H and I in Fig. 60 exemplify this. They are photos of the same
spot in Room #3 and yet the only victim that is common to both photos
is the man in the black pants with gold trim. Room #3 was incredibly
dynamic, both in terms of what the living victims were going through and
the movement of the dead ones. The cacophony is deafening, especially
with workers ranting into the camera. (Image F)
The one thing all of the Room #3 victims living and dead have
in common is their incredibly healthy coloration: bright red ears, cheeks,
skin. Forgive me for bringing this up over and over, but its very
important evidence because, as I discuss in detail in Part C, the lips and
ears of people who are gassed with sarin do not turn pink and red. They
turn blue.
[0106] Many of the men in the SM have their wrists tied with their
belts or rags. I presume this is done in anticipation of rigor mortis to
make handling the body easier. The body M-006, which is moved from
place to place a lot in Room #3, shows the transition from unbound
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Figs. 61-63. Binding the hands of M-006.
In video Rm3-c (Fig. 61) M-006's belt is buckled, his pants are
intact, and his arms are in a sprawled poise. (Please note how even in
the dim light his color is excellent.) But in the Rm2-b view of Room #3
(Fig. 62) M-006's hands are bound and resting on his stomach where they
remain for all of the other videos in which he is seen. It is difficult to say
with certainty but his pants do not appear to be opened in any of the DM
videos, whilst in both of the sun-videos his pants are open and this
hands are clearly bound with his belt (Fig. 63).
This timeline is quite clear. Video Rm3-c was taken first, when M-
006's arms were in the sprawled position in which he died. Video Rm2-b
was taken next: his belt has been removed and used to tie his hands.
And then, much later, the sunny video SM-a was taken clearly showing
his hands bound with his belt, his trousers open, his shirt is pushed out of
the way and a syringe on his chest. We know that the rearrangement of
the bodies clothes was probably to draw blood. (See Chapter Four, The
Syringes.)
[0107] What is almost as interesting as the way the bodies were
moved around in Room #3 is the way the blue 44 L gas cylinder was
moved around, as summarized in Fig. 64.
In the image compilation of Fig. 60, above, you can see the Room #3
blue cylinder in images B, G, H, and I. It is in seen in various states of
lying on the floor, being dragged across the floor, standing in the middle
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corner against a wall assuming, or course, that this is one and the same
cylinder in all of the views. (If these views show multiple blue cylinders,
then my points here are to be multiplied by whatever number of cylinders
are shown.)
These various states and positions of the cylinder are summarized in
the schematic below. As with the gas cylinders I have previously noted,
this cylinder does not have a safety cap on it, its valve is exposed, there is
no valve handle to open and close the valve, and there are no flow
meters or devices connected to it. It appears that whatever was in the
cylinder was released directly into the air when the valve was opened and
then the valve handle was removed, and that bothers me for there would
be no way to close a valve once its handle was removed.
.
Fig. 64. Schematic of the wandering blue gas cylinder
of Room #3. Image references are to Fig. 60.
The DarkMorgue Patio

[0108] Video Pat-a This leaves us with just one last video in our
stable of KB videos, and one last DM area to connect to the others. This
is the fifth video in our collection that was produced by Mr. Minnie, and,
arguably, the least likely to win him an Oscar.
When Mr. Minnie completes his circuit of Room #3 in Rm3-c, he
stops near the exit at the western end of the room and that video ends.
Then video Pat-a picks up immediately from that point as Mr. Minnie
exits the room to go out into the night where he has a miserable time
trying to make a video-record of people suffering in almost complete
darkness.
For the last fifteen pages I have been telling you that there is an
external doorway that leads into Room #3 and that people are using that
doorway to access the western end of Room #2; well, this is it.
Fortunately, when Mr. Minnie cut his Room #3 video in two, he
included in Pat-a a few seconds of the interior of Room #3 before he
passed though the exit to the patio; otherwise, we would never have been
M-001 is not seen in Rm3-c, and that is because Rm3-c and Pat-a are
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continuous after recording the inside of Room #3, Mr. Minnie went straight
out the door onto the patio where he filmed M-001 lying on the patio, as shown
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able to connect the Room #3 videos to the patio. Even so, someone who
comes upon these Mr. Minnie videos randomly while perusing hundreds
uploaded to YouTube might never realize that they are seeing one video
cut into two.
[0109] What caught my eye was the white and black plaid pants of
victim M-001, who is sort of glowing in Mr. Minnies poorly lit patio
shots. M-001 is alive so much so that he is even itinerant.

Fig. 65. Ghostly M-001 seen
on the DM patio outside of
Room #3. Image has been
lightened digitally. Rm3-
c/00:22
As it turns out, M-001 is a victim of considerable interest,
particularly in view of a HRW report on the Ghouta Massacre, and so I
want to focus on him for a moment. He is easily identified by his
white/black plaid pants, a ring on his right hand, a scruffy beard, and
being shirtless. Fig. 65 is a digitally lightened a screen-grab from Pat-a.
M-001 is seen in better light and in dramatic throes in Room #3 in
videos Rm3-a and Rm3-b, as indicated in the schematic in Fig. 60. For
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all of the drama associated with him, M-001 does not appear to me to be
all that unwell in any of these three videos. Even the patio shot, once it
is lightened up a bit, indicates his color is good. Here he is looking quite
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Fig. 66. Victim M-001.
Plaid pants, ring on right
hand, scruffy beard. Rm3-
a/00:51
M-001 is also prominently featured in a number of still shots. The
KB patio has tile that is easily recognizable and so other views of the
patio are not too hard to spot online. The PR guys with the still cameras
have the advantage outside in the dark with their flashes, and so these
are ,uch better views of the patio area than the videos.
Fig. 67 is a still shot of the DM patio, with M-001 prominently
featured. This photo is one of the most iconic Ghouta photos on the
Internet, but I have not found a photo credit for it. I dont believe
anyone has previously connected this patio or this photo to the SM
videos or the DM videos they all show the same KB complex.
.
Fig. 67. Iconic photo of M-001 on the patio outside of
Room #3. Panel B magnification. Source (one of
many): The Wire, Aug21.2013
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propped up on one elbow clearly alive and with sufficient strength to
hold himself up, whereas in the view of him inside Room #3 he is
twitching around like he is well on his way to another land. But the main
point is that he is definitely at the DM in Kafr Batna, having been
photographed multiple times there by multiple people.
[0110] In spite of the drama, none of these many images of M-001
would have rattled my cage had it not been for a HRWs report on the
Ghouta Massacre, dated Sep10.2013. [Scribd, pdf version] That report,
whose author is not identified, focuses, in part, on the town of Zamalka,
which is 2 km northeast of Kafr Batna. On page 9, the HRW report
relates the experiences of an anonymous member of the Zamalka media
center at a Zamalka field hospital the night of the sarin attack.
HRW, exhibiting zero skepticism, dutifully provided links to
numerous videos of the Zamalka hospital this anonymous person
uploaded to YouTube. (Footnote 18 of the HRW report.) Having seen
M-001 in the KB videos appearing prostrate in both the supine and
prone positions, I was shocked to see him in videos taken 2 km away in
Zamlaka. But, sure enough, there he is, prominently shown on a black
examination table in the two videos of the Zamalka hospital provided by
HRW.
.
Fig. 68. A composite screen-grab from a video from a Zamalka field
hospital showing M-001. Source.
[0111] Many similar situations have been raised online of dead or
dying victims who seem to appear in more than one place during the
Ghouta Massacre, thus rasing a specter of fraud. And, indeed, it really is
difficult to understand how or why living victims and bodies would move
or be moved from one area of Ghouta to the other in the midst of a sarin
attack and incoming rockets, because, let me tell you something: Anyone
who has been gassed with sarin is not going to be traveling around a lot.
Mostly they are going to be throwing up, defecating, convulsing, and
dying.
But on a close examination, most of these one-person-ib-two-places
allegations dont hold up. More often than not, it is not actually the
same body or person appearing in different places.
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For instance, in her ISTEAMS Report Mother Superior Agnes-
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Mariam claimed that she had found evidence of fraud because the same
girl was seen in two different videos that were shot in two different
communities. The nun thought the evidence was particularly damning
because both videos are from the DiFi package, and so the alleged fraud
in the USGs evidence made the USG look bad. Here is her evidence:

Fig. 69. Mother Agnes-Mariams evidence of funny-business videos. Source.
Mother Agnes-Mariam says that these videos show the same girl in
Kafr Batna and in Irbin, which is over 3 km northeast of KB.
Well, I agree with the lady that the USG does look bad, but not
because of this evidence. In spite of my absolute admiration of the
woman, I must say that Mother Agnes-Mariam muffed this one. I agree
that the two images are from Irbin and KB, according to the YouTube
information. The image on the right is of one of our kids in the KB
SunMorgue, no doubt about that. But these are not images of the same
body, which is evident by comparing the shoulder areas of their shirts
one is grey, the other is yellow. There are other differences in the
clothing that are evident when reviewing the videos carefully.
And the reason Im raising this is to make the point that these goofs
are awfully easy to make; I just hope I havent made any myself. To avoid
this sort of mistaken identity error, I try to find three distinct features
in addition to the persons looks and gender before concluding I am
looking at the same person or same body in two different places.
And by applying this criterion, I do not think there can be any doubt
at all that M-001 appears in at least two videos of the Zamalka clinic as
shown in Fig. 68 and he was also videoed in Kafr Batna numerous times
in Room #3 and on the patio just outside of Room #3. The plaid pants
are the same, the ring on his right hand is the same, the stubbly beard is
the same.
And so, the question remains: If there was a sarin attack under way,
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is supposed to have been gassed by sarin, then this is ridiculous. He
would be long dead before he could get from Zamalka to Kafr Batna, he
would not look like a paragon of excellent health, and his plaid pants
would be full of feces.
There may be a very good explanation for what is going on with M-
001, but once we have gone through a few biological principles in Part C,
if you would come back to this discussion and review the video evidence
of M-001, I think you will agree that this case makes one begin to suspect
that not all of these Ghouta victims are victims.
[0112] Before leaving the patio scene shown in Fig. 67, I want to
draw your attention to a couple of additional observations. The upper
left corner of the main image A is magnified in B so you can see that
lurking in the dark background is yet another gas cylinder thats seven
of them in the DM, by my count. Seven times 44 liters is a lot of
compressed gas. Also please note the pool of muddy water on the right
side of the main photo, A, and note how the men are lying with their
chests in the water. Recall that in SM-c as Mr. Minnie entered the SM
he passed a number of men hosing down the sidewalk. Water was flying
everywhere. So there is an obvious explanation for where all that
standing water came from on a night in Damascus when there was no
rain.
This is noteworthy because in video Rm2-a, as Mr. Minnie entered
Room #2, you can see a man in messy white pants and shirt who looks as
if he may have soiled himself.
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Fig. 70. Victim seen in Room
#2. Rm2-a/00:18.

The reason Im rasing this now is that in Part C I will point out that
fecal incontinence is an expected symptom of sarin intoxication;
consequently, the man in Fig. 70 could reasonably be seen as evidence for
a sarin attack. And when I first saw that guy with the messy clothes I
thought to myself: Hello . . . there it is. Sarin. But why did he poop his
shirt more than his pants?
After seeing the DM patio scene, and the standing muddy water, and
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mind. We know now from putting all of these DM rooms together that
this guy in Room #2 is just a few paces from where that muddy puddle
on the patio is. Instead of feces on his shirt, it is far more reasonable to
conclude that he, too, was lying in the mud up to his chest like the other
men, which left his shirt a mess and his pants relatively clean.
[0113] Finally, if you look closely at the tiles in the still shot of the
patio in Fig. 67, you will see faint traces of blood close to the left elbow of
M-001. The muddy puddle tells us that this area has obviously been
hosed down; consequently, there wouldnt be much blood left even if
there had been a lot. In Pat-a you can see a pool of bright red blood
clearly on the patio in spite of very poor light. (Fig. 71, below.)
I agree with John Kerry on his point that the Ghouta Massacre was a
chemical event because there is no evidence suggesting these victims
were killed by bullets or bombs. There is not a lot of blood in any of
these DM videos, and certainly not enough to suggest a bloody massacre,
by any means. But there is enough blood that it is evident, and in Part D
we will see two victims in the SM with very obvious bloody wounds
strong circumstantial evidence of both violence and murder in the KB
complex. And so this might be a good time to review the blood evidence
in the DM. In the end, the blood, however limited it may be, will be one
of the clearest pieces of evidence suggesting that the Ghouta Massacre
was not the result of a rocket-sarin attack, but was a mass execution. For
now I just want to make a brief pictorial inventory of the spilled blood in
the DM, not to argue that it is voluminous, but to note how red it is,
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~ Part B Summary ~ **
[0114] We have a pretty good idea maybe even to excess of what
the KB complex looked like in the hours following the Ghouta Massacre.
Although I have dropped numerous hints about my own conclusions of
what happened there that night, I have not yet organized or presented
any of this information as an argument as who killed these people and
how. Now it is time to start pulling the evidence together.
[0115] But before closing this tour of the KB complex, let me just try
and tie together my conclusions on how the videos tie the KB complex
together. Its a if-A-equals-B-and-B-equals-C-then-C-equals-A sort of
thinking. If a first room can be connected to a second room and if a
second room can be connected to a third, then the third is connected to
the first. And so when we line up these videos and the rooms, it looks
like this:
A. SM-c connects SM Room #2 because:
it is one video and both rooms are shown.
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B. Rm1-a + Rm2-a connect Room #2 Room #1 because:
the videos are continuous and both rooms are shown.
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C. Rm2-b connects Room #2 Room #3 because:
men are seen entering Room #2 through Room #3.
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D. Rm2-a + sun-videos connect Room #2 SM because:
all three videos show W-005 & G-010 i.e. body-continuity.
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E. Rm2-b + the sun-videos connect Room #3 SM because:
all three videos show M-006, M-011, M-014 et al. male bodies;
i.e. high body-continuity.
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F. Rm2-b +the sun-videos connect Room #2 SM because:
all three videos show W-005, G-010, and numerous childrens
bodies i.e. high body-continuity.
~
G. Pat-a connects Room #3 the patio because:
it is one video that begins in Room #3 and proceeds to the patio.
H. Pat-a + Rm3-a + Rm3-b connect Room #3 the patio because:
they all show M-001.
I. Pat-a + Rm2-b + the sun-videos connect the patio SM because:
Pat-a connects patio to Room #3 (See G) and Rm2-b + the
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Consequently, the KB videos establish that 1) there is a KB complex;
2) that complex comprises a SunMorgue at street level and a
subterranean DarkMorgue; and 3) the DarkMorgue comprises Rooms
#1, #2, #3, and a patio. Q.E.D.
[0116] We will let our faithful DM guide, Mr. Minnie, have the last
word with respect to the KB complex, or the last 1,000 words if that is
what a picture is really worth. Here is his own closing shot from the
patio. Somehow, it just seems to epitomize this subterranean hell-hole in
Ghouta, Damascus on Aug21.2013.
Fig.75. The face of the
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PART C
Read Their Lips:
The Ghouta Massacre as a Biological Mystery

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Chapter Six
The Biological Basis of Chemical Asphyxiation
The Schoolboy, by Vincent van Gogh
Through the contrast of the delicate pink, blood red and dark red...
I've tried to convey the sinister power of such a place.
Vincent van Gogh
[0117] Weve seen enough of the KB complex to ask the obvious:
What is this horrible place? What the deuce can we deduce about the
purpose and function of these bare rooms, particularly the stygian
DarkMorgue?
We have a pretty good feel for the physical condition of the place.
Although we cant see much of the exterior, the interior of the building is
in good repair. Walls are painted and floors are in good shape. The
electricity is on, light bulbs installed and working. Doors are on their
hinges, windows in place. The beginning of SM-c indicates the
SunMorgue floor had just been hosed down, suggesting it needed a good
cleaning before they began moving bodies in, but by the time the sun
came up, the floors had dried out and looked pretty good. Not
immaculate, but good. In sum, the building looks as if it has had regular
maintenance; it was certainly not one of those bombed-out shells
pounded into rubble by years of being shelled that one sees in many
videos of this area.
But the function of this complex, both before Aug21 and during the
massacre, are questions that are wide open. The KB complex is obviously
not a personal residence, nor an apartment complex. For instance, we
dont see anything that looks like a bathroom or a closet in any of these
rooms. It doesnt look like a building used for retail stores or a hotel. It
doesnt look like a warehouse, the floor tiles are too fragile for that.
There are no counters or desks that might suggest a public bureau or
government building. No chairs. No telephones. Being empty is not
unusual, after all its in a war zone, but being both empty and so well
maintained as odd. If the KB complex had been stripped of both its
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Folks online have referred to some of these KB videos as showing a
hospital or clinic, but they dont have much to support that
speculation other than the presence of suffering people, and when you
look at how all of the suffering people are lying on the floor, the idea that
this is a hospital falls flat. The only thing we see that might indicate a
medical facility is a portable suction machine in Room #2 the one with
its bottles pristine clean as if it had never been used. (See Appendix II,
Room #2: Where the Devil Is.) There are no examination tables and
hardly any furniture at all. In the entire area that is visible to us one
large room, three small ones, hallways, and a patio the only visible
furniture is the high, industrial-like table on wheels in Room #3, a small
cabinet and foot-stool in the corner of Room #1, and a wooden desk,
also in Room #1. (See Fig. 53.)
In Chapter Eleven I will discuss a still shot of the SM taken at about
dawn. I found the photo on an insurgents PR website called The
Weekly Report on Dignity Revolutions Martyrs. Here. The English
translation of the caption to that photo reads: A picture taken on
21-8-2013 in TB Hospital in Kafarbatna to which hundreds of injured
and dozens of martyrs were taken. [Internal quotes original.] Maybe,
but it sure doesnt look like a TB hospital.
Many of the Ghouta videos from other areas, such as Zamalka, show
what are obviously medical facilities. You can see stainless steel carts and
trays; you can see cabinet drawers open, over-flowing with cuff-pumps
and medical-looking stuff; there are wall-outlets for oxygen and suction.
But with the KB complex, if one were to photo-shop out all of the bodies
and suffering people, what would be left is a bare, eerie, empty building in
good repair with the lights on. And lots of syringes and 44 L. gas
cylinders with their safety caps off, lying around on the floors. Why
would a building with no furniture or medical equipment have so many
gas cylinders in a state of desuetude, scattered on the floors? Now there is
a puzzler worthy of Click and Clack, the Car Guys.
[0118] Because the President of the United States, and his Secretary
of State, and his Secretary of Defense, and the New York Times, and
virtually all of the Western MSM have joined together in casting the
Ghouta Massacre as a sarin rocket attack carried out by Assad against
the Ghouta insurgents, then, I guess, we should be asking these whats-
going-on-here questions within the sarin-attack context, at least initially.
After all, videos SM-a, Rm3-a, and Rm3-b are videos Obama provided
to Congress as part of the DiFi package in an attempt to convince
Americans and Congress that the US should retaliate against Assad for
this sarin attack. And those DiFi videos are now connected to all of the
other eight KB videos we have been looking at. Does interpreting these
KB videos through the filter of the sarin attack casus belli help us
understand what the KB complex was being used for? What are the
possibilities under that context?
Is the DM supposed to be a place people fled to when the sarin-
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who were somehow immune to sarin followed the poisoned people into
the DM to video them dying? Did the sarin itself waft into the DM and
poison people who were there trying to escape it? Is this where people
who were exposed to sarin were taken to be repeatedly splashed in the
face with water instead of being taken to the rooftops above the toxin
where the air would have been fresh in the 8 mph wind that night? Were
these people poisoned in their beds, as alleged by the insurgent PR
machine, and then dragged into the DM fully clothed in street clothes,
and left on the wet floors to flail around, gasping for their final few
breaths because thats where the light was best for taking YouTube
videos in the middle of the night? Why else would they be brought
there? There are obviously no medical resources that could be used to
help these people not even an examination table.
And what do the workers and loafers in the KB complex tell us? If
the dead people were dead because of sarin, then their hair and clothes
would be impregnated with the deadly toxin. This stuff passes right
through the skin; all one has to do is touch it and serious consequences
are going to follow. Bringing the victims inside where that toxin would
have been concentrated and where the workers would have been exposed
to it suggests that we should be seeing something a lot different in those
videos than healthy workers running around with 2 liter water bottles or
taking a smoke in the stairwell. After all, the workers are not protected
at all. No gloves, no gowns, no hoods. The surgical masks and bandanas
worn by some workers may be effective ways to hide their identities from
YouTube viewers but would be no protection from sarin. Only one
person, Mr. Cranberry, has a gas mask an old Soviet gas mask with a
filter that is probably decades past its use by date. One would think
that he would be the only person in these scenes not throwing up and
defecating, at least until he took off his out-dated Soviet gas-mask and
tossed it on the floor.
What Im trying to say is that this evidence, when viewed within the
context of a sarin rocket attack, is just not making sense.
[0119] Ultimately, everything in this world makes sense, and if
something doesnt appear to make sense at the moment, it may be
necessary to shift the context and have another look. With all due
respect to Mr. Obama and the New York Times, there is just no rational
explanation for what is going on here within the context of a sarin rocket
attack. I mean, this is the type of situation the acronym WTF? was
invented for rooms void of furniture, ubiquitous gas cylinders, masked
first responders tending to victims with ruby-red cheeks and ears.
It is time to turn a hard eye on the whole sarin thing. We need to
look at the biological evidence objectively outside the sarin-box for clues
of what actually happened. In this section I will argue that the resolution
of this Ghouta Massacre mystery comes down to understanding how an
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The Horse Goes First:
Biology as a Guide to Understanding Ghouta
[0120] Unlike most senseless civilian massacres in war-torn areas,
the Ghouta Massacre was, first and foremost, a biological event. More
precisely, it was an act of pharmacological or toxicological barbarity.
Different people or different groups of people might have been killed by
different toxins in different areas of Ghouta, but the massacre as a whole
was pharmacological. And the reason we know this is that it is evident
from the videos and still images that these people did not die from
physical trauma, burning, hemorrhaging, blunt force impacts to the head,
or other physical causes normally associated with a military operation or
attack. With few exceptions, the bodies show no sign of trauma
whatsoever. Each person died their own personal, gruesome death,
gasping for air as a result of being asphyxiated by some chemical agent.
We can see some of them gasping in the videos.
And the reason Im pointing this out is that since we are dealing with
a biological event, then biology must be the starting point in figuring out
what happened and who is responsible. Forget about identifying the
rockets; forget which direction they came from; forget their payload or
range. Forget the question of whether there were any rockets. The first
and most important question is: What agent was used to poison these
people? Once that is determined, then ask whether such a toxin could
have been delivered by rockets. In other words: horse, then cart.
[0121] The power of the presidency combined with the power of the
press to push the sarin scenario to the exclusion of any other explanation
has dissuaded people from asking that most essential question: What
toxin killed these people? While numerous experts have weighed in on
whether the symptoms seen in Ghouta videos are consistent with sarin,
that is a different issue than identifying what agent was used. For one
thing these types of consistent with observations are both specious and
useless because so many symptoms that are consistent with sarin
intoxication are also consistent with a whole nasty menu of possible
toxins. These experts look at a video of one individual with stomach
cramps or mucus coming from the nose and conclude: Yep, thats
consistent with sarin alright, which the reporter translates that to Sarin
attack confirmed by expert. This is equivalent to a situation in which a
reporter asks a detective Is the fact that she is missing consistent with
homicide? and, upon getting the obvious answer that any missing person
is consistent with homicide, the reporter runs the headline Homicide
suspected.
Jumping to politically inflammatory conclusions based on what is
consistent with sarin is easy. The hard part is sorting through the
possibilities in order to 1) reject those drugs that could not possibly have
been used in view of the symptoms, and 2) come up with an educated
best guess of what drug caused the symptoms. These are the two
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Here I will discuss the pharmacological mechanisms of action of
sarin, carbon monoxide, and cyanide as a prelude to interpreting the
meaning of the symptoms we see and dont see in the KB videos.
Using the paradigm of multiple, competing hypothesis-testing, I will
explain why the KB videos suggest that mass-execution by CO and CN is
a far more likely explanation for what happened than Obamas sarin
rocket attack allegations.
Two tables provided in Appendix I summarize this lengthy
discussion. Table III is a comprehensive list of symptoms produced by
sarin, CO, and CN, along with supporting citations. That table also
indicates which of these symptoms are most useful in discriminating
between the three hypotheses, given the type of evidence we have to
work with. Table IV compares the sarin-H , CO-H , and CN-H side-
O O O
by-side with respect to the symptoms expected for each toxin and the
symptoms actually observed. But in order to get the drift of this analysis,
it is necessary first to understand a few pharmacological principles, which
is how we connect the effects a toxin is having inside a victims body with
the symptoms we see on the outside.
[0122] One aspect of the Ghouta Massacre that I am confident will
eventually lead to assigning responsibility to the guilty parties is, as far as
I am aware, completely unprecedented: we have video evidence of large
numbers of victims at the time of their suffering or soon after they died.
In other words, we have a video record of the presence or absence of
symptoms that can be used to determine what agent or agents were used.
And Im not talking about one or two individuals; Im talking about a
large enough population that we know we are not looking at one-off
biological anomalies.
Some biological effects of toxins can be faked, and some can be
mimicked with sub-lethal doses or with non-lethal analog agents. For
instance, the weed killer malathion or the ophthalmic agents
edrophonium or echothiophate could be used to mimic many of sarins
effects. But other biological effects are extremely difficult to fake or
mimic, particularly in the large numbers of victims shown in the videos
effects like the color of the corpses.
[0123] My point the point of this study is that when one
understands the biology and pharmacology of the suspected toxins, and
when one carefully observes symptoms in large numbers of victims, most
of the pieces of this pharmacological puzzle will fall into place. On the
other hand, by ignoring the evident biological evidence, any wild
hypothesis including sarin becomes possible.
By analogy, lets say you are given a video showing a group of 125
people, and you are told by the President, and the Secretary of State, and
the NYT that the people in the video were all intoxicated with alcohol
when they were filmed. You would have a pretty good idea what to
expect: people wobbling around, some slurring their speech, some
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and a few with lampshades on their heads, particularly the ones groping
others. Even if you were not told what was wrong with them, if you were
told they all had the same problem, you would likely make a pretty good
guess as to what that problem is, particularly once you saw the
lampshades.
Drugs produce characteristic symptoms, and so the presence of those
symptoms can constitute reliable evidence as to the presence of the drug,
particularly when you have large numbers of subjects. This is positive
evidence: when specific signs or symptoms that are expected to be seen as
a result of a poisoning by a specific drug actually are seen.
But if you were shown a video of just one or two individuals walking
funny and vomiting, but neither one was wearing a lampshade or
twerking, you might or might not guess they were drunk. Lots of things
make people vomit and stumble and slur their speech. Cops have been
mistaking stroke victims for drunks for as long as there have been cops.
It is by having large numbers of subjects that gives you confidence in
what you are observing because the full range of expected symptoms
comes to light.
That is the way biological research is usually done: enough subjects
are used to allow the investigator to be confident that he/she is not
observing some one-off, weird event. And thats what Im saying about
the novelty of Ghouta when has a crime of this magnitude ever been
caught in hundreds of videos showing hundreds of victims as they are
dying or shortly after they have died? It is totally unprecedented in the
history of despicable crimes against humanity, which is what the Ghouta
Massacre is. This is must be a dream come true for people who study the
toxicology of mass-executions for a living, if, indeed, such people exist.
[0124] In addition to the positive evidence of seeing symptoms that
are expected, there is the negative evidence of failing to see symptoms
that are expected. Ironically, negative evidence can be even more
powerful than positive. For instance, going back to our drunks video
hypothetical, if the video shows 125 subjects doing such things as
walking tightropes over 300 foot-deep canyons, or reciting the
Gettysburg Address lucidly, or performing perfect pirouettes, or playing
the Maple Leaf Rag without missing a note, and if Obama, Kerry, and the
NYT told you that those people are seriously intoxicated with alcohol,
you would wonder who the drunks really are. We all know that a group
of 125 drunks is going to exhibit certain stereotyped behaviors and
walking a tightrope isnt one of them falling over on flat ground is. If
we view a group of people and dont see any of the symptoms that are
known to be produced by a drug, then those people were not poisoned by
that drug. Period. Move on to the next hypothesis.
[0125] This is precisely the problem the public has with the Ghouta
Massacre: most people are not pharmacologists or toxicologists, and,
unlike alcohol, organophosphates are not the kind of drug the public
comes into contact with on a regular basis. Consequently, the public
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cant know enough about what symptoms sarin causes to be able to
decide for themselves whether or not the USGs allegations of a sarin
attack are bunk. Unfortunately, many people still choose trust over
scepticism when it comes to their governments allegations.
With respect to the sarin-H , specifically, what Im saying is that
O
you can find a thousand sarin-laced rocket pieces, and you can find
sarin signatures in samples from window seals, and soil, and bedroom
slippers until pigs do pirouettes drunk or sober but if the large
numbers of victims shown in the Ghouta videos do not present the
biological symptoms of sarin intoxication, then sarin is not the toxin, and
all information to the contrary immediately becomes what is politely
called in legal circles a red herring, and, possibly, an intentional
deception. As I say, one of the most extraordinary aspects of the Ghouta
Massacre is that there is a video record of the biological evidence not
just of dead victims, but of dying victims as well and if people will only
look at that evidence objectively, it is far more probative than an
unsigned, undated USG intelligence assessment or a UN report that
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Binary hemoglobin
[0126] Back in the early days of biochemistry when hemoglobin
(Hb) was discovered (1840), all proteins were classified in one of three
groups: fibrous proteins, membrane proteins, and globular proteins. A
globular protein is one that folds itself into a spherical or globe-like ball
in an aqueous solution. The suffix -globin in a proteins name denotes
this spherical quality of its structure. Protein chemistry has gotten so
complicated today that a simple 3-way classification is of no real use;
however, most of the 19 century names given to individual proteins
th
have stuck, as in hemoglobin. The heme- (or British haem-) refers to
a non-protein part of the molecule that contains an ion of iron; i.e. a
charged atom of iron.
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.
Fig. 76. The miracle of binary hemoglobin. Image source
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A Hb molecule actually comprises four protein chains wrapped
around four heme units. The heme units each contain a charged iron
ion. Iron absorbs most colors of light, but reflects red light, and so if light
can get to the iron ions in Hb, the Hb will appear red, which is what your
blood has in common with the rusty-red surface of Mars and Conan
OBriens rusty-red hair they all appear red because of iron. But unlike
Martian dirt and Conan OBriens hair, Hb is binary it flips back and
forth between a red form and a blue form, like an indecisive hydrangea in
mid-summer. In the blue form the globin part of Hb protein hides the
iron ions from the light, while in the red form the iron ions are exposed.
This binary nature has both physiological and forensic implications. This
binary quality of Hb, in fact, will help turn Obamas sarin rocket attack
allegations into a G.W. Bush-style faux casus belli. That may seem like a
stretch, but follow me.
[0127] The most physiologically salient feature of Hb is that it can
2
bind four molecules of O that would otherwise just be swimming around
in the blood. And because all of the hemoglobin is packaged in red blood
2
cells, those rbcs are really tiny canisters of O bound to Hb. The benefit
2
is that because of this O -binding power of Hb, blood is packed with 70-
2
times more O than what it can carry if the rbcs have been removed.
Without this extra 70x carrying capacity, it would not be possible to get
2
enough O to all the tissues to keep them alive. In fact, if half of the Hb
2
in the blood is knocked out of commission, a person becomes so O
depleted (hypoxic) that death is likely. Another way to put this is that if
anything mucks up your Hb, you will be mortuary-bound within minutes.
[0128] Hemoglobin is not only binary in a chromatic sense of being
blue or red, it is also physiologically binary, and for the same reason: it is
2
when the iron ions are exposed, that O becomes bound, and it is when
2
the iron ions are buried that O is released. And this is why Hb is so
2
awesome, for the trick with O delivery is to get Hb to flip back and forth
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When Hb passes through the lungs, the chemical conditions there (low
acidity, for instance) cause Hb to twist around so that its iron ions are
2 2
more exposed for binding the O . In this conformation, with four O
molecules are bound to it, the fully-charged Hb is referred to as
oxyhemoglobin. This is the red form of the Hb binary.
Fig. 77. Oxy-Hb, or red-Hb,
2
carries four molecules of O
per molecule of Hb, all
packaged in a red blood cell.
[0129] When the red-Hb gets to the tissues, the chemical conditions
2
are a lot different than in the lungs. Oxygen levels are low, CO levels
are high, and the acidity is higher. These conditions cause the Hb to flip
2
to the blue form, dumping all four O molecules into the blood so they
can be scarfed up and used by the cells. This blue form of Hb, without
2
the O , is referred to, logically enough, as deoxy-hemoglobin. The
2
cellular waste-product carbon dioxide (CO ) binds to this blue
conformation of Hb for a ride through the veins to the lungs where the
2 2
Hb flips back to the red form and exchanges the CO for O . This is
the reason venous blood is bluer than arterial blood.
Fig. 78. In the capillaries where the
blood is more acid,
2
Hb dumps the O and contorts into a
blue-form.

[0130] While each individual Hb molecule exists only in the red
form or blue form, arterial and venous blood both carry a combination of
red-Hb and blue-Hb, and so there is a red-blue spectrum of blood
throughout the circulatory system. For over 500 years anatomical
illustrators have been drawing the circulatory system as if it is half bright
red and half bright blue, like a map of the US on election night. The
truth is that while the arterial blood is strikingly red, the venous blood is
also red, only less so. Having given up most but by no means all of its
2
O in the capillaries, the blood heading back to the lungs through the
veins is not navy blue, its just a bluer shade of red. Check it out the next
The vein in your forearm looks blue because the skin is absorbing most of the
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red light reflected by the iron. Your arteries would look blue, too, if you could
see them from the outside but they are too deep, usually.
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0. http://www.epidstat.com/hospitalisation-for-venous-thromboembolism-in
-cancer-patients-and-the-general-population-a-population-based-cohort-
study-in-denmark-1997-2006/
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time you get your blood drawn. And when the nurse puts one of those
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2
O saturation clips on your finger, what that the device is doing,
2
essentially, is not measuring O , rather, its calculating the red/blue ratio
of Hb. Of course, Im just talking about the normal situation without
any of these toxins involved. Once sarin, or CO, or CN gets into the
system, everything changes and in different directions which is why
Im going though all of this.

Cyanosis and rubicundity
[0131] Cyanosis and rubicundity are the clinical manifestations of a
tilted blue/red ratio of hemoglobin. They are terms used to describe a
person as being unexpectedly or pathologically blue or red, respectively.
2
[0132] Almost any agent or event that produces O depletion
(hypoxia) from the blood will cause more of the blue Hb to accumulate,
and that produces a bluish hue in the skin cyanosis. The word is
derived from kyanos, the Greek word for blue, or dark blue. Initially,
the blue color is seen in the lips, cheeks, ears, fingertips and toes places
where the capillaries are dense and close to the
surface of the skin. Here are some examples of cyanosis:
Figs. 79-81. Examples of cyanosis found online.
Fig. 79 Source ~ Fig. 80
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Source
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[0133] If the red form of Hb accumulates in the blood, the person
becomes rubicund, a word derived from the Latin word for red or
ruddy, rubeus. Think ruby. Rubicundity is not used that much in
the clinical literature, even by the most pedantic authors, but I find it to
Throughout this document I use the term rubicundity in a very narrow sense.
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I use it to mean pink or red skin color in lighter skinned people that is caused
by an unusually high proportion of hemoglobin being in its red form. In other
words, Im using rubicundity strictly as a physiological term, as I elaborate in
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be very helpful because it says so much in a single word, and what it says
is: Here is a person who has pink lips and cheeks and other bits and
pieces as a result of an unusually large proportion of their Hb being in the
red form. That is my working definition of rubicundity for the
purposes of this paper, although it is probably not a definition that would
be immediately recognized by scholars of toxicology.
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By being so functional, the term rubicundity deserves at least one
derivative term. When I use the term rubigenic, I am referring to the
ability of some drugs to produce rubicundity. That is, a rubigenic drug
produces a red-shift in a persons red/blue-Hb ratio, which causes the
persons skin to turn pink or red. Were coming to the details of how this
happens.
Of course, if the person is dark skinned, then never mind all of this
cyanosis and rubicundity stuff because high concentrations of melanin in
the skin block the light from getting to the Hb and so different colors are
not easily seen. As it turns out, the Ghouta victims all have sufficiently
light skin that these red/blue skin color issues are very relevant in the
evidentiary sense.
By now you will have made the connection between all of this red-Hb
talk and my obsession with the red toes and noses seen in the KB videos.
Hang on for just a few more paragraphs and I will have you obsessing,
too. At least now we have a vocabulary for dealing with a room full of
rubicund corpses.
[0134] An important physiological-semantic point is that both of
these terms, cyanosis and rubicundity, should only be used to refer to a
persons unusual blue or pink coloration caused by a shift of Hb to the
blue or red state. And the reason I raise this point is because it is possible
for people to turn pink or blue without a shift in the red/blue-Hb ratio,
and that is a factor we have to keep in mind when analyzing the
evidence.
Thermal effects on the skin are a good example. When a patch of
skin gets cold, the body will attempt to keep the temperature of that
patch normal by opening surface capillaries so that more blood gets to
the very surface of the skin to warm it up. Of course, this turns the skin
2
cherry-red not because the blood has more O in it, or because of a shift
in the amount of red-Hb, but because there is more blood flowing to the
surface.
But too long in the cold and a persons core temperature will begin to
drop. Then the body will pinch the surface capillaries shut to stop blood
flow to the skin in order to conserve heat. At that point, the persons
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blue form but because the capillaries in their skin have all clamped shut
and the red blood is no longer visible. Should this go on long enough,
2
the O deprivation in the distant parts like finger and toes could result in
frost-bite and gangrene. But the point is cold-induced red coloration is
not rubicundity, and the more severe cold-induced blue coloration is not
cyanosis because those terms apply only to the red/blue-Hb status.
[0135] Given that all three of the toxins we are examining sarin,
CO, and CN can alter the red/blue-Hb ratio (and, hence, skin color),
and given that we have videos of a good-size collection of victims of some
toxin, it seems that we would be in an ideal situation for taking a first
step at figuring out what killed those people. But reality is never as clear
as theory, particularly in biology, and the analysis of the KB evidence is
potentially complicated by additional factors such as how fast a toxins
blood levels rise and how high the levels go. While the drug itself will,
for the most part, determine the color a victims skin can turn, details of
how the drug exposure happened for each individual will play an
important part in determining whether and how much each individual
changed color. To add to the confusion, there are huge differences in
normal skin color, even among people of the same race.
For instance, here are three images I got off of a news website
recently a couple of mug shots and a picture of a young girl who made
international news for being white and living in a Roma gypsy camp. You
wont have any trouble guessing which ones are the mug shots.

Figs. 82-84. The red-blue spectrum of normal skin color.
I think most of us would not take any particular notice of the color of
these individuals if we were to pass them on the street they are within
the range of what we subconsciously register as normal. But when the
three photos are juxtaposed while someone is yabbering on about
differences in skin color, those differences really stand out. Even looking
at just their lips, the range of color is amazing.
The point is that where a persons skin color falls on the spectrum
will be a function of their genes, the lighting, their cardiovascular
function, their blood oxygen saturation, the temperature, the amount of
melanin in their skin, the time of year, their occupation, and . . . well,
suffice it to say that there is a wide range of normal, healthy hues in
human skin, ranging from blue-black, to purplish, to brick-red, to
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to analyze the KB videos most of which are shot in poor light of the
DarkMorgue. Nevertheless, because the videos are so vivid and
panoramic, and because the victims are ethnically homogenous, this sort
of analysis can be done with a high degree of confidence in spite of what
must ultimately be a subjective judgment-call.
Technicolor toxins
[0136] All of this yada about hemoglobin and cyanosis and
rubicundity is meant to set the stage for understanding how sarin, CO,
and CN kill and how they can change the victims skin color in the
process. Let me quickly inventory the three toxins of interest with
respect to their effects, especially on skin color, starting at the far red end
of the spectrum and working toward the blue end.
[0137] Carbon monoxide. CO, the silent killer, has a very
2
powerful effect on Hb. It binds to the protein at the same place that O
2
does, but it binds over 200x more tightly than O . Hemoglobin that has
CO bound to it is called carboxy-hemoglobin or CO-Hb. We all
have a little bit of CO-Hb because we generate a wee amount of CO
internally. Smokers have more than non-smokers. I think the next few
paragraphs will convince you that the less CO-Hb you have, the better
off you are.
Carbon monoxide is not a cellular poison it does not directly
poison the tissues, not even the breathing muscles. This means that as a
person initially becomes increasingly intoxicated with CO, they will be
2
breathing alright and pulling O (and more CO) into their lungs
normally. Thats why its called silent. But as the CO accumulates in
2 2
the blood and out-competes O for Hb, the O cannot find an empty
2
binding site; and so, instead of transporting O to the tissues, the rbcs
2
transport CO. And unlike O , the CO will not come loose from Hb
when the rbcs get to the tissues. In other words, as CO enters the lungs,
2 2
it hijacks the Hb, forces O off of the Hb, and the free O accumulates in
2
the blood. But recall that the blood cannot hold enough free O to
satisfy all of the tissues, particularly the brain. If more than about 50% of
Hb is tied up with CO, the persons immediate future is unlikely to be a
happy one, and it will most certainly be dramatic. In cases of intentional
poisoning, such as suicides or murder or mass-executions, CO-Hb can
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2
Fig. 85. Carbon monoxide displaces O
from Hb and holds the Hb in the red
form.
2
[0138] Paradoxically, as the tissues are becoming O starved, both
the arterial and venous blood will become bright red. In other words, CO
2
is rubigenic. That is because, like O , CO binds Hb in its red form, but
2
unlike O , CO holds Hb in the red form virtually permanently. If you
2
were to stick the finger of a CO victim in one of those digital O
saturation meters, it would likely register 100% saturation (or more) even
2
while the person dies for lack of O . Thats because the meter sees red-
2
Hb, not O . As CO-Hb builds up, the color of the blood moves more and
more to the red end of the spectrum.
And heres the kicker: a person will begin to turn pink and healthy-
looking if the CO-Hb accumulates slowly enough. If CO-Hb levels rise
too quickly, they can die before the color changes are evident. And so
what we have is a window beginning at about when 20-30% of the Hb
has been hijacked by CO, when the person begins to turn pink, to about
50-60% CO-Hb when the victim begins to turn dead. The literature
varies a lot on these percent numbers but the important point is the
concept of the window. Depending on how long that window lasts and
how fast CO is accumulating in the blood, the victim may look super-
healthy even as they suffocate, or they may die before the color changes
occur. But even after they take their last breath, the CO in their blood
continues to convert blue-Hb to red-Hb, and the corpse can become
increasingly red even as it lies there on the floor growing cold. More on
the post-mortem effects later.
[0139] As a striking example of how powerful and permanent the
red-shift caused by CO is, it is worth noting that there is currently a
consumers controversy over meat packers exposing meat to CO to keep
it looking fresh longer. An unscrupulous butcher can take an old, grey
piece of last weeks sirloin and re-invigorate it by gassing it with a little
CO before putting it back on display with todays date.

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Fig. 86. CO converts the globin protein
to a form that allows light to reach the iron ions,
producing the vivid redness. Source.
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Keep these meat images in mind, because what you are looking at in
Fig. 86 is the difference between a person gassed with sarin, on the left,
and a person gassed with CO or CN, on the right. That After piece of
meat on the right pretty well explains my obsession with the KB victims
pink cheeks.
[0140] Cyanide. When a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom hook-
up, the result is a piece of bad news called cyanide. It was bad news for
Stephen Rakes, the Whitey Bulger extortion victim who was poisoned
with CN during Bulgers trial in Boston. It was bad news for Urooj Khan,
who won a $1m Illinois lottery and was poisoned with CN the day he got
his check. Although Rasputin was famously rumored to be immune to
CN, millions of victims of Hitlers death camps Jews, gays, and gypsies
werent. Most of the people executed by the Nazis were executed with
CO or a CN formulation named Zyklon B. CN may have been bad
news for the people we see in the KB videos, too.
[0141] Toxic CN is available in many chemical and physical forms
solid, gas, or liquid all of which I lump together as CN because it is
the free carbon-nitrogen complex that does the damage regardless of how
the CN is packaged chemically. Unlike sarin and CO, both of which are
odorless, CN has a definite and peculiar odor, described as a very
pungent almond smell. Not by coincidence, it is CN in almonds that
gives them their odor.
[0142] The direct biological effect of CN occurs not in the blood
like CO, but inside the cells where CN blocks the enzymes that convert
2
O into high-energy compounds like ATP, which the cell needs to stay
alive. CN is a cellular poison in other words. Because CN shuts down
2
the cells respiratory machinery, the cells are not able to utilize the O
2
that is delivered. The victims cells will suffocate internally while O
Hydrogen sulfide is a third known rubigenic toxin, but it is not considered as a
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likely toxin in the Ghouta Massacre because there is virtually no history of it
being used as a CW or to execute people, whereas the use of CO and CN for
the most nefarious mass executions in history is well documented. Furthermore
the effects of the intensely unpleasant odor of HS would have likely been
obvious in the Ghouta videos.
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2
accumulates in the blood because the O can no longer be utilized. In
2
addition, CO will decrease in the blood because it is no longer being
2
produced by the cells. Both of these factors favor the O staying bound
to Hb, and so red Hb accumulates and blue Hb decreases. In other
words, CN, like CO, is rubigenic. But not always.
For if CN accumulates quickly enough, it will poison the respiratory
muscles before many of the other organs and tissues. If the respiratory
2
muscles are compromised first, the O levels in the blood will plummet as
surely as if the person had been strangled. This will cause Hb in the blue
form to accumulate. In these cases, a victim may exhibit cyanosis instead
of rubicundity. Or a single victim may display both cyanosis and
rubicundity, like rosy cheeks but cyanotic fingertips.
The point is that if a group of people are gassed with CN, most of
them will become rubicund but any individual person could blue or a
mixture depending on the circumstances of their own particular death.
For instance, in a mass-execution, a persons color may differ depending
on whether they are under other people, or close to a gap at the bottom
of a door, or right next to the source of CN. Consequently, after death
some may retain the lingering blue hue of cyanosis, some may become
rubicund, and others may exhibit normal coloration.
[0143] The picture the toxicological literature paints of CO and
CN, then, is that they are both rubigenic but CO produces a more
consistent and more intense redness while the symptoms produced by CN
may vary from cyanosis to rubicundity depending of the vicissitudes of
how the poisoning took place. The US Army says it this way:
When seen, cherry-red skin suggests either circulating carboxyhemoglobin
from carbon monoxide poisoning or a high venous oxygen content from failure
of extraction of oxygen by tissues poisoned by cyanide or hydrogen sulfide.
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However, cyanide victims may have normal appearing skin and may even be
cyanotic, although cyanosis is not classically associated with cyanide
poisoning.
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[0144] Sarin. Before hemoglobin can play its magical O -
transporter role, and before respiration can take place inside cells,
mechanical breathing must occur, and that breathing is done by skeletal
muscles that are under control of the nervous system.
During the course of a life lasting 75 years, at a normal average
The respiratory rate ranges from 12-40 breaths/min depending on age and
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respiratory rate of 20 breaths per minute a human breathes on the order
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of 800 million times round it up to an even billion to take into account
all that hot and heavy petting when you were a teenager. It is amazing
when you think about how few of those billion breaths are skipped over
70-80 years of an average life span. Maybe a few breaths were missed
here and there as kids challenging each other in breath-holding; maybe
you dropped a few when you forgot to breath during scary movies; and
maybe a few more during the odd day snorkeling or spear fishing. But for
most of us, once we take that inaugural gulp of air at the end of a long,
primal scream while the umbilical cord is still attached, we will rarely go
more than 30 seconds or so without taking a breath during the next 70,
80, 90, or 100 years. But that long sequence of successive breaths comes
to a sudden halt if one is exposed to high enough doses of
organophosphates, like sarin.
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[0145] Sarin works by hyper-activating the nervous system and
skeletal muscles, virtually globally. Very few organ systems and tissues
are not affected, and by affected, I mean really screwed up. Sarin
turns on synapses that use the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (Ach).
These Ach-neurons are all over the place inside the brain and out.
Intestines, bladder, eyes, heart if its an organ in your body, it is
probably controlled at least in part by Ach neurons. Sarin will goose
them all.
Initially after exposure to sarin, Ach synapses outside the brain that
control smooth and skeletal muscles are the most affected muscles of
the bladder, colon, iris, stomach, and lungs, for instance. Under the
influence of sarin these muscles generally either go into a fixed, rigid
contraction or they go into spastic cycles of contraction-fatigue-recovery-
contraction. The tiny muscles that control the diameter of the pupil, for
instance, contract so that the pupil is squeezed down to a tiny pin-hole
miosis its called. Vision can all but disappear, especially in dim light.
Large skeletal muscles initially may sort of flutter in what are referred to
as fasiculations if the sarin enters through the victims skin. If it is
delivered to the muscles via the blood, they can go into spasms and
furious, uncoordinated contractions.
Sarin also poisons the respiratory muscles, which are also skeletal
muscles, and when it does, breathing stops. If the concentration of sarin
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is high enough, the bodys access to O is immediately cut off just as
surely and just as quickly as if the person had been strangled with a jump-
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muscles is just one of a multitude of the effects of sarins interference
with Ach synapses, but its generally the one that is fatal. If the victim
lives long enough for sarin to reach the brain, they will likely go into
intense grand mal-like convulsions as they suffocate.
[0146] The foregoing grisly picture is just sarins effects on skeletal
muscles. It also produces a frightening cluster of symptoms known as
muscarinic syndrome or muscarinic storm. Muscarinic is the name
of a type of Ach synapse that controls most organ-systems, and those
systems go into high-gear if sarin is present. Many is the med-student
who has used the mnemonic SLUDGE to remember the muscarinic
effects of organophosphates.
S Salivation as a result of stimulation of the salivary glands.
L Lacrimation caused by overstimulation of the tear glands.
U Urinary incontinence caused by stimulation of the bladder and
ureter.
DG Defecation and Gastric distress (fecal incontinence) caused by
stimulation of the intestines.
E Emesis (vomiting) primarily by direct stimulation of the gastric
muscles.
Looking at that list of symptoms, you can see why of all of the ways
there are to die, sarin would surely be one of the worse covered in feces,
soaked in urine, intense stomach cramps, possibly convulsing, virtually
blind, disoriented, and suffocating all the while. The only good part
would be that the dying would be relatively quick. This stuff is powerful,
its potent, its fast. Its nasty. And all of those points are relevant to
sussing out this Ghouta mystery.
[0147] But returning to the subject at hand, skin color, the most
important forensic point with respect to a sarin victims skin color is this:
when the lung-muscles stop pumping air into and out of the lungs
because sarin has caused them to become paralyzed, the blood becomes
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depleted of O , in which case the brain and other tissues will go from a
hyper-activated state to dead. This means that unlike the rubigenic
agents CO and CN with sarin intoxication the red-Hb declines and
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blue-Hb increases as the O is used up. Consequently, the poisoned
person begins to acquire a bluish tinge, particularly the lips, ears, finger
tips, and other pieces that have a relatively large surface to volume ratio.
In other words, sarin causes cyanosis, and for the exactly same reason
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Miss Scarlets jump-rope strangulation does: lack of O in the blood
causes a blue-shift in Hb. The slower the onset of hypoxia, the more
obvious the cyanosis will be at the time of death, but even after death,
the deep blue color will often be obvious. With slowly increasing
concentrations of sarin as it wafted into a bedroom or sleeping area such
as what was supposed to have happened in Ghouta, the cyanosis in most
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[0148] To summarize, what this means is that in a population of CO
victims, some or most of them will be rubicund but none will be cyanotic.
In a population of CN victims, most will be rubicund but some may be
cyanotic. And in a population of sarin victims, none will be rubicund,
but many or most will be cyanotic. There may be individual cases where
cyanosis is obscured by poor lighting or where it is not fully developed at
the time a video was taken, but in a population of scores of people gassed
with sarin at high enough concentrations to cause large numbers of
fatalities, there will be multiple cases of obvious cyanosis.
[0149] You now have a pretty good idea where were going with this
cyanosis/rubicundity thing. Up to now I have been discussing the color
of poisoned people who are still alive, but before we can begin analyzing
the video evidence we need to examine one more morbid but colorful
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Chapter Seven
The Color of Death

Juliet, by John William Waterhouse
She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,
And bear this work of heaven with patience.
Friar Laurence
Romeo & Juliet, Act V
[0150] The most unfortunate aspect of the KB video-evidence is
that most of the victims are dead. Technically, the terms cyanosis and
rubicundity do not apply to them for there is a different lexicon for
colors the dead turn. But the biological principles are the same.
The Demise of the Juliet-H

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[0151] First, I need to tell you about the epiphany I had a couple of
months after the Ghouta Massacre. I have these epiphanies all the time,
especially if I had anchovies on my pizza. Usually such late-night
Eurekas! seem pretty dumb by the time Ive had a shower and a cup of
coffee, and so I tend to keep them to myself. But this one wasnt so
dumb. It was tagged onto the back-end of a serious Syrian nightmare.
I was dreaming that I was being chased through downtown Kafr
Batna by a herd of goats with rigor mortis. They had pink cheeks and
lips, and smelled of almonds, and they were gaining on me. Upon
waking, I was staring up into the darkness, trying to catch my breath, and
it came to me: Cyanide!! And then it hit me again: Carbon
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monoxide!! Yes!!! This study is the result of that difficult night.
Fig. 87. Ghouta goats allegedly
killed by sarin. Source.
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For a closer look at the curious circumstances of this nightmare-evoking
goat video, see Appendix II, More SunMorgue Oddities, Kitten Amongst the
Goats.
What prepared me for my nocturnal cerebral emission, if you will,
what made it inevitable, other than the anchovies, was that I had been
reading up on the color of death pallor mortis and livor mortis. For it is
the cherry red skin color we see in these KB corpses that forced me to
abandon my Juliet Hypothesis. This is going to take some Explaining.
[0152] Up until a few days before my Ghouta goat-dream, I was
looking at the KB videos and desperately trying to find evidence that
would prove that the sarin attack was faked that it was a phony false-
flag theatrical event designed to be dramatic enough to pull The Stupid
Americans into the Syrian conflict on the side of the insurgents. For
weeks I had been looking at corpses with rosy cheeks and lips and
thinking: They cant be dead. They must be faking this is an
enormous production of the final scene from Romeo and Juliet, and
when the cameras are put away, all of those crazy Syrians will get up and
go home.
And so I developed this Juliet Hypothesis, including, optionally, Friar
Laurences chemically induced stupor well, maybe not one that would
last two and forty hours but at least long enough for the videos to be
shot and uploaded to YouTube. It was more of a hope than a hypothesis,
but it made sense.
After all, the insurgents, like the rest of the world, knew Obama did
something really foolish when he made his red-line threat about the use
of chemical weapons in Syria. As I wrote in my blog on Sep14.2013, as
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soon as those words came out of his mouth at that impromptu
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somebody was going to die, for laying down a CW red-line to this crowd
of violent extremists was an open invitation for them to gin up a false-
flag CW attack by gassing civilians to make it look like Assads Syrian
Arab Army was responsible.
As soon as Obama went on the record as a G.W. Bush-style tough
guy, the Syrian insurgents must have figured that if sarin started getting
splashed around, Obama would have no alternative but to take action
against Assad the way Bush took action against Saddam. Thats what
red-lines are all about. And if a fake CW attack included hundreds of
dead children a knee-jerk retaliation would be all but guaranteed.
And it durn near worked, too. And maybe it will still work once all
of Assads CWs have been destroyed or he misses a deadline for getting
rid of them. Recall how Saddam gave up his long-range Scud missiles
and Gadaffi gave up his nuclear program to make nice with the West not
long before the West took them both out. Making nice with the West is
one thing, making nice with neocons is like trying to kiss a pit viper.
But if playing the knee-jerk suckers game was the insurgents plan, it
went awry, at least in the short term, for they did not count on Obama
putting the military attack on ice for months, maybe for good. They did
not count on the blogosphere and hundreds or thousands of people
having months to search through the evidence to try and make sense of
what happened in Ghouta that night evidence that the insurgents
themselves uploaded to make knees jerk around the world. They did not
count on a Carmelite nun going viral by speaking out against the
USG/UN/insurgents highly-scripted sarin-storyline.
No, the insurgents thought the US government would do what it
very nearly did do: attack Assad in retaliation for all of the dead babies
and children the insurgents were showing the world on YouTube. They
were counting on an idiot, instant re-play of Iraq. They were counting
on The Stupid Americans not learning anything from Iraq. And if
McCains and Grahams shrill demands for immediate military retaliation
and regime change in Syria hadnt been deflected by public opinion and
by a cooler minds second thoughts, brutal Sunni/Wahhabi
fundamentalists groups like al-Qaeda and the al-Nusra Front would now
be running all over Damascus beheading those who get in their way, and
Assad would be swinging at the low end of a gallows for a sarin attack on
civilians that he was likely not responsible for and, more to the point,
likely didnt happen at all.
[0153] And the reason Im spouting off like this is that the evidence,
some of which Ive hinted at above, is reasonably strong that there was
no sarin attack, or if there was, it was a very localized use of sarin as part
of a larger insurgent false-flag program. That was the preliminary
conclusion I came to in September based on the DiFi Package of Ghouta
videos. For as I waded through those 13 videos that were
authenticated by the USG, I kept saying to myself what I believe a lot
of other people trained in pharmacology must have been saying: This
sure as hell doesnt look like a sarin attack should look.
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I mean, its not like I know what a sarin attack actually looks like,
nobody does at least not at this scale. But knowing a little bit about
how these drugs work and what they have done on a smaller scale, like
the Tokyo subway attack . . . well, lets just say if youre a trained
meteorologist, youre going to have a pretty good idea of what a tornado
looks like even if youve never personally had a Dorothy and Toto
experience. The pharmacology textbooks, the research literature, and
the clinical literature tell us a lot about what one would expect to see in
hundreds of people killed by sarin, and its certainly not what one sees in
the DiFi Package. The symptoms are wrong all wrong.
[0154] And so I sent an open online letter to Congress, with a
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personal copy to Congressman Rand Paul because hes an
ophthalmologist, and ophthalmologists work with drugs that are similar
to sarin and used to treat glaucoma. I mean, you cant become an
ophthalmologist without knowing the pharmacology of
organophosphates, so I figured Paul, of all people, would know what Im
talking about. I warned Congress and asked Paul to warn Congress
that before they authorize any bombs, they better have a closer look at
the evidence from a pharmacological point of view. And I gave them
some very strong pharmacological arguments as to why Congress were
not looking at a sarin attack in those videos, regardless of what Obama
and his intel people were saying.
Now that was a blatantly arrogant thing to do, I admit, and bloody
futile as well, as I knew it would be. Predictably, the only thing I got for
my efforts was being put on Pauls weekly Email list, which I have not
been able to escape from yet. But the problem Im having trouble
overcoming with these people who wont look at the biological evidence
is not that the evidence is pharmacological or all that complex. The
problem is psychological. For the insurgents gained a huge psychological
advantage by screaming SARIN!!! right from the get-go and punking
the NYT and WSJ into taking up the sarin drum-beat without knowing
what they were reporting about. By alleging as a fact that the cause of
the massacre was sarin, the MSM automatically obviated all objective
analysis by establishing a causation-vacuum problem. For if someone is
now able to remove sarin as a possible cause of the massacre, then all
thats left is a causation-vacuum, which is, to say, the question: If not
sarin, then what? The MSM and most politicians cannot tolerate a
causation-vacuum they would rather let the world fill up with their
incorrigible blather than admit that they were wrong and that they really
dont have a clue.
[0155] And so, in the weeks before my anchovy-induced CO-
epiphany tagged onto the tail end of a caprine-nightmare, I was scouring
the Ghouta videos for signs of a false-flag because that was my best guess
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at the time of what was going on. I was not thinking in terms of CO and
CN because to think that way you have to be thinking in terms of mass-
executions, which is what these toxins are used for, and my mind just
doesnt turn that way. At least it didnt before the goats started chasing
me through Ghouta. Prior to waking up thinking CO!! I was just
trying to fill the causation-vacuum. If not sarin, well then . . . the videos
must be faked.
Of course, with fraud as my only working hypothesis, I began seeing
what else? signs of fraud. Like the video of the laughing boy mentioned
in Chapter Two. (See Fig. 5.) And then I began to build an explanatory
context for the rosy cheeks and lips in people who were supposed to be
dead or dying. I was naive, incredulous, and struggling to explain how a
lot of these dead kids in the Ghouta videos are more rubicund than Josh
and Walker, who are my ten year old neighbors and who are very
rubicund and believe me very much alive. And the irony within
Obama and Kerrys sarin scenario is that aside from the obvious
weirdness of any corpse having rosy cheeks, of all the corpses in the
world, the ones that got that way because of sarin are the least likely to
have rosy cheeks because people who die from sarin do not turn pink.
They turn blue.
And so I kept seeing these healthy looking corpses and thinking to
myself: These people cant possibly be dead. I started staring at the
bodies in the Ghouta videos and looking for tiny finger movements that
would give away a faux corpse. Sweat beading on the temples, the tremor
of an eyebrow, the flutter of an eyelid. I kept waiting for flies to land on
noses to see what would happen, but, oddly, there were no flies, which I
took as additional evidence that the people werent dead.
[0156] And I wasnt the only one hanging on to this Juliet-H .
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There was a lot of chatter on the websites speculating how the dead
victims were really alive. For instance, Mother Agnes-Mariam came to
this conclusion in her ISTEAMS Report. And there are weird things
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going on in the morgues, like a dead childs leg bending and another dead
childs clothes clean in one image and smudged with dirt in another.
There was an Email circulating online from a US Army colonel to his
wife saying he had inside information that the whole thing was staged. A
colonel!!
See in Appendix II Evidence in Support of the Juliet Hypothesis for a review
of the lines of evidence that supported the Juliet-H .
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The reason this Juliet-type ruse idea caught on was because, just as
the MSM cannot tolerate a causation-vacuum, many people cant accept
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how incredibly cruel other humans can be even though known
psychopaths like al-Nusra inhabit this world with us. Rather than
confront the reality that there are people in the world who would mass-
murder children and infants to achieve their military/political/extremist
objectives, some of us would bend over backwards to believe that dozens
of bodies lying perfectly still in a sun-filled room were actually a Syrian
stage production organized to pull a fast one on The Stupid Americans.
And the Juliet-H worked because they dont look dead, and in the
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absence of cyanosis or any signs of the other biological effects of sarin, its
pretty certain they didnt die of sarin. Up to that point I was sleeping
pretty well. And then someone over at A Closer Look On Syria
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well had to go out the window.
Pallor Mortis & Livor Mortis

[0157] You probably dont want to know this, but soon after you die
beginning right after your heart has stopped pressurizing your plugged-
up old circulatory system and your blood vessels have become inert and
flaccid your blood will begin acting like every other viscous fluid on the
planet: it will begin slowly flowing to the lowest point in your body under
the influence of gravity. Yes, blood in a cadaver sinks to the lowest parts
just like oil in a junked car starts sinking ineluctably into the oil pan the
second the engine is turned off. Leading the way to the bottom of your
cadaver will be the heavy rbcs, and they will carry your Hb and your red
glow of health with them.
As the undertaker backs the hearse out of the garage and begins the
trip over to wherever you were when you took your one-billionth breath,
if you are lying on your back, your face will start turning pasty-grey, at
least if your skin is white or light brown. Capillaries near the surface of
your skin will close down rather quickly so that what pressure is left in
your circulatory system will not be able to push blood into the skin where
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it can be seen. As the O diffuses out of the blood trapped in you skin,
your healthy color will wane even more, which is fair enough since you
are no longer, technically, healthy. Your loved ones may think they are
watching the life seep out of you, but the undertaker will know that they
are watching pallor mortis develop, which is the early, post-mortem loss
of color on the upper surface of a body. The term means the greyness of
death. It is also called post-mortem pallor and pallor of death. Or
just pallor. This initial change occurs quickly and is complete within
about 30 minutes.
[0158] If you want to retain your blushing-red cheeks as long as
There are many sources of online information regarding pallor mortis and
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possible, die face down. For the blood that drains out of the upper parts
of your body will begin to pool in the lower regions; it has nowhere else
to go. In a few hours, this basement blood, so to speak, will accumulate
to the point that it will become visible. Except for where your body is in
direct contact with the surface you are lying on, the skin of your lower
body will begin to turn a ruddy purple, as the skin of your upper body
goes increasingly pale. This discoloration in the lower parts of a corpse is
called livor mortis, or, post-mortem hypostasis. Lividity, for short.
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At first the lividity appears in patches, and then the patches coalesce
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into a fairly homogenous band of color. Because this blood is losing O ,
the lividity is normally purplish tending toward the blue, but it differs
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according to the situation, and the color will darken over time as O
diffuses away from Hb and the Hb goes back to its blue form. While
development of lividity is not a precise post-mortem stopwatch, it can
provide some rough indication of how long a person has been dead. In
fact, livor mortis can tell you a lot about the persons death.
Fig. 88 & 14 are a couple of examples of normal lividity. These
photos were taken in drastically different lighting and demonstrate how
important that factor is in assessing the color.
Fig. 88 Source & Fig. 89
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[0159] Once I was clued into this livor mortis thing and had read up
on it enough to understand it, I began to see it everywhere in the KB
videos and still shots. In most photos it doesnt jump out at you, but here
is a good example where it does. Fig. 90 is a now-iconic still shot that
Caustic Logic at CLOS sent me the day before my CO-epiphany. Fig.
91 shows a wider-angle view of the same boy with a white belt. I believe
the photos are from Kafr Batna, but not from the KB complex. For one
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thing the photo credits are to Mohammed al-Abdullah.
Fig. 90 Source & Fig. 91
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Source.
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There is a lot of information in these two photographs. For one
thing, we can tell that the boys position changed between the two
photos, not just the camera angle. In Fig. 91 he is lying parallel to the
two smaller children; in Fig. 90 he is lying almost perpendicular to them
with his feet pointing to the wall. The mans arm is another sure
reference point.
With respect to lividity, two things are immediately obvious. First,
the discoloration in this child is not blue or deep purple; it is brick-red.
Well come back to the colors in a moment.
Second, it is obvious that this livor mortis is homogenous. It forms a
clearly demarcated line that runs the length of the boys chest, through
his face, all the way to his hairline, but his nose and left cheek are pale.
That distinct line of color gives us a clue as to how long he has been
dead.
There is disagreement among authorities about how soon after death
lividity first appears, but most of them seem to agree that it begins to be
visible within 1-3 hours, it is completely developed in about 5-6 hours,
and it lasts for 10-12 hours. The lividity in this boy is well developed,
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has been dead for 5 hours or more. But that raises questions about the
bright white foam that came from his nose. Surely after 5 hours the foam
would have dried and become discolored as the fats in the mucus became
oxidized.
Judging by the way the line of lividity in Fig. 90 is so high on his
chest, he may have been tipped up onto his right side prior to being laid
flat. Note how in Fig. 91 the line of lividity on his left side is much closer
to the floor, indicating that side was a few inches higher than his right
side while the lividity developed. In other words, since lividity forms in
the lowest parts of a body, it can provide information about the position
the person was in at the time of death and whether the body has been
moved since death. That boy likely did not die flat on his back like that;
he was likely tipped up on one side for hours after he died.
[0160] But getting back to my hopeful Juliet-H , the relevant point
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here is that livor mortis cant be faked, and once I was aware of it, I saw it
in many of the victims I had been hoping were play-acting or drugged.
They werent. Of course, this doesnt mean that none of the Ghouta
videos were faked; no doubt some of them were. But there are enough
examples of obvious livor mortis in this group of KB victims that I had to
pretty well accept the unwelcome truth that these people really were
dead, which led me right back to the question I started with the
causation-vacuum question: If theyre dead and they didnt die from
sarin, then what?
Filling the Causation-Vacuum

[0161] Once you know the foregoing, fairly simple biological
principles, you start looking at bodies in a whole different way . . . I mean,
should you want to look at them at all. To an enlightened eye like yours
is now, a body lying in a sunny morgue in Syria becomes a rich source of
information a way to test a hypothesis, for instance, which is what
were going to do. Given such clear videos of so many bodies in the SM,
all of which presumably died from the same cause, we are in information
heaven. Short of actually being there, we could hardly be in a better
position for testing the three toxin hypotheses.
From what we now know about the different ways sarin, CO, and CN
affect blood-color, it should come as no surprise that if a person is killed
by one of these agents, the color of the resulting pallor and lividity in the
corpse will likely reflect the agent that killed them. I mean what more
could we possibly want? Even if humans had evolved a mechanism such
that the words carbon monoxide or sarin automatically appear on
our foreheads if we are killed by one of these agents, the evidence could
hardly be any clearer.
[0162] A person who has been asphyxiated with sarin is going to
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and will change to a bluish grey as the blood seeps away post-mortem,
assuming they are supine. Since all of the blood cannot drain out of the
tissues, the little that remains will tint the normal gray pallor blue. And
when the blood of a sarin victim settles to the bottom, the color of the
resulting livor mortis is going to be an even darker blue because the blood
becomes concentrated. On the spectrum of pink/red to purple to blue,
the lividity is going to be way over on the dark purple/blue end. Dr
Yasuo Seto, a pathologist who investigated the fatalities in the 2005
Tokyo sarin attack referred to the lividity as intense. I have searched
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the Internet for photos of sarin induced cyanosis and pallor mortis and
cant find any, which is good because sarin poisoning in humans is so
rare.
[0163] On the other hand, the blood of a person who dies from CO
will be noticeably red many experts refer to it as cherry-red. Even
when pallor mortis is complete, some of that cherry-red blood will remain
in the face and fingers, and so they will retain some of that healthy pink
hue for hours because CO is so tenacious in holding Hb in the red-form,
and Im thinking of that bright red hunk of meat in Fig. 86. And when
that red blood settles into the oil pan, so to speak, the lividity that is
produced will not be dull purple as in normal lividity, and it will not be
deep purple/blue as in sarin toxicosis. It will be far to the pink/red end of
the spectrum, as in the following example of lividity in a CO suicide case.

Fig. 92. Livor mortis in a
victim of CO poisoning. Source.
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[0164] What about CN? As noted above, intoxication with CN
turns blood bright red in most cases, but in some cases it produces the
opposite: cyanosis. In corpses the situation is much the same: the blood
2
of a CN victim will most often be bright red because O has accumulated
and has saturated the Hb. However, after the CN victim stops breathing,
2
the free O in the blood will begin to diffuse out of the blood or be
2
consumed by microorganisms and the O that is bound to Hb will
dissociate. This means that the red/blue ratio, which started out far to
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the red, will slowly move toward the blue.
This suggests a couple differences between the lividity in a CO victim
and a CN victim. First, the redness of a CN victim will be less red
brick-red is the way it is often described in the literature. Lividity of a
CO victim, on the other hand, is often described as cherry-red.
Second, in the CO victim the red lividity will persist for a long time,
whilst the red lividity of a CN victim will slowly turn more and more
blue. In 2004 Gill et al published a study of corpses of cyanide-suicide
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victims in New York City. They found red lividity was reported in only 6
out of 16 corpses that had visible lividity. Unfortunately, the authors did
not reveal how much time passed between death and autopsy, but one
might surmise that red lividity was seen if and only if autopsy was
conducted fairly soon after death.
The take-away point for the present discussion is that fatal CN can
produce a red or blue/purple lividity, even in the same body at different
time-points after death.
[0165] I will leave this discussion of pallor and lividity with a caveat
that is found in virtually all of the scholarly works I have consulted: One
should not rely entirely on lividity to draw conclusions regarding cause of
death or time of death. There are too many variables from one case to
another, including the persons normal skin color, ambient temperature,
how much bleeding occurred.
But this caveat is made with respect to individual cases. When
looking at ten dozen bodies of people all killed by the same method, at
the same place, at the same time, and stored under the same conditions,
the forensic utility of the overall color and intensity of livor mortis is very
high. For instance, although biological variation and physical
circumstances will conspire to defeat a completely homogenous display of
livor mortis, if you see only dark blue livor mortis or only bright red livor
mortis, then, clearly, you can confidentially eliminate from consideration
toxins that cannot produce the color you see.
Even if the color of lividity cannot alone be used to deduce with
certainty what the toxin was, it can be used alone to exclude toxins that
could not have been used, at least when the toxins are known to have
opposing effects on binary hemoglobin.
Cambridge U., Darwin Correspondence Project, Letter #2575.
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Chapter Eight
Testing the Hypotheses

[W]e do not want to know what Darwin believes & is convinced of,
but what he can prove.
Richard Owen to Charles Darwin, Dec10.1859
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[0166] Now we will finally get down to the task of testing our three
hypotheses with the evidence we have; i.e., videos and still shots from
Kafr Batna. Let me first recapitulate what the hypotheses are, and I
emphasize yet again that in this initial analysis we are working within the
limits of the KB complex and so the hypotheses are restricted to what
happened there in the early morning of Aug21.2013. Generalizations to
the wider massacre, to the extent they may be valid, will come later.
The sarin-H : The victims shown in the KB complex were
O
poisoned by sarin.
The CO-H : The victims shown in the KB complex were
O
poisoned by carbon monoxide.
The CN-H : The victims shown in the KB complex were
O
poisoned by some form of cyanide.
If this were a scientific study, I would be trying to disprove each of
the foregoing three hypotheses within some accepted degree of statistical
certainty, usually 95%. But the evidence we have is not comprised of
quantitative data and is not amenable to that kind of statistical
treatment the evidence is more akin to courtroom evidence. In
addition, formal statistical analysis is not particularly helpful here
because unlike political polling data or scientific data, in this analysis the
Some of the dead victims are found in both the SM and DM morgue. In order
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to avoid double-counting those victims, I do not include the dead victims in
the DM in the analysis of post-mortem symptoms, with a couple of exceptions
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judge you can see precisely the same evidence that the person
evaluating the evidence me sees, and so you have everything I have
and you can form your own judgments as to what the evidence shows or
does not show.
How the Hypotheses Are Tested

[0167] I have taken a 5-step approach to testing the hypotheses. It
goes like this:
Step 1: I list the symptoms known to be produced by the three toxins,
but exclude those symptoms that would not differentiate between
the toxins. A summary of these symptoms is set forth in Table
III of Appendix I.
Some symptoms wont differentiate because they are
produced pretty much to the same extent by all three toxins. In
other cases, symptoms that would differentiate cant be reliably
observed in the videos. For instance, sarin causes miosis, which
would have high discriminatory value but for the fact that the
KB videos do not permit us to see the eyes of any of the victims
clearly enough to make a judgement call as to size of their pupils,
and so this symptom must be excluded from the analysis.
After thus weeding out useless symptoms, I have settled on
seven symptoms: five ante-mortem (victims alive) symptoms and
two post-mortem (victims dead) symptoms, each of which I
discuss in detail below. Organizing the symptoms as ante-
mortem and post-mortem is helpful because thats the way the
victims are pretty much found in the two KB morgues. The
people in the SM are all dead 100%. Only these victims are
used to evaluate post-mortem symptoms. Conversely, all of the
ante-mortem symptoms are observed in victims in the Dark
Morgue.
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Step 2: For each of the three toxins and seven symptoms I set forth a
short summary statement as to whether and to what extent one
would expect to see that symptom in a population of people
poisoned by that toxin. The emphasis is not on whether or not a
symptom will be seen at all, but rather the emphasis is on the
expected incidence at which a symptom would be observed in a
group of people who have been exposed to the toxin. For
instance, cyanosis would be expected to be seen in most victims
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Rubicundity would not be expected to be seen at all.
Step 3: For each of the seven symptoms, I set forth a short summary
statement as to whether and to what extent that symptom is
actually observed in the victims shown in the KB videos.
Step 4: I compare the expectations set forth in Step 2 with the
observations set forth in Step 3. On the basis of those
comparisons I conclude whether the observations support each
of the hypotheses.
Step 5: On the basis of the conclusions reached in Step 4, I determine 1)
which of the hypotheses, if any, must be fairly and reasonably
rejected as being contrary to the evidence, 2) which of the
hypotheses, if any, are supported by the evidence, and 3) which
of the hypotheses can neither be rejected nor supported because
the evidence is insufficient or too contradictory to help us judge
the hypothesis validity.

[0168] Here are the 5 ante-mortem symptoms and 2 post-mortem
signs that either have a reasonable potential to discriminate between the
three hypotheses or that have been so emphasized by the media, USG,
and influential NGOs that they require a place in the analysis.
Ante-mortem symptoms:
1. Ante-mortem color
2. Fecal incontinence
3. Watery salivation
4. Bronchorrhea
5. Convulsions
Post-mortem signs
6. Pallor mortis color
7. Livor mortis color
[0169] There are several symptoms that I would have liked to have
used to test the hypotheses but couldnt. Let me briefly explain why I
excluded some of these symptoms from the analysis.
Urinary incontinence This muscarinc symptom the U in
SLUDGE is highly probative for sarin because it causes contraction
and spasms of the bladder. This symptom would have been very
useful but for the fact that the victims in the DM are almost all being
doused with water and/or they are lying on floors that have standing
water. The dead victims in the SM were, presumably, dead for many
hours when the SM videos were shot; therefore, any urine soaking
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Vomiting Vomiting and GI cramping, often without nausea, are
caused by a direct effect of sarin on the muscles of the
gastrointestinal tract, and are symptoms strongly associated with
sarin. However, nausea and vomiting can also be caused by CO and
CN. In fact, virtually any toxin that gains access to a persons blood
will likely cause nausea and vomiting by stimulating a part of the
brain that detects toxins in the blood the chemo-triggering zone
(CTZ). Consequently, the presence of signs of vomiting would not
discriminate between the three hypotheses. Because there were no
signs of vomiting and there is only one case that might be considered
stomach cramping, by excluding this negative evidence I am making
the sarin-H look marginally stronger than it really is relative to CO
O
and CN.
Lacrimation & miosis The stimulation of the tear glands by sarin
to produce copious tears and the direct action of sarin on the
sphincter muscle and/or nerve endings of the iris to produce miosis
are two well known ocular effects of sarin that are not shared by CO
or CN; hence, these symptoms would have high differentiating
potential. However, a number of factors make these symptoms
problematic. Lacrimation cannot be fairly judged because many of
the victims are obviously crying due to fear or discomfort, which is a
separate cause of tearing. Also, water is constantly splashed in the
victims faces making it difficult to assess lacrimation. As for miosis,
the cameras are too far away from the victims to even see their pupils
much less determine pupillary diameter. Consequently, lacrimation
and miosis must also be excluded for want of reliable and
unambiguous observations from the videos.

Test #1: Ante-mortem Color

[0170] Cyanosis and rubicundity have a very high potential for
differentiating between the sarin-H from the CO-H and the CN-H ,
O O O
given that sarin can produce cyanosis but cannot produce rubicundity,
and given that CO and CN are both well known to produce rubicundity.
Ante-mortem skin color is less powerful with respect to differentiating
the CN-H from the CO-H because both toxins are rubigenic.
O O
Predictions on the hypotheses as to
ante-mortem skin color for each toxin
[0171] Here are the expected effects of the three toxins with respect
to ante-mortem color.
Sarin Based on its mechanism of action, discussed above, and the
clinical literature, the incidence of cyanosis in a population exposed
to sarin is expected to be high, and such a finding would be strong
evidence in support of the sarin-H . To the contrary, sarin cannot
O
produce rubicundity. Period. I have not found a single clinical
CO poisoning will produce rubicundity when about 20% of the Hb has been
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report and know of no possible mechanism of action by which a
neurotoxin that paralyzes respiratory muscles will lead to hyper-
oxygenation of the blood or direct conversion of blue-Hb to red-Hb.
A finding of wide-spread rubicundity in this population would be
sufficient grounds in and of itself to reject the sarin-H .
O
Carbon monoxide CO is the mirror image of sarin: CO does not
produce cyanosis, but it is highly known to produce rubicundity. In
contrast, one would expect the incidence of cyanosis in a population
poisoned by CO to be very low to non-existent. If the majority, or
even many, of the victims displayed cyanosis, that would be taken as
very strong evidence for rejecting the CO-H
O
While there is no disagreement in the literature that CO
produces a pink/red lividity, there is some disagreement in the
literature as to whether and to what extent living people who are
intoxicated with CO will present with pink/red skin coloration. The
problem is that much of the literature is written by and for practicing
physicians who see patients in their office or in hospital;
consequently, the CO victims they see are mostly those who have not
been exposed to lethal doses of CO. Most of the people exposed to
lethal doses of CO arent seen by a doctor, theyre seen by a coroner.
When a person is exposed to high concentrations of CO, theres not
a whole lot of time between turning pink and dying, and so most
people who accumulate so much CO that it kills them are dead
before anyone can note what the color of their skin was before they
died. However, if people are, say, being intentionally gassed with
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CO, and if PR guys with cameras are nearby, then those people in the
process of dying from the CO will very likely and probably
intentionally be shown in the videos, in which case rubicundity
would be obvious. Essentially, whether and to what extent a person
gassed with CO would have pink/red skin depends on how soon after
exposure and how long before death the videos were shot.
Cyanide CN is more difficult assess as to whether cyanosis or
rubicundity would be expected in living subjects poisoned with this
toxin. CN is generally expected to produce rubicundity because it
causes the accumulation of red-Hb in the blood by blocking
2
utilization of O by the cells. Rubicundity is one of the most
prominent symptoms of CN intoxication listed by the literature,
which leads one to the expectation that there would be wide-spread
rubicundity in a population of people who have been exposed to
lethal doses of CN but who have not yet expired. However, CN can,
in some circumstances, produce cyanosis in a subject, depending on
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discussed above.
It is next to impossible to guess how often such unusual cases of
cyanosis will appear without knowing the details of how each person
in the population was gassed. Consequently, the expectation with
respect to CN is that in a group of living victims who have been
poisoned with large doses of CN, one would see predominantly
rubicundity, but seeing some victims with cyanosis would not be
unexpected.
Observations with respect to ante-mortem color
[0172] There was a very high frequency of rubicundity in the living
victims in the KB complex. Even though the lighting in the DM where
all the living victims were videoed was not optimal, their pink lips and
cheeks are obvious in the videos. I observed no clear examples of
cyanosis in any of the KB morgue videos or in any still-shots from the KB
complex. Not one.
Here are examples of some of these victims. These are screen-grabs
taken directly from the videos, nothing has been done but a cut and copy.
In many cases the cherry-red, healthy looking coloration is absolutely
stunning. Please review these videos for yourself to confirm this
important point. Each image is identified as to which video from which
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[0173] Given that we are examining ante-mortem color, these
victims where alive when videoed, except for victim M-014 in Fig 100.
This image is from the SM, which had only dead victims. We come back
to M-014 when we examine post-mortem color in detail below. The
reason I present this image within the present section on ante-mortem
color is not because of that victim but because of the pool of blood. As
we will see in Chapter Eleven, that blood was bled by the man to the
right of M-014, who may well have been still alive when the video was
taken. The point that is germane to the present discussion is how
incredibly red that blood is it is so red it looks like someone spilled
spaghetti sauce on the floor. A person gassed with sarin would not be
expected to bleed blood that red, not even if they were somehow bleeding
pure arterial blood. Because so little blood is seen in these videos, this
clear view of fresh, extremely red blood is very helpful. How a corpse
came to be bleeding in the first place is the subject of Chapter Eleven.
Test #1 conclusions
[0174] The conclusions regarding the ante-mortem color evidence
are as follow:
Conclusion 1: The very high incidence of pink/red skin color some
very striking observed in the living victims in the KB complex
provides more than sufficient grounds for rejecting the sarin-H .
O
These people could not possibly have been poisoned with sarin, and I
say that because of 1) the striking degree of rubicundity in some
individual victims; 2) the very high incidence of rubicundity in the
group; and, 3) the complete absence of cyanosis in this population.
Conclusion 2: The same high incidence of red/pink skin color
strongly supports the CO-H . Some might argue that this evidence
O
points away from CO because levels of CO that produce such
widespread and obvious rubicundity would be fatal, and yet these
people are alive. Such an argument may be appropriate in normal
cases of CO poisoning, but as discussed below, if these people were
gassed, then it was most likely they were gassed by the insurgents for
PR reasons. That means the insurgents would have manipulated the
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prostrate and dying people to video and show the world. The CO
levels in those dying people would almost certainly have been well
above levels where the red skin-color would have been evident.
Conclusion 3: The high incidence of rubicundity also strongly
supports the CN-H . It is very difficult to use ante-mortem skin
O
color to distinguish the CO-H from the CN-H since both
O O
hypotheses predict a large proportion of victims displaying
rubicundity. Had we observed a mixture of rubicund and cyanotic
victims, that would have favored the CN-H over the CO-H .
O O
However, we cant fairly conclude that the complete absence of
cyanosis is evidence against the CN-H .
O
Conclusion 4: The brilliant red blood on the floor of the SM strongly
points to intoxication by either CO or CN, and strongly supports the
rejection of the sarin-H
O.
Summary as to Test #1.
[0175] The sarin-H must be rejected on the basis of the near-
O
universal rubicundity displayed by the living victims shown in the KB
complex. Because both CO and CN are known rubigenic agents, the
CO-H and the CN-H both remain highly viable hypotheses and are
O O
supported by this evidence.
Test #2: Muscarinic effects:

fecal incontinence, watery salivation, bronchorrhea
Predictions on the hypotheses as to
the muscarinic effects for each toxin
[0176] As discussed above I have limited the analysis to just three
muscarinic effects: fecal incontinence, salivation, and bronchorrhea.
Sarin We know from the way sarin indirectly activates muscarinic
receptors globally that the muscarinic effects in people poisoned with
this toxin will be intense and universal vomiting, urinary
incontinence, and fecal incontinence should all be very prevalent in
a population of people exposed to sarin.
Sarin is the only toxin in the triad of hypotheses that is expected
to produce fecal incontinence is sarin. Signs of fecal incontinence
should be easy to detect in the videos, both in terms of stained
clothing and the way workers and loafers act around the bodies.
According to the insurgents timeline, these people were exposed to
sarin at about 2-3 AM. At that time they would be well into a post-
prandial state: their stomachs would be close to empty, their bladders
Marrs TC, Maynard, RL, Sidell FR, eds; Chemical Warfare Agents. Toxicology
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and their lower GI tracts close to full if these people were exposed
to sarin there should be very obvious and overt signs of fecal
incontinence.
With respect to salivation, I emphasize that here we are talking
about watery saliva expressed from the salivary glands and not foam
or mucus expressed from the lungs. Of the three agents we are
analyzing, only sarin is known to directly stimulate the salivary
glands to release their contents, which would result in copious,
uncontrollable, watery drooling. This is distinct from mucus
secretion, or bronchorrhea, discussed next. Salivation is a clear and
unavoidable symptom of sarin intoxication and the incidence would
be high in a population exposed to levels of the toxin high enough to
cause the prostration we see in the videos. Thus this symptom also
has high evidentiary potential. It is easy to detect.
Bronchorrhea is the polite, medical way to say mucus discharge
from the mouth and nose. Such mucus may be produced in the
lungs and bronchi when muscarinic receptors are activated. When
these mucus secretions are agitated by forced exhalations, as when
gasping for breath, they can form a foam or froth.
From an evidentiary point of view, bronchorrhea is distinguished
from salivation primarily by the consistency of the discharge. There
is also rhinorrhea, which means runny nose and can be a part of
bronchorrhea or can be caused many other stimuli or events. While
rhinorrhea is sometimes considered to be a separate symptom of
sarin, microscopic analysis is often required to distinguish whether a
nasal/oral discharge originates in the nasal passages or the bronchi.
It is not possible with the evidence we have to do more than
characterize a nasal/oral discharge as watery (salivation) or a thick
mucus (bronchorrhea).
Bronchorrhea is not frequently listed as a symptom for any of
these toxins, but there are clinical anecdotes that are promoting a
growing awareness that in sarin poisoning the presence of mucus
coming from the nose or mouth indicates the need to employ the
antidote atropine. In the sarin attacks in Tokyo, whilst thousands
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of people were treated, only a handful died, which suggests that that
attack was less intense than the one that was supposed to have killed
scores or hundreds in Ghouta. At least one clinical report from the
Tokyo attack describes bronchorrhea in some victims, but it was not
a widely reported symptom.
From an evidentiary point of view one should keep in mind that
so-called foaming at the mouth and nose requires that air be
expelled forcefully enough through mucus in the nose and mouth to
agitate the mucus and produce a froth. However, in the late stages
of intoxication by sarin the breathing muscles are paralyzed and
Ibid
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OSHA Guidelines on Hydrogen Cyanide,
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fatigued to the point the victim cannot breathe at all, much less force
enough air through the nose or mouth to produce a foam. This
leads to a plugging up of the airways and suffocation.
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Consequently, victims who are closest to death are the least likely to
be foaming at the nose and mouth. The victims we see in the KB
videos are prostrate, suffering, and, presumably, dying. These are the
victims who may be producing the most mucus, but they would be
the least able to expel it in a visible discharge.
This suggests that bronchorrhea will not likely be seen in
seriously poisoned victims such as those of Ghouta. It also suggests
that a sarin victim who is displaying foaming or bronchorrhea will
have their airway clogged by the mucus, and that, in turn, would
exacerbate cyanosis. A cherry-red victim expressing mucus or foam
from the nose would be evidence against intoxication with sarin.
Another point to bear in mind is that foaming from the
mouth/nose is one of the easiest symptoms to fake. As many school-
kids know at least the ones in my elementary school in order to
scare your friends into running away from you screaming Rabies!!
all you have to do is hold a small amount of baking soda in your
mouth and swig some sort of acidic beverage such as Coke and you
will start foam like a mad, hydrophobic dog. With a little talent and
practice, you can even force the foam through your nose.
Consequently, although the insurgent PR photographers and the
main stream media emphasized views of victims foaming at the
nose/mouth, I consider bronchorrhea to be a symptom that is not
necessarily indicative of sarin intoxication and not strongly expected
in a population exposed to lethal doses of sarin, but it is certainly
possible. It can also be easily faked.

Carbon monoxide & cyanide Fecal incontinence is not expected
for CO or CN, either on the basis of the clinical literature or the
pharmacological mechanisms of these two toxins. Of course, under
any hypothesis there is always the possibility of stress-induced fecal
incontinence being seen in a few individuals of a group, particularly
children; therefore, the mere presence of feces would not be evidence
against CO or CN.
Neither CO nor CN directly stimulates salivary glands like sarin
does and would not be expected to produce copious salivation,
certainly not in the amounts or of the consistency as sarin would.
Chronic, low dose, chronic exposure to hydrogen cyanide is reported
to produce many of the symptoms of sarin, including salivation,
vomiting, lacrimation, and muscle weakness. However, salivation
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is not generally listed as an expected symptom of high-dose, acute
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CN toxicity. The incidence of salivation in the KB victims would
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therefore expected to be low if CO or CN was the toxin.
Whilst most of the clinical literature does not list bronchorrhea
as a symptom of CO, there are a number of anecdotal accounts of
nasal or oral foaming in CO victims. (See Appendix I, Table III)
Given these reports, one would venture to state that any KB victims
with bright red skin and foaming from the nose/mouth would
constitute evidence supporting the CO-H and disproving the sarin-
O
H . However, as with sarin, it is not possible from the literature to
O
estimate an expected incidence of foaming in CO victims.
There are no reports or discussions I am aware of regarding CN
producing or not producing bronchorrhea. Consequently, neither
the presence nor the absence of bronchorrhea gives us a dependable
basis to reject or accept any of the hypotheses even though it is quite
dramatic and is emphasized by the insurgent PR people.
Observations related to muscarinic effects
[0177] The observations with respect to muscarinic effects were as
follow:
Fecal incontinence No indications of fecal incontinence were seen.
There was no soiled clothing on any victim of the KB complex that
could be unambiguously attributed to feces, that includes both living
and dead victims. As noted in Chapter Five one man is seen in
Room #2 of the DM that had a soiled shirt, (See Fig. 70.) but that is
almost certainly explained by him lying with his torso in muddy
water, probably in the DM patio region. There are no signs from the
workers and loafers in either the SM or the DM that they are
experiencing offensive odors even though they are in close contact
with the victims in confined spaces.
Salivation & Bronchorrhea I see no cases in the KB videos of
copious, watery salivation or uncontrollable drooling that would be
expected with sarin intoxication. As noted above, the
videographers, particularly Mr. Minnie, were accompanied by at least
one man with a green bottle of water who splashed victims in the
face just as the video was being taken. This maneuver, whatever its
purpose, has the effect of obscuring whether or not there is any
salivation or bronchorrhea in many or most victims.
Bronchorrhea is conspicuously seen in two individuals in Room
#3, both of whom have very red skin. However, bronchorrhea in
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Fig. 103 & 104. The two KB victims displaying bronchorrhea
were also very rubicund.
Conclusions based on muscarinic effects.
[0178] The conclusions with respect to the evidence of muscarinic
effects are as follow:
Conclusion 1: Signs of fecal incontinence and excessive salivation
are easy to detect; if these symptoms were present to the extent one
expects on the sarin-H , one would see them in the videos. The
O
absence of fecal incontinence and salivation are the strongest pieces
of evidence against the sarin-H in this category of symptoms.
O
Because both of these symptoms are highly expected with sarin, their
absence in the KB population strongly contradicts the sarin-H .
O
Conclusion 2: The fact that neither fecal incontinence nor excessive
salivation is expected with CO and CN intoxication, and the fact
that they were not observed is consistent with but not proof of
the CO-H and the CN-H . In other words, the mere absence of
O O
what was not expected is consistent with these hypotheses but by no
means conclusive.
Conclusion 3: Bronchorrhea is evident when it occurs and is
disturbing, and so the Ghouta videos, including the KB videos, tend
to over-emphasize it relative to how many victims actually display it
the PR guys and the MSM just really seem to get off on nasal
mucus. But bronchorrhea is of minimal utility in trying to sort out
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of any single agent; its absence means nothing. The fact that
bronchorrhea is seen in two victims and both of those victims are
strikingly rubicund is far, far more consistent with the CO-H than
O
the sarin-H . One would expect foaming at the nose/mouth to be
O
associated with cyanosis if the foaming were caused by sarin because
mucus was plugging up their airways would exacerbate the cyanosis
caused by sarin. The fact that they are rubicund suggests that we are
seeing bronchorrhea produced not by sarin, but by CO. Either that
or faked. I was not able to determine whether this symptom has any
relevance to CN intoxication.
In the end, in spite of its wow factor, I place next to no
evidentiary significance in the fact that bronchorrhea was observed
in a few victims.
[0179] This class of evidence fully corroborates the conclusions
reached with respect to ante-mortem color evidence of Test #1. Hence,
the bulk of the usable evidence is accumulative with Test #1 in virtually
eliminating sarin as a candidate as the toxin responsible for the suffering
and death of the victims shown in the KB complex. Because CO and CN
do not produce strong muscarinic effects like sarin does, this test has less
value in supporting or rejecting either the CO-H or the CN-H .
O O
Test #3: Convulsions

Predictions on the hypotheses regarding convulsions
[0180] The MSM has been awash with clips of Ghouta victims
exhibiting all sorts of bizarre movements that reporters call convulsions
and offer as proof of a sarin attack. But what is a convulsion, and what
would we expect to see both in terms of the expected incidence and the
type of convulsion in a group of people poisoned with sarin, CO, or
CN?
Sarin The MSM and various NGOs who have weighed in on Ghouta
have emphasized convulsions as proof that sarin was used. And they
are correct in associating sarin intoxication with convulsions. The
pharmacological literature I have reviewed emphasizes sarins
convulsant propensities far greater than COs or CNs, although all
three toxins cause convulsions at high doses.
What is confusing the issue is that the people writing the reports
on Ghouta dont know what a convulsion is or what type of
convulsion sarin produces any unusual muscle movement seems to
suffice as a convulsion, and, hence, evidence of a sarin attack.
For instance, the media often use the term fasiculations as if it
is interchangeable with convulsions. Reporting like this indicates,
first of all, the authors lack of basic clinical understanding about
what they are alleging and, second, their propensity to throw medical
Heres a short
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Healthline article on chorea.
http://www.healthline.com/symptom/chorea
Scribd
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terms around loosely. The problem is that upon close examination
most of these allegations are baseless because the evidence used to
back them up does not show either convulsions or fasiculations.
There are many dramatic videos of Ghouta victims displaying all
sorts of weird arm and leg movements that are neither convulsions
nor fasiculations. Im not sure what they are. They may be properly
referred to as some sort of hyperkinetic disorder such as chorea. I
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dont know that its possible to make a diagnosis from the videos.
But whatever it is we are seeing in most of these media videos, it is
not convulsions and it is certainly not fasiculations.
As an example of this contorted reporting about convulsions,
check out page 17 of the September10.2013 HRW report on the
Ghouta Massacre where you will find a still shot from a video taken
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in an unknown location in Ghouta. The video shows a man on his
back wildly flailing his legs in the air as if peddling a bicycle; the
caption alleges that this is a convulsion and, therefore, evidence of
sarin.
Fig. 105. Human Rights Watch provides this
evidence of convulsions caused by sarin in
Ghouta. See caption below.
The HRW caption to the YouTube screen-grab reads:
A still image from a YouTube video uploaded by opposition activists following the
August 21 alleged chemical attack shows medical staff attempting to restrain a victim
who appears to be undergoing fasiculations (involuntary muscle spasms or convulsions),
a medical condition associated with exposure to nerve agents such as Sarin. Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iSZIbBnksc
HRWs caption is both wrong and confusing on a number of
levels, virtually to the point of being characterized as misinformation.
First, having watched the video, I can say with confidence that
whatever else this man is displaying, it is certainly not properly
referred to as fasiculations. The mans flailing legs in an
alternative kicking motion are muscle movements that have to be
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coordinated by the CNS. These movements look like they are
coordinated at the highest level the motor cortex. That is not a
fasiculation.
The term fasiculation describes tiny involuntary contractions of
skeletal muscle fibers that are visible as tremors only if enough fibers
are involved. Fasiculations are definitely not coordinated muscle
movements like those in the video. Most fasiculations are so minute
they can only be detected with electronic equipment.
The mans disorder, if it is, in fact, genuine, would likely be more
accurately labeled chorea. I have never seen a laboratory report or
a clinical report indicating that chorea or coordinated bicycling-like
muscle movements are symptoms of sarin.
Second point: contrary to HRWs implied assertion, fasiculations
are not convulsions. The caption is, of course, correct in saying sarin
produces convulsions no argument there. And sarin also causes
fasiculations no argument there, either. But that doesnt mean
fasiculations are convulsions they arent. A fasiculation is to a
convulsion what your kids pet guppy is to a three-ton great white
shark.
Which brings us to the third point (most important): even if one
were to characterize the movements shown in the HRW video as a
convulsion, it is not the type of convulsion one would expect from
sarin intoxication. Within the context of toxic effects on the CNS
caused by any of these drugs, a convulsion would be a major,
uncoordinated grand mal seizure in which the voluntary (skeletal)
muscles either go into a rigid contraction or contracts and relaxes in
a totally random, uncoordinated manner. As I say, the movements
displayed in the HRW video would probably be more accurately
referred to as a hyperkinetic syndrome, which is not a symptom of
sarin.
Sarin-induced convulsions would be violent, uncoordinated,
spasms like the clonic phase of a grand mal seizure. There are
research reports, for instance, describing how laboratory rats exposed
to increasing doses of organophosphates first develop muscle tremors
(fasiculations) and then grand mal seizures and they use that
term. Furthermore, as well discuss in detail below, even if the
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HRW video shows a convulsion, which it doesnt, it would not likely
be proof of a sarin attack.
The reason for raising this HRW misinformation is that it is
rather typical of what is out there. Dramatic footage of victims
flailing around in various Ghouta videos, including the KB complex,
may have excellent PR value, but such dramatic, coordinated
movements are not convulsions and are not proof of a sarin attack.
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Whatever is causing or motivating those people in various
Ghouta videos to flail around with muscle movements that are
obviously coordinated by the CNS, it is almost certainly not sarin.
On the other hand, I have never seen a single individual in any
Ghouta video that is in what appears to be a grand mal sort of
convulsion that would be indicative of sarin intoxication. If you
have ever seen a grand mal seizure you would immediately recognize
the difference between what would be expected in a sarin victim and
what the HRW video shows.
Carbon monoxide & cyanide Carbon monoxide and cyanide are
both well known to produce convulsions of the same type that sarin
produces. In fact, virtually any agent that produces hypoxia in the
CNS is likely to produce convulsions in the moments preceding
death and that is because the CNS generally exerts an inhibitory
effect on skeletal muscles and when that inhibitory effect is removed,
a convulsion is the result. Consequently, one would expect that
convulsions would be seen in many victims who are close to death
regardless of which of the three toxins they were poisoned with.
However, the odds of catching such convulsions on video would
likely be quite low because such convulsions would be of very short
duration and close to the moment of death.
Observations regarding convulsions
[0181] All of the living victims in the KB complex that can be seen
moving are displaying coordinated movements of large muscle groups;
none are displaying what would be properly called a convulsion. For
the most part the victims are prostrate and showing little or no
movement, but no victim is observed having convulsions and certainly
not grand-mal seizure type convulsions. There is a single individual in
Room #3 of the DM who is displaying spastic movements of the legs.
(See Rm3-b/00:05.) As noted, this is not a convulsion and is not
indicative of sarin intoxication.
Conclusions regarding convulsions
[0182] The conclusions with respect to the evidence of convulsions
are as follow:
Conclusion 1: Convulsions is one of the least helpful symptoms in
distinguishing between the three hypotheses because even though
convulsions are a hallmark of sarin intoxication, all of these agents
are expected to produce seizures at fatal levels. Consequently, even
if we did see one or more victims with convulsions, that would not be
reason to accept one hypothesis over the others. In other words,
positive evidence here would have no value in discriminating
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with, we only see the victims for a few seconds; we have no
information as to the course of their intoxication before or after
those few seconds. Consequently, the negative evidence absence of
convulsions in these videos provides no useful information.
[0183] Allegations of convulsions is one of the points upon which a
lot of misinformation is being spread about the Ghouta Massacre. It is
curious that a number of similar insurgents stories have come out of
Ghouta by way of the MSM, anti-Assadist bloggers, and NGOs in which
a person claims that they were exposed to sarin, had a convulsion, and
then got up and helped other victims. One such wild story is presented
in the HRW report cited above. These stories are too ludicrous to even
consider evidence, other than evidence of the insurgents are
apparently relying on the gullibility of the Western media to promote
their sarin scenario. We know from the Tokyo sarin attack that a few
victims who had seizures survived, but they where hospitalized and/or
disabled for weeks. Some had long term brain damage. Anyone exposed
to levels of sarin sufficient to cause convulsions is probably not going to
survive long enough to tell the tale, and is certainly not going to recover
after a few minutes and jump into action to save others.
For this reason I am not sure that we could expect to see any victims
having convulsions in the KB videos even if sarin was the agent used.
For one thing, the cameramen would have had to have been exposed to
sarin in order to record the victim between onset of the convulsion and
death, so the cameraman probably would not have survived either. The
convulsions are not like miosis that persists for hours or days. And they
are not like fecal incontinence that would leave visible indications after
death. Any sources that purport to be showing sarin-induced
convulsions in Ghouta should be viewed with extreme skepticism.
Test #4: Post-mortem Color

Predictions on the hypotheses regarding the color of pallor
mortis and livor mortis
[0184] The post-mortem color changes represent the strongest
evidence with which to test our three hypotheses. The biological issues
related to the color of pallor and lividity in victims dying from sarin, CO,
and CN are precisely the same as with cyanosis and rubicundity, but in
many cases the color of livor mortis will be more pronounced than ante-
mortem color because the blood collects in a smaller volume and the
hemoglobin is, therefore, more concentrated. Consequently, like
cyanosis/rubicundity these post-mortem symptoms have very high
potential for differentiating between sarin and CO, but lesser potential
for differentiating between sarin and CN and between CO and CN.
Furthermore, the conditions for observing post-mortem color in the
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evidence valuable. The light is so much stronger in the SM videos where
these victims are. This makes it easier to distinguish gradations of colors.
Also, all of the dead victims in the KB videos have a natural skin color
that is light enough that pallor mortis and livor mortis can be easily
observed. There has been plenty of time for both pallor mortis and livor
mortis to develop, for according to what the insurgents PR apparatus has
told the world, the attack took place around 2-3 AM, and SM-a was shot
about noon and SM-b sometime after noon, as I have demonstrated
above. That is at least 9 hours by my calculator, and yet pallor mortis is
nearly completely developed within 30 minutes and livor mortis within
about 5 hours.
Sarin Victims who die from sarin will, almost by definition, have
2
blood that is depleted of O . Many or most of them would have been
cyanotic at the time of death and dying would not have changed the
color of their blood the Hb would still be in the blue form. The
2
striking blue color would have left their lips and finger-tips as the O -
depleted blood drained from their superficial capillaries. One would
expect that by the time the PR cameramen showed up in the SM for
the photo-op, if these people died of sarin, a ghastly blue pallor
mortis would be evident.
As the bluish blood settled into the lower parts of their bodies, a
very obvious and intense blue/dark purple livor mortis would have
developed, leaving no doubt, when the population as a whole is
observed, of the existence of wide spread livor mortis that is
consistent with the sarin-H .
O
Carbon monoxide Again, CO would be expected to produce a 180
degree different effect than sarin. Recall that CO holds Hb in the
red form. Carbon monoxide does not release Hb and dissolve out of
2
the tissues like O does. Whatever residual Hb remains in the skin
after pallor develops, it will be red and it will stay that way for hours
until the Hb breaks down. Carbon monoxide victims may have
bright red skin at the time of death, and the intense redness may
diminish as most of the blood drains into the lower parts of the body,
but the residual blood will be red enough to impart a life-like color to
the decedents pallor mortis.
The pink/red color would be even more pronounced in the
lividity, as the red Hb is concentrated in the lower parts of the body.
In other words, with respect to both pallor and lividity, we could not
possibly ask for a more striking and certain way to distinguish the
sarin-H from the CO-H than the color of the dead victims skin 30
O O
minutes or more after death.
Cyanide For the most part, in a population of many dozens of
victims, the predictions made on the CN-H will be the same for the
O
CO-H . Consequently, CN will also be easily distinguished from
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However, there is the potential for important distinctions
between CO and CN. For one thing, the post-mortem color of a CN
victim is not expected to be as cherry-red as a CO victim, nor is the
2
red color expected to last as long. Because the O in the blood of a
CN victim, unlike CO, dissociates from Hb, the blood slowly
becomes less red and more blue, passing through stages of purple.
And so, the post-mortem color situation of a group of CN victims
would be expected to be more dynamic within the time frame we are
analyzing, compared to either CO or sarin, and this complicates the
expectations about post-mortem color.
Observations regarding post-mortem color
[0185] Pallor mortis children and men Let me begin with the
most conspicuous observations: generally, the bodies of children and men
in the SunMorgue exhibit good to very good color. Here are examples
indicating the ran ge of pallor seen in the men and children of the SM.
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The images speak volumes: the healthy-looking color of the KB
bodies is nothing short of amazing, particularly given the insurgents sarin
scenario timeline. Victim M-014 (Fig. 109a-c) and Victim M-006 (Fig.-
111a & b) are particularly important because both of these victims are
shown in DM Room #3 at night, so we know they have been dead for
hours. The same is true for most of the children, who are seen in Room
#2 at night in Rm2-b.
With respect to M-014, Fig. 109a and 109c show him on the floor of
Room #3. While the differences in lighting must be taken into account,
nevertheless his color appears to have improved many hours later when
he is seen in the SM (Fig. 109b). Likewise, Fig. 111b shows M-006 on
the floor of the DM hours before he is seen in the SM videos, Fig. 111a.
Both of these victims are seen in Mr. Minnies two-part video where he
moves from Room #3 directly to the patio, which is pitch black. Hence,
we know that the DM images of these victims were shot well before the
sun came up on Aug21, and hours before the sun-videos were taken in
the SM about noon. So not only is the pallor mortis red, it is persistent.
[0186] Livor mortis children and men In contrast to the rubicund
pallor mortis being so conspicuous, livor mortis is more difficult to find
because, being at the bottom of the bodies, it is hidden by clothes.
However, if one looks closely and enlarges the images, lividity can be
seen in a number of victims, and it can be seen well enough in the bright
light of the SM to judge its color. And there is a very considerable range
of colors but none of them are dark blue. The still images are easier to
analyze because slight movement of video cameras blurs the edges of the
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There is a very interesting detail about M-008: in the sun-videos you can see
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that someone has placed a coin directly over his heart. The coin is not seen in
other still photos, such as Fig. 113. I discuss this oddity in detail in Appendix
II, More SunMorgue Oddities.
The source of this image at Shaam.org, has been taken down prior to
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color. Here are just a few of about a dozen clear examples of lividity in
the SM victims.
Fig. 113. Indisputably pink lividity in Victim M-008. Source.
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In pallor mortis the color is lighter and is more diffuse, and there can
be more subjectivity involved in ranking the depth of color, if not the
color itself. But with well developed lividity, there is nothing diffuse
about the color; it is very clearly demarcated by distinct boundaries, as
shown in M-008, above. And there can hardly be any argument that
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the lividity is pink. People might disagree as to whether to call this
cherry-red or pink, but I could not imagine anyone with competent
color vision asserting that it is blue, or deep purple.
Here is another example of lividity in the SM that lies far toward the
red end of the red-blue spectrum, a young boy, B-003. While this lividity
is as pink as that of M-008, the border along the chest is not as well
defined.
.
Fig. 114. The more mottled edge of this boys
lividity indicates that not enough time had
passed since he died for the lividity to fully develop.
Source
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The darkest lividity I have seen in the SM is of victim G-004, the girl
in orange whom we have already met.
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Fig. 115. Victim G-004 one of the darkest
cases of lividity in the SunMorgue. Source.
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Upon magnification, one can see the lividity of G-004 on her torso,
between her shirt and pants. While this girls lividity is well to the red
end of the spectrum, it is more brick-red than pink.
Overall, the lividity ranges from brick-red to pink/cherry-red in this
population of victims. I do not observe any lividity that is dark blue or
deep purple. However, there are some examples where one would expect
to see lividity, but there is none. Here are a couple of them.
Figs. 116 & 117. In a number of victims, particularly children,
no lividity can be seen.
Initially one might guess that the lack of lividity in the lower parts of
the extremities and torsos of these children in the SM at mid-day
suggests that they had not been dead long enough for lividity to develop
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Room #2 at night. (See Rm2-b.)
[0187] Pallor mortis & livor mortis women Finally, I want to end
this section on observations of post-mortem color with another negative
observation: the women. Because considerable care has been taken to
cover the women in SM-a they are completely covered we do not
have the luxury of aggregating several observations in order to get a
quasi-statistical feel for the extent and color of pallor and livor mortis.
In SM-b we can see about a dozen womens faces well enough to note
their color. Mostly, there isnt any. They appear ashen grey, as one
would expect of someone who died of normal causes rather than by a
toxin that turns blood blue or red. There is certainly no striking red/pink
coloration as is consistently seen with the children and men.
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.
Figs. 118-120. From what we can see of the women in the SM, they lack
the striking post-mortem pink/red coloration of the children and men.
Why?
Because of their unremarkable post-mortem color, the women in the
SM do not provide any evidence for or against any of the three
hypotheses. For instance, the woman on the left in Fig. 120 may be
showing light purple lividity her left cheek looks much lighter than her
right one. But the color does not strike me as being either pink or dark
blue/purple. Rather, this the color expected of normal lividity. And so
there is no evidence here for or against any of the hypotheses.
In fact, that may be a most important point, for what this negative
evidence does suggest is that the women were not poisoned by either
sarin, or CO, or CN. But they surely died somehow. Why would they
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There is only one example of a woman in the entire KB complex
living or dead, victim or worker whose color could be interpreted as
being evidence of exposure to a toxin, and that is victim W-006, seen in
video Rm2-a. She was lying in the door of Hallway A of the DM, just
outside of Room #2, and as Mr. Minnie stepped over her he caught her
face for a fraction of a second. (Fig. 121) The color of her arms, cheek,
and ear is a beautiful, soft, salmon-pink, like her blanket. She is
motionless; she appears dead.
.
Fig. 121. Victim W-006 in Hallway A of the DM.
Rm2-a/00:26. Image digitally lightened.
Women are rare in the DM videos, and so it is a mathematical
certainty that most of the women in the SM are not also seen in the DM
videos, contrary to the children and men, many of whom are seen in both
the DM videos and the sun-videos. In Chapter Four I discussed one
womans body, W-005, dressed in black with the pink hijab who is seen
in both the DM and SM, but that is the only clear example of a womans
body being taken from the DM to the SM that I am moderately confident
of. (See Fig. 50 & 51, and Appendix II, Room #2 Confusion and the
Brown Blanket.)
Victim W-006, above, may be a second example of a woman seen in
both the DM and SM, but I am far less certain. Fig. 122 is a composite of
two screen grabs from SM-b that may show W-006 in the SM, judging
from the salmon-colored blanket. She appears very briefly in the lower
left corner of the view and so it is not possible to ascertain with any
certainty that this woman in the SM is W-006. This gender-difference in
where bodies are seen and not seen may be very important. I return to
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Fig. 122. A composite of two scree-grabs
taken from SM-b/00:28 showing what
may be a rare example of a woman in the SM
who is also seen in the DM.

Conclusions regarding post-mortem color
Conclusion 1: The post-mortem color of the children and men in the
SM being uniformly red/pink and the absence of any examples of
dark blue or bluish-purple post-mortem color must be counted as
additional strong evidence refuting the sarin-H and supporting
O
either CO or CN as the toxic agent.
Conclusion 2: With respect to G-004, one can reasonably conclude
that she died considerably later in the day than 2-3 AM, probably
closer to 7 AM. The al-Abdullah photo above (Fig. 115) was taken
late in the day when the SM was almost empty, as discussed in Part
B. As we have seen above, this girl is very conspicuous in both of the
sun-videos and those videos show her lividity as not nearly as
pronounced as it is in Fig. 115. So we know the lividity was not
completely developed by noon. In SM-b which was the later of the
two sun-videos, her right finger-tips are somewhat discolored, but
her arms appear to be clear. Consequently, this evidence suggests,
but does not prove, that the girl died less than 5 hours before noon
and possibly very shortly before noon, whereas the attack was
supposed to have occurred at 2-3 AM. Consistent with this
conclusion, one notes that most of the children in the SM are seen in
Room #2 in videos that we know were taken at night. G-004 is one
of the few SM children not seen in Room #2 and so we have no
timeline to estimate when she died.
Conclusion 3: For the most part, the neutral grey pallor mortis that is
visible in the women in the SM does not represent evidence for any
of the three instant hypotheses. In fact, the lack of either bluish or
pinkish pallor mortis is negative evidence against all three
hypotheses, with respect to the women.
This gender-distinction in both the post-mortem color and in
the physical location of the KB victims is striking and suggests that
most of the women seen in the SM were killed in a different manner
and in a different place than the men and children. If all of the
victims in the SM had been exposed to the same toxin at the same
time and in the same place, then there should be no gender-
distinctions in post-mortem color. More specifically, the bodies of
men, women, and children would all be the same color in the SM
images if they had all been exposed to a CW attack while home in
bed or while running through the streets of Ghouta.
Clearly, these gender-distinctions in post-mortem color cannot
be explained within the context of a military style sarin-rocket
attack. With respect to the one woman victim shown in the DM
who has obvious salmon-pink coloration, W-006, it is significant that
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not only is she unique in having rubicund post-mortem color, but she
is unusual in being seen among men and children, who also have
rubicund post-mortem color, suggesting that she died with the men
and children and by the same means a rubigenic agent.
Unfortunately, the only woman that we know for sure was in both
the DM and SM, W-005, cannot be seen clearly enough in any views
to judge her color. If there are images in cyber-space that I have
missed that show her clearly, they would be very interesting.
[0188] Let me just go ahead and say what Im thinking here, and its
not very nice. Women dying separately from men and children and by
different means would be impossible if Ghouta was attacked by sarin-
containing rockets. The sarin would have killed them all at the same
time and at the same place. However, the gender-differences we see
would be very possible if the insurgents executed these people, because
from what we know about these insurgents they would likely have
separated out the women for special treatment. Anyone depraved
enough to execute children for PR purposes would certainly be depraved
enough to rape their mothers and older sisters. Given that there are
reports of at least two fatwas issued by extremist Sunni clerics claiming
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that the Koran endorses the raping of Alawite and Shia women captured
by insurgents in the Syrian civil war, the present evidence that the
women victims in the KB videos may have suffered different fates than
the men and children is very, very troubling.
Summary as to Test #4:
[0189] There are enough cases of red or pink lividity in the KB
complex, and they are seen clearly enough, to conclude that it is not
biologically possible for these people to have been killed with sarin.
While there is a range of post-mortem colors, as would be expected, the
range is consistently within the red end of the blue-red spectrum, and in
some cases the red coloration is very striking. On the other hand, there
is not a single body in the entire collection of KB videos whose color is
consistent with poisoning by sarin. These observations therefore must be
taken as some of the strongest evidence refuting the sarin-H . Once
O
again, the observations are consistent with both the CO-H and CN-H
O O
but fail to distinguish between them.
Questions remain as to why a few children and men do not display
any livor mortis and why the women, as a group, do not display a pallor
mortis that would indicate intoxication by any of sarin, CO, or CN.
[0190] In summary, the biological evidence against the sarin-H is
O
not just strong, it is overwhelming. The victims we see in the KB
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poisoned by CO or CN is still an open question, but there is a very strong
case that one or the other of these rubigenic toxins was used.
Consequently, the key to resolving the Ghouta mystery comes down to
understanding what the deaths of these people by agents like CO or CN
must mean.
But first we should go back and have a closer look at the origins of
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Chapter Nine
The Sarin Myth: Where did it come from?
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life
[0191] Throughout this paper I have been referring to the sarin-
H not because I really think there ever was a hypothesis, but because I
O
needed to give the concept a neutral name that would make dealing with
it easier. The truth is that there is no sarin-H and there never has been.
O
Recall the standard definition of a hypothesis is an educated guess that is
testable. However, there has never been anything educated about the
assertion that sarin was used to kill hundreds of people in Ghouta on
Aug21.2014. The sarin assertion was not proposed on the basis of an
analysis of the biological effects seen in the videos. It was not proposed
on the basis of a chemical analysis of reliable physical or biological
samples collected in an objective manner according to unbiased
procedures. There was scant expert testimony that was relevant or
knowledgeable. There was never any real reason to suspect sarin, much
less conclude that it was used. Even the evidence provided by the UN
Mission was nothing more than what the insurgents themselves provided
for testing, and they are the ones that wanted the world to believe Assad
had gassed them with sarin.
I think it was Christopher Hitchens who said that what is asserted
without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. But weve
gone well beyond that, weve taken a proposition for which there was no
evidence and adduced a very substantial body of evidence disproving it.
Now, in retrospect, when you reflect on the way this absurd sarin myth
has been universally accepted, it beggars belief. Where did this kudzu
come from?
Examples of insurgent PR videos claiming sarin, specifically, are not hard to
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find. Here are a few. The English translation obtained from Google Translate.
Dates are YouTube time.
Aug20 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c00e7Lqix0k
(Damascus | | Ein Tarma | | round between revive the town after the
spread sarin gas 08/21/2013")
Aug20 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhTn6XXwS4
(Damascus | | Ein Tarma | | smothering the child as a result of the
bombing gases sarin 08/21/2013")
Aug20 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUB8Qfoi34o
(DAMASCUS | | Ain Tarma | | raid warplanes After shelling gases sarin
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The Sarin Myth: a PR fait accompli
[0192] The sarin-H was not proposed as a hypothesis at all; it was
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initially proposed by the insurgents PR people as a factual fait accompli
with no evidence, no verification, and no factual basis for believing it.
The fact that the Ghouta massacre was carried out with sarin was
mass-distributed with the initial flood of videos that were circling the
globe virtually while the attack was still going on in the early hours of
Aug21.2013. It is a most striking example of Churchills famous before-
truth-gets-its-pants-on quip, which can be re-phrased for the 21
st
century: An Internet falsehood can circle the globe 20 times before the
truth can boot its browser.
It should have been a huge red flag when the insurgents uploaded
videos to YouTube within a few hours of the attack and claiming that
Assad had gassed them with sarin sarin, specifically. Examples.
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This is an agent that is invisible as a gas, colorless as a liquid, and
tasteless and odorless in either form. Its not like you can stick you head
out the window, take a sniff, and realize, just before you defecate and go
into violent convulsions, that youve been gassed with sarin. How could
the insurgent PR people know from the get-go this was sarin? Even
under the best of circumstances it would take forensic scientists days or
weeks to identify the agent responsible, and they would need gas
chromatography gear, mass spectrometers, and large budgets. And its
not like one guy in Ghouta took a wild guess about sarin and the meme
went viral; the sarin myth was published simultaneously en masse in a
concerted PR effort that had to have been planned before Aug21. These
videos were well organized from the get-go and were being uploaded from
all over Damascus, mostly by an insurgent PR coordinating group called
Shaam News Network.
With the insurgents screaming SARIN!!! the Western MSM
picked up the drum-beat and next thing you know they were all
screaming SARIN!!! not yet 24 hours after the attack happened.
How could the press have known that this was a sarin attack at that
point? They couldnt. As I say, very few of the Western media even have
reporters inside of the Syria, much less inside the Ghouta combat zone.
Raphael Ahren, US was so sure it was striking Syria it made warning calls to
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Israels leaders Times of Israel, Oct05.2013.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-was-so-sure-it-was-striking-syria-it-made-warn
ing-calls-to-israels-leaders/
See Hershs Dec19.2013 London Review of Book article
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Whose sarin? and
Parrys Dec20.2013 Consortium News piece, NYT Replays Its Iraq Fiasco in
Syria.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin
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All they had was hear-say.
But the sarin fact kept rolling, and within days Obama, Kerry, and
Feinstein were all jumping up and down and screaming SARIN!!! And
then all of Congress was jumping up and down and screaming
SARIN!!! And the next thing you know F-16s were being rolled out of
hangers and Obama was calling Bibi Netanyahu and telling him an
attack on Assad was 24-48 hours away.
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And yet only a handful of people in the world, and, apparently, none
at all in Washington were asking the obvious: So, like . . . how do you
guys know its sarin? In fact, so far as I know, to this day there has not
been a public discussion by any politicians or journalists over the
possibility that the Ghouta massacre was not pulled off with sarin. Even
as skeptics like Robert Parry and Seymour Hersh began to turn parts of
the sarin myth on its head, they, too, focused on who, not what, caused
these deaths. Fait accompli. The perfect PR blitz is when the whole
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world is looking right where you are pointing.
Execrable Editorial Tactics

[0193] After the Iraq debacle one would expect that a skeptical
public would be revolted by the way the UN, OPCW, the NYT, Wall
Street Journal, Reuters, HRW, and the entire Western MSM have relied
almost solely on information from anonymous insurgent sources to
conclude that the Ghouta Massacre was a sarin-rocket attack carried out
by Assad. Even ignoring for the moment the biological evidence that the
toxic agent could not have been sarin, it is both preposterous and
frightening that the news agencies and politicians would almost get away
with ginning up an attack on Syria on the basis of nothing more than ex
parte evidence provided by anonymous insurgents who, for all the
media know, are the guilty psychos who killed these children. Having
the occasional writers like Hersh and Parry challenge the MSM for
perpetuating the sarin party-line is so important because it at least gives
one hope that the moral insolvency of the fourth estate is not yet total.
Although Hersh has not challenged the USG/MSM party line that
the Ghouta Massacre was carried out with sarin, in a Dec19.2013
London Review of Book article Whose sarin? he put forth a strong case
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way, with respect to the question I ask in the heading above The sarin
myth: Where did it come from? I use it to refer to myth while Hersh
uses it to refer to sarin. Hersh accepts the sarin myth so far as the
identity of the toxin goes, but he pushes back on Obamas assertions that
the Assadists had to be the ones that carried out the attack because only
they had sarin. Although Hershs chief target is Obamas prevarications,
along the way Hersh rightly upbraids both the NYT and Washington
Post for manipulating available information in a way that leads to the
conclusion that the sarin myth is true and that Assad government must
be removed the same tactic both papers employed in the run-up to the
Iraq invasion.
A Dec20.13 Consortium News article by Robert Parry focuses more
specifically on the NYTs execrable war-mongering tactics. Parrys work
is particularly appreciated because he is enough of a scholar to include
precise citations to the articles and journalists he cites as well as the ones
he attacks. Parry and Hersh both complain and make a durn good
case that the NYT had plenty of exculpatory evidence with respect to
the case against the Assadists, and yet the NYT editors withheld that
evidence from the public. If a prosecutor pulls that sort of crap in a
criminal court and his dishonesty contributes to the conviction of an
innocent man, that prosecutor could face a prison term himself. But if a
journalist and his/her editor withhold exculpatory evidence from the
public and by deceiving the public they contribute to an unprovoked and
unjustified US invasion that results in the deaths of hundreds of
thousands of Iraqis or, in the present case, Syrians, that journalist and
editor will face no criminal charges. Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for what
journalists tell the public; promotions are awarded for what they
withhold. This is particularly worrying given that virtually all of the
Western MSM reports and reporters are as unreliable as the insurgent PR
machines, because that is where our MSM news about Syria comes from.
The lesson is that the MSM cannot be taken at face value any more than
the insurgents (or the Assadists) can, and Hersh and Parry have more
than established that point with respect to Americas two leading
newspapers.
[0194] While I am absolutely delighted and relieved to see Parry and
Hersh confront the USGs anti-Assad sarin-story, I believe that neither
of them has made the complete conceptual shift away from the sarin
myth. Neither one is asking Obama and Kerry that most penetrating
question of all: How do ya know its sarin?
Very few writers on this subject have questioned the sarin myth. I note the
ones I am aware of in Appendix II, Experts Expressing Doubt Over the Sarin
Myth.
When you contemplate the way the MSM meshed with the USG and
Government of Israel (GoI) in pushing this sarin myth, you are bound to
get a whiff of that recurring nasty smell that indicates stories are being
Herman, Edward and Chomsky, Noam (1988) Manufacturing Consent, NY,
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Pantheon Books.
http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/20031209.htm
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Richard Engel Analysis: Did Syrias Assad get away with chemical weapons attack?
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cooked to serve government objectives. One of the obvious sources of
that bad smell is this problem of all of the information coming from the
same source the insurgents. For the Western MSM journalists are not
reporting from Ghouta; they are reporting from London, Beirut,
Jerusalem. And what they are reporting is information they are getting
from the insurgents PR machine, which of course filters the information
according to the insurgents needs. And what the insurgents desperately
need is for the world to believe the sarin myth.
The NYT, WaPo, and Guardian appear to be particularly dependent
on information filtered by the insurgents, relying heavily on spooky anti-
Assadist Internet sources like Eliot Higgins and Rami Abdulrahman who
seem to be playing the same roles today that Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-
Janabi (aka Curveball) and Ahmed Chalabi played in the run-up to the
Iraq invasion.
But the insurgents filters are not the only filters standing between
you and the reality of Ghouta. Recall Edward S. Herman and Noam
Chomskys 1988 propaganda model for the way the elites manufacture
consent. (See Hermans
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2003 retrospective ) They enumerated five
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media filters that shape the news you read: ownership, advertising,
sourcing, flak, and anticommunist ideology. One can easily detect four of
these filters still at work, but that anticommunist ideology filter has long
since been replaced by Israeli/Zionist ideology as a very effective fifth
filter of MSM output, certainly in the US. This fifth filter can be seen at
work in the MSM treatment of the sarin myth.
We know that the insurgency is backed by GoI. And we know that
GoI considers Assad an enemy and has attacked Syria on more than one
recent occasion as recently as Jan2014, in fact. We also know that GoI
has pushed very hard on Obama and Congress both directly and
through its proxies in the US like AIPAC to attack Assad in retaliation
for the sarin attack. So it is not surprising that we have a staunchly
pro-Zionist publication like the NYT and blatantly pro-Zionist writers
like NBCs Richard Engel publishing anti-Assadist fabrications to move
the US population closer and closer to war with Syria. The insurgent-
filter and the Israeli/Zionist-filter working together have the synergistic
potential to completely distort what has happened and what is happening
in Ghouta. Take Engel as an example.
[0195] On Nov03.13 NBC put up an intemperate, unfortunate
piece of gratuitous war-mongering by Chief Foreign Correspondent
Richard Engel reporting from Jerusalem. [The link is not to the
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Robert Parry, NYT Replays Its Iraq Fiasco in Syria
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original piece because it has been re-published online without Engels
name attached to it. Also, it was originally published as being from
Jerusalem, then later as being from Cairo.] In this piece Engel pushed
hard on the sarin casus belli button and not only perpetuated the sarin
myth but used it to demand to know why Assad got away with it. Bibi
Netanyahu himself could not have drafted a piece of rubbish more in line
with the Zionist anti-Assad agenda.
In his entire diatribe Engel alleged just one fact regarding Ghouta:
Fourteen-hundred people, including hundreds of children, were choked
to death, their nervous systems shut down by the gas that seeped into
their homes. Engel sourced this assertion via a mendacious link to a
Sep17.2013 piece by his NBC colleague Carrie Dann. [Danns name has
also been removed from her article. It appears that NBC journalists are
not at all proud of the quality of their work.]
I say mendacious link because the Dann piece Engel linked to does
not mention 1400 or any number of victims. Nor does Dann
mention anyone choking to death, nervous systems, or gases seeping into
homes. In other words, Engel is employing the ole lying-by-link trick
relying on a link to pretend that he has facts that he doesnt have. This
is, of course, the same tenor and type of MSM propaganda that pro-Israel
journalists used to convince The Stupid Americans that sending
thousands of young Americans to their deaths in Iraq was OK.
[0196] We dont need more of this type of dishonest journalism
now. We dont need reporters throwing their opinions around dressed
up like other peoples facts. What we need is honest reporters digging for
the truth and reporting it. We need more like Sy Hersh and Robert
Parry. Parry put it this way:
But that is not how journalism is supposed to work. The job of
reporters and editors should be to present the American people
and the world public with full and fair coverage of important
events and surely the issue of war or peace in the Middle East
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~ Part C Summary ~
[0197] We have covered a lot of ground in this Part C. We have
reviewed relevant physiological principles of respiration, and we have
explored the pharmacology of three nasty critters: sarin, carbon
monoxide, and cyanide. If you werent a pharmacologist coming into
Part C, you are now, at least within the limited sphere of asphyxial
toxicology.
More importantly, by employing the paradigm of multiple-hypothesis
testing, we have carefully examined the evidence from Kafr Batna more
images of dead and dying people than most of us would ever want to see
in our lives, much less in one report. But the payoff is worth it. First,
we have cut away the kudzu of myth, to borrow Stacey Schiffs analogy.
We can reject the sarin myth with a high degree of confidence that the
evidence backs us up, even in the face of contrary allegations by powerful
men like Obama and Kerry. In fact, the cumulative evidence would
make the sarin myth laughable if it wasnt so dangerous.
Second, we now recognize that the people in the KB videos were very
likely victims of CO or CN. From these two facts we can lay a logical
pathway to door of the most likely perpetrators of these crimes against
humanity. I call this pathway the Pathway to Who (as in, who dun it).
This chain of circumstantial evidence is laid out in Part D.
[0198] But heres the thing: The evidence forces us to abandon not
just the sarin myth but the entire CW context. Obama and Kerrys
position is that Assad is the guilty party because only the Assadists had
the capacity and the capability to carry out a sarin CW attack. But we
have just taken sarin out of the picture, certainly as far as Kafr Batna
goes. Having proved that sarin was not used does not mean we have
proved that there was no CW attack anywhere in Ghouta, but it does
mean that there is no longer any a priori basis for concluding that there
was a CW attack. And so, for the moment we are floating without
context.
The Pathway to Who provides the transition from the sarin CW
context to the context of a CO/CN mass-execution. This is a context-
shift of immense significance because 1) it forces any reasonable and
honest person to point to the insurgents as the guilty parties; 2) it paints
the Ghouta Massacre as a crime against humanity even more deplorable
than the CW attack Obama and Kerry have alleged, 3) and, because the
USG has supported the insurgents, it raises the question of whether and
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PART D
Evidence When Viewed In a New Context Is New Evidence
http://logophere.com/Syria/Syria%20Docs/Kerry%20Aug23-14.pdf
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Chapter Ten
The 5-Step Pathway to Who: Shifting Contexts
Anyone who could claim that an attack of this staggering scale
could be contrived or fabricated needs to check their conscience
and their own moral compass.
U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, Aug23.2014
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Checking the Publics Moral Compass

[0199] I dont think youll have to read Kerrys statement twice to
catch the stomach-churning arrogance. For Kerry strongly implies that
anyone who doesnt go along with his Assad/sarin-scenario of what
happened in Ghouta has no conscience and no morals.
But do me a favor: read Kerrys quip again with the understanding
that one of the people he is accusing of having no conscience or morals
because they dont agree with his position is Mother Superior Agnes-
Mariam, the Syrian nun who has made a strong case that the Assadists
are not the guilty party here and that the attack was staged by the
insurgents. And just for a second or two, juxtapose in your mind what
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we know about John Kerry and Agnes-Mariam and consider the irony of
a man of Kerrys immense wealth and prestige, who has built his political
career on his self-aggrandizing history as a swift-boat hero and gratuitous
killer of Vietnamese, now vilifying a woman who has devoted her life to
poverty and to serving her God and the people of Syria. Kerrys
arrogance makes even Dick Cheney look as humble as Pope Francis alter
boy.
Kerry made this obnoxious comment just two days after the massacre
well before any competent investigation of what happened could have
been undertaken. One would hope that as a senator who voted for,
funded, and promoted the Iraq fiasco, Kerry would have learned
something about false intelligence leading to a faux casus belli.
[0200] We now know that Kerrys view of what happened in
Ghouta was informed largely, if not entirely, by intelligence supplied by
Israel, who then put enormous public pressure on Congress and Obama
to attack Assad. Ex-CIA officer Philip Giraldi has gone public on the
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fact that the US intelligence community was badly fractured over the
assertions that Assad was responsible for the Ghouta attack to the
point that several intelligence officers threatened to resign if the
National Intelligence Estimate made such a claim, which is why the best
Obama could ever provide the public was an undated, unsigned, anemic
assessment of the situation in Ghouta.
From independent works like Seymour Hershs and Robert Parrys,
discussed above, it is becoming apparent that the Obama administration
was intentionally misinforming the public when it alleged that only the
Assadists had sarin or access to sarin production capabilities. And from
the work of rocket ballistics experts Charles Wood, and Richard Lloyd &
Theodore Postol, and even anti-Assad CW maven Dan Kaszeta, it is
unlikely that a sarin attack killing 1400 people could have been carried
out by the Syrian Army using the types of rockets the UN Mission were
provided by the insurgents and that tested positive for sarin.
In other words, the case that this was a CW attack carried out by the
Assadists had all but fallen apart even before the present report on the
pharmacological impossibility of the Obama/Kerry sarin scenario. One
wonders about the moral compass of American politicians who will lie
to the American public in an attempt to gin up a war with the objective
of regime change, and Im not talkin George Bush, Dick Cheney, and
Donald Rumsfeld this time around.
As the mystery stands as of this point in the story, sarin is out the
window and all bets are off as to who the perpetrators were. We know
one toxic agent that wasnt used, and we have identified a couple of toxic
agents that probably were used, but we dont have the guilty party.
Thats going to require some logic and circumstantial evidence, which I
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present as The 5-Step Pathway to Who. I will step through this Pathway
very carefully and try to be absolutely clear as to what is established fact
and what is deduction.
Step 1: Getting the Toxin Right

[0201] Having spent virtually all of Part C providing a lotta yada
explaining this step, I hardly need to pummel the point any further: the
idea that the victims we see in the KB complex were poisoned with sarin
is ludicrous in view of the vast weight of the evidence. It is now an
established fact that sarin was not used to poison those people. Period.
[0202] Another fact that is about as close to certainty as we can get
is that these people were poisoned with a rubigenic agent. It is far easier
to deduce what agent was not used than it is to deduce what agent was
used. We cannot, as a matter of pure fact, assert what that rubigenic
agent was, but CO and CN are far and away the two most likely
candidates. Although the evidence does not permit a clear
differentiation between these two, the grounds for asserting that the
toxin was either CO or CN include:
Both have a well known history of being used to execute prisoners
and to carry out mass-executions.
Both are very effective for killing people in confined spaces, such as
the rooms we see in the DM.
Both are easily acquired, synthesized, and handled. Hydrogen
cyanide, for instance, can be bought in 44 L. cylinders on the open
market.
There are very few alternative toxins that cause rubicundity and red
or pink post-mortem skin color. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is one
possible alternative in that it is a highly lethal agent that produces
rubicundity, but it does not produce red livor mortis, it produces a
bluish-green livor mortis.
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The evidence is not overwhelming but pretty close to
overwhelming that the rubigenic agent used to poison the victims we
see in the KB videos was CO and/or CN.
Step 2: Excluding a CW Attack

[0203] More important than identifying the guilty rubigenic agent
with 100% certainty is the recognition that we have now refocused on
possible toxins that are widely available to both parties of the conflict
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Recall the Obama/Kerry syllogism is that because this was a sarin CW
attack and because only the Assadists had the capability to produce and
deliver sarin, then the Assadists must be the guilty party. Now that sarin
is out of the picture at least with respect to Kafr Batna and now that
Seymour Hersh has shown that the insurgents also had access to sarin,
the Obama/Kerry syllogism has been deep sixd on two counts.
In other words, there is no basis for assuming that the Ghouta
Massacre was a CW attack of any description. We have to revisit the
CW attack allegation afresh from the context of CO and CN. But before
we do that, I want to address a point that I know keeps popping into your
mind.
[0204] Now that you have seen most of the KB evidence and most
of my arguments why the KB victims were not poisoned with sarin, you
are wondering whether I am justified in generalizing from KB to the
whole of Ghouta in dismissing the sarin CW attack allegations.
My response is semantic. To paraphrase one of Bill Clintons most
infamous lines: It depends on what your definition of CW attack is.
When I assert that a CW attack did not occur, I am defining
attack with respect to the whole kit and caboodle. I am saying that a
CW attack of the entire Ghouta area did not occur from Duma in the
north to Muaddamiyah in the south on the US State Department map of
communities that were attacked. (See Fig. 5.) To borrow Kerrys phrase,
quoted above, I am defining sarin attack to mean one of staggering
scale, which is way he was defining it. It just didnt happen.
More specifically, I am referring to what I see in the DiFi videos
those 13 videos authenticated by the USG as representing the Ghouta
Massacre. Not a one of those videos in the DiFi package shows Ghouta
victims displaying sarin symptoms. In fact, most of the DiFi videos the
ones where the light is sufficient clearly show Ghouta victims with red
skin, indicating that they, too, have been poisoned with a rubigenic
agent.
[0205] And so the tightest way to make this point is to take the
semantic position that Ghouta attack refers to Kerrys attack of
staggering scale, which is what is shown in the DiFi package. And what
is shown in the DiFi package is 100% consistent with the more detailed
observations I have made in the KB videos, at least three of which are
themselves a part of the DiFi package.
Consequently, by limiting this case to what the USG has presented to
the world as the attack on Ghouta, then, yes, I am very confident that
we can extrapolate from Kafr Batna to Ghouta in the sense that we can
extrapolate from three of the DiFi videos showing KB to all 13 of the
DiFi videos. If for some reason those 13 DiFi videos do not present a
true picture of the Ghouta Massacre, then the problem lies with the
USG.
[0206] However, this semantic argument does not permit me to
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, pdf version is found at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/167118023/Human-Rights-Watch-Syria
See the US Intelligence Assessement.
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Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack As of
Mar15.2014.
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prove the negative assertion that no sarin at all was used in this
massacre, and I am not making that assertion. Indeed, I have seen two
videos provided in the HRW report on Ghouta that were not included in
the DiFi package and that show subjects in a clinic purported to be in
Zamalka displaying minor symptoms expected from sarin. And this
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would make sense because when the insurgents took the UN Mission to
inspect sarin rockets sticking in the ground, they took them to
Zamalka. If this was a false-flag PR production, one would presume that
the insurgents, knowing that the UN Mission was in town, would be
smart enough to fire a few sarin-rockets into at least a limited area so
they would have something to show the investigators. Seymour Hershs
work, discussed above leaves little doubt that the insurgents had access
to enough sarin for such a limited purpose.
For a more detailed discussion of what steps the insurgents had to take in
order to pull off this PR stunt, see Appendix II, How To Do a Mass-
Execution and Make It Look Like a CW Attack
[0207] What is embarrassing not to me, but to the USG officials
referring to the staggering scale of the attack is that to this day, more
than six months on, nobody can say what the scale of the attack
actually was. Kerry says staggering, but hes not defining his term. No
one knows what the death toll was; no one knows how many CW
rockets, if any, fell. When Kerry refers to staggering scale, he is
apparently referring to the official USG storyline that 1429 people were
killed, which has not been confirmed by any international organization,
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nor by the US itself. Even today, the estimates of fatalities range from
less than three hundred to more than 1700. Estimates spread over a 5-
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fold range provide no useful information. Its like a cop testifying that he
clocked the you speeding at somewhere between 60 and 300 mph the
extreme range itself suggests the testimony is fraudulent.
In terms of the number of rockets in the alleged sarin rocket-attack,
Dan Kaszeta, the CW rocket expert, calculated that at least 80 of the
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large rockets or at least 2000 of the smaller rockets of the type the UN
Mission investigated would have been required to account for 1429
fatalities alleged by the USG, assuming a target zone of only 63
Kaszeta did not explain where the 63 Ha figure came from.
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My own area
calculations based on the US State Dept. map was closer to 1700 Ha for the
eastern region of Ghouta, which excludes Muaddamiyah.
The
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HRW Sep13.2013 report on the Ghouta Massacre focuses on two of the
areas that were purported to be hardest hit, and the same two areas investigated
by the UN Mission: Muaddamiyah (Moadamiya in the report) and Zamalka.
HRWs only evidence as to how many rockets fell in these communities is the
assertions of insurgents themselves the ones associated with the insurgent PR
machine. A member of the Moadamiya media center told HRW that he
counted seven rockets. With respect to Zamalka, HRWs source of
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hectares. Even Kaszeta, who clearly states his belief that the Ghouta
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Massacre was a sarin CW attack by Assadists, concedes that the numbers
of rockets required dont add up with what has been observed. But he
doesnt say what I will say: there is no way 2000, or even 80 CW rockets,
were fired into Ghouta that night. Didnt happen. Even the insurgents
themselves tend to make this point. According to the insurgent PR
machine as re-tweeted by HRW, the total inventory of all alleged CW
rockets falling on Zamalka and Muaddamiyah that night was 12-15
rockets. The idea that 2000 small rockets or 80 large sarin rockets
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were fired into Ghouta which Kaszeta says would have been required to
produce Kerrys staggering scale attack is entirely risible. Didnt
happen.
[0208] Once one understands that sarin was not used in KB but that
CO and/or CN probably were, and once one sees that the insurgents
accounts of the numbers of rockets they witnessed are not even in the
ballpark of what would be required to support the sarin CW attack
storyline, the whole sarin rocket attack picture dims to the point of
disappearing. But those who are still hoping that the The Stupid
Americans will attack Assad may at least try and salvage the CW
allegation by proposing that the Assadists did indeed instigate a CW
attack but that they used CO/CN instead of sarin. This tack would likely
be satisfactory to most of the anti-Assadists because who other than a
retired neuropharmacology dude with a lot of time on his hands is
going to get their knickers in a twist over what specific agent was used?
The main geo-political point for the insurgents is that it was a CW attack
using rockets, missiles, mortars whatever because a CW attack points
to Assad, at least according to the insurgent/USG standard theory.
Swapping out sarin and swapping in CO/CN would change the theory
somewhat but it would not require a context-shift. How can we know
that this was not a CW attack by Assadists using CO or CN?
[0209] First, I will reach back into my hat of semantic arguments
and pull out another good one and its an important one.
The USG, the UN, the MSM have used the term chemical weapon
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that Assadists were responsible for the Ghouta Massacre. This CW
allegation is an absolutely necessary part of their argument both in
terms of chemical and weapon. But each word raises its own issues.
I have no argument with the allegation that the Ghouta Massacre
was chemical, and I have made that point a couple times above, and so
were good to go on the C of CW. Sarin , CO and CN would all
qualify as chemicals. But the W is where Obama and Kerry & Co.
have come undone.
[0210] A weapon is an instrument or device designed to be used to
kill, maim, or incapacitate people. With respect to the W of CWs, the
device is almost always a missile, rocket, mortar, artillery round or some
other type of projectile that carries the toxic agent away from the
attacker and toward the target. As I suggested above, proximity to your
enemy and CWs dont mix.
Consequently, in order for the Ghouta Massacre to have been a CW
attack, the chemical would have had to have been fired into Ghouta with
one of these warfare devices. By way of a contrary illustration, sarin was
used in the attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. That was a
chemical attack, but it was not a CW attack because no weapons were
used. The sarin was carried onto the subway cars in plastic baggies or
plastic containers that were then put on the floor and pierced with the
tips of umbrellas. Sarin sans weapon is not a CW.
Having rejected sarin as the toxin used in Ghouta and having found
that CO and CN were the most likely candidates, then in order for the
Ghouta Massacre to have been the result of a CW attack, it follows that
the CO or CN would have had to have been delivered by missile, rocket,
etc. That didnt happen.
People who are experts in killing large numbers of people talk about
weaponizing chemicals, which means putting the W into CW the
toxin has to be modified in such a way that it can be delivered with some
sort of military projectile. There are a number of criteria that must be
met in order for a toxin to be considered weaponized. For instance, when
the projectile lands, the chemical has to be in a form that can be easily
dispersed, otherwise it just soaks into the dirt or sits there in the spent
artillery round doing nothing. The chemical has to be potent so that the
projectile can carry enough to kill people. Hopefully, the chemical will
be in a form that is heavier than air so it stays close to the ground where
all the people you want to kill are.
These are examples of criteria that must be met in before a chemical
can used in a CW merely being deadly is not sufficient. And neither
CO nor CN meet these criteria necessary for weaponization.
[0211] First, lets look at CO. This gas is not now and has never
been considered a chemical weapon so far as I have been able to
ascertain. Carbon monoxide has a wicked history of being used in closed
spaces to carry out mass-executions of civilians, but not as the payload of
a rocket designed to wipe out people who are widely dispersed in an
http://www.opcw.org/protection/types-of-chemical-agent/blood-agents/
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Cyanide as a Chemical Weapon: A Report
Ibid.
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http://www.opcw.org/news-room/syria-and-the-opcw/
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urban setting, such as Ghouta. It has never been used in open warfare,
which is why the Nobel-prize winning OPCW does not include CO
under any category of CWs. Among other practical limitations, the
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enormous volume of CO that would be required in open air with even a
slight breeze obviates its use as a payload in a rocket or artillery round.
In closed spaces it is deadly; out of doors in open air it is not. We can
forget CO as a possible CW used in Ghouta.
As for CN, it also is not used as a CW, and for similarly practical
reasons. Although NATO has official designations for hydrogen cyanide
(AC) and cyanogen chloride (CK), these toxins dont work well as CWs.
Charles Stewart states that whilst CN was used by the British in WWI, it
is difficult to attain sufficiently high concentrations of CN out of doors
because it has high volatility and it is lighter than air. OPCW says it
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bluntly: There is no confirmed information on [CN] being used in
chemical warfare. In other words, the same properties that keep CO
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from being used as a CW also nix CN.
And so while it would have been, perhaps, technically possible to
have used CN-containing rockets to attack Ghouta, its a very uphill sort
of idea. Even if CN-loaded rockets could be used, firing them into an
urban area late at night when the streets were empty and a light breeze
was blowing would not likely have produced many casualties. Besides,
the thought that Assadists would have used CN in a CW attack is
patently absurd when it is universally known that they had access to CW
agents that work very well. As much publicity as Assads CWs have
gotten in the last six months while being destroyed, I have found no
mention of CN. OPCW has been running regular updates on its site,
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and it has mentioned destruction of sarin, VX, and mustard gas. I dont
see a word indicating that Assad has or ever had CN.
[0212] Consequently, given that we know that some sort of
rubigenic agent was used to poison the KB victims, given that CO and
CN are the probable candidates, and given that it is virtually impossible
to use CO and CN as CW agents delivered by rockets or artillery, we
have no alternative but to reject the CW attack allegations. In other
words, this was not a CW attack. Whats left?
Step 3: The Leap from CW attack to Mass-Execution

[0213] This step is driven more by common sense and by want of
other possibilities than factual evidence, at least until Part D when we
The only possible alternative explanation that I have seen proposed is that
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there may have been some sort of an accident whereby the insurgents
inadvertently released sarin or an Assadist rocket landed on the insurgents
stash of sarin. These sorts of ideas are too far out to be taken seriously. For one
thing they dont explain how casualties were reported from Douma all the way
to Muaddamiyah. Second, we have dismissed, on biological grounds, the idea
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see the evidence of a victim actually being killed in the SunMorgue. But
we have scores of bodies in the SM with cherry-red lividity. We have a
dozen or so people gasping for breath in the DM, and many of them are
bright red, too. There has to be an explanation. Given their physical
location in the middle of a bloody sectarian war, the natural, knee-jerk
conclusion is that they are victims of a CW attack. But having discarded
that theory, we must seriously consider the very real possibility that we
are looking at a mass-execution in those KB videos. I dont really see any
other viable explanations for over 100 dead and dying people with
evident signs of CO or CN intoxication. But what difference could it
make? By concluding that this was a mass-execution and not a CW
attack, what does that tell us?
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[0214] The most basic distinction between a CW attack and a mass-
execution is proximity. The advantage of a CW attack is that you can
keep your distance from both your victims and the toxin you use to kill
your victims. You employ military gear like aircraft, artillery shells,
mortars, rockets, or missiles to transport the toxin miles away, and unless
youre dumb enough to fire the toxin upwind, thats the last youll see of
it. By the time you reach your target area, the toxin will have blown
away and all that will be left will be bodies reaching for gas masks. If your
target is a civilian population, there likely wont even be gas masks.
A mass-execution, on the other hand, is carried out on people who
are in your physical control, which means in your physical proximity, and
that means the toxin used to kill your enemy must also be in your
physical proximity. Another way of saying it is that the victims of a
mass-execution, or any execution, are prisoners before becoming corpses,
whereas a CW attack dispenses with the prisoners step, and that is an
enormously important distinction between the CW attack explanation
and the mass-execution explanation. For if these people were victims of
a mass-execution, then they were not poisoned while home in bed, they
were poisoned while being held prisoner, which could explain, among
other things, why they are all fully dressed.
And so, as long as you can get your prisoners and your chosen toxin
into the same room at the same time, and as long as that room is sealed
so that the you are isolated from the toxin, you are good to go. You dont
need expensive aircraft or other military gear; a sealed, subterranean
room in a building complex in downtown Kafr Batna would do nicely as
long as it can be opened to the outside in order to easily purge the room
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As far as the agent of choice, nothing fancy like sarin or VX or tabun
is required. For generations readily available and easily produced CO
and CN have been the proven agents of choice for executing people. I
dont think I need to go into grisly details but if you just have to see
them, google US gas chamber, holocaust, or Jonestown.
Steps 4 & 5: Excluding the Assadists,

Indicting the Insurgents
[0215] The point of making this context-shift from a military CW
attack to a mass-execution is not identifying the toxin that was used or
identifying how it was used, it is identifying the guilty parties, which is
what we are getting at in Steps 4 & 5.
Now that sarin in the Obama/Kerry syllogism must be replaced with
CO/CN, and now that CW attack must be replaced with mass-
execution, the syllogism must be re-formulated, and it can only be re-
formulated in one way:
Premise #1: The mass-execution of scores of people seen in the
KB videos was carried out by someone who was in
the immediate proximity of those people.
Premise #2: Only the insurgents could have had the requisite
proximity to the victims because on Aug21.2013
Kafr Batna was exclusively under the control of the
insurgents. So were all of the places in Ghouta listed
by the US State Dept. as being affected by the attack.

Conclusion: Ergo, the mass-execution was carried out by the
insurgents.
[0216] In other, less formal, words, given the condition of the bodies
and given the suffering of the victims not yet dead when they were
videoed, those victims in the KB complex had to have been poisoned in
geographical and temporal proximity to the place and time the videos
were shot and I mean within meters and minutes. That means they
had to have been poisoned in the vicinity of Kafr Batna, if not in the KB
complex itself. But the insurgents had been in control of all of Kafr
Batna and all of the areas around it for at least a year prior to the
massacre.
It would have been impossible for the Assadists to somehow slip into
KB, kidnap 125 men, women, and children undetected, herd them into a
gas chamber, open the valves on 44 L. gas cylinders of CO or CN, and
then escape back into Assadist-held areas, leaving behind the chemical
carnage for the insurgents to have a PR field-day with.
Furthermore, those are not Assadists we see futilely splashing water
into the faces of choking children; those were not Assadists who were
uploading hundreds of videos in an organized PR blitz before the sun
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world within minutes of the whole horrible event starting. If this was a
mass-execution carried out in KB or multiple mass-executions carried
out across Ghouta with CO or CN, as the evidence strongly suggests,
then logic and common sense virtually demand that the Assadists could
not have been the perpetrators.
[0217] And here we come full-circle to the binary-suspects axiom
first introduced in Chapter Two. Recall that that axiom is that the
Ghouta Massacre was perpetrated by either the Assadists or the
insurgents if you eliminate one option, the remaining one is the guilty
party, and weve just eliminated the Assadists. Q.E.D.
[0218] In summary, the 5-Step Pathway to Who comprises both
direct evidence and circumstantial evidence. Consequently, it is a far
stronger case against the insurgents than any case Obama, Kerry, the
NYT, and the Washington Post have made against the Assadists. As is
almost always the case in rejecting one theory and adopting a new one, by
turning our focus to the mass-execution theory we are now forced to
make an enormous context-shift. This will be particularly difficult from
an intellectual and emotional perspective if youre a big Obama fan.
And the reason Im saying that is because weve got Obamas
Secretary of State on record as saying if you dont agree with the sarin
CW case the USG has made against Assad, then you got no conscience
and you got no morals. But now that we have disproved the sarin CW
case against Assad, a lot of people will be questioning Obama and Kerrys
own consciences and morals. For Obama, and Kerry, and Netanyahu
have a tremendous problem on their hands if the world rejects their
Assad sarin-scenario. After all, they have been supporting the insurgents
with money, material, weapons, and training. And if it turns out that
they have been supporting the same insurgents who are responsible for
executing hundreds of children in Ghouta, then Obama, Kerry, and
Netanyahu may be personally, even if indirectly, complicit in the murder
of those children, including the ones we see in the KB complex.
And so, when the public checks the ole moral compass as Kerry
suggested, it may see the needle pointing 180 degrees away from Obama
and Kerry and Netanyahu, and these politicians may end up facing a
public that is outraged not only at the idea that their leaders would be
complicit in a crime against humanity, but also because those same
leaders attempted to blame that crime on Assad, whom they knew to be
innocent, which should be viewed as a separate and distinct crime. This
is why some of my liberal friends are not comfortable with this discussion.
Im not either, but I have promised myself to follow this evidence
wherever it goes and to do what I can to shine a light on whomever the
evidence points to. Im not a Republican, and Im not a Democrat; Im
not a Sunni or a Shia; Im not an insurgent and Im not an Assadist. Im
not even a hawk or a dove. The only dog I have in this fight is the one
trying to sniff out whoever is responsible for killing those kids. I am the
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The Context-Shift: Unspeakable Barbarity

[0219] I have argued that our pharmacological context must shift
from sarin to a rubigenic agent, and I have argued that one inescapable
corollary of this shift in pharmacological context is that one is virtually
required to also shift from a CW attack context to a mass-execution
context. And it is by making this latter shift in context that all of the
evidence begins to look different, and that is because context is
everything.
Context doesnt just influence how we interpret facts, it determines
what facts we see. Context controls what we perceive and what we
conclude about what we perceive. If you are operating within the
context of a sarin CW attack, then you may not even notice a pool of
bright red blood on a white floor of a sun-filled morgue in Kafr Batna
because that blood has no particular relevance to sarin. But if you are
operating within the context of a mass-execution by CO and you know
that CO is a rubigenic toxin that holds hemoglobin in its red form, then
the bright red blood will jump out of your computer screen and grab you
by the ears and scream in your face until you, too, turn red. Under the
sarin-CW attack context most of us naturally looked at the KB complex
as being akin to something the Red Cross or Red Crescent would have set
up, and the idea that someone would be murdered there and bleed all
over the floor simply would not occur to us, but shift the context to the
KB complex being a place where mass-execution was taking place and
the possibility that we are really looking at all sorts of horrors suddenly
occurs to us.
[0220] What really torques the mind and causes us all to mentally
stutter when turning the contextual corner to a mass-execution is that if
these insurgents Sunni extremists, Salafists, Wahabbists, al-Qaeda/al-
Nusra, or whoever gassed scores or hundreds of children so that they
could video them and show their dying and dead faces to the world in
order to shock Obama into attacking the Assadists, then we are dealing
with organized psychopathology the likes of which the world has not seen
since Berlin fell and the Nazis crawled back under their rocks.
We now have to reject all of the pre-conceived, benevolent ideas
about who those workers and loafers are we see in the KB videos, for if
this was a mass-execution, they are certainly not your local Eagle Scouts
helping out in a rough situation. If this massacre was, in fact, a
infanticidal/pediocidal PR stunt, then everyone involved in making those
videos must be suspected of being complicit in that heinous enterprise
and Im talking about all of the workers and loafers; all of the cameramen
and videographers, like Mr. Minnie and Mohammed al-Abdullah; all of
the alleged doctors feeding information out of Ghouta to the West; all
of the insurgents PR conduits in the West such as Eliot Higgins and
Rami Abdulrahman. Given what we now know and can fairly deduce
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all of these people who have contacts with the insurgents and who have
worked so hard to advance the sarin myth as potential suspects. But
thats the reality of this new context; thats the new way we now have to
look at those videos and the people in them.
This is not to say that Assad hasnt committed his own crimes
against humanity for which he should be prosecuted. It is only to say
that to get to the bottom of the Ghouta Massacre we have to wipe the
slate clean of all of the previous unfounded and disproved speculations;
we have to purge from our neuronal CPUs all foregone conclusions that
have been planted there by the insurgents with the help of the gullible or
biased media and politicians.
[0221] I hope you can sense the transition this paper is going
through at this point. There is a distinction between gathering evidence
in an attempt to understand a situation, which is what Ive been doing up
to this point, and using evidence to prove what you believe the truth to
be, which is where I am now. For it is now time to step out of the old
context and into the new one and to look at the evidence differently to
switch from asking Can the evidence tell us what happened? to asking
Does the evidence support the theory that this was a mass-execution?
And with this shift in emphasis and context we are wading into
completely uncharted territory. For I know of absolutely no comparable
example in all of history where evidence of a mass-execution has been
recorded in detail and intentionally shown to the world by the
perpetrators in order to achieve a military objective. I know of no
precedent in all of human history where the world has the opportunity
obligation to look at that evidence and contemplate the denizens of the
nether regions of our species and ask what should be done about them.
In the remainder of this Part D I re-evaluate the evidence and
conclude that the KB complex was not a place were poisoned people
were taken to be given medical care and succor. It was more likely a
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Chapter Eleven
How to Kill a Corpse
[Photographs] are the proof of something that was there and no longer is. Like a stain.
Diane Arbus
The in situ death of corpse M-015

[0222] As I looked around the SunMorgue through the camera
lenses of the anti-Assadist photographers and videographers, I couldnt
help but wonder about some of the odd things I was seeing in those four-
score and six bodies of mixed gender and age filling the place from wall to
wall. Oddities like a coin placed over a dead mans heart; corpses with
unmistakably rosy cheeks; the dead guy with his pants pulled down to his
knees in one video and pulled back up in another; phlebotomists Mortia
and Mort, syringes in hand, intently hunkered over people whose blood
had stopped flowing and turned cold hours previously; the corpse
bleeding like a stuck pig onto the white floor; a smudge that appears on a
dead girls white legging between two videos; unlabeled syringes lying
everywhere . . hold on . . back it up. A corpse bleeding?? Yes, there he
is in videos SM-a and SM-b: a corpse lying in a pool of his own fresh
blood . . . in a morgue. Do dead people bleed? Lets rewind this thing
and zoom in.

[0223] If you have viewed SM-a or SM-b for yourself, you will have
seen this pool of blood because it is so conspicuous you would have to
shut your browser down, turn your computer off, and close your eyes to
miss it. I am talking about that shockingly bright red blood stain smack
in the middle of the floor of the SM, as shown in the screen-grab above.
The one shaped like a rhinos head.
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sarin myth is exactly what it is bunk. Only pure arterial blood could
have been that red unless, perhaps, the blood came from someone
poisoned with CO, CN, or some other rubigenic toxin.
But having now left the sarin myth behind and turned the corner
psychologically to look at the Ghouta Massacre independently of what
the USG and the MSM claim happened, this blood stain becomes more
than just your innocent, every day rhino-shaped blood stain on the floor
of a make-shift morgue. Suddenly it becomes another of many sickening
indicia suggesting what all of these KB complex videos and stills are
really showing us is a mass-execution unfolding virtually before our eyes.
Check your seatbelt, its gonna get bumpy.

[0224] It can hardly be disputed by anyone with functional cones in
their retinas that the blood we are looking at on the SM floor is
incredibly bright red, and that aspect alone is shocking, if not unnerving,
because all of the people in the SM were brought there, presumably,
because they were dead. But as fresh as that blood looks, the person it
came from could still have been bleeding even as the videos were taken.
In other words, he could still have been alive. Normal blood spilled out
onto the floor and exposed to the air does not remain bright red for more
2
than a few minutes. It dries out, gives up its O and turns a greyish
brown. Anyone who has ever nicked themselves with a razor knows that.
But the thing that is most wrong with that pool of blood on the SM
floor is not the color, but that there is any blood at all. This is a morgue
at noon and these people were supposed to have been killed in the wee
hours of the morning these corpses should not be bleeding blood of any
color. Their pulse should be 0 beats per minute. Their blood pressure
should have dropped to 0 over 0 long ago, where it will stay for eternity.
Thats what being dead is all about.
Once a persons heart stops, their cardiovascular system loses
pressure and there is no force to push the blood out of the body. You can
bleed-out a pig or deer by cutting its throat and hanging it up by its rear
legs, but these folks were flat on the floor and gravity was not going to
pull their blood from their bodies even if there were an opening.
So, one naturally has to ask: How does one bleed all over the floor
with no pulse and no blood pressure 10 hours after one has died? What
possible scenario could explain what we are seeing? We need more facts.
[0225] The first step in sorting this out is to be sure weve got the
right victim connected to the blood stain. To get us oriented I have
produced Fig. 123, below. Panels A and B comprise a two-image
panorama screen-grab from SM-a showing three bodies in the middle of
the SM. Panel C, also from SM-a, shows the arrangement of three
additional bodies that are relevant to this discussion. All of the panels
have been rotated as best I can to show the bodies oriented as in the SM,
lying east to west, their heads to the west, arbitrary north is still up.
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already seen most of them:
M-015 is indicated in red in the schematics because this is the
bleeding body, which is to say, the person who was murdered. We
havent seen this body previously. He is the subject of this Part D.
B-004, lying immediately south of M-015, is the boy we discussed
when examining the syringes in Part B hes the one from which
Mort was taking a blood sample. (See Fig. 43.)
M-014 is the red-faced body immediately to M-015's left. We have
seen this body in Room #3 where at least three videos show him
lying in the same position and in the same place at the east end of
the room. (See Fig. 74.)
M-011 is lying to the east of, and in line with, M-015 with his head just
inches from the feet of M-015. As noted in Part B, M-011 is an
important reference point because this body is shown in both of the
sun-videos and in all of the still shots of the SM being emptied. M-
011 is in precisely the same position in all of these images. He is also
seen in a group of bodies in Room #3 with four other SM bodies,
including M-012. (See Fig. 73.)
M-012 lies adjacent to and to the left of M-011. This body does not
provide a very useful reference-point because it is not seen in any of
the still shots of the SM and it is barely seen in SM-b. This body
shows evidence of bloody trauma to the head/face. The trauma is
more clearly seen in Rm2-b where the body is seen lying in Room #3
with M-011 and four others. (See Fig. 73.) We will examine this
body more closely below.
W-002 is indicated with a cyan line to match the color of her clothing.
She is seen at the same place at the foot of the western pillar of the
SM in both sun-videos and in most of the still shots, although she is
covered with different blankets from one image to the next.

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Please see Appendix III for a link to this media player and a discussion of its
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Fig. 123. Schematic showing the positions of six bodies near the blood stain. Panels A-C are
all oriented with N at the top. Source: SM-a.

[0226] When I first noticed the large blood stain, I assumed it came
from a head-wound of M-014 and I thought: weird. I mean, we have
many views of M-014 in Room #3 in which he is motionless, apparently
dead, and with no sign whatsoever of any blood or trauma. We know
those Room #3 videos were taken at night and so there can be no
question that by the time SM-a was taken M-014 had to have been dead
for many hours, and here is he bleeding at noon. It was not until I came
upon SM-b and downloaded the VLC media player (which is good for
slowing down videos and stepping through them frame by frame ) that
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I realized the blood is actually coming not from M-014, but from M-015.
Thats what I want to demonstrate now.
In Panels A and B of Fig. 123 I have circled two distinctive parts of
the blood pool. In Panel A you can see where the blood has spread to the
north, as better seen in Fig. 124.

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Fig. 124. Victims B-004, M-015 & M-014, L to R, viewed from the east. SM-
a/00:25

Fig. 124 shows the murder scene as seen from the east. B-004 is on
the left; M-014 on the right; M-015 is in the middle. I have marked two
parts of the blood stain with numbered arrowheads. Arrowhead #1
points to the northen, or rhino, part of the stain shown in Panel A of Fig.
123, above. Arrowhead #2 points to the blood flowing southward.
Fig. 125, below, shows the extent of the blood stain more clearly.
This image is looking from the west.
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Fig. 125. The same scene as Fig. 124, but viewed from the west.
Source: SM-a/01:07
The figure, at the beginning of this section shows part 1 of the stain
magnified. The blood is layered very thinly on the white tile. It has a
distinct, sharp edge. When all the bodies have been removed, this
distinctive, rhino-shaped stain will become an important reference point,
but for the moment I am focusing on it as proof that the blood did not
come from M-014. On close inspection you can see that the head of M-
014 is barely touching the edge of the blood. (See Fig. 125) There is, for
instance, no blood along the sides of M-014's head. The fact that the
blood did not use the tile-line next to M-014's head as a gutter says to me
that the volume of blood flowing north was more limited than the
volume of blood flowing south. See below.
[0227] Arrowhead #2 in Fig. 124 points to the part of the stain
circled in Panel B of Fig. 123 and shown in close-up in the next figure,
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Fig. 126. The elongate
southern portion of the
blood stain. Source: SM-
b/00:55
This blood has run (or is running) to the south, along a gap between
two tiles, which acts like a gutter. The blood is deep enough that it has
overflowed the gutter on the eastern side and forms a what looks like a
series of waves of diminishing amplitude. Because of its volume and
depth in the crack, it does not look as bright red as the thinly-spread
rhino portion of the stain. The principle is that when light is transmitted
through a thin blood stain, such as the light reflected off the floor and
back through the rhino-stain, the blood appears more intensely red than
when the light is reflected off of the blood. Blood in a test-tube looks a
lot darker than the same blood spread onto a microscope slide.
[0228] In Fig. 124 I have also labeled three tile-lines A, B, and
C. From the videos you can see that line A runs right down the
centerline of M-015 and continues east right down the centerline of M-
011. That tile-line will soon be helpful as an indicator of where M-015
was lying after the body was removed. M-014 is lying slightly right of
center of tile-line B, and B-004 slightly right of center of tile-line C.
The blood stain thus extends from line C to half a tile-width
beyond line B, or, based on a tile-size of 17 inches, a total of 40 inches,
or so. There is some blood spreading to the west, toward the label A in
Fig. 123, as well. Thus, the blood has spread in three directions from M-
015.
[0229] Heres what we can say from just the evidence from the two
sun-videos:
First, with respect to the head of M-015, blood has spread in three
directions.
Second, the left side of M-015's head has been packed with a blue
blanket, almost certainly meant to contain the blood-flow. I discuss
the blanket below.
Third, there was so much blood loss that it flowed onto the floor, and
pooled this was not a mere splattering.
Fourth, that last observation is amplified by the fact that the blood
flowed out from under the blue blanket, which means that at the
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of blood to saturate at least the bottom part of the blanket.
Fifth, and most frightening: the blood is not coming from M-015's
head. Its coming from his throat.
[0230] I have provided blue circles in Fig. 124 and in Fig. 127,
below, to draw your attention to a point where M-015's blood is soaking
into the blue blanket. It is not coming from under his head; it is flowing
from the left side of his throat, into the blanket, and then onto the floor.
M-015 was hemorrhaging from his throat.
You may be asking yourself the same question I asked myself when I
saw this situation: What causes a corpse lying supine on the floor of a
morgue amongst almost 90 other corpses to start hemorrhaging, much
less from the throat? The universe of possible explanations is not
infinite. In fact, I can only think of one: M-015 suffered a wound to the
throat, which must mean he was stabbed in the throat or had his throat
cut. This is going to get even more gory, but follow me.

The bloody, blue blanket
[0231] The bloody, blue blanket you see in these images is the main
piece of evidence that the blood came from M-015 and that M-015 was
murdered right there where we see him lying in the SM. If we examine
the blanket closely enough, I believe the case for murder-one becomes
virtually bullet-proof.
When the cameraman who took SM-a first tip-toed past the male
bodies as he worked his way from the entrance of the SM at the east end
to the west end, he passed by M-015 too quickly to give us a good look.
But when he made his return trip, he slowed down. He got back to M-
015 just as two gun shots are heard, and he flinched. (See Appendix II,
More SunMorgue Oddities.) By slowing down at that point he gave us a
pretty good look at the situation Fig. 125 likely because he didnt
realize what horror had occurred before he arrived and didnt know what
he was about to upload evidence of a murder for the world to see.
[0232] Figs. 124 & 125, above, show very clearly how the blue
blanket has been packed under M-015's head and shoulders, and around
his neck. There is a white towel lying on the front of his throat. Blood
has soaked upwards into the white towel, as can be seen in both sun-
videos. Blood is flowing downwards into the blue blanket about the level
of M-015's left ear. Fig. 127 shows this downward flow magnified. This
angle shows not only that blood is soaking into the blue blanket, but also
into the left shoulder and collar of M-015's grey shirt. Clearly, M-015 is
the source of the blood more precisely, his throat area. (To me, his
right eye looks like it has taken a punch, but this is more apparent on one
of my screens than the other, so it may be artifact. No other scars, or
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Fig. 127. The same view as Fig. 125 magnified to show the
bloody collary and shoulder of M-015's shirt. SM-a/01:07
[0233] Whilst the initial impression is that M-015 has suffered a
bloody wound to the back of the head, given that he is lying supine, that
seems unlikely, particularly with the blood soaking the shoulder area of
the shirt like it is. And a wound to the back of the head wouldnt stain
the white towel on the front of his throat. It is far more likely that M-
015 was hemorrhaging from the throat.
The bleeding began after he was put on the floor horizontally, as
indicated by lack of blood stains on his shirt other than his shoulder and
collar. The blue cloth was packed around M-015's left shoulder to soak
up the blood. There is no blanket on his right side, indicating the wound
is to the left side of his throat.

[0234] The blue cloth itself is noteworthy. The cloth is probably
cotton or light-weight flannel that would be fairly absorbent. Magnified
views of it show that it has a fanciful, childrens design. You can see the
same unusual pattern in blankets covering two other victims in the SM
one a mans body, and the other a body of unknown gender in the
womens area. All of these blue kiddie-blankets are seen in the same
video, six seconds apart, so it is not one blanket being used to cover
different bodies. .
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[0235] Having multiples of such distinctive kiddie-blankets in one
place suggests to me that the SM may have been a childcare facility or
pre-school before being converted to a morgue. But as for using the
blanket to soak up M-015's blood, what is noteworthy is not the pattern,
but the size and absorbency of the blanket. Given that the other two
identical blankets completely cover the bodies, the blankets must be at
least 12-15 feet square. That much light flannel would soak up a lot of
blood. Although Fig. 127, (& etc.) shows the material is mostly dry,
suggesting minimal blood loss, that preliminary impression ignores the
fact that most of the blanket is not visible; it is under M-015's neck
where it has become so saturated that the excess blood is running out
from under it. Later we will see that as the day wore on, the blanket
became completely saturated. In fact, blanket will give is a very good
idea of just how much blood M-015 lost.
[0236] Back in Part B during our orientation stroll through the
SM, I showed you a number of still shots of the SM taken after it was
mostly emptied I refer to them as the al-Abdullah photos. (See Figs. 16,
17, and 20) These photos show the same gross, blood soaked blanket still
on the SM floor after M-015 as well as B-004 and M-014 were
removed. I have copied those images into the SM schematic, below.
What I intend to do here is to convince you that that blood-soaked rag in
those still images is the same blue childs blanket that was packed around
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Fig. 130. Schematic summarizing various views of the bloody, blue
blanket.
[0237] The primary way to prove that the blood-soaked rag in Fig.
130 is the bright blue blanket in Fig. 127 is to establish that in all of these
images it is in precisely the same place and thats were the floor tiles
come in. For instance, Fig. 131 is panel C of Fig. 130 magnified.
Fig. 131. Enlargement of Panel C from Fig. 130.
The two red circles to indicate the same two areas of the blood
stain that are marked 1" and 2" in Fig. 124. The rhino-shaped stain 1"
is evident and can also be seen in all of the panels in Fig. 130 if you look
closely. In all of these views, the blanket is in precisely the same location
with respect to these two conspicuous stains. Please also note what looks
like a rod or stick in the blanket. Yellow arrow.
Also note in panels A-D above how the blanket has not changed
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position with respect to: 1) victim M-011; 2) victim W-002; and 3) the
body draped with the white blanket lying on the south side of the pillar in
D. (This latter body does not appear in the sun-videos, at least not
next to the pillar. She serves as a reference point only for these still
images.)
[0238] By aligning these reference points in the video taken before
the bodies were removed and the still images were after, I believe it is
incontestible that the bloody rag was not disturbed when M-015, M-014,
B-004 and many other bodies were removed from the SM.
[0239] Finally, Fig. 132 is a portion of panel D from Fig. 130 to
which I have added a yellow line extending from the head of M-011 to
the bloody blanket. That yellow line is placed on a joint between two
rows of tiles. M-011 is lying such that his midline is right over that joint.
If you go back and review the sun-videos, you will see that the centerline
of M-015 was positioned on that same tile-line it is the tile-line marked
A in Fig. 124.
In other words, the yellow line represents the centerline and length
of M-015's body. And, just as the yellow line indicates, inspection of the
sun-videos shows that M-015's feet were on the transverse tile-line just a
couple of inches above M-011's head, and M-015's body extended almost
exactly four tiles. But the important thing is that Fig. 132 shows that the
bloody blanket is still in the exact same position where M-015's head was
before he was taken out of the room four tiles to the west of M-011's
head.

Fig. 132. The yellow line represents the center-line of M-015 before he was
removed from the SM. The image is panel D of Fig. 130 magnified. Source
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[0240] There is a reason for going to all of this effort to establish
beyond any doubt that the bloody blanket in the still images is the same
as the blue blanket seen in the sun-videos. For the way that blanket has
changed in appearance between the time it was shown packed around
the head of M-015 in the sun-videos and the time al-Abdullah took the
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about the murder of M-015.
For instance, by looking at the isolated bloody blanket saturated with
blood, we can get a feel for the volume of blood that drained out of M-
015's body after he was brought into the SM. It would take at a lot of
blood to saturate a cotton blanket that size. Also, because the upper
surface of the blanket is so clean and pristine in the sun-videos and so
gross in the still images, we can deduce that M-015 lost a lot of that
blood into the blanket after the videos were shot in other words, blood
was still leaving his body as the PR guys were shooting the sun-videos,
which suggests that in those videos we are looking at a man who is being
left to bleed-out on the floor of the SM. And no one in those videos
including the cameramen is doing anything to help him.
It is also noteworthy that the blood on the floor in the bloody blanket
photos has dried and lost the bright, cherry red hue seen in the videos.
Whereas both of the sun-videos show the blood as being bright red, by
the time the later still shots were taken the blood stains had changed to
brick-red. Thus, the bright color of the blood in the sun-videos suggests
that not much time passed between the time M-015's throat was cut and
the sun-videos were taken, whereas much more time must have passed
after SM-b was taken and when al-Abdullah took the still shots.
The degradation of the bright red color over this period might also be
evidence that M-015 had been poisoned with CN instead of CO. As
discussed in Part C, CO binds to hemoglobin very tightly and the red
form is maintained for hours, but in CN poisoning, the Hb will slowly
revert to the blue-form.
Eliminating the pre-bloodied floor possibility

[0241] Having stepped through this whole M-015 murder scene and
examined the blood evidence in grisly detail, it makes a very tight case
that M-015 was murdered as he lie on the floor of the SM. But a skeptic
might justifiably ask: How do we know the floor wasnt all bloody when
they brought M-015 in? After all, the only image we have seen so far of
the SM prior to video SM-a is the view in SM-c taken in the dark hours
of the night when the floor had pools of muddy water on it. (See Fig. 8.)
Fortunately, I have stumbled upon a still-shot that addresses this very
question, and a couple of others as well. It tells us a lot about the
logistics of the SM operation.
[0242] In Figs. 133 & 134 I have juxtaposed this still shot with a
view of the SM we have already seen numerous times. Fig. 133 was taken
at about sunup, which was 6:00AM. You can tell because of the faint
light from the far window reflecting off the window frame and western
wall and because the florescent lights are still on. This is the earliest
view I have found of the SM after SM-c, the night video. In 133, the
muddy puddles have dried and the floors are clean.
Fig. 134 is a screen-grab from video SM-a. It shows Mort as he is
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drawing blood from the boy in the green jogging pants, B-004. (See Fig.
43.) The differences in these images, taken about 6 hours apart, are
remarkable.
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Fig. 133. The SunMorgue at about daybreak as show in a still shot. Source.
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Fig. 134. The SunMorgue at about noon as seen in SM-a/00:23.
[0243] In order to get oriented let me begin with elements that are
common to both images. Both images are taken looking toward the
western end of the room, and so in both images the windows are on the
left. The cameraman in 133 was standing approximately in the childrens
corner. Most evident is body W-002 wrapped in a cyan cloth seen in
both images. As we have seen W-002 is a near-constant feature in the
SM images. B-004 is also visible in both images, but just his head is
visible in Fig. 134. What is different is the position of his head it has
been turned to his left if Fig. 134. Please review videos SM-a and SM-b
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In the early morning image, 133, B-004 is shown flanked to his right
by three men, all of whom are in black pants and white tee-shirts. There
are no syringes visible in this early image, and the reason I point that out
is that when discussing the syringes above I suggested that the reason so
many men and children had their pants pulled down was so that the
phlebotomists could get to their inguinal area to draw the blood. And
yet the second man to B-004's right in the dawn photo has his pants
pulled down almost to his knees while his belt is still buckled, and yet
there is no sign of syringes or blood being drawn in this early view. Later,
a blood-filled syringe does appear on that mans stomach in SM-a.
Apparently, there was another reason for this victims clothes to be
rearranged.
In the early photo there is no one immediately to B-004's left there
are just four people in that row of bodies. M-015 had not yet been added
to the row at the time the image was taken. But he had been brought
into the SM and the stretcher was just being put on the floor when the
photo was taken the foot end of the stretcher is still off the floor.
By the time SM-a was taken (Fig. 134) the following changes took
place in that row of bodies.
a) The man to the far left, closest to the windows had been removed.
b) The spaces between the remaining bodies were eliminated and the
bodies were all pushed closer to each other and closer to the
windows. This being pushed to the right may have been what caused
the head of B-004 to turn to the left.
c) M-015, having been laid on the floor, was pushed up against B-004.
d) M-014 was brought in and laid to the left of M-015.
Consequently, in the sun-videos B-004 is shown flanked by two men
on his right and two on his left, all four of them dressed in black pants
and white tee-shirts.
[0244] Another interesting difference between the early morning
and noon images is that in the early morning three small children were
placed at the far end of the room, along the western wall. They are
indicated by the yellow ellipse in Fig. 133. Subsequently, those children
were replaced by three adult men. If you magnify this part of the image,
you will see that one of these children had on bright orange pants. I
suspect it is the same child with bright orange pants shown in the
childrens corner in both of the sun-videos. But other than these
rearrangements, all of the bodies in the early morning image are in about
the same place in the noon image, although the bodies are more tightly
packed in the later view.
[0245] A final point of interest before returning to the bloody floor
and M-015 is that a gold ring was snatched from one of the victims
sometime after the early-morning image was made but before SM-a was
shot. I have circled the ring in Fig. 133 and it is magnified in Fig. 135,
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finger of victims left hand.
Fig. 135. The disappearing ring.

When we next see this victim in SM-a, his pants have been opened
and the ring is gone. Fig. 136. He is not shown at all in SM-b; his place
in the row is empty.

Fig. 136. SM-a/01:13
[0246] But the point here is the blood or rather, the absence of
blood. There is no indication of any blood whatsoever in Fig. 133. Not
on the floor, not on victim M-015. No bloody blue blanket. Fig. 137 is
the relevant part of Fig. 133 enlarged.

Fig. 137. M-015 is brought into a bloodless SunMorgue
[0247] When M-015 was brought into the SM, the white towel had
already been placed over his face. There is no sign of blood on the cloth,
whereas, as noted above and shown in Fig. 138, the blood is very evident
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Fig. 138. Bloody white towel. SM-b/00:52.
It is noteworthy that when we compare SM-a (Fig. 139) and SM-b
(Fig. 140) we can see that sometime between the taking of the two videos
a blood stain appeared on M-015's tee shirt just adjacent to his wrist.
Unfortunately, we cant see the rest of the tee shirt because of the white
towel and the grey shirt he was wearing. (See Fig. 133)

Fig. 139. SM-a/00:24.
Fig. 140. SM-b/00:51.
Those red markings on M-015's forearm look like blood but I dont
think they are. They appear first in video SM-b. If you look closely at
other mens bodies in the SM you will see similar markings. If you read
Arabic, please send me an English translation.
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[0248] Finally, I would ask you to take note of the most subtle
change of all, but one that must be considered highly probative. Please
compare the fingers of M-015's right hand in the early morning image
(Fig. 137) vs. the noon image (139). If the man was murdered, it was
between these two images. In the earlier image his fingers are almost
completely extended; the hand looks relaxed as it would be if he were,
say, in a toxin-induced coma. But in the later image, his hand is
clenched.
And the reason Im raising this is that there is a phenomenon called
cadaveric spasm and this looks to me to be an absolutely classic case
at least from what I have been able to learn about it.
Cadaveric spasm is a form of rigor mortis that happens immediately
at the time of death, whereas normal rigor mortis takes 5 hours or more
to develop. A cadaveric spasm does not affect the whole body, just
isolated muscle-groups, and most often a hand, causing the fingers to
clench. If M-015 died just before or during the filming of SM-a, then his
fist becoming clenched was certainly not normal rigor.
But heres the kicker: this phenomenon is rare, but it is most
commonly seen as indicating the agonal endpoint of a violent death.
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Some references say a highly emotional death. If this is a cadaveric
spasm we are looking at, it would have to mean that M-015 was
conscious when his throat was cut or stabbed.
Murdered: the inescapable conclusion

[0249] All we had to do in order to conclude that sarin was not used
to poison the KB victims was to compare skin color and note whether or
not the expected symptoms like vomiting and defecation are seen. We
didnt need to speculate given the principles of pharmacology, the
evidence speaks for itself. But any conclusion we reach about what
happened to M-015 must perforce be based on circumstantial evidence
and deduction. We can only try to ascertain the best explanation of
what we see based on experience and common sense.
We have a clear record that when M-015 was brought into the SM in
the early morning of Aug21.2014, the room was almost full of bodies,
there was no blood on the floor, there was no bloody rag, there was no
blood visible on him. His fingers were relaxed and extended. But by
noon the circumstances with respect to this body were drastically
different: there was blood all over the floor bright red, fresh blood
there was a bloody blanket packed against his throat to stanch the blood
flow, a white towel covering his face was blood-stained, the collar of his
shirt was soaked in blood. And the fingers of his right hand were
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[0250] This scene has turpitude written all over it, for there could
hardly be a stronger circumstantial case that M-015 was murdered right
there in the middle of the SunMorgue, almost before our eyes, just before
the insurgent PR guy with the camcorder arrived to film video SM-a.
The fact that the blue blanket later became saturated with blood
indicates M-015 was still bleeding into it when the sun-videos were
recorded. This is likely the closest most of us will come to actually
witnessing a murder. I dont know about you, but for me, its close
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Chapter Twelve

The Murder of M-015: What It Means
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The flag of the al-Nusra Front
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Aldous Huxley
[0251] The case of M-015's murder is so dramatic we are at risk of
losing the larger point in it. It is a small case within a larger one. For his
murder tells us what the KB complex was all about and who those
workers and loafers were, and they, in turn, tell us what the Ghouta
Massacre was all about. This guy had been murdered, almost before our
eyes. Judging from how fresh the blood was, he may have still been alive
and bleeding-out as videos SM-a and SM-b were being taken, and all the
while Mort and Mortia and the other insurgents in the room were calmly
going about their business. I mean, all of those people milling around
and yet the only thing anybody did to try rectify M-015's obvious problem
was to attempt to contain the spreading blood with the blue blanket.
And these are what Kerry refers to as heroic first responders.
Somehow, I dont heroism here.
What can this bloody situation mean?
Trying to piece it together

[0252] As a starting point, we might consider how M-015 got into
the SM. We have pictorial evidence that he didnt just walk in bleeding
from the throat, find an empty slot between B-004 and M-014, lie down,
and die. We know that the room was already near full to over-flowing
when M-015 was carried in and placed at the end of a neat row in the
same manner and, presumably, for the same reason as every other corpse
in the room. So then, why the bloody mess? How does a corpse bleed
like that even if someone does stab it in the throat? And why would you
kill a corpse, anyway?
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was alive. Which can only mean that it was the people in that room who
took his life. Not the Syrian Army, not Assad, not sarin the insurgents
we see in the videos. Kerrys heroic first responders were the killers.
[0253] When we were looking at those workers in the KB complex
under the now discarded sarin-CW attack context, we naturally
presumed that they are there to try and save people who were exposed to
sarin, to give them comfort, to inject them with the antidote atropine or
an anti-convulsant, and, when their best efforts failed, to bury the victims
respectfully. We presumed that while the workers we see may have
lacked skills and knowledge and resources for handling a sarin attack, at
least they had the right intentions.
So if M-015 was mistakenly taken to the SM even though he was still
alive, and if for some reason he started bleeding after being taken there,
then surely, upon seeing the blood and realizing he was still alive, he
would have been removed immediately to a place where he could have
received treatment, including bandages. If these workers were there to
help the victims, why would they let this man just lie there and bleed? I
mean, even as M-015 is bleeding, Mort is drawing blood from B-004 right
next to M-015, nonchalantly using the bleeding guys stomach to hold
fresh syringes.

Fig. 141. As M-015 bleeds, Mort uses his belly as a syringe-holder. SM-a/00:24
[0254] But if the dead women, children, and men we see in the SM
were executed, then these workers and loafers milling around are
certainly not trying to save anybody, and their disinterest in the bleeding
man is explicable. In the context of a mass-execution, all of these
workers we see in face-masks or just from the waist down have only the
most depraved intentions. The entire KB complex turns from a rescue
operation into a venue for a crime against humanity. When we see these
workers in the videos, they are most likely playing the roles of caring
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[0255] And so, trying to pull all of this together, the only scenario
that makes any sense to me rejects the view that this is a Red Crescent
emergency center staffed with heros and well-meaning people. What I
see is a scenario that goes something along the following line:
Sometime during the early morning of Aug21.2013, the insurgents
gassed M-015, along with the rest of the people we see in the KB
complex. They used CO and/or CN, and may have used those
windowless rooms in the DM where we have seen so much suffering
and so many 44 L. gas cylinders scattered around.
The SunMorgue was not used to gas people it has too many windows
and doors and would leak like an NSA contractor. Rather, the SM
was a staging area between execution and burial. It was also a photo-
op center. As groups of people were exterminated throughout the
night, the insurgents brought some of the bodies into the SM. By
noon, when SM-a was taken, the insurgents had executed at least 86
people and nearly filled up the SM with their bodies. We dont know
how many additional sun morgues there were in the KB complex,
and so we dont have any way to estimate the total chemical carnage
there. Although many bodies from the DM are later seen in the SM,
some arent, and none of the people who were alive in the DM ever
showed up in the SM, and so we cant know their fate or where they
were taken.
Both CO and CN usually produce coma prior to death, and so, when
gassing large numbers of people it would seem almost inevitable that
there would be some victims who looked dead but were actually in a
deep coma. M-015 was one of those. He was a large man, and larger
people are generally harder to poison because drugs can be taken up
and sequestered by their larger fat deposits.
The insurgents carried the comatose M-015 up to the SM thinking he
was just as dead as the others. As we can see in Fig. 133, they
covered his face with the white towel for some reason, and that may
have concealed some of the signs that he was alive. He was laid
down to the left of B-004. Other bodies were placed around him
M-014 to his left, M-011 at his feet. Nice and tidy.
Around noon, not long before the videographer started filming SM-a
but hours after being placed on the floor in the SM, victim M-015
coughed, or moaned, or moved. The cadaveric spasm suggests he
even regained consciousness. At any rate, the insurgents realized he
was not dead. Instead of taking him back down into the DM and
finishing him off there, they grabbed whatever was handy and
stabbed him in the throat or slit his throat and left him to bleed-out
in situ right where he lay. They grabbed one of the blue blankets and
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towel soaked up some of the blood, but most of it drained into the
blue blanket and onto the floor.
At the time his throat was stabbed or slit, M-015 was just barely alive
and so his blood pressure would have been close to nil. There would
not have been a high-pressure spewing of blood like the insurgents
normally enjoy uploading to their YouTube channels. Consequently,
there is no blood splattered around. Because M-015's circulatory
system was already in a low-pressure state at the time they finished
him off, his blood, pushed by what little pressure was left in his
cardiovascular system, slowly drained out of his body and was silently
absorbed by the blue kiddie blanket until it became saturated. Some
of the blood ran onto the floor. It formed a wee crimson rivulet that
ran down the gutter formed by two tiles in one direction. It flowed in
the other direction past M-014's head and formed a rhinoceros-
puddle.
Moments later, sometime around noon, an insurgent PR cameraman
came through the SM shooting SM-a to upload to the world. Not
long after that, the second insurgent PR cameraman came through
and shot SM-b and uploaded it, too. Consequently, M-015, the
rivulet, and the rhino-head blood stain all became a part of the DiFi
Package produced for the perusal of Congress and the American
people, and authenticated by the Obama administration as bona fide
proof Assad had gassed his own people
Quite a while after the sun-videos were shot, the insurgents took M-
015 out of the SM, carefully stepping over the blue, bloody kiddie-
blanket, which by then was no longer sky-blue but a gory, brick-red,
mess completely saturated with the murdered mans blood.
As the light waned and that sad, sanguinary day was coming to an end,
the SM became increasingly emptied. Mohammed al-Abdullah and
other insurgent PR photographers arrived and shot the last still
photos of the SM, the little girls G-004 and G-010 had not yet been
removed. After they had their photographs the PR guys dutifully
uploaded them to the Internet in yet another attempt to convince
the world that the Assadists had committed the horrible atrocities
seen in the KB complex. Gullible newspaper editors all around the
world bought the hook, bought the line, and bought the sinker,
swallowed them all, and started screaming SARIN!!! Soon F-16
pilots at the US strategic airbase at Incirlik, Turkey were being
briefed on their next mission and Obama was on the hook giving his
buddy Netanyahu a heads-up that an attack on Syria was less than
48 hours away.

[0256] We need a reality check. This clear evidence of the
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a pig can only mean one thing: the people we see in these videos were not
trying to save lives. In fact, when you look at all of these KB videos
closely SM and DM both it may occur to you as it did to me, no one is
actually trying to help any of these victims, unless you consider pouring
water down their noses helping. I mean there is not a single act in these
videos that could not be fairly interpreted as totally phony play-acting for
the PR cameras. The only evidence I can see of any of these workers or
loafers doing anything to change the situation of any of the victims is this
case of M-015, where they very apparently changed his situation from
barely alive to bled-out dead. Now, recalling Kerrys speeches in which
he calls these people heroic first responders, I get a little nauseous.
Another slit throat?

[0257] Whilst victim M-015 is the only body in the KB videos that
has obviously been drained of blood right there on the floor of the SM,
there are a couple other images that suggest there may have been other
instances of brutality going on behind the camcorders and cameras in
the KB complex. There is the strange case of victim M-012, for instance.
[0258] Fig. 142 is a screen-grab from video Rm2-b, showing a few
seconds of DM Room #3. Panel A is the un-corrected image. Panel B
is a portion of A magnified, lightened, and color adjusted to enhance red
saturation. The left side of M-012's face is deep red, which may be a
bloody wound, a hematoma, a chemical burn, a dermatological
abnormality, a . . . well, it could be many things. It is not really possible
to say in the poor light. His lips are also messed up. Up close, there is no
apparent source for the blood no laceration, no bullet hole. The very
clean borders of the red stain and his clean neck and throat area are not
consistent with blood coming from a bleeding wound, at least not
bleeding when the video was taken. Its very odd, that stain.
.
Fig. 142. A. Original screen-grab. B. Image A magnified, digitally lightened
and color balance adjusted.
Rm2-b/00:02
Although the lighting isnt great, its good enough to see that there is
The bright spot inside the green circle appears to be a metal object reflecting
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light. It changes shape as the camera moves past M-012.
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something else odd here besides the shape of the blood stain. M-012's
shirt collar is pulled apart and his shirt is completely un-buttoned. There
is blood on his chest. There is also an unsettling area on his throat
(circled) that cannot be interpreted with a large degree of certainty, but
looks an awfully lot like his throat has been slit. There is no blood on the
floor beneath him, suggesting that if his throat was slit, it was done
someplace else. Lets have a look at M-012 in the SM where the light
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[0259] Fig. 143 is taken from SM-a. The position of M-012 with
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respect to M-015 and other victims is shown in the schematic Fig. 123.
We can tell from Fig. 133 that he was brought into the SM after M-015
was.

Fig. 143. SM-a/00:22
In Fig. 142 M-012's head is turned toward his right shoulder, but in
the SM view his head has been turned so that his face is straight up,
giving us a different view of the blood stain and ventral portion of his
throat. The facial blood stain with its sharp edges and his damaged lips
look even stranger in the sunlight. It looks almost like skin has been
removed, as with an asphalt-burn, as if he had been dragged on his face
across pavement. But it may be a hematoma, suggesting he was beaten
badly. The swelling of his lips also indicates trauma.
What I find odd is that so many of the other bodies in the SM have
their pants pulled down and their shirts pulled up and are left that way
for the cameras in a most disrespectful treatment of the dead. But
sometime between when he was in the DM and when SM-a was taken
someone went to the trouble to button-up M-012's shirt, almost as if by
an undertaker preparing the body for a viewing or perhaps to conceal a
ghastly wound to the dead mans throat. His collar is no longer wide
open; the blood from his chest that we see in Fig. 142 has seeped through
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(circled) that could be interpreted that the insurgents turned the mans
head straight up, to close a gaping throat laceration.
And then there is his shoe.
[0260] Once you notice it, it is quite striking how, with few
exceptions, all of the victims in the SM have bare feet. And if you closely
observe these bare feet, they are, by and large, very clean, suggesting their
shoes or sandals were removed after the people took their last steps. As a
person who does his best to spend all summer barefoot, I know how
quickly the soles of ones feet become solid black, even just slouching
around the house, which may tell you something about my housekeeping.
And yet in all of these people in the SM I can find only one pair of bare
feet that look even mildly used.
But I am diverging . . . the point I am getting to is that M-012 is one
of the few bodies with shoes. He has running shoes and dark socks at
least on his right foot; we cant see his left one. And this right shoe is
relevant because the sole appears to be blood-stained, which suggests
that one of the last steps M-012 took was into a puddle of blood. I dont
know how else blood gets on the bottom of a cadavers shoe.
Fig. 144. Blood-stain on the sole of M-012's running shoe? SM-a/00:15
[0261] In the end, I just dont know what to make of M-012. The
images are not clear enough to allow one to conclude unequivocally that
his throat has been cut or that he died by means even more violent than
gassing, and yet that is a possibility, which is made more believable by the
demise of M-015. Of course, the difference in the two cases is the lack of
blood on the floor around M-012. If M-012's throat was slit, it must have
been in some other part of the KB complex or some other location
altogether, then he would have had to have been partially cleaned up
when he was taken to Room #3. Finally when he was taken to the SM
for the photo-op, his shirt was closed up in an effort to conceal the
wound. This is speculation talking, not fact or even allegation of fact.
But this much is clear: M-012, unlike M-015, was not murdered in the
SM itself and was not left to bleed-out there. There has to be
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The cranberry collar
[0262] Victims M-015 and M-012 are not the only bodies in the SM
with throat anomalies suggesting they may have died in a spasm of al-
Nusra-style YouTube depravity. For there is also victim M-021, who has
a very odd cranberry collar around his throat.
Fig. 145. A. Victim M-021. Cranberry garrote? B. Magnified view of A.
No other modifications made. SM-b/00:18
Victim M-021 is seen in both of the sun-videos. He is at the east
end of the SM, next to the children. Again, Im looking at red and
thinking the worst; its now a habit. However, that collar does not
appear to be soaked with blood, but when you zoom in (B), it does, in
fact, look like there could be blood on the mans jaw adjacent the collar.
No blood is visible on the floor.
I cannot recall ever having seen a collar like this. The closest I can
think of is a clowns collar or one of those inflatable cushions used by
long-haul airline passengers. Could we be looking at a garrotte of some
sort? Or some way to hide a throat wound? I also cannot interpret M-
021's right hand, which looks like its in a green glove. Please note how
red the lividity is in lower portion of his body.
I have not been able to find any images of this victim other than the
sun-videos, and so I cannot establish even a crude timeline to help piece
together his story. But after seeing what happened to M-015, anything is
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~ Part D Summary ~
[0263] There is a large case for murder here and there is a small case
the case that M-015 was murdered is a small case that is enclosed
within the larger case that the Ghouta Massacre was a mass-execution.
The analogy is a box within a box, but the reasoning might appear
circular.
For I have argued that the murder of M-015 and the presence of his
spaghetti-red blood on the floor of the SunMorgue are important pieces
of evidence that support the case that there was a mass-execution
because that bloody floor has to mean that the SM was a place where
people were murdered. But I also argue that it is only through the
context of a mass-execution that the conclusion that M-015 was
murdered makes sense.
Were this the extent of the argument, it would be as unacceptable as
Obamas and Kerrys flawed syllogism. But the larger case, the case for a
mass-execution, stands on its own independent of whether or not M-015
was murdered. In other words, I do not argue that M-015's murder
proves the mass-execution theory because the mass-execution theory
proves that M-015 was murdered.
[0264] In Part C I developed an extremely linear proof of the mass-
execution theory by using the paradigm of multiple-hypothesis testing to
establish that a rubigenic agent, not sarin, was used to poison the KB
victims. And through the 5-Step Pathway to Who a linear argument in
spite of the serpentine graphic I established that the mass-execution
carried out by the insurgents conclusion was a necessary consequence of
rejecting the sarin hypothesis myth. Consequently, the mass-execution
conclusion stands quite well on its own even if M-015's blood all over the
floor has an innocent explanation, like a ruptured post-mortem pimple or
some other natural cause, however impossible that might seem.
[0265] It is this whole gruesome picture, taken in its entirety the
inner box and the outer box together that has removed any doubt from
my mind that Kafr Batna and, by extension, most of Ghouta was
never subjected to a sarin CW attack on Aug21.2014, but that scores of
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EPILOGUE
Ones Own People
The most precious possession you have in the world is your own people.
Adolph Hitler
[0266] I know that there is a problem in this whole line of mass-
execution argument that must be bothering you: Given that the
insurgents were in control of Ghouta, doesnt the mass-execution theory
mean they would have had to have killed their own people? Did they kill
their own kids? Its a very strong point, at least emotionally, and many
people would argue that it constitutes proof against the mass-execution
theory. Well, maybe not.
[0267] When I was a kid with just a few days of freedom left before
reporting to boot-camp, I drove down to visit my maternal grandmother,
Mae, who lived in a tiny tobacco town in southern Kentucky. Being a
grandmother, Mae was not real keen on the idea of my enlisting in what
was turning out to be the bloodiest American war since WWII and the
most dishonest since the Spanish-American. And she was clear about
her reservations. She was clear on just about everything. Two of her
sons had been sent to Europe during WWII and she knew how hard a
mothers wait can be.
As we sat at her white kitchen table sipping coffee and saying our
good-byes before I got in the car to return home, Mae inventoried her
concerns about how badly my military gig could turn out. About half
way through the list she said: I just hope they put you in with your own
people.
Having grown up in a cow-town in Ohio with only three black kids
in the entire high school and not many more than that in the entire
township, I initially blanked on this standard Southern use of the phrase
your own people as a euphemism for whites. I missed her point
entirely. She was talking the genetic/racial your own people and I was
See
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thinking the nationalistic your own people.
You mean Americans? I asked, totally incredulous that she would
think I might be mixed in with Romanians or Russians in Marine Corps
boot-camp.
I remember thinking about this odd term own people during the
long drive back to Cowtown, and every since own people has been a
red flag warning me to examine closely how it is being used. When
youre looking for it, its amazing how many times youll recognize it being
bandied about by American war hawks trying to whip the public into a
frenzy to justify bombing some small country.
Phrases like own people and chosen people have to be among the
most pernicious racist euphemisms out there. How is it that Hitlers use
of the phrase own people in his famous statement above is seen as
being so overtly racist, and yet US politicians today throw the same
euphemism around all the time and no one takes notice?
I can see three separate own people issues with respect to Syria,
and, more specifically, with respect to the Ghouta Massacre. I believe
these three issues nicely encompass a number of problems and
predicaments regarding what happened in Ghouta on Aug21.2013 and
how the world should respond.
Own people, Issue #1: The rheortic of war

[0268] Long before George W. Bush was first elected president,
his neocon advisors had decided Saddam Hussein had to go that
decision was made 13 years prior to 9/11. By mid-2002 the gassed his
own people meme began popping up all over the place as Bush, Dick
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condelezza Rice, and Colin Powell started
bashing Saddam in order to soften-up the US public for the regime-
change war that had been coming down the pike with 100% certainty
since 1987 when Saddam suddenly backed out of the Becthel Aqba oil
pipeline project. It made no difference to the Bushites that their CW
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casus belli took place during the Reagan administration, or that Reagan
and Bush Sr. not only waived any retaliation but actually gave Saddam
their tacit approval and a green-light for more CW attacks by blaming
Iran for Iraqs attacks, even though the administration knew full who was
responsible. At that point the USG was backing Iraq in the Iraq-Iran war
and the USG wanted that pipeline to the Red Sea. Rumsfeld, who was
not even in the government at that time, was sent to Iraq to make nice
with Saddam and to get the pipeline deal going.
Fifteen years later, the same neocons who advised Reagan to give
Saddam carte blanche to use CWs were advising Bush to tell Americans
that America had a duty to punish Saddam for gassing his own
Joost R. Hilterman reviewed this disgraceful history in a 2003
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NYT article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/opinion/17iht-edjoost_ed3_.html
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/22/se.03.html
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people. And thats the way Bush pitched it to the public. For
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instance in a joint news conference with Mexican President Vincente
Fox on March 22, 2002, Bush said:
Let me put it to you this way, David. What we're telling our friends is
that Saddam Hussein is a man who is willing to gas his own people,
willing to use weapons of mass destruction against Iraq citizens.
Evidently there's a new article in New York magazine, or New Yorker
magazine, or some East Coast magazine, and it details about his
barbaric behavior toward his own people. And he not only did it to his
own people, he did it to people in his neighborhood.
And this is a man who refuses to allow us to determine whether or not
he still has weapons of mass destruction, which leads me to believe he
does. He is a dangerous man who possesses the world's most dangerous
weapons. And it is incumbent upon freedom-loving nations to hold
him accountable, which is precisely what the United States of America
will do. Source
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[0269] Bush was using the genetic/racial version of own people
the same one Mae was using. (Im not sure about Bushs distinction
between Saddams own people and people in his neighborhood, but
thats Bush his cutting remarks were almost always made with a dull
edge of ambiguity that obfuscated the meaning and mitigated the effect.)
If you give it a modicum of thought, Bushs logic was terrifying: Bush
and the neocons argued that Saddams killing thousands of his own
people justified the US going in and killing thousands more of the very
same people in retaliation. Bush and the boys were thinking Theyre not
our people, theyre Saddams, so we can kill as many as we need to in
order to retaliate for him killing any of them. They were, in effect,
arguing for retaliation against the same people Saddam was killing, and
thats exactly what they did and hundreds of thousands of them died.
Thats the power of the war hawks own people style of thinking:
The publics consternation is minimal when you kill the other guys
people, but it is maximal when he kills his own people, even if theyre the
same people youre killing. Like I say, context is everything.
[0270] Whatever they were thinking, reviling Saddam for killing his
own people sure worked because just about the entire Congress,
including Senator John Kerry, got behind the idea of killing hundreds of
thousands of Saddams people because Saddam had killed 30,000, or so.
And now here we are 12 years after mission accomplished and
hundreds of thousands of Saddams own people are dead, and a few
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swinging memory. But then so too is the relative peace Iraqis once knew
under Saddam Iraqis are still dying at the rate of thousands per month.
Maybe if Saddam had stuck with killing other peoples people, things
would have worked out better for him and his own people.
[0271] Which brings us to Ghouta. John Kerry who is no longer a
member of Congress and, apparently, is no longer a Viet vet against war
is now in a position to push for war from within an administration, and I
guess it should be no surprise that he would revert to Bushs successful
approach of softening-up the public for the next war that is coming down
the pike. For Obama, and Kerry, and Hagel have all appropriated the
rhetoric of the neocons and employed that most damming accusation:
Assad is killing his own people, just like Muammar Gaddafi before him,
and Saddam before him. Heres an excerpt from Kerrys speech of
Aug30.2013.
Instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home, we saw rows of
children lying side by side, sprawled on a hospital floor, all of them
dead from Assads gas and surrounded by parents and grandparents
who had suffered the same fate.
The United States government now knows that at least 1,429 Syrians
were killed in this attack, including at least 426 children. Even the
first-responders, the doctors, nurses and medics who tried to save them,
they became victims themselves. We saw them gasping for air, terrified
that their own lives were in danger.
This is the indiscriminate, inconceivable horror of chemical weapons.
This is what Assad did to his own people.
[0272] This he gassed his own people meme has become the
regime-changers magical mantra. Obama and Kerry having thus stated
for a fact certain that Assad gassed his own people, they now have no
alternative but to either attack Assad in faux retaliation or admit they
were wrong. Unfortunately, arrogance and egotism never yield to
honesty even when thousands or hundreds of thousands of lives may be
at stake. We can only hope that the Chief Joints of Staff see this gambit
for what it is this time and can resist being pushed into another neocon
war designed for the sole purpose of removing another of Israels enemies.

But the thing that the gullible public have not quite worked out with
the way the killed his own people meme has been applied to Assad is
that when a faction of your own people turn on you, and when they start
trying to kill you and bring down your government with the help of
foreign governments such as the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey,
they are no longer, technically, your own people. If they were, then
Abraham Lincoln would have also been guilty of killing his own people,
where own people is used in the both in the genetic/racial way Mae
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other words.
I am not suggesting that a despotic government is justified in using
mustard gas or sarin against those who are trying to bring that
government down, clearly the use of CWs is not justified under any
circumstances. What Im saying is that politicians who allege that such a
government under siege has gassed its own people probably have an
ulterior motive for using such inflammatory rhetoric. And once the
accusation is made, there is only one course of action. Retaliation.
Ones own people, Issue #2: The Latakia connection

[0273] But there is another point in the discussion on the Syrian
civil war where killing ones own people comes up when people like
Mother Superior Agnes-Mariam and me speculate that the Ghouta
Massacre was a false-flag operation carried out by the insurgents.
Before the Syrian war began Ghouta was populated by conservative
Sunnis who opposed Assad people who became the insurgents, in other
words. And so the argument goes: the insurgents would not gas their
own children just to upload videos of them dead and suffering in order to
shock the West into attacking Assad. No one would kill their own
people in order to stage a PR stunt. I have two responses.
[0274] First, I agree that for most of us who live in the West in
neighborhoods free of open warfare and daily death, for those of us who
are used to Western norms and having SWAT teams and FBI forensic
specialists to help enforce those norms . . . I agree, rounding up a
thousand of your own people and gassing them for the cameras is
unthinkable. In fact, rounding up a thousand of anybodys people and
gassing them for a PR stunt is unthinkable.
But, then again, when you read about and see videos of the constant
stream of decapitations and the butchery that the insurgents are
perpetrating in Syria, you have to conclude that there is no violence so
extreme as to be taboo to those fools. The only way to conclude that al-
Nusra or ISIS or three dozen other extremist Sunni groups would never
execute their own people in Ghouta to gain a political/military advantage
is to ignore the reality of who these people are, ignore their bloody
history, and ignore the level of depravity they have already demonstrated
they are capable of in Syria.
There is no doubt in my mind that these violent people would make
martyrs of anyone even their own children if they thought the
videos would help Obama convince the American public that Assad
should be attacked. And, as I observed earlier, it nearly worked. If
Obama had not blinked back in early September, al-Nusra and ISIS and
the other violent Sunni/Wahhabi extremists would be in control of
Damascus today.
[0275] My other response to the very legitimate question of whether
http://logophere.com/Topics/2013/539.htm
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http://www.juancole.com/2013/01/decline-hizbullah-middle.html
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Ryan Scadlock wrote
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a very helpful piece on the fractured Syrian sectarian
landscape for Small Wars Journal.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/fracture-lines-the-evaluating-the-possibilit
y-of-a-sectarian-future-for-syria
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Syrian-opposition-Israeli-jets-bomb-missile-laun
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the insurgents would sacrifice their own people for a photo-op is more
complex, and thats because Islam, particularly in the Middle East, is
such an ethnic gumbo that defining what ones own people means is
complex. The secret to understanding the violence perpetrated by
Muslims and Jews in the Middle East is to figure our who hates whom the
most that is, figuring out what I have called the balance of hatreds,
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an analytical paradigm derived from a masterful piece by Juan Cole. In
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order to understand the balance of hatreds in Syria, its necessary to look
at the sectarian lay of the land.
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[0276] About 150 crow-miles north of Damascus lies Syrias main
port-city, Latakia. Latakia City is in the Latakia District, which is in the
Latakia Governorate. This area is the heart of Alawite Syria. (See Fig.
3.) The rural areas of the Latakia Governorate are predominately
Alawite Shia about 70%. Although Syria as a whole is only 10-12%
Alawite compared to 70% Sunni, the Alawites have long held the power.
Assad is Alawite and he is from the Latakia area.
My guess is that unless you are following the Syrian mess very closely
you have not heard about Latakia, for Latakia has not had a high profile
in MSM stories about the Syrian civil war even when significant events
happened there. For instance, in late January 2014, Israel attacked
either by air or from submarines, its not clear yet Russian made S-300
missiles being off-loaded in Latakia. The Israeli press lit up like a
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Christmas tree menorah over the unprovoked attack, but the US press
hardly took notice.
Similarly, in early 2013 a couple dozen Sunni/Wahhabi extremist
groups began surrounding the Latakia region, but there was little
discussion of this initiative in the US MSM. Turkey, which is also Sunni
and is blatantly anti-Assad, borders Latakia to the north. What this adds
up to is a sectarian minority surrounded by violent jihadis of the majority
sect.
Then, on Aug04.2013, one of the most grossly under-reported
massacres of the Syrian conflict occurred when about 20 of the extremist
insurgent groups 20 groups, not 20 people attacked about 10 Alawite
villages in the Latakia countryside in a well coordinated operation. The
groups included the most violent jihadi elements of the insurgency,
including Ahrar al-Sham, ISIS, al-Nusra, Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar,
Suquor al-Iaa. According to the insurgents this Operation to Liberate
http://logophere.com/Syria/Syria%20Docs/Oct11013%20HRW%20report.pdf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltoM0RaC6TM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSOcf5R88mQ
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CLOS
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the Coast was to be an attempt to take the port of Latakia and the large
stores of military goodies delivered from Russia. But the operation smells
a lot more minacious than just your usual troops at war moving through
civilian territory to get where theyre going.
[0277] And the reason I say that is that the Alawite mountain
villages the insurgents attacked were a long way from the sea, and the
villages were virtually unarmed except for a few old men with hunting
rifles. And the insurgents didnt just over-run the villages and the three
Syrian army outposts near the villages and then sweep on towards the
sea. No, they stopped in the villages and executed old and disabled
residents, decapitated or other wise butchered what older boys and men
they could find, and then kidnapped the women and children. And the
emphasis for this discussion is on the kidnapped. These are not
accusations Im pulling out of thin air merely because I detest these
execrable jihadis, this attack was well documented in spite of being
ignored by the American press.
On Oct11, Human Rights Watch published a 100+ page report on
the Latakia Massacre: You Can Still See Their Blood. HRW also
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uploaded a useful video about the massacre. By every account,
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including the HRW report and multiple examples of YouTube-
braggadocio uploaded by the insurgents, this was not a one-off massacre
by an isolated extremist group it was a well-coordinated piece of
butchery involving multiple insurgent groups, including the so-called
moderate Free Syrian Army, who went to a lot of trouble to let the
world know they were a part of the Latakia Massacre, too.
I mean its brutal when they cut the hands off of women to remove
their bracelets and murder dozens of children in cold blood. Its brutal
when they blow away a paralyzed man in his bed and then walk his
geriatric mother to the back yard and blow her away and then put a
video of the event up on YT.
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These Sunni/Wahhabi jihadis opposing Assad are capable of
committing any atrocity that would further their goals and that itself is
a very significant part of the answer to the question of whether they
would kill their own people.
Even though the MSM has all but ignored the Latakia Massacre,
there are now reports of 500 or more Alawite civilians being butchered,
which is more than the lower end of the death toll estimates of the
Ghouta Massacre. The HRW report documents executions of entire
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families in their fields. But while the US news agencies flooded the
airwaves and broadband with news of insurgents being killed in Ghouta,
The following note has replaced an Oct11.13 Guardian article on the Latakia
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Massacre: This content has been removed as our copyright has expired.
Never heard that one before.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/11/syrian-rebels-accused-killing-c
ivilians-latakia
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/world/middleeast/rebels-gain-control-of-g
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there was hardly a peep about insurgents killing Alawites in Latakia. I
dont know of any US news source that covered this massacre at the
time; most have still not. Some, like the Guardian, have even removed
articles they originally published online.
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For instance, when I raised this incident with a friend who is a life-
long NYT junkie, he denied the Latakia Massacre could have happened
at all because he hadnt seen a word about it in the NYT. And therein
lies the problem with many Americans: if they dont see it on CNN or
NBC or FOX or read it in the NYT, it didnt happen.
[0278] I was incredulous that the NYT would have missed the
Latakia Massacre. For those of us following the Syrian conflict online
through competing blogs of pro-insurgents and pro-Assadists, this event
was high profile. I couldnt image that the NYT could have dropped this
ball. So I had a look . . . sure enough, the NYT took a bye on Latakia.
For instance, theres barely a mention of Latakia in Anne Barnards
Aug05 NYT report Rebels Gain Control of Government Air Base in
Syria filed from Beirut the day after the massacre:
Yet to the north, a large rebel force armed with tanks and rocket
launchers pushed deeper into an area that has long been a relatively
quiet government stronghold, the coastal mountains of Latakia
Province, sending civilians fleeing.
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[0279] Pushed deeper thats about it. Not a word about the
massacres, decapitations, kidnappings. How could such a
misrepresentation of the news be considered anything other than
dishonesty or gross incompetence? And how was Barnard able to come
by her biased information she was in Beruit, not Syria. Well . . . it was
through her Skype contacts with insurgents such as Ahmed Farzat, Abu
al-Haytham, and Ammar Hassan, all of whom she quoted verbatim. The
NYT and the rest of the Western SMS have been in bed with the
insurgents from the beginning of this disaster, too, and so that is the side
of the conflict the West is going to go with. Assads people being
murdered is, apparently, not something the editors of the NYT want you
to know about.
A week after the Latakia Massacre, on Aug12, the NYTs Ben
Hubbard briefly sniffed the Latakia Massacre story but also declined to
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/world/middleeast/rebel-chief-in-syria-visit
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s-assads-home-region.html
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/world/middleeast/syrian-civilians-bo
re-brunt-of-rebels-fury-report-says.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10236362/Syrian
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-rebels-accused-of-sectarian-murders.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/02/syria-massacre-reports-alawite
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s-assad
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cover it. No, Hubbard preferred to discuss the difficulties insurgent
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FSA commander Salim Idris was having during his visit to Latakia.
Visit?? Saying that this traitor of the Syrian army had problems when he
visited Alawite Latakia is equivalent to saying that Robert E. Lee had a
few problems on his visit to Gettysburg. But there was not a word from
Hubbard about the massacre or kidnapping. It was not until Anne
Barnards Oct11 article, more than two months after the fact, that NYT
even mentioned the massacre, and then only when reporting the
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release of the HRW Latakia report.
[0280] It seems to me the US news black-out of the Latakia
Massacre is more than just inept reporting. We know that both the US
and Israel are deep into supporting the insurgents, and that has to be a
factor in the US media keeping the lid on this story while expending all
of their ink accusing Assad of the Aug21 SARIN!!! attack.
I mean, the editors at NYT had to know the Latakia Massacre
happened. In the UK where the media are under far less pro-Israel
control, there was some excellent reporting on the event. Within a week
of the event Ruth Sherlock of The Telegraph published what was,
apparently, the first report the Latakia Massacre in the Western MSM.
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Then there was a Guardian story on Oct01 And even the lowly UK
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Daily Mail ran a far more informative story about the Latakia
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Massacre and the HRW Latakia report than what the NYTs Barnard
eventually published.
Now, months later, thanks to the excellent work of HRW, we know
that there is absolutely no question that the Latakia Massacre and
kidnappings took place. With respect to the kidnappings specifically,
HRW said:
During their military offensive, armed opposition groups abducted over
200 residents, the vast majority of them women and children. Human
Rights Watch documented abductions from Barouda, Nbeiteh,
al-Hamboushieh, Blouta, Abu Makkeh, and Bremseh. In many cases
opposition fighters killed adult male family members and abducted
HRW,
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You Can Still See Their Blood , pg 58.
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This insurgent YT channel has been closed down when last checked on
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Apr11.2014. A mp4 copy of the video can be found at
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their relatives.
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And to put the Latakia Massacre beyond dispute, the insurgents
themselves uploaded videos of the massacre while it was underway and,
later, videos of kidnapped women and children being held by brave
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mujahideen captors who hid their faces while they made their demands
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in the name of Allah, of course.
Fig. 146. Insurgent with kidnapped women and children from Latakia.
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[0281] Had it not been for the chatter on the Internet amongst
people trying to make sense of the Syrian civil war, I would have had no
idea the Latakia Massacre happened or that it was possibly Stage I of the
Ghouta Massacre. And the person who was chattering the loudest was
that Carmelite nun, Mother Agnes-Mariam. It was Mother Agnes-
Mariam who made the bomb-shell assertion in her ISTEAMS Report
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that connected the women and children kidnapped from Latakia to the
women and children killed in Ghouta same women, same children, said
the nun.
[0282] In other words, according to Agnes-Mariam, those dead
children we are seeing in the KB videos are not the insurgents own
people. They are Alawite children yes, Alawites, whom many of the
jahadis consider to be apostates, and in radical Islam being labeled an
apostate is a death sentence. And that is the best answer I have found
yet to the question: Would the insurgents have gassed their own people?
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Under the sarin myth there no reason to even ask whether the
insurgents would gas their own people. But having come to the
conclusion that the Ghouta Massacre was a mass-execution carried out
by the insurgents, Agnes-Mariams accusation merges these two events
into a single, large, well-coordinated mass murder. No, the insurgents
didnt sweep through Latakia District on the way to the sea. The
objective of their campaign was to take women and children who would
be gassed and then filmed by Mr. Minnie and his PR colleagues in order
to get the Stupid Americans to do something brash.
[0283] The horrifying implications of Agnes-Mariams accusation
makes one think of macabre story-lines Wes Craven or Stephen King
might come up with. Or Joseph Goebbels. For it has to make you think:
Could anything be more sinister than murdering hundreds of children in
order to make a propaganda video? Even one child? Throwing a bunch
of rockets loaded with sarin into a residential area would be prosecuted
as a war crime and fair enough. But rounding up Alawite women and
children from their homes, trucking them 150 miles into insurgent
territory in Ghouta, and gassing them, say, in the DarkMorgue, in order
to produce a spasm of online violence-porn would be a crime against
humanity severe enough to guarantee a Nuremberg necktie for anyone
involved.
This is a serious accusation. It has been several months since
Mother Agnes-Mariam dropped this bomb-shell and there is still, so far
as I am aware, no positive evidence to prove it. I have looked at every
video of the kidnapped people I can find and I have not been able to
identify any child that is also seen in the SM. That doesnt mean
anything.
The nun has claimed that there are Alawite survivors in Latakia who
recognize their loved ones in the Ghouta videos. Given that her report
inventories 185 kidnapped/missing people by name and village, what she
needs to do now is publicly connect those names to the people in the
Ghouta videos. She needs publicly to say something like: In this morgue
scene, that child in the red shirt is Bachar Jaoudat Chehade, age 2, from
Anbateh, and that one in the pink shirt is Jaafar Adam I Smael, age 2,
from Hanbouchieh. But I know of no one who has connected a single
one of those dead people in the Ghouta videos to any of the people
abducted from Latakia.
[0284] While we dont have this sort of positive evidence that the
victims in Ghouta were the same people kidnapped from Latakia, there is
negative evidence, for none of the 200 or more women and children
kidnapped from Latakia have been released. So far as I have been able to
tell, after six months not a single one has yet to surface. I can find no
reports that they have been released, or exchanged, or have ever been
seen again. The YouTube channel for the insurgents where the videos of
the kidnapped people were originally uploaded has been closed down.
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On Jan14.2014 an anonymous blogger, thelemniscat, published a
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piece claiming that the kidnapped victims are still missing. Included in
that post are photographs of 39 people who were allegedly kidnapped.
Unfortunately, one of the great weaknesses of online research is that it is
so often not possible to verify such information. But the burden is on the
insurgents to prove that the people they kidnapped and claimed to
have kidnapped were not the ones murdered in Ghouta. And the
reasons the burden lies with the insurgents is because 1) Mother Agnes-
Miriams allegation is consistent with what we now likely happened in
Kafr Batna; and, 2) the insurgents control the evidence the kidnapped
women and children and so only the insurgents can resolve the
accusations.
[0285] In summarizing this important point, the Latakia killings and
kidnappings offer two potential answers to the question of whether the
insurgents would have gassed their own people. First, the evidence
documented by HRW overwhelmingly proves that these violent jihadis
killed many children in the Latakia attack, which proves they would
sacrifice children for their cause. That level of pathology is not likely to
be mitigated by sentimental ideas about victims being ones own people.
Second, for those of you who do not agree that there is sufficient
evidence to conclude that the insurgents are sufficiently vile to kill their
own children, there is virtually no dispute that the Latakia kidnappings
occurred and that the insurgents were responsible. That means the
insurgents have in their possession the Alawite women and children, and
we have seen videos produced by the insurgents proving that point. That
in itself is, according to HRW, a crime against humanity. It is also strong
negative evidence supporting the Latakia-Ghouta connection.
[0286] But even if we ignore the unsubstantiated assertions of an
anonymous blogger and the hear-say of a nun proclaiming to the world
that those Ghouta Massacre victims are the same victims as the Latakia
kidnapping victims, the timing of the Latakia kidnappings and the
Ghouta murders is disturbing. And regardless where they came from,
those victims in the KB videos were almost certainly executed, and
therefor the Ghouta Massacre becomes a crime against humanity that is
qualitatively equivalent to the Nazis crimes of just 70 years ago when the
free world collectively shook its head, sighed, and said Never again.
Ones own people, Issue #3:

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to the Ghouta Massacre, and that is this: Americans, and particularly
American politicians, dont really care that much about the people who
were executed in Ghouta because they were not Americans own people.
The significance of the massacre to American politicians is primarily
that it is a casus belli for attacking Assad and extending the neocons
regime change program to the next Middle East state on their list, which
is to say, on Israels list. In the end, however many children were killed
in Ghouta and however many more are killed by Americas punitive
response against Assad, which will come eventually, those deaths will be
deemed to be worth it in the eyes of Americans and their leaders, but
particularly their leaders.
In making this unkind cut I am thinking of Bill Clinton and his
Secretary of State Madeline Albright and his Ambassador to the UN, Bill
Richardson and their brutal admissions regarding the UN/US sanctions
against Iraq in the 1990's that killed 500,000 Iraqi children between the
time the sanctions were imposed in 1990 and 1995 when studies on Iraqi
child and infant mortality started appearing. Of course, the sanctions
continued long after 1995, and right up until the 2003 Bush-Cheney-
Rumsfeld-Powell oil-or-blood program, also called shock and awe,
began killing Iraqis at even a higher rate.
[0288] Although the US/UN sanctions against Iraq were
functioning before Clinton took office, he enforced them as brutally as he
enforced the no-fly zones over Iraq, which were not a part of the UN
sanctions but implemented as a power play by the US and UK. By 1995 a
number of people were concerned and shocked by how many Iraqi
children were dying because of Clintons pressure on Saddam. One
research article in the esteemed medical journal The Lancet estimated
there were up to 500,000 excess child deaths resulting from the bombing
and hardships caused by the sanctions. The UN Food and Agriculture
Organization estimated in 1995 that the figure was 567,000 dead Iraqi
children under the age of five. The UNICEF figure in 1999 for the total
deaths of children under 5 was also 500,000. By and large, these
staggering numbers were ignored by the American press, as noted by
Rahul Mahagan in 2001. I have yet to see any figures for how many Iraqi
old people died because of the sanctions. Apparently, the MSM saw the
US policy of starving elderly Iraqis as being even farther outside the
dialog than the policy of starving children.
[0289] Eventually, the UN and US were forced to back off. In 1997
when the oil-for-food program was put in place UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan reported, with pride it seems, that the sanctions were
working and over 30% of Iraqs children were malnourished. Oil-for-
food allowed Iraq to sell oil on the international market and the proceeds
were paid directly into an account administered by the UN largely to
buy food and medical supplies for Iraq, except for that pesky $18 Bn that
went missing from the account and has not been seen since.
Worth It
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Andrew Cockburn, London Review of Books, Jul22.2010, reviewing
Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions, Joy Gordon.
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/02/2933
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Denis Halliday,
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Noted by Cockburn, supra
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But by then the damage had been done. The surviving children had
been malnourished for so long that their mental and physical
development were arrested permanently, and the children that did grow
up would surely become a new generation of Iraqis that had very good
reason to hate the West and the US, specifically. Furthermore, as shown
by Andrew Cockburn, even under UN pressure, Clinton refused to relax
the prohibition of imports of pumps for water treatment plants and water
purification chemicals, particularly chlorine. In a
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2007 article for
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Common Dreams, Professor Alan Nasser put it this way:
Clinton bombed Iraq several times weekly for eight years. Defense
Information Agency documents, now available through the Freedom of
Information Act, reveal that the strategy of the bombing was to
extensively bomb water purification facilities and power generating
facilities with the explicit intention to spread diseases that would affect
children. The idea was to pressure ordinary Iraqis to overthrow
Saddam, with the knowledge that if they did so, the pedicide would
cease. But Iraqis blamed Washington for this catastrophe, not Saddam.
When Saddam offered to accede to Clinton's requirements for ending
the bombing, Clinton abruptly replied that no possible concessions on
Saddam's part would lead him to end the bombing/sanctions.
Predictably, the inevitable diseases exacerbated the effects of
malnutrition. By the time Bushs bombing started in 2003, water-borne
diseases had overtaken starvation as the primary killer of Iraqi
children.
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Anyone with half-a-conscience got as far away from this UN/US
travesty as they could. Denis Halliday, a life-long UN employee and UN
Humanitarian Coordinator to Iraq, resigned in protest of what he
considered to be a genocidal sanctions regime. His successor, Hans von
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Sponeck, also resigned in protest. Jutta Burghardt, head of the World
Food Program in Iraq also resigned in protest.
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American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of
American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country
is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who
often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and
very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in]
the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both
sides of the story.
I believe that Americans are basically decent people. If they
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Stahls lead into the question was factually strained. She noted that 500,000
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was more children than died in Hiroshima, and true enough, but by trying to
sensationalize the issue by playing the Hiroshima card Stahl was actually
minimizing the Iraqi tragedy, at least mathematically. First of all, the 500,000
number refers to children between 1 and 5 years of age, and Stahl used it to
refer to all children. The total number of Iraqi children has never been
discussed, so far as I know. The figure for all children must surely be close to
one million. Second, the total deaths from Hiroshima, including chronic
radiation deaths counted within the following year, was around 100,000, of
which certainly not more than 30,000 were under the age of five. Probably not
more than 20,000. And so, if Stahl had done her homework, she should have
noted that the Iraqi child deaths were at least 10 times more than those of
Hiroshima. In fact, infant and child mortality rates in Iraq doubled or trebled
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understood that Iraq is not made up of 22 million Saddam Husseins but
made up of 22 million people of families, of children, of elderly
parents, families with dreams and hopes and expectations for their
children and themselves they would be horrified to realize that the
current killing of innocent Iraqi civilians by the U.S. Air Force, or
what happened in the Gulf War, is being done in their name.
Denis Halliday, Salon 2002
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[0290] The evidence strongly suggests that the Iraq disaster was not
a result of US politicians being too stupid to anticipate unintended
consequences on the citizens of Iraq. No, the evidence is clear that the
horrendous consequences were not just intended, they were the sine qua
non of the entire program. It was planned infanticide/pediocide. Andrew
Cockburn quotes Robert Gates, who was then GHW Bushs national
security adviser, as making it clear at whom the sanctions and bombings
were directed:
Iraqis will pay the price while [Saddam] remains in power.
[0291] Albrights and Richardsons public admissions prove beyond
doubt that Clintons eight years of enforcement of the sanctions and
incessant bombing of Iraqs infrastructure were part of a policy of
carefully crafted callousness, in Cockburns words.
On May12.1996, sixteen years before Obama awarded her the Medal
of Freedom Award, Madeleine Albright, sat down with Lesley Stahl of
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CBSs 60 Minutes in what would turn out to be an Emmy-winning
interview. At the time of the interview Albright was Clintons
Ambassador to the UN. Stahl asked Albright point-blank: Is killing
500,000 children worth it? Albrights casual response was mind-
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boggling: [W]e think the price is worth it.
Note that this was early in 1996. The sanctions were really just
getting going and already Iraqi children aged 1-5 were dying as a result of
those sanctions at the rate of about one per hour even as Albright sat
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in the comfortable studio chatting for the camera and, essentially, telling
the world that killing Iraqi children was a part of Clintons policy to
contain Saddam.
One might try and give Albright the benefit of the doubt as she later
tried to give it to herself when she explained that she had been caught off
guard and her answer was stupid. Well, yeah but she didnt say the
policy of intentionally targeting Iraqi civilians was stupid, she said that
admitting publicly that it was worth it was stupid.
A year later, after the UN weapons inspectors concluded Saddam
was clean and the sanctions should be lifted, Albright, by then Clintons
Secretary of State, shifted the goal-posts on the purpose of the sanctions.
They were no longer meant to contain Saddam. Albright, in arguing to
continue sanctions said:
[W]e do not agree with the nations who argue that, if Iraq complies
with its obligations concerning weapons of mass destruction, sanctions
should be lifted. . . Clearly, a change in Iraq's government could lead to
a change in U.S. policy. Should that occur, we would stand ready, in
coordination with our allies and friends, to enter rapidly into a
dialogue with the successor regime. Text.
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In other words, the people of Iraq would continue to suffer until they
got with the neocons program of regime-change. After all, if killing
500,000 children was worth it to contain Saddam, then killing even
more children would be more than worth it to get rid of him altogether.
[0292] Albright was not expressing (just) her own views, she was
expressing Clintons. She was speaking for him and his administration.
Almost a decade later Democracy Nows Amy Goodman had a look-back
chat with Bill Richardson, who had been Albrights successor as
Clintons Ambassador to the UN. Goodman asked Richardson the
worth-it question that Stahl had asked Albright, and she asked it in the
context of Albrights response and whether Richardson agreed. Yes, he
said. Worth it.
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[0293] And so there can be virtually no doubt that Clinton and his
administration knew the sanctions were a from of pediocidal genocide
and yet they considered the 500,000 dead kids worth it to contain
Saddam . . . whatever that means. And Americans were OK with that.
There was no real reaction from the public to Albrights sickening worth
it admission on 60 Minutes or to her being awarded the Medal of
Freedom Award by Obama. There was no public revulsion to
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the way they forgave him for messing up Monica Lewinskys blue dress in
the Oral Office. Americans were temporarily annoyed by Clintons
sexual indiscretions and his lies under oath, but they couldnt have cared
less for the loss of Iraqi life he caused.
[0294] And my point in bringing up Iraq is that Albright and
Richardson were implicitly evoking the distinction between our people
and their people. Consider, for instance, what they would have said if
for some reason the Iraq sanctions had cost the lives of 500,000
American children, 1-5 years old. Would either of them have dared
suggest that killing 500,000 American toddlers was worth it in order to
contain Saddam or get rid of him or to achieve any objective, military
or political, domestic or international? The thought of Americans being
OK with the killing of American children in order to attain a political or
military goal is as ludicrous as the thought of them being OK with the
killing of Iraqi children is sick.
And so when Albright and Richardson said It was worth it, what
they meant by the first it was not killing children, per se, but killing
Iraqi children the other guys children. And you have to start getting a
sense for how really vicious these American politicians are.
[0295] But follow their logic: Having asserted that killing 500,000
Iraqi children was worth it, then it must necessarily follow that the
killing of any single one of those children was worth it, and 500,000
times over. One cannot possibly assert that killing 500,000 children is
worth it and not also assert the killing of any one of those children is also
worth it.
As Stahl was asking Albright to stick her head into an Emmy-
winning noose, CBS was showing on the screen a clip of a starving child,
presumably an Iraqi child. How could Stahl have missed the
opportunity? Why didnt she ask Albright point-blank the on-a-per-
child-basis question: Was the killing of that young girl worth it? Or
CBS could have arranged to bring an Iraqi child onto the set, stand
him/her in front of Albright and have Stahl ask whether killing that child
would be worth it to get rid of Saddam. After all, that interview was in
1996 and Saddam was still Iraqs leader. What could Albright have
possibly answered?
[0296] When you look at children individually, its harder to see
them as merely the other guys own people, but Americans are capable
of anything. Recall, if you are old enough, a 1972 black-and-white
Pulitzer-winning image of a 9 year old Vietnamese girl, Kim Phuc,
burned by napalm, running naked and screaming toward the camera.
That poor girl was suffering the consequences of Americans choice of
Richard Nixon as their president, and Lyndon Baynes Johnson before
him, and of Jack Kennedy before him. When Americans saw that
photograph, they understood, at some level, who was really responsible
for her suffering. They were. But that was OK for she was Vietnamese.
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Had Kim Phuc been American child scorched by American napalm, the
Vietnam War would have ended the next day.
[0297] And theres a point in here about Ghouta. For if you give
just a moments honest thought to how Americans and their politicians
consider killing the other peoples children to be worth it in order to
obtain political/military goals, then youve got to ask yourself this: If
Americans can justify killing a half-million Iraqi toddlers as worth it in
order to remove the despot Saddam from power, then how could
Americans possibly complain about al-Nusra or ISIS killing a few
hundred Syrian children in Ghouta in an attempt to remove that despot
Assad from power? I mean, the scale of the Ghouta Massacre is
minuscule compared to the scale of Americans Iraq Massacre, and yet
the end point regime-change is equivalent. If it works to bring down
Assad, then, from Americans way of thinking, the Ghouta Massacre was
a great deal . . . on a per-child basis.
And that is both my closing point and my message. A per-child cost-
basis is the way we have to look at the Ghouta Massacre. Any massacre,
any war. And because the loss of any child, including the other guys, is
an immeasurable loss, then killing even one cannot be worth it for any
objective. Killing even one child intentionally or as reasonably
foreseeable collateral damage should be punishable as a crime against
humanity.
And I guess that brings us back to Bunny.
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Murder in the SunMorgue was originally published online on Apr14.2014 as a series of
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APPENDIX I
Tables
CONTENTS
Table I: Links to Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Table II: Victim Locator Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Table III: Table of Symptoms of the Toxins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Table IV: Summary of Analysis of the Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

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Table I
Links to Videos
Vid ID/link Location Time of day Upload
date
mp4 link
SM-a SM ~ Mid-day Aug20 mp4
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SM-b
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Afternoon
/evening
Aug22 mp4
SM-c SM DM
Room #2
Night Aug20 mp4
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Rm1-a
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DM Room #1 Night Aug20 mp4
Rm1-b
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Not known Aug20 mp4
Rm2-a DM Room #2 Night Aug20 mp4
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Rm2-b
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Night Aug21 mp4
Rm3-a
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DM Room #3 Night Aug20 mp4
Rm3-b
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Night Aug21 mp4
Rm3-c
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Night Aug20 mp4
Pat-a
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DM Patio Night Aug20 mp4
The YouTube links to these videos have been taken down or access denied.
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Table II
Victim Locator Table
The table focuses on victims seen in more than one place and/or more than one video. The victim ID numbers are derived from a set of tables
of Ghouta victims that provide more information on each victim. Here.
Victim SM Rm #1 Rm #2 Rm #3 Patio Notes
B-005 Rm1-a
Rm1-b
B-006 SM-a
SM-b
Rm2-b
G-004 SM-a
SM-b
Seen in multiple al-Abdullah still shots in late afternoon.
G-005 SM-a
SM-b
Rm2-b Seen in one al-Abdullah still shot in late afternoon.
G-006 SM-a
SM-b
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G-007 Rm3-a Baby. Green blanket on white stretcher passing her
connects Rm #3 to Rm #1.
G-008 SM-a
SM-b
Rm2-b
G-010 SM-a
SM-b
Rm2-a
Rm2-b
Seen being roughly handled by Mr. Cranberry in Room
#2, also prominently seen in multiple al-Abdullah still
shots in the SM in the late afternoon.
M-001 Rm3-a
Rm3-b
Pat-a Also seen in at least two Zamalka videos and numerous
still shots in the MSM.
M-002 Rm3-a
Rm3-b
M-006 SM-a
SM-b
Rm2-b
Rm3-c
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M-007 Rm3-a
Rm3-c
Pat-a
M-008 SM-a
SM-b
Rm2-b Shown in numerous MSM images. In the sun-videos a
coin is placed over his heart, but in many of the still
images the coin is missing. See Appendix II , More
SunMorgue Oddities.
M-011 SM-a
SM-b
Rm2-b
M-012 SM-a Rm2-b Bloody head wound, possibly slit throat. Blood on bottom
of R shoe.
M-014 SM-a
SM-b
Rm2-b
Rm3-a
Rm3-b
Rm3-c
Seen in more of the videos than any other victim. Very
rubicund.
M-015 SM-a
SM-b
Hemorrhaging from throat. Likely murdered in the
SunMorgue. Seen in one still shot being brought into the
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W-002 SM-a
SM-b
Seen in almost all views of the SM, including multiple al-
Abdullah still shots in late afternoon.
W-004 Rm2-a
SM-c
Fuchsia Lady connects SM to Room #2.
W-005 SM-a
SM-b
Rm2-b Covered by ornate brown blanket in both SM and Room
#2 connects SM to Room #2.
W-006 SM-b(?) Rm2-a Identification in the SM is tenuous. With W-005 may be
one of only two women seen in both the SM and DM
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Table III
Table of Symptoms of the Three Toxins Under Consideration
The table shows symptoms caused by sarin (GB), carbon monoxide (CO), and cyanide (CN). T indicates the symptom does occur for that toxin, X indicates it does
not. indicates no information found. The column labeled Useful? indicates whether or not a symptom is useful in the present study in testing the three hypotheses.
The symptoms in bold are those that have been used to test the hypotheses. Numbers in brackets refer to citations below. See Part C for full discussion.
Symptom GB CO CN Useful? Notes
Low to moderate dose symptoms
[S]alivation (drooling) T X X Y High hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13] [12] [12]
Easily observed
[L]acrimation (tear production) T X X N Moderate hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13] [12] [12]
Not amenable to observation
[U]rinary incontinence T X X N High hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13] [12] [12]
[D]efecation &
[G]I distress
T T X Y High hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13] [11] [12]
Easily observed
[E]mesis (vomiting w/ or w/out nausea) T T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [13] [2] [11] [8] [9]
Easily observed
Bronchorrhea T T Y/N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[3] [16]
Easily observed
Cyanosis T X T/X Y High hypothesis discrimination potential
[14] [4]
Easily observed
Rubicundity X T T Y High hypothesis discrimination potential
Easily observed
Miosis T T/X T/X N High hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13]
Eye pain T N Not amenable to observation
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Blurred vision T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13] [11]
Excessive sweating T X X N High hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13] [12] [12]
Coughing T T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13]
Chest tightness or pain T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13] [2]
Rapid breathing T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [13] [8] [9]
Confusion or dizziness T T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [13] [2] [11] [9]
Drowsiness T T X N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [13] [12]
Muscular weakness T T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13] [2] [11] [9]
Localized tremors / twitching T/X X X N Low hypothesis discrimination potential, unless
[3] [13] [12] [12]
GB applied to skin.
Headache T T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [13] [2] [11] [8] [9]
Bradycardia T T N These symptoms are not useful b/c there is no way to monitor
[1] [13] [9]
cardiovascular function from the videos and still shots.

Tachycardia T T N
[1] [13] [9]
Hypertension T N
[1] [13]
Hypotension T T N
[1] [13] [9]
Hallucinations T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[3] [11]
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Red/pink pallor mortis & livor mortis X T T Y High hypothesis discrimination potential
[12] [4] [5] [5] [7]
Easily observed
Bluish pallor mortis & livor mortis T X T Y High hypothesis discrimination potential
[15] [12] [6]
Easily observed
Loss of consciousness T T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [2] [11] [8] [9]
Convulsions T T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [10] [11] [8] [9]
Included in the hypothesis testing because MSM
emphasizes it.
Easily observed
Paralysis T X X N Easily observed
[1] [12] [12]
Death due to respiratory failure T T T N Low hypothesis discrimination potential
[1] [3] [2] [11] [8] [9]
[1] CDC sarin fact-sheet
[2] CDC CO fact-sheet
[3] OPCW on sarin
[4] Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology, 2ed. 2008, pp 20-23
[5] Dinesh Raos Forensic Pathology
[6] U of Dundee, Dept Forensic Medicine Lecture Notes
[7] Color Atlas of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Chas. Catanese, 2010
[8] OPCW on cyanide
[9] CDC CN fact sheet
[10] Herman, LY, Carbon monoxide poisoning presenting as an isolated seizure. J. Emerg Med. 16(3):429-32 (1998)
[11] Neurology MedLink
[12] Negative observations not reported and not expected. Lack of symptom predicted by the physiological and pharmacological principles.
[13] Homeland Security National Terror Alert
[14] National Institues of Health Toxnet on Sarin citing Marrs TC, Maynard, RL, Sidell FR, eds; Chemical Warfare Agents. Toxicology and Treatment 2nd ed. p. 298
(2007)
[15] Yasou Seto, The Sarin Gas Attack in Japan and the Related Forensic Investigation, OPCW News, Jun01.2001
[16] There are a number of anecdotal observations of bronchorrhea in CO victims. For instance: UK case: The inquest heard Jordan found Declan in bed 45
minutes later with white foam around his nostrils and mouth. Orlando, FL case: Schroeder was found sitting upright in the front seat, passed out and foaming
from the mouth. The trucks CO alarm was sounding. LA Times: She found her husband panting and foaming at the mouth and immediately called 911,
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Table IV
Summary of Analysis of the Hypotheses
For each of the seven symptoms examined predictions on whether and to what extent the symptom is predicted by each hypothesis are summarized. Observations as to
each symptom are also summarized, as are conclusions. See Chapter Eight for full discussion.
Symptom Predicted by
Sarin-H
O
Predicted by
CO-H
O
Predicted by
CN-H
O
Observed Conclusions
Ante-mortem Symptoms (Dark Morgue)
1. Ante-mortem
skin color
Incidence of
cyanosis hi
incidence of
rubicundity very
lo to nil
Incidence of
rubicundity hi
incidence of
cyanosis lo to
nil
Predominately
rubicundity, but
occasional
cyanosis possible
Very hi incidence of
rubicundity, no
cyanosis observed
Strongly contradicts sarin-H
O
Strongly supports CO-H & CN-
O
H
O
2. Fecal
Incontinence
Incidence hi Incidence lo fear-induced possible No examples seen Strongly contradicts sarin-H
O
Mildly supports CO-H & CN-H
O O
3. Salivation
(watery)
Incidence hi Incidence lo to nil No examples seen Strongly contradicts sarin-H
O
Mildly supports CO-H & CN-H
O O
4. Bronchorrhea Cases possible, incidence not
predictable but likely low
Not known Two examples seen Mildly supports sarin-H & CO-H
O O
Inconclusive as to CN-H
O
5. Convulsions Incidence hi for a
few seconds prior
to death
Incidence moderate to high but only
for a few seconds prior to death
No examples seen This symptom is not helpful in
distinguishing the hypotheses b/c it
is so short-lived.
Post-mortem Symptoms (Sun Moruge)
6. Pallor mortis
color
Exclusively bluish
grey
Predominately
red/pink
Red/pink,
occasionally
bluish
Red/Pink consistently
observed w/ minor
questionable
exceptions
Strongly supports CO-H Supports CN-
O
H
O
Strongly contradicts Sarin-H
O
7. Livor mortis
color
Exclusively dark
blue to purple
Predominately
red/pink
Brick red,
occasionally
bluish-purple
Red/pink consistently
observed
Strongly supports CO-H Supports CN-
O
H
O
Strongly contradicts Sarin-H
O

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APPENDIX II
Details & Diversions
CONTENTS

Timeline of the Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
More SunMorgue Oddities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Evidence in Support of the Juliet Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Room #2: Where the Devil Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
How To Do a Mass-Execution & Make It Look Like a CW Attack . 260
Other Experts Expressing Doubt Over the Sarin Myth . . . . . . . . . . . 266


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~ Timeline of the Videos and Images ~
A timeline, or even a sequence, of the KB videos is not necessary in
order to establish the primary conclusion of this paper that the Ghouta
Massacre was a mass-execution perpetrated by the insurgents and not a
CW attack perpetrated by the Assadists. In short, we dont need to
know which video preceded another in order to see that the victims in
both videos are rubicund and not cyanotic. But having at least a rough
sequence of the videos is necessary in order to establish some of the
ancillary evidence that supports the primary conclusion. For instance,
because many of the corpses shown in the DarkMorgue are also shown
in the SunMorgue, knowing that the DM videos were taken before the
SM videos supports the conclusion that the SM was a temporary
repository for bodies between the time the people died in the DM and
the time they were buried.
As with all circumstantial evidence, the assumptions underlying this
proposed timeline must be made clear. There are two. The first
assumption is that the massacre took place in the pre-dawn hours. The
second assumption is that all of the KB videos and images we are
working with were taken after the massacre took place and before the
end of that same day.
We can verify these assumptions by the dates the videos were
uploaded to YouTube, which was Aug20.2014, Pacific Daylight Time,
for almost all of the videos. This was Aug21, Damascus time. Any
videos showing an upload date of Aug20 would have been uploaded
prior to 10AM Aug20 YouTube time, or PDT. Only one of the KB
videos (SM-b) was uploaded after Aug21 Damascus time. Of course,
the upload time does not tell us when the video was taken, it only
determines the latest point in time at which it could have been taken.
What these assumptions are getting at is obvious: all of the videos
that were taken during the dark hours were taken in the pre-dawn
morning of Aug21 Damascus time and all of the videos taken in
daylight were taken sometime during that day. I dont believe anyone
has suggested that these videos span more than that period of about 18
hours (~2 AM to ~8 PM). In Part A I mentioned a video as an
example of fraud. (See Fig. 5.) This video was uploaded a number of
days after the massacre; it was not a KB video and is not a part of this
analysis.
Given these assumptions the following picture of the sequence of the
KB videos can be pieced together. Time is flowing from top to bottom;
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Fig. 147 A rough timeline for the KB videos
We have two very firm temporal reference points. Video SM-c was
taken at night without question, and videos SM-a and SM-b, the sun
videos, were taken during daylight, and more specifically SM-a was
taken about noon and SM-b sometime after that. These represent the
strongest nighttime and daylight touchstones. Let me begin with the
daylight videos and images because that sequence is most certain.
Afternoon/evening As argued in Part B, SM-a was shot at
about noon. We know this by the strength of the sunlight on the walls
of the SM and the angle of the shadows. We also have numerous
indications that SM-a precedes SM-b. For instance, we see the
phlebotomists at work in SM-a and we see syringes with blood and
plasma lying on the bodies in SM-b.
What I refer to in the timeline diagram as the al-Abdullah SM
photos are those still images that show the SM in waning light and
nearly empty. We know that SM-b preceded these photos because the
murdered mans corpse, M-015, which is visible in both of the sun-
vidoes, had been removed before the al-Abdullah photos were taken,
leaving behind the bloody floor and the bloody, blue blanket.
Consequently, we can deduce that the videos and images of the
bottom half of the timeline diagram shows the SM in the afternoon and
early evening of Aug21.2014.
Dawn Recall, Fig.133 in Part D. We know that Fig. 133 was
taken prior to SM-a because it shows M-015 on a stretcher being set
down on the floor of the SM, but there is no blood on the floor and no
bloody rag. Having made the case in Section D that the floor and blue
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precede the sun-videos, which means it was taken before noon.
Setting a more precise time is possible. The figure shows a lot of
bodies in the SM and the floor clean and dry, and so it must have been
taken quite a while after the late night view of the SM seen in SM-c.
To my eye, the far wall shown in Fig. 133 is lit by faint light from the
window and yet the overhead lights are still on. All of this suggests to
me that the photo was taken at about dawn.
Nighttime The upper portion of the timeline diagram shows
three groups of videos, labeled A, B, & C. I dont think it is
possible to arrange these videos or these three groups chronologically
except for how they are shown grouped.
The videos with asterisks were taken by Mr. Minnie. Group A
represents three Mr. Minnie videos that comprise a continuous
sequence that begins outside the KB complex at night and proceeds
through the SM and into the DM, past Room #2, into Room #1, and
back to Room #2. And so there can be no question that sequence A
precedes the daylight videos.
The two videos in box B are also Mr. Minnie videos and are also a
continuous sequence. This sequence begins in Room #3 and proceeds
out the door and onto the patio, in pitch black nighttime. While the
box B videos certainly precede the daylight videos, it is not possible to
say whether they precede or follow the other nighttime videos.
The two videos in box C are both of Room #3. I infer they were
taken during the night because of their relationship to video Rm2-b.
Video Rm2-b is a sort of a nexus between the night videos and the
day videos, being the last of the night ones. But the evidence for this
conclusion is subtle.
First, to establish that Rm2-b came later than Rm2-a, recall that in
Rm2-a Mr. Cranberry was doing his dramatic thing picking G-010 up
off the floor and putting her down again next to the brown blanket. But
in Rm2-b, G-010 is seen under the blanket while other childrens bodies
are on top of it. Also, the body of woman W-005 dressed in black with
the pink hijab is seen under the blanket next to the wall in Rm2-a, and
in Rm2-b the body of a girl in green has been placed on top of the
blanket between W-005 and the wall. These differences suggest that
Rm2-a preceded Rm2-b.
With respect to Room #3, at the very beginning of video Rm2-b,
we see five male bodies neatly arranged close to the door through which
the group of men are entering the room. As noted in Section B, the
hands of victim M-006 are tied together with his belt in this image,
whereas in videos Rm3-c and Pat-a his arms are sprawled and his belt is
in place on his trousers and buckled. Consequently, video Rm2-b must
follow the others.
Furthermore, the other videos of Room #3 Rm3-a and Rm3-b
show the room in great disarray with bodies and gas cylinders spread out
all over the floor, whereas in video Rm2-b, the floor is empty and clean
except for the five bodies near the door and the body of victim M-014
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For these reasons I believe the timeline shown above provides a
rough idea of when each of the videos and images we have examined
was taken between about 2 AM and evening on Aug21.2014, Damascus
time. The timeline further supports the contention that were bodies are
seen in both the DM and SM, they were in the DM prior to being taken
to the SM.

~ More SunMorgue Oddities ~
As I have wandered around the KB complex on the shoulders of the
cameramen, some really odd things have popped up not that a large
corpse bleeding all over the floor through a blue kiddie-blanket isnt odd
enough. But these are little things, mostly, and probably irrelevant . . .
but weird. Really weird. And weird things popping up turn me on,
especially when they might be additional evidence that could be used to
convict the killers of these children. And so, here I raise a few of these
oddities with you in the hopes that what makes no sense to me will be
immediately obvious to you and you might be good enough to explain
what I cannot.

Muffled and not so muffled gunshots
There is one SM oddity that is not visual, its (mostly) audible. If
you want to follow, put on your headphones and run SM-a again.
The first thing you will notice is how incredibly noisy the SM is,
which is, in itself, odd for a morgue where one might expect a modicum
of silent respect for the victims. But if you listen carefully through the
cacophony, at 00:20 you can hear a double-tap that sounds like two
muffled gunshots in quick succession. If they are gunshots, they would
have to come from an automatic weapon to be that closely spaced.
Then, near the end of the video, at 01:14, there are two
unmistakable, clear, and un-muffled gunshots. The cameraman flinches
and jolts the camera. Nobody else takes much notice. Mortia looks up
from Bunny and glances out the window briefly but shows no other
reaction. Immediately after the two clear gunshots, you can hear
another muffled double-tap.
Now, once again, context is everything. And once we begin to
suspect that the KB complex was a vile place where people were
executed rather than a place where injured people were receiving
succor, and once we see a guy lying on the floor bleeding big-time from
the throat . . . well, gunshots in such a context are not likely to have a
benign explanation. What hangs in my mind is all of those people in
the DM who were not dead when Mr. Minnie videoed them in the
middle of the night, and they never showed up for the photo-ops in the
SM. Not a single person who is alive in the DM videos is shown in the
SM, and yet many of the people who are dead in the DM videos are
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found in the SM. Once Mr. Minnie and the other insurgent PR guys
were done filming these suffering people in the DM for propaganda
pieces, what happened to them? As witnesses, clearly they could not
just be allowed to recover and leave.

The coin
Back in Section C, I showed you a Reuters still image I came across
in the Irish Independent, its body M-008 lying against the wall of the
SM. Here that image is again.
.
Fig. 148. Image of M-012 from the Independent. Source.
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The point I was making in Section C was about the cherry-red livor
mortis visible on M-008's waist. The point Im making now is that in
this image there is no coin on his chest.
And the reason I point that out it is that if you look at both of the
sun-videos very, very carefully, you will see the coin. (Fig. 149.) When
perusing the sun-videos initially, I thought I was seeing some sort of
hole in M-008's shirt. Maybe a bullet-hole, for all I knew.
Fig. 149. Image of M-012 from SM-b/00:16
But then I came upon that Independent image (Fig. 148) and the
hole was gone. Same man, same shirt that is pushed up in the same way,
same SunMorgue . . . no hole. And so I dove back into the online still
image collections because they are normally clearer than video screen-
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grabs and, sure enough, I found the following image of M-008. The hole
is actually a coin or token of some sort.

Fig. 150. Coin placed over the heart of M-008. Source.
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The figure above is from the Shaam photo collection, which has
since mysteriously disappeared I mean the whole collection. The coin
looks to be silver or nickel. It has an engraved outer circle, and an
engraved inner circle. I would guess its about the size of a US quarter.
I have looked at images of hundreds of coins from countries in the
Middle East and I cannot identify the coin, the image is just too grainy.
In that same Shaam collection I also found a second photo of M-
008 lying in the same place, against the south wall of an almost empty
SM, in waning light with just five children remaining in the room and
the coin still on his chest. Both of these Shaam photos are credited to
Mohammed al-Abdullah, but you have to run the Arabic caption
through Google Translate to see that. I cannot find a photo credit for
the Independent photo above other than Reuters. However, most of the
other still photos of the SM at about the same time of day and nearly
emptied of bodies are Reuters photos credited to al-Abdullah that it
appears a moderately safe guess that all of these photos featuring M-008
both with and without the coin in the SM late in the day were
taken by al-Abdullah. And so the following possible timeline emerges.
In DM video Rm2-b we can see M-008 lying on the floor of Room
#3 at night with four other male victims, all five bodies patiently
waiting to be carried up to the SM. (See Fig. 59. ) There is no coin.
The earliest the coin appears is in SM-a which we know was taken
about noon. It is also seen in SM-b taken shortly after, when the
sunlight had softened a little bit.
And so we can surmise that sometime after M-008 was brought
from the DM and positioned in the SM but prior to the time the sun
videos were taken someone reached down and carefully placed the
coin on his chest, right over his heart, where it must have remained for
hours. We know it was there for hours because al-Abdullahs photo
showing M-008 with the coin on his chest and the other shot in the
Shaam collection (not shown here), also with the coin on his chest,
were taken in the waning light in a nearly empty SM. After al-Abdullah
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before the photo published by the Independent was taken (Fig. 148),
presumably also by al-Abdullah. Now, I dont want to jump to any wild
conclusions here, but this timeline suggests to me that if I were looking
for that coin, the first place I would check would be Mohammads
pockets.
But more importantly, there may be something important but subtle
going on here. What is the significance political, religious,
superstitious of placing a coin on a body? Why would anybody go to
the trouble? Was the coin on the mans chest meant to be a sign of
respect? Of disrespect? It smacks of Costa Nostra, but maybe not to
Syrians. I can find no other examples of coins placed on bodies in the
KB videos or any other Ghouta videos.
Under the old context that this morgue is holding bodies of
victims killed in a sarin attack, I cannot think of a single reason why
anyone would mark this or any specific body with a coin. But under
the new context that the insurgents running this SM are the actual
killers or working with the killers, and the SM was set up for photo-ops
prior to burying the bodies, I can come up with a number of possibilities.
Perhaps the coin was a pre-arranged signal communicating a message to
someone at a distance who cant just pick up the phone and chat
someone like, say, Ayman al-Zawahiri, current head of al-Qaeda,
present whereabouts unknown, at least pending the next Navy Seal raid.
Or it might have been a way of identifying M-008 to let al-Abdullah
know that this body needed special photographic attention, or to let
someone viewing the videos and al-Abdullahs still shots know that this
person was a specific target that had been taken out. Ideas welcome.
The red rag, or bag, . . .or something

By now, if youre as spooked by this SM as I am, bright red things are
really going to grab your attention. Well, heres another one. Below are
two views looking east at the main entrance. The top view is from SM-
a and the lower one, taken at roughly the same spot, is from SM-b. The
area to the left in these shots is the SM side-foyer and side-entrance.
The bright red, amorphous object in the foyer in the top view is . . . well,
Im asking you. The floor adjacent the object seems to have a red glow,
but that may well be reflected light.
.
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Whatever it is, it disappeared before SM-b was taken. I cannot see
this foyer in the still shots of the SM and so the only timeline I have is
the two-point timeline of the sun-videos. Whatever it is, it was there
when SM-a was taken and it was gone before SM-b was taken.

Fig. 152. Gone. Vid-SM-b/01:28
I dont mean to push this too far, or overstate the importance of this
amorphous whatever. I note it as an example of how, given the context-
shift, many things suddenly seem out of place in a morgue, and this one
by virtue of its unexpected bright color. But bright red rags or bags are
not the only red things in the SM that seem out of place by virtue of
their color. A lot of fingers do, too.

Ruby fingers
As the two cameramen walk through the SM taking the sun videos,
numerous headless workers and desultory loafers wander around the
room and, often, walk right in front of the cameras. If you look carefully
at these men including the one apparently guarding all those dead
people with an AK-47 assault rifle (Fig. 156) you will see some of the
most ruby red fingers south of Juneau. Examples:
.
Figs. 153-156. Eskimo-style fingers displayed by Syrian insurgents in the SM.
In addition to these rubicund fingers, I have commented in the
main text about red toes in these workers. (See Fig. 3b.)
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This ruby red digits phenomenon is not restricted to the SM; it is
seen throughout the KB complex. They are particularly curious in the
sun-videos because those videos were taken near noon on an August
day in Damascus when the temperature was almost 100EF., and yet
these people have fingers that look like they just finished a mid-winter
dog-sled race and left their mittens at the starting line. Such red fingers
might not normally attract ones attention, but it certainly does when
the current best theory going is that the KB victims were gassed with a
rubigenic agent. Given that theory, these bright red fingers could be the
result of low-level CO or CN intoxication that resulted from these
cherry-fingered workers being tasked with removing bodies from a gas
chambers or with other jobs in rooms where the toxic gasses had not
been completely purged. A person whose CO-Hb level is around 30%
might well have such color changes and still be functioning fairly well,
particularly if they are young and in good health.
Kitten amongst the goats

Whilst it is not an issue directly connected to the SM or even Kafr
Batna the kitten amongst the goats is weird enough to merit a few
words of mention. Even without the kitten the goats are weird enough
to be worthy of a couple of comments.
From a pharmacological point of view, one would expect that if
enough sarin had landed in an urban area to produce a cloud capable of
killing over 1000 people in their sleep, then we would be seeing dead a
lot more dead things than people. Like, dogs, cats, rats, pigeons,
parakeets, mice, cockroaches, locusts, flies well, any animal with an
acetylcholine receptor, and that includes every animal that runs, flies,
crawls, swims, tweets, or texts. The non-human carnage should have
been 10, or 100, or 1000 times greater than the human, and dead
animals should have been everywhere you looked. This is one of those
examples of negative evidence: because you dont see it, you can be
quite sure there was no sarin rocket attack.
And, of course, the insurgents know that, so there are a few videos
that make a pitiful effort to show dead animals. A cat in one video, a
dog in another, with the emphasis on the singular, for these are mostly
videos or still shots of isolated animal deaths. As evidence of a sarin
attack, they are laughably inadequate.
One of the most risible of these is a video flagged by Eliot Higgins
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showing the exact location of a sarin rocket impact site in Zamalka
the actual rocket sticking out of the ground. The ridiculous part of this
video occurs 20 seconds in when one of the insurgents is talking to the
camera in one instant and in the next he can be seen dashing off, out of
the view of the camera. When the camera catches up with him, it looks
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dead sparrow, looking as proud as an suburban tabby bringing home its
first kill. The guys dead sparrow (which probably would have been
contaminated with sarin if thats what killed it) was thereafter offered as
proof positive by more than one pro-insurgent blog of a sarin attack.
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Fig. 157. Sharp-eyed
insurgent bird-collector
displays dead sparrow. No
tweets or twitters, and no
concerns for sarin
contamination. Link above.
The UN Mission visited the very site where the bird-man is
standing, for there are very few alleged sites where a so-called sarin
munition is actually sticking out of the ground. Two, I believe. And yet
the UN Mission did not take a single sample from any dead animal
and Im not talking just no samples from any dead human; Im talking
no dead animals at all! There should have been thousands and tens of
thousands of dead rats and birds lying around this area, any one of
which, if chosen at random by the UN team and if tested positive for
sarin, would have provided helpful and moderately reliable evidence of a
CW attack with sarin. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. The camera scans over a
number of acres of bare ground in this dead-bird video, and not another
dead animal is seen anywhere.
But then there were the goats, and they were certainly dead. In Part
C I presented the following screen-grab from a video, link below,
featuring a pile of perhaps two dozen goats in rigor mortis that was
offered as proof of a sarin attack. Like the bird-man video, this goat
video is marked with the Erbin insurgents logo, but that doesnt mean
that Erbin is where it was shot. The English translation of the title is:
Animals died due to chemical weapons and eyewitness testimony of
what happened 22/08/2013." And like the bird-man video, this is one of
those many videos in which for some reason the insurgents splice two
copies of the same footage together into one video sort of like what
geneticists would call a tandem repeat.
This is one of the more surreal videos out of Ghouta, and that
places it high in the running for the most surreal video worldwide. It
shows a spooky guy with a nicely trimmed beard looking vaguely
drugged talking and gesturing. There is also a voice behind the camera
making it a dialog. Presumably, theyre speaking Arabic.
From the pointing and gesticulations, the bodies of the goats in the
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background seem to be the subject of the discussion. The goats have
been neatly arranged adjacent to a large opening that has been cut into
the wall of a cinder-brick building. The way the goats have been placed
right in front of the opening, it looks to my eye like they were gassed
inside the building and then pulled out and stacked.
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Fig. 158. Ghouta goats allegedly killed by sarin. Source.
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But I still havent gotten to the weirdest part. Eventually, the
bearded guy ends the dialog and steps off-camera. We hear a loud
motorcycle being fired up behind the camera and driven away. The
cameraperson keeps talking and moves in for a close-up of the dead
goats and flies. In the background, wind gusts push a plastic bag along
the ground.
As the camera approaches the neat pile of dead goats, if youre
quick, youll see the kitten hiding among the goat bodies, cowering from
the camera.

Fig. 159. A kitty peeking out from among the
Ghouta goats. Link above.
I have not been able to find any reports in the sarin literature
suggesting that kittens are immune to organophosphates, which
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presents a problem for the insurgents sarin scenario. For if those goats
were killed by sarin, the kitten should be as dead and stiff as the goats
are. Even if the kitten somehow avoided the initial cloud of sarin, the
goats wool would be impregnated with the toxin and would stay that
way for days or weeks, particularly in the dry desert air. Piling sarin-
laced goat bodies up like that would create a toxic environment that
should reduce a kittens life expectancy to mere seconds.
In fact, standing next to a pile of sarin-laced goat bodies would
likely reduce the life expectancy of the cameraperson and his bearded
interloqutor, as well.
Of course, if those goats were gassed with CO or CN in that
building and pulled out into the windy street and left long enough to
develop rigor mortis, the kitty would be just fine, which it appears to be.
~ Evidence in Support of the Juliet Hypothesis ~
I have referred repeatedly to Mother Superior Agnes-Mariam el-
Salib, a Carmelite nun of the St. James Monastery in Qara. She became
something of a media sensation following a 50 page report she published
on Sep11.2013 that pushes back and hard against the USG storyline
that Assad gassed those people in Ghouta with sarin. Her report is
called the ISTEAMS Report, and is, essentially, her response to the
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USG intelligence services anonymous, undated intelligence
assessment . And so you have on one hand, James Clapper, a known
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public liar, providing the public with the US intel assessment saying
that Assad attacked Ghouta with sarin, and on the other hand you have
a mother superior who has been ministering to the poor in Syria for 20
years, and she is saying the US version is complete bunk . . . well, who
you gonna believe? My advice would be dont waste a lot of time
listening to any known liar, not that you were likely to anyway.
Mother Agnes-Mariam and her team waded through a lot of the
same Ghouta videos I have and came up with what they thought was
proof of fraud. I have addressed a number of the same points in this
report that the ISTEAMS Report addresses, and I have found that some
of the ISTEAMS accusations have merit, but some of clearly them do
not, and I provided one example of a flawed allegation in Part B. (See
Fig. 69. ) The ISTEAMS report also erred by claiming that the SM and
Room #2 of the DM are in two different cities, and it mistakenly asserts
that the phlebotomist, Mort, was injecting SM bodies with something,
when the evidence is quite clear that he was drawing blood.
And so a number of factual assertions made by the ISTEAMS
Report are clearly incorrect, but Mother Agnes-Mariam is no dummy,
See, for instance:
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and what really made the world sit up was the way she connected dots
no one else had even noticed the hundreds of people kidnapped from
Latakia and the Ghouta Massacre two weeks later.
The ISTEAMS report is also one of the major sources of what I
have introduced in Part C as the Juliet Hypothesis the idea that the
bodies we see in the Ghouta videos are not really dead but are playing
dead or are drugged to look dead. While I have identified one video
where that sort of thing seems to be going on (See Fig. 5.), I have
rejected the Juliet-H for the most part because so many of the bodies
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display pallor mortis and livor mortis, which would be awfully hard to
fake. But it is easy to see how one who was not thinking in terms of
carbon monoxide or cyanide could have looked at all of those bodies
with such excellent color and concluded that they were not really dead;
I made the same mistake, initially.
In retrospect, looking at people lying on the floor of a morgue
and trying to read their rosy lips to determine if they might not, in fact,
be alive and lying very still for the cameras was not an exercise that in
itself was likely to lead to any valuable conclusions unless one of the
bodies sneezed or rolled over, and, of course, if that happened it was
never going to make its way onto YouTube. But a lot of people were
getting into this Juliet-H idea. And with that idea in mind, the closer
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you look, the more supporting evidence you see thats the way the
mind works.
One of the major provocations for this Juliet-H was a rumor
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bobbing around the blogosphere by some anonymous hacker who
claimed to have hacked the Emails of a US Army colonel, Anthony
Jamie MacDonald, who knew what really happened, and sent an
Email to his wife to reassure her that all of those kids in Ghouta were
OK. Just faking. Although it raised quite a buzz initially, the whole
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thing pretty much dissipated into the cyberfog, probably because anyone
following the Ghouta Massacre is going to understand that the
propaganda war between the insurgents and Assadists is 99% BS. No
one is going to believe second and third-hand anonymous hear-say. I
was a bit surprised that TIME magazine took the bait. Unfortunately,
their article on the rumor probably gave it more life than it deserved.
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But even without wasting time on anonymous Syrian hackers,
there were plenty of suggestions in the videos themselves that maybe the
children werent really dead . For instance, there are the images of the
bodies of G-004 and Bunny in the SM, which could be interpreted
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Fig. 160. The dynamics of the childrens corner of the SM. Image C Source
Panels A and B above are of G-004 (in orange) and Bunny (in
cranberry) taken from SM-a and SM-b, respectively. Having concluded
that Vid-SM-a was recorded before Vid-SM-b, (See Section B) it
seemed very curious that somehow the left knee of G-004 acquired a
conspicuous black smudge sometime after SM-a was taken but before
SM-b. Here are magnified views of the knee from A and B
juxtaposed:
Fig. 161. The appearance of a smudge on the L knee of G-004.
How could a childs body lying supine on the floor acquire a black
stain on its knee? Had the child been crawling around on the floor
between the two videos? It also seemed somewhat odd that G-004's
ankles were crossed right over left. That seemed like a pose a living
person might be expected to assume but not a dead one. And so I
started pulling up different views of this scene on the Internet, and what
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dead.
One can find quite a few different views of the SM childrens corner
on the Internet. Image C above, for instance, is a still shot that shows
this same area and the same bodies in the same places, with Mortia the
phlebotomist standing among the childrens bodies. We know that
image A (SM-a) precedes B (SM-b), and it is almost certain that
image C precedes A because Mortia has not yet drawn Bunnys
blood. Please note that neither image A nor image C the two
earliest images show the dark smudge on the left knee of G-004. Most
of the images of G-004 on the Internet were taken late in the day and
they all show this smudge. Also, the late afternoon al-Abdullah images
of G-004 show her ankles no longer crossed. (See Figs. 13-21.)
Given this sequence C A B there are a couple of other strange
things going on here that made me question whether there might not be
something to the Juliet-H .
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For one, look at Bunnys right leg it is extended in the earliest
view, C, but it is bent in both A and B. None of the bodies around her
have been shifted, and judging from the lines of the floor, her torso has
not been moved so much as an inch, nor has the position or the odd
angle of her right wrist changed suggesting the body was not moved.
Her left leg seems not to have moved at all.
How does the body of a child go from having an extended leg to a
bent knee like that? If A and B had preceded C, then we could suppose
that rigor mortis had not yet set in and her foot passively slipped on the
tile floor so that her leg extended under the force of gravity. But gravity
wont cause an extended leg to bend like that.
Then there is the hematoma on the inside of Bunnys left elbow.
See it? Well, you wont see it if you are looking at C because its not
there, and thats my point. Here is the elbow magnified as shown in C
vis a vis SM-b. (Fig. 162.) A hematoma appearing on the L elbow of
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Figs. 162a & b.
It is almost certain that the hematoma on Bunnys elbow was caused
by Mortia. We cannot see over Mortias shoulder as she is working on
Bunny in SM-a, and so we cant tell whether she is trying to draw the
blood from Bunnys arm or abdominal area, maybe both. She may well
have first tried unsuccessfully to get the blood from Bunnys arm and
gave up and got it from the femoral vein. Note that what she ended up
with was plasma, and I dont believe she would have gotten that from
the smaller vessel of the arm.
But I dont know whether jabbing a needle into the arm of a corpse
would cause that sort of dark hematoma particularly when the person
was supposed to have died 10 hours previously. I would have thought
not. In fact, I did think not, which is why I considered this hematoma to
be further evidence that these children were not really dead.
You can see from these sorts of weird observations in the SM how
the Juliet-H could gain some traction. However, as Ive said, the
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observed livor mortis such as in G-004 (See Fig. 115.) has to mean
that many or most of these children in the SM were dead when videoed.
Then again, we dont have a view in which we can see if Bunny is
displaying any lividity, and her skin color is very natural. Also in Part C
I pointed out that some of the children in the SM clearly do not display
any lividity. (See Figs. 116 & 117.) Consequently, whilst we are
justified in dismissing the Juliet-H in many cases, I dont believe we
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have the evidence to dismiss it with respect to every child.
Once again, all I can do is bring these observations to your attention
and hope that someone can make sense of them. I think you will agree
with me, tho this SunMorgue was a weird place.
~ Room #2: Where the Devil Is ~
If Lucifer really is in the details, then he is deeply embedded in the
DM, and particularly Room #2, for there are so many devilish details in
these videos, it has taken months to flush them out. I have learned one
thing really well: To find whats most important, you have to look past
whatever the cameraman is focusing. Its like a magician, if you watch
only the hand holding the wand, youll never see where the rabbit comes
from. The most interesting information, the evidence that this is a
crime scene, is in the background shoes, tiles, wall sockets, the color of
finger tips, blood on a tee-shirt, a laughing boy.
Somehow in the end it all has to add up to a coherent picture: the
truth. For everything ultimately makes sense. If it seems not to, then
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Here I want to illustrate this point with a few of examples of fleeting
details in the background that could be important in understanding not
just Room #2, or the KB complex, but the entire Ghouta Massacre.
Gas cylinders
One of the more conspicuous and curious background details of the
DM is all of the gas cylinders lying around. In Fig. 53 I indicated the
positions of 5 gas cylinders in Room #2 and in the hallways adjacent to
Room #2. There was a sixth cylinder in Room #3 (Fig. 64), and a
seventh on the patio. And thats just the ones we can see all within
about 20 feet of each other.
They all look to be standard 44 liter cylinders, 9" in diameter by 51"
long. Using he American system for calculating volume of gas cylinders,
the total would be about 1525 cubic feet of compressed gas. Thats a lot
of gas. That would be more than half the volume of a room that is 15
feet x 20 feet x 8 feet. A welder might use 10 cubic feet per hour.
What is odd about the cylinders in the videos is that their safety
caps had been removed so that the valves were exposed, and yet nothing
was attached to any of the cylinders, certainly not flow meters as one
would expect if they were being used for medical purposes. But even
weirder than that, the valves had no handles to open and close the
valve. If someone, for instance, opened the valves of these cylinders and
then took the handles off, there would be no way to get the valves
closed and the gas, whatever it is, would just escape and fill the air.
Ill let you make of that what you will. To me, its damned
suspicious.
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Fig. 163. Gas cylinder in Room #2.
No flow meter, no valve cap, no valve handle.
Rm2-a/00:21, magnified.
The brown blanket and blue rag

In Part B I drew your attention to video Rm2-b and I pointed out
that this video is important because it connects rooms #2 and #3 of the
DarkMorgue together and both of them to the SunMorgue. The
analysis of this point is too complicated to layout in the main text and
so I have deferred until now.
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Rm2-b are showing the same corner of Room #2 with different bodies.
The bodies shown in Rm2-b all end up in the SM; the bodies shown in
Rm2-a dont, with two exceptions: W-005, the woman with the pink
hijab, and G-010, the girl in red that was man-handled by Mr.
Cranberry. This is a very good example of how confusing these videos
can be until they are connected, and then they seem so obvious. I went
through several glasses of wine over a period of about four nights trying
to sort out just this one problem. Merlot.
When Mr. Minnie entered Room #2 in video Rm2-a, he entered
from Hallway A through a door in the east end of the room. In that
video he aimed his camera down the length of the room to the
northwest corner where there was a brown blanket. He then walked the
length of the room and ended the video looking down on the brown
blanket, but we never get a view of what was behind him; i.e. the
southwest corner. Nevertheless, we can deduce that there must be a
doorway there by the fact that while Mr. Minnie was shooting the video,
people keep appearing at the west end of the room. The mystery
doorway actually connects Room #2 and Room #3. Here is the
schematic, Fig. 52, again. The brown blanket is marked B. Not to
scale.
Fig. 164. Schematic of the (known parts of the) DarkMorgue.
Not to scale.
Once a few dots got connected, I understood that in video Rm2-b I
was actually watching people pass through this mystery doorway. That
video shows that when a cortege of men enter a room, they are directly
facing the brown blanket with several bodies of children on and under
it. But, as I say, these are different children than the ones seen in Rm2-
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the two videos of Room #2 causes confusion and initially suggests that
we are looking at two different brown blankets in two different rooms
with two different groups of children. But, no. What we are seeing is
the same blanket in the same room and an almost complete turn-over in
childrens bodies between the shooting of Rm2-a and Rm2-b. And my
reason for saying that comes down to G-010's white hair ribbon and a
blue rag. And the brown blanket itself in fact it is the same brown
blanket we saw covering W-005 in the SM. (See Figs. 50 & 51.) So let
me focus on the blanket first.
I have never seen a more peripatetic blanket in my life. It appears
in many of the SM still shots (Figs. 16 & 17), and it also appears in both
sun-videos. And, of course, in Room #2.
In both of these videos of Room #2, we see victims lying on the
blanket and under it. (Images I & J of Fig. 53.) The blanket is less
important than the people associated with it, but its evidentiary utility is
that it allows us say with some certainty that the room we see in Rm2-b
is the same room we see in Rm2-a, which is to say Room #2. And it
also helps us connect Room #2 to the SM. But we have to be cautious
because there are at least two blankets in the KB images of about the
same color. It could be a design commonly seen in this area.
I will not go into all of the evidence proving the brown blanket in
Room #2 is the same brown blanket in the SM, but I will set forth the
strongest piece of evidence, and that is that the blanket is associated
with victim W-005 in both Room #2 and the SM. Here are two screen-
grabs from Rm2-a showing the blanket in Room #2.

Fig. 165. The blanket in Room #2 long view on
approach. Rm2-a/00:22.

Fig. 166. The blanket in Room #2
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The image on the left is a view of the northwest corner of Room #2
taken as Mr. Minnie moves from the entrance at the east end toward
the west wall, where the blanket is seen in the corner. You can see Mr.
Cranberry just beginning to bend over to scoop up G-010 and launch
into his tirade. This shot defines the blankets position in the northwest
corner of Room #2, as shown in the schematics. When Mr. Minnie gets
to the western end of the room, he turns to his right and sweeps the
blanket-area, but Mr. Cranberry and a number of other workers/loafers
photo-bomb the shot and so we dont get a very good view of the
blanket area. But we can see a body under the edge of the blanket
adjacent to the wall. This is W-005 her foot, clothed in black, sticks
out of one end of the blanket, and, with a little imagination, you can
just make out her pink hijab at the other end. However, this evidence is
not sufficient to establish that this is the same lady in black and pink
W-005 that we see in the SM. Well need more.
Video Rm2-b shows the brown blanket much more clearly. But
there are major changes to the scene compared to Rm2-a, for most of
the victims we saw in Rm2-a are gone. Now the bottom of the blanket
is covered with dead children in colorful clothes the same children
who will end up in the SM. In other words, most of the children we see
in video Rm2-b are also seen in the SM. And vice-versa most of the
children seen in the SM are seen in this video of Room #2. Most, but
not all. For instance, Bunny does not seem to be present in Room #2,
although she might be covered by the blanket.
Here is a composite of three views of the blanket in Room #2 with
the kids who end up in the SM. (c.f. Fig. 29.)

A.
The brown blanket in Room #2now
occupied by many children. Rm2-
b/00:20.
B.
The brown blanket in Room #2 close
up. Rm2-b/00:18.

C.
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Fig. 167. A - C. The brown blanket in Room #2 with the SM kids.
Things get a little bit difficult because Rm2-b does not give us the
best views of this important scene. Images A and B above are taken
from the video and juxtaposed in an attempt to show most of what is
there, and most of what is there is kids the same kids seen in the SM.
Image C on the right is a wide-angle still shot of the same scene, taken
at a different time, with a slightly different population of kids 5 fewer
to be precise but most of the children who are in both images are in
the same position and in the same pose. There is a lot of information
here. For one thing, C shows the checker-board edge of the brown
blanket that I noted in the discussion of the the SM. (See Fig. 51.)
Video Rm2-b allows us to see W-005 under the blanket a little more
clearly, even though the girl in the lime playsuit is now between W-005
and the wall. By magnifying screen-grabs from Rm2-b, we can ascertain
that the body under the blanket is W-005:

Fig. 168. Victim W-005 in Room #2. Rm2-b/~01:02, both images magnified.
Given her pink hijab, her black clothing, and her association with
the blanket, I dont believe their could be a reasonable doubt that this
woman and blanket seen in Room #2 of the DM is W-005 lying under
the same blanket in the SM. In addition, if you go back and review the
first 10 seconds or so of both sun-videos, you will be able to positively
identify the children in the SM as the same children in images A-C,
above. There might be some valid grounds for doubt about the girl in
the lime playsuit because in the SM she is covered with a white sheet
and only a bit of the grey trim of her playsuit shows, but by and large
there can be no doubt that the same group of kids is shown in both
places. In other words we have strong continuity of bodies between the
SM and Room #2, and the blanket supplements that continuity.
Because bodies in this corner of Room #2 have changed so
drastically, one might reasonably question whether we are even looking
at the same room in Rm2-a and Rm2-b, much less the same blanket.
But any doubt that the brown blanket in Rm2-b is the same brown
blanket in Rm2-a and in the same place can be eliminated upon close
inspection. Here is a better view from Rm2-b and from a still shot, both
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Fig. 169. A Screen-grab from
Rm2-b/00:34
Fig. 170. A Still shot of same
spot, higher angle. Source
The girl in the red, G-010, is the same girl that Mr. Cranberry
picked up off the floor after throwing his gas mask down. Her identity
can be confirmed by her shirt with glittery figures on it, her pony-tail,
and her distinctive white hair band. These same features identify her as
the girl in red we see in many views of the he SM. So far as I am able to
tell with any degree of certainty, she and W-005, at the other end of the
blanket, are the only people seen in both of videos Rm2-a and Rm2-b,
and both victims are also seen in the SM.

Also, please note that there is a blue rag in the corner above their
heads. It is also visible in Rm2-a, but you have to be quick to see it
because workers and loafers keep photo-bombing Mr. Minnies video.
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Fig. 171. Spotting the blue rag as
the camera sweeps.

The rag is no more than the blue blur (circled in yellow), that can
be barely glimpsed as Mr. Minnie sweeps his camera past the brown
blanket. Although he walks right up to the brown blanket, he fails to
provide a clear view of it. But given that the blur is positioned in the
corner above the blanket precisely where the blue rag is in Rm2-b, I am
confident in concluding that both videos show the same blanket, the
same corner of the same room, the same rag, but different bodies, with
the exception of the girl in red. In other words, both videos show Room
#2. This is important because the childrens bodies and W-005 in
Rm2-b provide body-continuity between Room #2 and the SM, and the
brown blanket certainly helps.
Mr. Minnie caught on camera

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Because there were so many insurgent PR people running around
Ghouta that night and the following day, when you look closely at the
videos, it is not unusual to see pushy PR people, eager to get the best
shot, step into each others views. But Room #2 is the only case I have
found where you can see the images that two PR guys took of each other
Mr. Minnies reciprocal shot of his PR buddy in black.
Below is a screen grab from about 00:56 of Rm2-a. At that point
Mr. Minnie had stepped over the people on the floor to reach the
western end of Room #2 and had turned back toward the entrance at
the eastern end that he just came through. Standing next to that door
you can see a photographer in black with his camera at the ready and
his camera bag on his shoulder.
Fig. 172. Mr. Minnies buddy
through the camera of Mr. Minnie.
Five seconds earlier in Mr. Minnies video, at 00:51, you can see a
flash go off and bounce off of the western wall. At just that moment
Mr. Cranberry was bending over the girl in red, G-010, and the flash
threw a shadow of Mr. Cranberrys rear-end onto the wall. That flash
was from the photo that the man in black took from the opposite end of
the room. It seemed very likely that if I could find that photo online, it
would show both Mr. Cranberry and Mr. Minnie. And so I went
looking for it. Of course, I had Mr. Minnies video to show me what to
look for. And I got lucky; I found the photograph on in a YouTube
collection. This image is labeled A in the compilation below, Fig.
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172. According to its logo, the still photograph was uploaded by the
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Fig. 173. Finding Mr. Minnie
Again, the view in Image A is from the east entrance to Room #2,
looking toward the west wall. Mr. Cranberry is bending over G-010,
having just put her down. All of the people in black shirts with the
bandanas are squatting precisely as shown in Rm2-a. Consequently, we
can deduce that one of those people standing at the far end of the room
is Mr. Minnie, who must be perforce facing that far wall because his
video catches the flash bouncing off that wall.
Five seconds after the flash, Mr. Minnie turned back to the east and
his video captured the PR guy who took the still. Thats Fig. 172. In
the video, the PR guy moved quickly toward the door as Mr. Straps
camera turned toward him.
Image B of Fig. 172 is the top half of Image A magnified and marked
up. Image C is a screen-grab from Rm2-a showing the shadow cast
against the west wall by the flash going off. The shadow is of the
derriere of Mr. Cranberry as he bends over to put the child down,
indicated by the two-headed yellow arrow. The cyan circles indicate a
man in a plaid shirt and white tennis shoes. His head has been cropped
out of the still shot but his shirt and shoes are quite conspicuous
throughout this portion of the video. From Image C we know that
when the flash went off, Mr. Minnie was pointing his camera behind the
plaid shirt toward the wall. The plaid shirt was on Mr. Minnies right.
This suggests that in Image B Mr. Minnie is likely the man indicated
by the green arrow, who is to the left of the white tennis shoes of the
man in plaid and who is facing the west wall. This is probably the only
image of Mr. Minnie well ever see, other than his foot-selfies.
Unfortunately, its probably not going to be much help to the authorities
hunting him down if he turns out to be complicit in the execution of
these people.
The still Image A has considerably more detail of Room #2 than
Rm2-a does and so I would like to make a couple of observations
regarding it that you may find interesting. First, in this one image you
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them lying on the floor, no caps, no valve handles.
Second, recall that Fuchsia Ladys foot played a pivotal role in
connecting Room #2 to the SM. (See Part B at [0043].) That is her in
the lower left corner. This is the only woman or womans body I have
seen in the KB complex without a hijab, and she has been covered in
the most cursory way. Thirty seconds before the still was taken, as Mr.
Minnie was entering Room #2, her face was completely covered by the
black cloak; she moved almost imperceptibly at time point 00:13 of
Rm2-a. Fig. 174 is from Mr. Minnies video.
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Fig. 174. The Room #2 chaos as seen in
Mr. Minnies video.
Rm2-a/00:14
As you can see, a man is lying prone next to the blue cylinder in the
video, motionless. Thirty seconds later he is on his back as seen in
Image A. The point Im making is that the still shot taken together with
video Rm2-a tell us that both victims were alive; with either one alone
we wouldnt be able to tell that. Neither one of these victims were
poisoned with sarin, I think if you have read Part C that goes without
saying.
Finally, there is the suction machine. You can just barely see it in
Minnies video, but you can hear it. It is quite prominent in the still
shot.
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Fig. 175. From Panel A, above.
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I find this machine interesting for two reasons. First, being a
medical device it supports the view that this DM area was a clinic and
that these insurgents are actually trying to help the prostate people we
see. Indeed, lean in on Rm2-a and you can see that the worker in blue
appears to be suctioning the mouth of a victim draped in green. Now,
that would be a good thing and would be consistent with a more
benevolent role for these workers than the animadversions I have
offered, but I dont think it flies.
And the reason I say that is because I have quite a bit of experience
with these portable suction machines from once being employed as a
peon in an ER tasked with setting them up and cleaning them, and
based on my experience as an intrepid vomit-jar cleaner, I am
incredulous at how both of the jars in Image A are pristine-clean and
empty. Every suction device like that I have seen or used has vomitus,
or blood, or whatever else that is being suctioned splattered all over the
inside walls of the jars, thats how they work. Also, it doesnt take long
for coughed up and flying fluids to cover the outside of these machines.
This one looks brand new, like it has never been used and like it was not
really being used at the time the photo was taken. For that reason I
tend to see it more as evidence that the scene was being faked for the
cameras than as evidence that this is a medical facility. I just cant
reconcile the latter conclusion with the two gas cylinders lying in the
floor.
~ How To Do a Mass-Execution and
Make It Look Like a CW Attack ~
Having proposed the theory that Ghouta Massacre was really a
mass-execution carried out by the insurgents using carbon monoxide or
cyanide, I feel like I have an obligation to propose how such a a
pediocidal, false-flag PR stunt could have been carried out. While any
such comments can only be, perforce, speculation, I think a scenario
can be constructed that is consistent with what we know and is not
outrageously inane at least not as inane as the sarin myth. Ill give it a
go.
To start, it is necessary to articulate what the objectives of such a
false flag PR stunt would have been. I have already criticized Obamas
red-line threat as an open invitation for the insurgents to do precisely
the sort of thing I am proposing they did do. (See Part C at [0037].)
And that would be the obvious objective of a false-flag operation: to
make the world think that Assad had crossed Obamas red-line and that
Obama must now give Assad a cruise-missile-style spanking or be seen
as a 90 pound weakling.
Then there is a secondary, but associated, objective: to provide
evidence of sarin to the UN Mission so they would submit a public
report to the General Assembly claiming that a sarin rocket attack had
taken place in Ghouta. This second objective required, of course, that
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UN Mission landed at Damascus en route to northern Syria just three
days before the Ghouta Massacre; they were staying just a few
kilometers from where the sarin-rockets were alleged to have landed.
The insurgents had a four or five day window to pull this stunt off and
get the UN investigators involved before they moved on the Ghouta
Massacre couldnt have possibly been better timed if the insurgents had
coordinated it with the UN itself.
One who is less verbose and more perspicacious might articulate
these two inextricably linked objectives more concisely: Get the Stupid
Americans to attack Assad. If the insurgents could only do that, the
kewpie doll would be theirs.
With these two objectives in mind, what operational elements
would be necessary in order for a false-flag operation to successfully
meet them and how many of those necessary elements are seen in the
KB videos and stills? Here is my list of false-flag elements, with my
thoughts on each one.
Compelling drama This false-flag gambit would only work if the
evidence was dramatic enough to compel The Stupid Americans to
react suddenly without stopping to think it all through pretty much
like McCain, Feinstein, and Graham did. The insurgents would surely
understand that if Assad was not attacked within a few days, the
intelligence services of the world would have time carefully to evaluate
the flood of video evidence, put rooms and bodies and bloody rags
together, and realize what was going on. But if their gambit worked and
Obama attacked Assad within days, then there would be no looking
back and Damascus would soon be theirs. At that point it would make
no difference what the world found out or thought. How do you
produce the requisite compelling drama? By showing the world lots of
bodies, and victims suffering near the moment of death.
Bodies The insurgents needed hundreds of bodies for their photo
ops in order to show the world the seriousness of the sarin attacks
they were blaming on the Assadists. Judging from the indifference the
world showed in response to their smaller false-flag CW attacks months
before the Ghouta Massacre, the insurgents knew they would need
evidence of a massive CW attack if they wanted to work The Stupid
Americans into a right-rage. And if this was going to be presented as a
CW attack against civilians, then, of course, the bodies would have to
be civilians.
How does one produce hundreds of civilian bodies for photo ops?
Well, from a pharmacologists point of view, sarin has to be the worst
choice. For instance, sarin is so dangerous and so persistent that if used
in a gas chamber situation, you would end up killing your own guys in
order to get the bodies out of the chamber so they could be
photographed.
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than the Nazis, and CO and CN is what they used. Of course, the Nazis
didnt take endless videos of their victims suffering and post them to the
Internet, so they didnt have to worry about someone noticing that the
victims were cherry-red instead of cyanotic blue.
Nevertheless, the insurgents produced those bodies by gassing
hundreds of men, women, and kids. Then they displayed the bodies all
nicely laid out in various Ghouta venues like the SM. No problem . . .
at least not until one of the bodies coughed just before the cameraman
arrives.
Given that wars are based on the model of men killing men, merely
showing the world photos of adult male victims of a faux sarin attack
would probably not incite The Stupid Americans sufficiently to enter
the fray. No one in a war is innocent and if they end up dead, well . . .
thats the point. What the insurgents needed was photos of dead
women and children. Dead babies would be a real bonus.
In the Epilogue I discuss how the Sunni insurgents could have
produced large numbers of womens and childrens bodies without
killing their own women and children by kidnapping their victims from
Shia/Alawite areas like Latakia, and, in fact, we know that the Sunni
insurgents did kidnap hundreds of Alwite women and children from
Latakia a couple weeks prior to the Ghouta Massacre. This is not quite
Q.E.D., but its damn close to it. All we need is for one child or woman
from Latakia to be identified in those Ghouta videos.
Suffering But mere bodies would not be sufficient. The
insurgents needed to show the world the actual suffering of gassed
victims, preferably suffering children. They needed photo-ops not just
of dead children, but of children in the process of becoming dead
children. They wanted the world to feel the pain of people dying. And
the way to do that was to start the gassing at least for a subset of victims
and then stop just before the endpoint was reached. At that point they
purged the room of the toxic gas, left the gas cylinders lying on the floor,
and called in the cameras to get the close-ups of the suffering. The
victims foaming from the nose were especially popular with the PR guys.
But what do you do when the photo-op is over? I mean, now youve
got a bunch of partially gassed victims, many of whom may recover and
live to tell the world their story. But the gassing room has been purged
of toxic gas. So how do you finish them off?
The insurgents answer to this predicament may be indicated by the
gunshots I discussed above the ones heard at precisely 01:14 into SM-
a. (See Part B at [0034].) Gunshots in the KB complex, now theres
something that has to make the hairs rise on the back of your neck.
Would they have put a bullet into those suffering children, like Baby
seen on the floor of Room #3? (Fig. 93.) Ask Mr. Cranberry.
Panic Panic on the streets is a good thing and necessary in any
PR campaign to convince the world youve just been hit with sarin
rockets fired by a tyrant, and the insurgents in KB gave us what looks
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like genuine panic in the streets. Fig. 176 is a screen grab from the
opening seconds of Mr. Minnies video SM-c; it has become an iconic
image of the Ghouta sarin attack.

Fig. 176. Panic outside the SM. SM-c/00:08
This scene takes place immediately outside the SunMorgue. We see
children crying and screaming, calmer adults holding handkerchiefs to
their noses, heros hosing down the sidewalks with large volumes of
water, a few people prostrate, two guy sitting calmly on a low wall
watching the chaos unfold. Another video ( here ) was taken at
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precisely the same time, in the same place, of the same people but by a
different videographer who almost bumps into Mr. Minnie, begging the
question: What the devil is going on? Why arent these videographers
being affected if this is sarin? And who are those guys sitting around
chit-chatting in the middle of a sarin attack?
And thats just one part of the pharmacological problem. Like I say,
I have never actually witnessed a sarin attack, but I know enough about
organophosphates and how they mess people up to know, as an absolute
certainty, that during a sarin attack you will not see two guys sitting
calmly on a low wall watching the whole thing unfold. And if this
family was being gassed by sarin, they would not be screaming, and
running around, and holding handkerchiefs to their noses. After a few
breaths and a few seconds they would be convulsing, defecating,
throwing up, gasping for air, and turning blue. Sarin has no odor. It
does not burn ones eyes. It would likely kill you, or at least disable you,
well before you could go into a panic. While I would not dispute that
these people are reacting to something, they are not reacting to sarin.
No, these people look to me like they were being gassed with
2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile, known in the military as CS, known to
rioters the world over as tear gas a non-lethal riot control agent that
easily produces panic in any group of people who are not expecting it to
be dropped in their midst. This scene suggests to me that the
population of Ghouta probably got gassed by tear gas and many, many
videos of people with inflamed eyes support that conclusion. And thats
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around looking panicked, because most Americans would not know that
sarin victims dont get to run around. They die on the spot.
In other words, there is nothing not one thing in this scene to
support the allegations that these people were gassed with sarin, and yet
such videos produced their intended effect of reinforcing the sarin myth.
Evidence of sarin And that brings us to the most important, most
critical, element of the false-flag attack: physical evidence of sarin.
With the UN investigators staying only five miles away from the
insurgent controlled areas of Ghouta, the insurgents knew they had a
rare opportunity. One would have to be pretty gullible not to make a
temporal connection between the UN Missions arriving in the area on
Aug18.2013 and the Ghouta Massacre on Aug21. The insurgents
could have pulled this PR stunt off at any time, but knowing the UN
Mission was coming to town, if they could manipulate the Mission to
collect some sarin samples they might be able to score a huge PR coup.
And so while I have emphasized over and over that sarin was not
used to injure and kill the people we see in Kafr Batna, I am willing to
allow how it may have been used and/or planted in other parts of
Ghouta parts to which the insurgents would later restrict the UN
investigators. Seymour Hersh has laid to rest Obama and Kerrys lies
that only the Assadists had access to sarin. (See Part C at [0078].)
There is now no reasonable doubt that at least one of the insurgent
groups al-Nusra not only had access to sarin, but had it in hand. All
they needed was someone with a gas-mask and a spray bottle to taint the
evidence in places were the UN Mission would later be permitted to
collect samples. They could easily take old rockets that the Syrian
Army had fired into Ghouta, spray them with sarin, and plant them in
the ground or dropped them in buildings previously hit. Police in the
US are experts at planting evidence like that; it doesnt take any brains
to do it.
But in addition to collecting dirt samples and pieces of rockets the
insurgents provided, the UN Mission took blood samples from sarin
victims who were also provided by the insurgents, and signatures of
sarin were detected in some of those blood samples. Theres the
smoking sarin-gun for sure.
Except for the fact that it would be simple to produce such
biological samples that would test positive for signatures of sarin. For
instance, the insurgents could expose themselves to low, non-lethal
doses of sarin or non-lethal sarin-like compounds like the insecticide
malathion or the glaucoma drug echothiophate in order to provide the
UN Mission with victims with the right symptoms and with blood
tainted with sarin-like by-products.
Even if rockets did land in the Ghouta area on Aug21, an assertion
that I am not at all convinced of, but even if so, from what we know
about the evidence of those rockets, their impact was limited to a very
small area of Ghouta called Zamlaka, according to the Sep.2013 report
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carried sarin, it makes no sense that hundreds or a thousand fatalities
could have occurred from an attack with such a limited target-area,
particularly when you see the videos of the impact sites and see how
they are in open lots surrounded by buildings that were bombed-out and
empty.
PR & logistics machinery There would be absolutely no point in
killing hundreds of women and children if you werent set up to acquire
photos and videos of their dead and dying faces and disseminate them to
the world. That would require a pre-existing PR machine and lots of
logistics. Note that however many victims there were and nobody
knows to this date, six months later all of the bodies had disappeared
within 24 hours. By the time the UN Mission reached ground zero
which was just around the corner from their hotel the bodies were
gone. Buried. Burned. Whatever. What this means, given the
hundreds of videos that were uploaded within 24 hours of the attack,
is that the PR machinery had to be in place before the attack took place.
And it was this PR effort hit the world like a digital tsunami before the
first body could have been buried.
As for the workers, I am willing to allow how some of the medical
clinics shown in the Ghouta videos may be manned by people who did
not know that they were caring for victims of a false-flag attack. For
instance, if Zamalka was tagged by the insurgents with a couple of bona
fide sarin missiles, the people we see scrambling to treat people in the
Zamalka videos may very well be genuine and may have had no clue
where the sarin came from.
But when youve got workers and loafers walking past a victim who
is clearly bleeding on the floor of the SunMorgue of Kafr Batna and no
one is taking notice, then there is no reasonable scenario other than a
false-flag scenario that explains why that victim was not helped, you
pretty much have to surmise that something is amiss. In other words,
those people had to be a part of the barbaric scam, and that implies both
an organization and a logistic machine to get the workers and the
victims in place for the cameras. With well over 100,000 violent
insurgents now operating inside the borders of Syria, there would be no
problem whatsoever in recruiting 100 or 200 blood-thirsty individuals
willing and able to commit the crimes we see in those videos
everything from kidnapping women and children to opening cylinders of
toxic gases and removing the valve-handles so the valves couldnt be
closed. No problem at all.
Stupid Americans The whole insurgents false-flag effort would
be for naught without a sufficient number of Americans displaying a
sufficient level of stupidity to demand that their government retaliate
against Assad. And thats where the insurgents fell flat.
Oh yes, there were a significant number of stupid American
politicians including Kerry, McCain, Graham, Feinstein braying for
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not behind them this time. Working Americans paying for their
politicians wars paying with their blood and their taxes had learned
a lot about their government after 10 years of war in Iraq. And as G.W.
Bush famously said: [F]ool me once, shame on shame on you. Fool
me you can't get fooled again.
This time Americans should be proud for not going to war. And
Americans should remember and should be grateful for those 116
Congressmen who demanded that Congress sign off on any attack
Obama wanted to throw at Syria. For instance, it was Republican
Representative Scott Rigell of Virginia who urged his colleagues to
enforce the 1973 War Powers Resolution and demand that Obama get
Congressional approval before pulling any triggers. Republican Rand
Paul was also very vocal in demanding that Obama adhere to the
Congressional vote on war powers for attacking Syria.
We need to remember this example because it is too easy to forget
who the war hawks were when history proves they were wrong, and its
too easy to forget who the doves were when history proves they were
right. Thats why Americans keep getting pulled into wars they have no
business being in.
~ Other Experts Expressing Doubt Over the Sarin Myth ~
Whereas the Western MSM have generally been braying for Assads
skin like a pack of Kentucky coonhounds set loose on the harvest moon,
if you dig deep enough, you will find references to experts who, if not
swimming against the tide of the sarin myth, are at least not swimming
with it. Here are some of the experts who have not mechanically
bought the apocryphal sarin myth.
Jean Pascal Zanders
Background
Until May2013 was senior analyst at EU Institute for Security
Studies
Served as the project leader of the Chemical and Biological
Warfare Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI) and director of the Geneva-based BioWeapons
Prevention Project (BWPP) source
Cant find a word on his training.
Position on the sarin myth
Guardian, Aug21.13, comparing Ghouta to earlier accusations of
sarin attacks:
The video footage and pictures this time are of a far better quality .
You can clearly see the typical signs of asphyxiation, including a
pinkish blueish tinge to the skin colour. There is one image of an
adult woman where you can see the tell-tale blackish mark around
her mouth, all of which suggests death from asphyxiation. What is
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first response to what occurred. We are seeing the emergency
services being overwhelmed by the innocent victims. It feels very
authentic.
I remain sceptical that it was a nerve agent like sarin. I would have
expected to see more convulsions . . .The other thing that seems
inconsistent with sarin is that, given the footage of first responders
treating victims without proper protective equipment, you would
expect to see considerable secondary casualties from contamination
which does not appear to be evident.
News.com.au Aug23.13:
However, [Zanders] said the symptoms they exhibited were not
consistent with mustard gas or the nerve agents VX or sarin.
Mustard gas would cause blistering of the skin and discoloration,
while the nerve agents would produce severe convulsions in the
victims and also affect the paramedics treating them - neither of
which was evident from the videos or reports.
Guardian, Aug26.13:
It's not possible that what is being shown to the public is a chemical
weapons attack. The video from Aleppo showing foaming at the
mouth does not look like a nerve agent. I'm wholly unconvinced.
HuffPo Aug30.13
[W]e don't know what the agent is. Everyone is saying sarin. There
is something clearly to do with a neurotoxicant [such as sarin] but
not everything is pointing in that direction.
[I]f you watch the clips closely, you will see [parts] where people
clearly show signs of aspyhxiation but show no signs of exposure to
neurotoxicants.
Washingtons Blog Sep05.13 interview w/ Zanders
When I look at video images that have been going around, what I
see is a large number of people suffering from aspyhixia, but only a
minority (if the photos are representative of the total picture)
display symptoms that would correspond to exposures to
neurotoxicants. . . . John Kerry used the term signatures of sarin.
But signatures of sarin are things one can have from other
organophosphorus compounds.
We do not know where the samples come from. And we do not
know how representative they are for a certain area. Certain
samples could have been selectively given to Western sources for
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The extreme focus on sarin as if only government forces would be
able to have sarin doesnt make sense. If the UN team were to
come up with evidence that toxic chemicals other than sarin were
used, does that prove that it was not the Syrian government which
is responsible?
Paula Vanninen,
Background
Director of Verifin, the Finnish Institute for Verification of the
Chemical Weapons Convention. source
News.com.au Aug23.13
At the moment, I am not totally convinced because the people that
are helping them are without any protective clothing and without
any respirators . . . In a real case, they would also be contaminated
and would also be having symptoms.
John Hart
Background
Head of the Chemical and Biological Security Project at
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute source
News.com.au Aug23.13
Of the videos that I've seen for the last few hours, none of them
show pinpoint pupils... this would indicate exposure to
organophosphorus nerve agents.
Ralph Trapp
Background
Former scientist at the Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons
Guardian Aug21.13
It is possible a gas was involved, but the images I've seen were not
clear enough to see other symptoms beyond difficulty in breathing
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APPENDIX III
Methods and Techniques
CONTENTS
Acquiring & Examining Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Acquiring & Examining Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
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~ Acquiring and Examining Videos ~
One of the simplest and most common tasks on the Internet is
looking at YouTube videos. Hit a live link and away you go. But you
have no control over what happens to YTs. If you are in the middle of
an investigation that is based on YTs and the person or people who
own the YT channels decide to take the videos down, you are stuffed. It
is very helpful to have the actual YT file saved on your own computer so
you can access it whenever you need to. Surprisingly, while uploading
videos to YT is dead easy, downloading them to your computer is not,
which is why I am explaining one way to do it here.
Once you have the video on your computer, you will want to be able
to examine it frame-by-frame. While you can see the video on with the
generic Media Player or Quicktime or whatever media package came
with your operating system, that is generally not enough. Youll need to
be able to easily stop, reverse, step forward one frame at a time, etc. If
you dont have a media player with these capabilities, read on.
How to download a YouTube

Getting a YT on to your own computer is a multi-step process. It
seems complicated at first, but once youve been through it a couple of
times it becomes almost automatic. Here are the steps and software I
use.
Step 1: Organize your files.
What you are going to be doing is dumping potentially large
amounts of data into the file-structure of your computer. Whilst you
can create new folders while stepping through the download process, I
find it much easier to get my directories set up and labeled before I wade
into the download. Your system is likely set up so that when you hit a
download button, the file ends up in a predetermined folder. If your
file system is organized, all you will have to do is drag the new
downloaded YT file to its new home.
Step 2: Set a bookmark to kibase.com
You will be using the KIBase YT downloader here. Open this
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page and set a bookmark for it for now so you can get back to it easily.
Alternatively, just leave it open in one tab and open a new tab to get to
the YT.
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format in your clipboard so you can transfer it to KIBase.
Go to the YouTube you want to download. Dont run it.
Somewhere in the margins of the page, right-click to get a menu
that includes: View page source. You might have to try a few
times to get the right menu.
Left-click View page source. A new browser page should open
showing html code for the video.
While on that source code page hit Ctrl-a. This should highlight
everything on the page. If it doesnt youll have to highlight it all
manually.
While the code is highlighted, hit Ctrl-c to copy it all to your
clipboard. You can close the browser page with the highlighted
code at this point if you want but I normally leave it open in case
one of the next steps goes wrong and I want to start over.
You now have the YT contained on your clipboard in a form that
will do you absolutely no good. You have to convert it to a video
file.
Step 4: Convert YT source code to the video file.
Go back to the purple KIBase page you bookmarked and click on
the empty white box.
Paste the source code into the empty box with Ctrl-v. Youll only
see the last few lines of the code in the white box when the past is
complete.
I normally un-check the wee box that says start the download
automatically. Its up to you.
Click the submit button.
Step 5: Download
In a few seconds KIBase will get back to you with a Thank you for
using KIBase page. This page will have a number of format
options for your video. The options seem to change from one
session to the next, but mp4" is always there and is the one I use.
Determine which format you want and click the choice. A familiar
download dialog box pops up.
Chose Save File on the download dialog box and click OK.
After a few seconds the file will be downloaded to whatever folder
your downloads normally go to. Open that folder and the new file
should be at the top of the list.
I re-name the file at this point so if it gets lost I can track it down.
Drag it into the folder you set up in Step 1.
Youre done. The YT is now on your computer in a format you can
watch without even being connected to the Internet.
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How to examine video evidence

If you have a media player that gives you all the functions listed
above, skip this part.
There are probably dozens of acceptable media players that you can
download for free. My choice is VLC Media Player because it is 1) free,
2) open-source (i.e., not Microsoft), and 3) plays a large number of
different formats. More importantly, it has the functionality needed for
very detailed examination of videos. Here is the Wiki page that
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describes it in detail.
The VLC Media Player can be downloaded from here: English
download.
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Youll have to look around the package once you download it to see
everything it can do. The most valuable functions I have found are:
Adjust the speed of the video.
Jump forward or backward in small or medium steps.
Bookmark frames.
Move forward one frame at a time.
Ability to enhance/modify both the video track and audio track to
bring out details.
Play multiple videos independently.
The last feature is particularly helpful in these video forensics
situations. Youll need two screens to get the most out of this feature.
In the KB video collection, for instance, there are numerous examples of
two or more videos showing the same scene at different times and/or
angles. SM-a and SM-b are examples. If you are trying to view a
specific piece of evidence, it is very helpful to have both videos running
simultaneously on two screens. Slightly different angles can be hugely
important in interpreting what you are looking at.
~ Acquiring and Examining Images ~
Acquiring images from the Internet makes ones surfing activities
far more valuable. The entire world, it seems, is represented visually
online, and the ability to see it is wonderful, but the ability to save,
organize, and archive what you see allows you to sort of build your own
version of what the world looks like. Of course in a cyber-investigation
you have to closely analyze and preserve the evidence you are going to
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rely on to make your case.
How to find the image you need

This is the easiest and one of the most essential tools of all a
Google add-on to your browser that lets you hunt for images online. Its
called Search By Image and there are free versions for FireFox,
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Chrome, Explorer, and Safari.
This is a very powerful app. Once you load it into your browser, you
right-click on an image that you see online and click Search Google
with image. The app will scour the Internet and bring you back a list of
webpages where the same image is found tons of material to search
through to see what others are saying about the same image, which is to
say, the same subject matter. These webpages will have more images of
the same subject matter, which can be even more helpful than your
starting image.
In addition the search results will give you a page of images that
Google deems to be similar to the one you searched. Most of them
wont be similar at all and its amazing how far off a lot of them will be.
But peruse that page carefully and youll find other images taken by the
same photographer, or taken at the same place or of the same subject
matter. When you find one thats close, you can then search on it, ad
infinitum.
How to acquire/enhance an image

Often its not possible to download an image youve found, and
when it is possible it can be time consuming and you risk downloading
viruses and all sorts of crap with the image. Theres a much better way
to get any image or any portion of any image that appears on your
computer screen.
One of the three most important tools I have in my entire computer
system is a good screen-grab app. It is absolutely essential in this online
forensics work. The free version of Gadwin PrintScreen has served me
well for years. I could not do without it or an equivalent product. It
can be found here.
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The thing I like about Gadwin is that it is so fast I hardly know its
there. I have it set up so that when I hit the Print Screen button, I get
a frame-box. I adjust the box to capture what I want. With a right-
click that image goes to my clipboard. I pop over to my word-processor
(WordPerfect X6) and copy the image directly into whatever document
Im working on. Often I have a special WP page open just to receive
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screen-grab images as I surf; consequently, I have entire libraries of
images from the Internet, all in WP format.
Alternatively, once the image is in the clipboard, I can copy it right
into an email, and this is very helpful. I keep my Em client open with an
email under construction and just keep dropping images into that draft
email. When I have what I want, I send the email to myself. And so the
Em client becomes a way to archive images.
You can also use the screen-grab app as a microscope. Once I have
an image I want in the clipboard, I copy it to an empty WP page. I can
easily enlarge it 1000-fold merely by clicking on it and dragging a corner.
If necessary, I take another screen-grab of the enlarged area of interest
and paste that one into the WP page. Then I can enlarge the enlarged
view.
In order to enhance/modify an image to bring out a detail, I grab the
image with Gadwin and copy it into IrfranView, a graphics package that
can be used to adjust brightness, contrast, color saturation, etc. It can
be downloaded for free here. Irfran View also has functions to
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annotate images and add circles, &etc., but I find those functions
difficult to work with. I prefer to use a very basic CAD program,
QuickCAD, to annotate figures and to produce schematics. The
QuickCAD output can be copied/pasted directly into a WordPerfect
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APPENDIX IV
The Author
This is my fourth piece on the Ghouta Massacre. As you can tell if
youve read the text, its become an obsession.
On Sep09.2013 I published an online open letter to Congress: Lack of
Pharmacological Proof of a Sarin Attack at Damascus. It was as well
received as fart-bubbles in the hotel hot tub.
On Oct11.2013 I ripped into the UN with Pigeon Poop on the Pump
Handle: A Critique of the Report of the UN Mission to Investigate the
Use of Sarin in Damascus. That piece was as effective as a No
Staring At the Opposite Gender sign in the high-school cafeteria.
On Nov09.2013 I ripped into CW expert Dan Kaszeta with The
Ghouta Sarin Story: Bullbleep Mountain or Veritas Valley?, which went
over with Mr. Kaszeta like an IRS auditor with halitosis.
And now Im going after Obama, Kerry and the NYT. I should
lighten up on this Ghouta thing. . . but I cant. For if Obama ends up
attacking Assad once all of Assads CWs are out of the way, I want to be
able to say I did what I could to oppose such bloody nonsense, and other
than going off on all these people who are pushing the sarin myth, I
dont know what else to do. But I know a few people have heard me and
some agree.
Somewhere in the blogosphere I bumped into a conversation over
one of my pieces and somebody was asking Who is this guy? I realized
then that in my previous articles I had neglected to extend to my readers
the courtesy of introducing myself, which is what Im doing now.
As I have noted in the text, my background is neuropharmacology.
After a short, unsuccessful, and stressful career in the USMC, I
obtained a BA in biology from Ohio State. Then I did my PhD work
under the supervision of Theodore Rall at the University of Virginia
Cyclic-AMP Metabolism In Rat Cerebral Cortex was the title of my thesis.
My next career stop was a post-doc with John Dowling at the Harvard
Biolabs where I investigated control of neurotransmitter release in the
retina.
After a ten-year teaching gig at the New Zealand National School
of Pharmacy, I stepped out of academia and studied law under J.
Benjamin Dick in Charlottesville, Virginia. The remainder of my career
was spent as a patent lawyer in the US and Canada, where I now live. I
am a member of the Virginia State Bar and the U.S. Patent Office Bar. I
have argued cases before the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the
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When not bursting blood-vessels over who killed these kids in
Ghouta, I am working on a book on evolution to be titled Hard
Evolution, Soft Evolution and the Meaning of Species: Understanding
Darwins Debacle, which has been on hold for the last six months or so
as I have struggled to make sense of these senseless murders in Ghouta.

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INDEX
Bracketed numbers refer to numbered thought-blocks as indicated in the text.
A
Abdulrahman, Rami
insurgent PR network . . . . . . . . . . .
[0021], [0194], [0220]
A Closer Look On Syria
KB complex, and . . . . . . . . . [0009]
video collection . . . . . . . . . . [0085]
al-Abdullah, Mohammad
insurgent photographer . . . . [0023]
Alawites
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0017]
kidnapped by insurgents . . . [0012]
Albright, Madeleine
killing 500,000 Iraqi toddlers worth
it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0291-0295]
Allepo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0017]
al-Qaeda
blood-thirsty . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0014]
insurgents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0014]
Agnes-Mariam, Mother Superior (See
also ISTEAMS Report)
Juliet Hypothesis and . . . . . . [0070]
Latakia kidnapping allegations . . . .
[0281-0284]
Assad, Bashar
torture allegations . . . . . . . . [0015]
Assadists
defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0012]
excluding as suspects . [0215-0218]
atropine
allegations it was used . . . . . [0018]
axioms
binary-suspects . . . . . . . . . . . [0025]
unitary-agency . . . . . . . . . . . [0026]
B
Bander bin Sultan
sarin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0028]
Becthel
Aqba oil pipeline project . . . [0268]
bloody blue blanket . . . . . . [0231-0240]
multiple examples . . . . . . . . [0234]
brown blanket
connecting Room #2 to SM . . . . . .
Appendix II
Room #2Figs. 165-170, Appendix II
W-005 and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figs. 50-51, 168 [0079],
Appendix II
Burghardt, Jutta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0289]
Bunny (see G-006 under victims)
Bush, George W.
bashing Saddam . . . . . . . . . . [0268]
C
cadaveric spasm
murder of M-015 . . . . . . . . . [0248]
carbon monoxide (CO)
ante-mortem color . . . . . . . . [0171]
convulsions . . . . . . . . . [0180-0183]
execution drug of choiceAppendix II
hypothesis (see under hypothesis)
mechanism of action . [0137-0139]
muscarinic effects . . . . . . . . . [0176]
post-mortem color . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 92, [0162-163], [0184-
0188]
rubigenic . . . . . . . . . [0138], [0163]
chemical weapons (CW)
defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0210]
CO & CN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0211]
Cheney, Dick
bashing Saddam . . . . . . . . . . [0268]
Chomsky, Noam
media filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0194]
Christians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0017]
Clinton, William
killing 500,000 Iraqi children . . . . .
[0287-0297]
Nasser, Alan quote . . . [0289]
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convulsions . . . . . . . . . [0180-0183]
execution drug of choiceAppendix II
hypothesis (see under hypothesis)
mechanism of action . . [0140-0143
post-mortem color . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[0164], [0184-0188]
rubigenic . . . . . . . . . [0142], [0164]
cyanosis
defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0132]
examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . Figs. 79-81
sarin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0162]
D
Damascus
Ghouta area . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0008]
map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0008]
weather . . . . . . . . . . Fig. 11, [0055]
Dann, Carrie
misquoted by Engel . . . . . . . [0195]
DarkMorgue (DM)
generally
defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0002]
map of . . . . . . . Fig. 52, Fig. 53
purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0118]
Hallway A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0087]
Patio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0108-0113]
Room #1 . . . . . . . . . . . [0090-0093]
Room #2 [0087-0089], [0094-0098]
chaos . . . Fig. 174, Appendix II
problems identifying . . . . . . . .
Appendix II
Room #3 . . . . . Fig 60, [0099-0107]
bodies . . . . . . . . Fig 59, [0101]
gas cylinders . . Fig. 64, [0107]
videos of
map of videos . . . . . . . . . Fig 53
Pat-a . . . . . . . . . . [0108-0113]
Rm1-a . . . . . . . . . [0090-0092]
Rm1-b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0093]
Rm2-a . . . [0091],[0094-0096]
Rm2-b . . . . . . . . . [0097-0101]
Rm3-a . . . . . . . . . [0102-0107]
Rm3-b . . . . . . . . . [0102-0107]
Rm3-c . . . . . . . . . [0102-0107]
SM-c . . . . . . . . . . [0087-0089]
de Silva Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0015]
DiFi Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0002]
authenticated by USG . . . . . [0040]
connected to KB videos . . . . . . . . . .
[0118], [0205]
Kafr Batna and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[0002], [0040], [0086]
Druze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0017]
E
Engel, Richard
biased reporting . . . . . . . . . . [0195]
F
Feinstein, Dianne . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0002]
Fuchsia Lady (See W-004 under
victims)
G
gas cylinders
generally
inventory . . . . . . . Appendix II
safety caps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 163, [0107],
Appendix II
cyanide and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0202]
Hallway B . . . . . . . . [0090], [0094]
Patio . . . . . . . . . . . . Fig. 67, [0112]
Room #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0087]
Room #3 Figs. 59, 64, [0101],[0107]
gas masks
Soviet style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0093]
Gates, Robert
Iraqis will pay the price . . . [0290]
Ghouta
described . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0008]
Ghouta Massacre
area of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0008]
biological event . . . . . [0120-0125]
mass-execution . . . . . . [0213-0214]
Giraldi, Philip
National Intelligence Estimate
disagreeents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0200]
gunshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Appendix II
H
Haliday, Denis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0289]
Hart, John
doubtful of Sarin Myth . Appendix II
hemoglobin (Hb)
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cyanosis and . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0132]
oxygen binding . . . . . . [0127-0130]
red v. blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0126]
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0126]
Herman, Edward S.
media filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0194]
Hersh, Seymour
CIA arms smuggling . . . . . . . [0017]
honest reporting . . . . . . . . . . [0196]
sarin & insurgents . [0028], [0193]
Sarin Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0193]
Higgins, Eliot
insurgent PR network . . . . . . . . . . .
[0021], [0194], [0220]
sarin rockets . . . . . . . . . Appendix II
Human Rights Watch
report on Ghouta Massacre . [0180]
report on Latakia kidnappings[0277]
Hussein, Saddam
bashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0268]
Becthel Aqba oil pipeline project . .
[0268]
hypotheses
carbon monoxide hypothesis
stated . . . . . . . . [0036], [0166]
cyanide hypothesis
stated . . . . . . . . [0036], [0166]
defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0033]
Juliet hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . [0070]
demise of . . . . . . . [0151-0156]
evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figs 160-162, Appendix II
sarin hypothesis
not a hypothesis . . . . . . [0191]
stated . . . . . . . . [0036], [0166]
testing . . . . . . [0034], [0167-0190]
ante-mortem color [0170-0175]
convulsions . . . . . [0180-0183]
muscarinic effects [0176-0179]
post-mortem color [0184-0188]
women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figs 118-120, [0187]
I
insurgents
brutality . . . . . . . . . . . . [0014-0015]
defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0014]
implicated in Ghouta Massacre . . .
[0215-0218]
mass-execution by . . . [0215-0218]
PR network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[0020-0023], Appendix II
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
blood-thirsty . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0014]
insurgents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0014]
Israel, Government of (GoI)
backing insurgents . . . . . . . . [0194]
pressure Obama and Congress to
attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0200]
ISTEAMS Report
errors
claiming victims drugged . . . . .
[0070], [0156]
double body claims . . . . [0111]
Latakia kidnappings and Ghouta
Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0281]
K
Kaszeta, Dan
sarin attack allegations . . . . [0200]
sarin rocket calculations . . . [0207]
KB complex
generalizing to Ghouta . . . . [0204]
location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0009]
map of . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fig.6, [0048]
purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . [0117-0119]

Kafr Batna (KB)
background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0008]
DiFi package . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0002]
players
perpetrators . . . . [00120017]
PR jocks . . . . . . [00200023]
victims . . . . . . . . . [00100011]
workers & loafers [0018-0019]
douching victims . [0092]
sub-population of Ghouta victims .
[0024], [0029]
Kerry, John
allegations against Assad . . . . . . . . .
[0004], [0028], [0118], [0199],
[0271-0272]
Aug30.2013 speech [0002], [0271]
backed Iraq war . . . . . . . . . . [0270]
checking moral compass . . . . . . . . .
[0199], [0218]
Mother Superior Agnes-
Mariam and . . . . . . . . . [0199]
politicians and . . . . . . . [0200]
heroic responders . . . . . . . [0256]
over-reaching . . . . . . . . . . . . [0031]
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hypotheses and . . . . . . . . . . . [0033]
kitten among goats Fig. 159, Appendix II
Krohn, Petri
KB complex location . . . . . . [0009]
Kurds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0017]
L
Latakia
Israeli 2014 attack . . . . . . . . [0276]
kidnappings & Ghouta Massacre . .
[0072], [0276-0286]
Agnes-Mariam allegations . . .
[0281-0284]
background . . . . . . . . . . [0276]
Human Rights Watch report .
[0277]
NYT ignored . . . [0278-0280]
map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0017]
Libya
arms smuggling . . . . . . . . . . . [0017]
Lincoln, Abraham
killing own people . . . . . . . [0272]
Lloyd, Richard
livor mortis
CN and . . . . . . . . . . [0164], [0184]
CO and Fig. 92, [0162-163], [0184]
described . . . . . . . . . . . [0158-0159]
Juliet Hypothesis and . . Appendix II
M-008 . . . . . . . . . . Fig. 113, [0186]
observed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figs. 106-117, [0185-0186]
M
Mort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0075-0078]
Mortia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0071-0074]
Mr. Cranberry
gas mask . . . . . . . . . [0093], [0096]
tormenting boy B-005 . . . . . [0093]
manipulating body of girl G-010 . .
[0096]
Room #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0093]
Room #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0096]
Mr. Minne
caught on camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 173, Appendix II
DarkMorgue . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0087]
SunMorgue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0051]
videos
Pat-a . . . . . . . . . . [0108-0113]
SM-c . . . [0051], [0087-0089]
Rm1-a . . . . . . . . . [0090-0092]
Rm2-a . . . . . . . . . [0094-0096]
Rm3-c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0102]
N
New York Times
allegations against Assad . . . [0118]
biased for insurgents . . [0193-0194]
ignored Latakia Massacr[e0278-0280]
O
Obama, Barack
allegations against Assad . . . . . . . . .
[0004], [0028], [0036], [0118],
[0271]
DiFi package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[0002], [0040], [0118], [0255]
he gassed his own people mantra .
[0272]
intelligence assessment . . . . . . . .
[0024], [0200]
prevarications . . . . . [0193], [0200]
red-line threat . . . . . . . . . . . . [0152]
Sep10.2013 speech . . . . . . . . [0002]
sleight of hand . . . . . . . . . . . [0028]
WTF? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0119]
Obama/Kerry syllogism
falsified . . . . . . . . . . [0203], [0215]
irony of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0155]
stated . . . . . . . . . . . . [0028], [0196]
P
pallor mortis
described . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0157]
Parry, Robert
honest reporting . . . . . . . . . . [0196]
NYTs execrable tactics . . . . [0193]
Sarin Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0193]
phlebotomists
Mort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0075-0078]
Mortia . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0071-0074]
Phuc, Kim
napalm burns . . . . . . . . . . . . [0296]
Postol, Theodore
Powell, Colin
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R
Reagan, Ronald
Saddam
Becthel Aqba oil pipeline
project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0268]
Rice, Condelezza
bashing Saddam . . . . . . . . . . [0268]
Richardson, Bill
killing 500,000 Iraqi toddlers worth
it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0292]
rockets
secondary consideration . . . [0120]
rubicundity
CO and CN . . [0143], [0163-0164]
defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0133]
examples . . . . . . . . . . . . Figs 93-102
fingers of workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figs. 153-156, Appendix II
hemoglobin and . . . . . . . . . . [0133]
noted in SM . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0061]
rubigenic
defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0133]
Rumsfeld, Donald
bashing Saddam . . . . . . . . . . [0268]
Reagan ambassador to Saddam . . . .
[0268]
S
sarin (See also Sarin Myth)
cyanosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0162]
Bander bin Sultan . . . . . . . . [0028]
convulsions . . . . . . . . . [0180-0183]
evidence of, vel non . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[0121], Appendix II
false-flag . . . . . . . . . . . . Appendix II
hypothesis, (see under hypotheses)
insurgents and . . . . . . . . . . . [0028]
livor mortis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0184]
mechanism of action . [0144-0149]
post-mortem color . . . [0184-0188]
livor mortis . . . . . . . . . . [0162]
pallor mortis . . . . . . . . . [0162]
Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0028]
Sellstrom Report . . . . . Appendix II
Sarin Myth
PR fait accompli . . . . . . . . . . [0192]
where it came from . . . . [0191-196]
Sellstrom Report
restricted to sarin . . . . . . . . . [0031]
unreliable . . . . . . . . [0044], [0125]
Shia
butchering Sunni . . . . . . . . . [0016]
kidnapped by insurgents . . . [0012]
Sponeck, Hans von . . . . . . . . . . . . [0289]
Stahl, Lesley
60 Minutes Albright interview . .
[0291]
Stupid Americans
essential for false-flag operation . . .
Appendix II
insurgents trying to dupe . . . . . . . . .
[0040-0041], [0152], [0156],
[0195], [0254], [0282]
SunMorgue (SM)
body-count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0057]
body turn-over . . . . . . . . . . . [0058]
defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0002]
described . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0050]
morning view . . . . Fig. 133, [0242]
murder of M-015 . . . . [0222-0239]
night view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0051]
noon view . . . . . . . Fig. 134, [0242]
red bag . . . . . . Fig. 151, Appendix II
role of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0060]
segregation of bodies . . . . . . [0056]
syringes . . . . . . . . . . . . [0062-0069]
videos of
generally . . . . . . Fig. 7, [0049]
SM-a . . . . . . . . . . [0055-0060]
SM-b . . . . . . . . . . [0055-0060]
SM-c . . . . . . . . . . [0051-0054]
sun-videos (See SM-a and
SM-b, this heading)
Sunni
butchering Shia . . . . . . . . . . [0016]
insurgents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0014]
Syrian Arab Army (SAA)
insurgents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0013]
Syria
sectarian divisions . . . . . . . . [0016]
Syria Observatory on Human Rights
insurgent PR network . . . . . [0021]
Syrian Civil War
sectarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0016]
syringes (see also phlebotomists)

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DarkMorgue
Hallway A . . . . . . . . . . . [0087]
in use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0071-0078]
inventory . . . . . . . . . . . [0062-0069]
significance . . . . . . . . . [0082-0084]
women and . . [0065], [0079-0081]
T
Trapp, Ralph
Turkey
Alawites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0017]
arms smuggling . . . . . . . . . . . [0017]
sarin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0028]
U
United Nations
Mission to Syria (see also Sellstrom
Report) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0015]
failed to take body samples . . .
[0024]
US Government
intelligence assessment . . . . . . . .
[0024],[0125], [0200]
V
Vanninen, Paula
victims, generally
body-count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0057]
defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0010]
false-flag and . . . . . . . . . Appendix II
locator table . . . . . . . . . Appendix I
SunMorgue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0057]
victims, boys
B-003
livor mortis . . Fig. 114, [0184]
B-004
blood-draw . . . . . [0076-0076]
M-015, next to . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 123, [0225-0226], [0234]
B-005
tormented in DM . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 54, [0091], [0093]
victims, girls
G-004
syringes and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figs. 32, 35, [0066-0067]
G-005
syringes and . . Fig. 36, [0069]
G-006 (Bunny)
blood draw . . . . . [0071-0074]
Juliet hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figs 160-162, Appendix II
G-007
Room #3 . . . . [0099], [0103]
G-010
Room #2 . . . . . Fig 56, [0096]
victims, men
M-001
patio Figs 65-68, [0109-0110]
Zamalka . . . . . . . [0109-0110]
M-006
Room #3 . . . . . . . . . . . [0101]
SM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0063]
wrists tied . Figs 61-63, [0106]
M-008
coin over heart . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figs. 148-150, Appendix II
M-011
M-015, next to . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 123, [0225]
Room #3 . . . . . . . . . . . [0101]
SM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0058]
M-012
shoe, blood stained . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 144, [0260]
slit throat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figs. 142-143, [0258-0259]
Room #3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 59, [0101], [0258]
SM
M-015, next to . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 123, [0225]
M-014
blood draw . . . . . . . . . . [0078]
M-015, next to . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 123, [0225-0226]
Room #3 . . . . . . . . . . . [0104]
SM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0078]
M-015
cadaveric spasm . . . . . . [0248]
murder of . . . . . . [0222-0239]
events . . . . . [0253-0256]
SM
position . Fig. 123, [0225]
M020
blood stains . . . . . . . . . . [0094]
DM Hallway A Fig. 53, [0090]
M-021
SM
cranberry collar . . . . . . . .
Fig. 145, [0262]

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victims, women
generally
handled differently [0187-0188]
livor mortis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Figs. 118-120, [0187]
W-001
rarely seen . . . . . . . . . . . [0058]
W-002
SM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0058]
M-015, near . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 123, [0225], [0243]
W-003
SM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0058]
syringe . . . . . . . Fig. 30, [0065]
W-004 (Fuchsia Lady)
no hijab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 173, Appendix II
Room #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[0087-0089], [0094],
Appendix II
W-005
blood draws and . [0079-0081]
DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0187]
SM . . . . . . . . . . . . [0080-0081]
W-006
Hallway A . . . . . . . . . . . [0187]
livor mortis . . . . . . . . . . [0187]
SM . . . . . . . . . Fig. 122, [0187]
videos
generally
linking rooms together . . . . . .
[0086], [0098], [0115]
table of . . [0048], Appendix I
timeline . . . . . . . . . Appendix II
Pat-a
showing patio . . . [0108-0113]
Rm1-a
showing Room #1 . . . . . . . . . .
[0090-0092]
Rm1-b
showing Room #1 . . . . [0093]
Rm2-a
continuation of Rm1-a . . . . . .
[0091]
showing Room #2 . . . . . . . . . .
[0094-0096]
Rm2-b
M-012 murder . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 142, [0258]
showing Room #2 . . . . . . . . . .
[0097-0098]
showing Room #3 . . . . . . . . . .
[0099-0101]
Rm3-a
showing Room #3 . . . . . . . . . .
[0102-0107]
Rm3-b
showing Room #3 . . . . . . . . . .
[0102-0107]
Rm3-c
showing Room #3 . . . . . . . . . .
[0102-0107]
SM-a
gunshots . . . . . . . . Appendix II
murder of M-012 . . . . . . . . . . .
Fig. 143, [0259]
murder of M-015 [0222 et seq]
bloody blue blanket . . . . .
[0242]
red bag . . Fig. 151, Appendix II
showing SM . . . . [0055-0060]
time of day . . . . . . . . . . [0061]
SM-b
murder of M-015 [0222 et seq]
showing SM . . . . [0055-0060]
SM-c
showing DM . . . . [0087-0089]
showing SM . . . . [0051-0054]
W
Wahhabi
blood-thirsty . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0014]
insurgents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0014]
Washington Post
biased for insurgents . . [0193-0194]
Wood, Charles
Z
Zanders, Jean Pascal
doubtful of Sarin Myth . . . . . . . . . . .
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Murder in the SunMorgue ~ The Ghouta Massacre

Denis R. OBrien, PhD

Kafr Batna Background

Kafr Batna Players

Assumptions, Axioms, and Philosophy

A Triad of Testable Toxin-Hypotheses

The Sun-Videos: Bodies In, Bodies Out

Partial Inventory of the SunMorgue Syringes

The SunMorgue Phlebotomists

And the Womens Blood Samples . . . ?

What The Syringes Tell Us

The DarkMorgue Patio

Murder in the SunMorgue ~ The Ghouta Massacre

The Demise of the Juliet-H

Pallor Mortis & Livor Mortis

Filling the Causation-Vacuum

How the Hypotheses Are Tested

Test #1: Ante-mortem Color

Test #2: Muscarinic effects:

Test #3: Convulsions

Test #4: Post-mortem Color

Execrable Editorial Tactics

Checking the Publics Moral Compass

Step 1: Getting the Toxin Right

Step 2: Excluding a CW Attack

Step 3: The Leap from CW attack to Mass-Execution

Steps 4 & 5: Excluding the Assadists,

The Context-Shift: Unspeakable Barbarity

The in situ death of corpse M-015

Eliminating the pre-bloodied floor possibility

Murdered: the inescapable conclusion

Trying to piece it together

Another slit throat?

Murder in the SunMorgue ~ The Ghouta Massacre

Own people, Issue #1: The rheortic of war

Ones own people, Issue #2: The Latakia connection

Ones own people, Issue #3:

The red rag, or bag, . . .or something

Kitten amongst the goats

The brown blanket and blue rag

Mr. Minnie caught on camera

How to download a YouTube

How to examine video evidence

How to find the image you need

How to acquire/enhance an image

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