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Robert Fisk's Douma Report Rips Away Excuses for Air Strike on Syria

Cook, Jonathan
http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/18/robert-fisks-douma-report-rips-away-excuses-for-air-strike-on-syria/

Publisher:  Counterpunch
Date Written:  18/04/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

A report by respected journalist Robert Fisk shows that there is a highly credible alternative explanation for the aftermath of the alleged gas attack in Douma, Syria. His report, including an eyewitness account by a senior doctor, counters the video evidence used by the US to justify the air strikes on the region. It was an attack that should never have taken place before inspectors were able to investigate and report their findings.

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The air strikes on Syria at the weekend were patently illegal according to international law. That would have been the case even had there been a chemical weapons attack in Douma, in part because it would have been necessary for independent inspectors to determine first whether the Syrian government, and not the jihadists there, was responsible.

The air strikes would have been illegal too, even if it could have been shown that a chemical weapons attack had taken place and that Assad personally ordered it. That is because air strikes would have first required authorisation from the UN Security Council. That is why international law exists: to regulate affairs between states, to prevent militarism of the "might is right" variety that nearly destroyed Europe 80 years ago, and to avoid unnecessary state confrontations that in a nuclear age could have dire repercussions.

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