VETERANS TODAY -- White Helmets stealing children for ‘chemical attack’ theater in Idlib

White Helmets stealing children for ‘chemical attack’ theater in Idlib

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 VT Senior Editors

September 18, 2018

A family of a kidnapped Syrian boy: Wafaa, Mohammed Ibrahim, Lotfe and Hamza © Vanessa Beeley.

Vanessa Beeley is an independent investigative journalist and photographer. She is associate editor at 21st Century Wire.

“Leave our children in peace. Let our children play, stop ‘playing’ with our children.” These are the words of a mother whose child was stolen and is being imprisoned in Idlib by terrorist groups and the White Helmets.

I met Wafaa at her home with her husband Mohammed Ibrahim and her two sons Hamza, 9, and Lotfe, 14. Both Wafaa and Mohammed are lawyers, they met while studying at the same university. Wafaa is strong, her expression is defiantly hopeful and optimistic despite fears for her kidnapped son, Ahmed, who is now 11.

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“Ahmed was born mute, he couldn’t speak,” she told me. “I believe this is why he was taken from us, because he cannot protest or resist.”

Ahmed was kidnapped by terrorist groups only 200 meters from his home one year ago. The location of their home will not be disclosed to protect the security of the family, but they know that Ahmed is now being held with other children in Idlib. The locations change regularly, according to information the family has received from friends and family still trapped inside Idlib.

Collage of photos of Ahmed supplied by the family © Vanessa Beeley

On August 30, 2018, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem stated that the US Coalition-sponsored White Helmets had kidnapped 44 children in order to use them as ‘props’ in the staging of a chemical weapon attack in Idlib. The White Helmets have a history of providing the scenarios required to precipitate FUKUS aggression against Syria.

Their most recent chemical attack hoax attempt in Douma in April 2018 was proven unreliable by the OPCW interim report. Sensationalist suggestions of sarin use by the Syrian government during the last moments of the liberation of Douma from the murderous Jaysh al-Islam fanatics was dismissed by the findings in the report. The chlorinated elements detected in the samples taken by the OPCW could come from any manner of household items and no conclusions of chlorine use by the Syrian government have been drawn. Western media and their governments have ignored the findings of the OPCW and are once more preparing the ground for a “chemical attack” in Idlib to enable further unlawful aggression against Syria during the Arab Army’s campaign to cleanse Idlib of the terrorist infestation.

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Earlier, the Russian defense ministry warned that it had intelligence indicating that militants in the beseiged terrorist-held Syrian province of Idlib had started making footage of fake 'chemical attacks' in an effort to discredit the Syrian government.

Russia's permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alexander Shulgin has called on the organization not to allow provocations involving the use of chemical weapons in Idlib.

"[The OPCW] must bring its weight to bear on the matter and not allow this provocation to take place," Shulgin said, speaking to Ruptly. "A number of delegations have agreed with this view. We stressed that everything possible must be done to prevent a provocation," the official added.

On Tuesday, the Russian military reported that it had evidence to suggest that members of the controversial White Helmets rescue group were planning to film video footage "showing 'activists'…'helping' the residents of Jisr al-Shughur" in northwest Idlib following a fabricated attack by the Syrian army using so-called barrel bombs filled with poisonous substances. For this purpose, the military warned, militants had brought to containers filled with chlorine toxins to the area to make the provocation seem authentic.

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According to the military, all footage showing provocations involving chemical weapons use in Jisr al-Shughur would be handed over to regional and international broadcasters, several of whom had sent video crews to the area, and be released on social media, by Tuesday evening.

Syrian and Russian officials have repeatedly warned about the dangers of new false flag provocations in Idlib, the last major stronghold of anti-government forces including Islamist terrorist groups, in recent weeks. Such fake attacks, they've said, would provide the US and its allies with a pretext to launch new attacks against Damascus. In late August, the Russian military reported on the deployment of US naval and air forces around Syria in the Mediterranean Sea and Qatar which could strike in the aftermath of any new provocations.

The US, the UK and France attacked Syria on April 14, 2018,  in response to the Syrian military's alleged use of chemical weapons in East Ghouta. The 'evidence' used for that attack, which included video footage of members of the White Helmets 'treating victims' in a local hospital, has since been thoroughly discredited. Before that, on April 7, 2017, the US attacked Syria's Shayrat airbase following a similar provocation in Homs province.