Another source

[peterthooper at juno.com]

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/21/the-douma-gas-attack-whats-the-evidence-it-was-a-false-flag/

So Counterpunch, right, author hearkens back to his machinist training as a young Trotskyist trying to radicalize the proletariat!

Sez the canister found in the building looks legit. Gives plausible scenario for the implausibility of fakery.

Doesn’t mention the goat. Nor Hersh.

Gives bkgd on one of the OPCW folk - Bustani - who signed off on the report. Doesn’t sound like somebody who’d be into mongering: 

“ In 2002, Bustani was negotiating with Iraq [to] join the OPCW, thus allowing its inspectors full access to Iraq’s purported “chemical weapons arsenal”. If Bustani had succeeded, this would have impeded the Bush administration’s war plans, by removing one of their “weapons of mass destruction” pretexts. When John Bolton got wind of Bustani’s efforts, he demanded his resignation. In a phone conversation between the two men reported in The Intercept, Bolton is quoted:

“You have 24 hours to leave the organization, and if you don’t comply with this decision by Washington, we have ways to retaliate against you.” After a moment’s pause, Bolton specified the consequences of not resigning: “We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York.”

Dayum!  

The article doesn’t list him as specifically the editor of the Douma report. 

But wait - if he was forced out in 2002, how’d he get in again to review this report?

Wikipedia doesn’t have anything about him getting back in. Counterpunch sez 

“If the OPCW was a tool of American ambitions, it certainly has an odd history for a group. Among the four people serving on the committee overseeing such investigations is one José Bustani, ”

But what committee? Who are the other 3?
Did he just drop Bustani’s name so he could tell the cool story about Bolton’s perfidy?

fact I see here he’s recently cast doubt on the report. (In a panel with a buncha retired military and a Wikileaks person) 

So never mind about that, for now.

Counterpunch’s haymaker, though, was the notion that the quite small effect of the Tomahawks was not worth carrying out a false flag op for. 

Presumably anyone considering doing it would be up on that beforehand.

Hard to dispute that. 
So motive: just wanting to make Assad look bad?
Or Raytheon stockholder?





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