Idlib CW False-Flag Covers for Islamist Massacre

Idlib CW Massacre 4-4-2017 {masterlist}
Idlib CW False-Flag Covers for Islamist Massacre 

Adam Larson aka Caustic Logic
April 4-6, 2017
adds April 7, 9, 23, July 3, August 8

What the hell is with these people? They've got over 100 people dead in a Russian or Syrian attack with sarin nerve gas in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province. At least 43 of those are said to be children. It's the second deadliest alleged CW attack of the whole war. They ask "Where is the world?" As usual, "the world" they refer to is not hovering over the reliable evidence or giving it any real consideration.

But this is reality. These people are real. Their deaths were real, happened a certain way for a certain horrible reason, and someone should pay. Getting it right should merit some care, shouldn't it? So there's an ACLOS page started (so far more on the talk page, check both)

Alleged Sarin Victims: Head-Hacked Kids

Just a little looking and we already have this from one NOT widely-circulated photo. Sophie MacNeill tweeted it and I've never seen it before, when it's so heart-wrenching I probably would have seen it a few times by now if it (publicly) existed before. Taking it as presented, anyway, we have a clear problem, that might explain why so few people have re-published this picture.

Another array of dead children in a dramatic screen grab that IS widely claimed as from this incident yields this: (false lead, sloppy work)

There might be more examples - analysis is ongoing (and as always, ACLOS is accepting new members...)

<add Aug 8>Late addition: more head/face-wounded kids, one of which, along with the girl seen above, were first seen as dead or dying CW victims without the wounds, having White Helmets rescuing them with hoses, while later they're seen dead with the wounds. Important stuff: two smokeing-gun head wounds.<end Aug 8>

Fainting is reported as widespread with the victims, so some would fall and hit their heads. That could explain the fair-haired, blue eyed boy at he bottom of the first image. But what happened to the others? Many victims were apparently gassed (like the other 5+ children in the truck bed of the famous video still used for the second image here). But some batches, maybe sent in by a brigade with technical ineptitude, wound up different.

We've seen this kind of thing before. It's unclear if some Islamists just don't like to really use chemicals, even when that's what they're alleging, or if they just do it wrong and have to finish the victims off with blades. (that seems to be the case with the survivor of the infamous Ghouta sarin massacre rebels finished off with a cut to the throat)

As noted in the ACLOS head wounds section, the suggested pattern in these images: children are killed by sharp blows to the head, while fighting age males (13 and up) have their throats sliced. This is almost standard for Islamist massacres that include women and children. The one likely "Shabih" as they probably called him - the teenage boy with likely neck injury - was put back among the children for this photo by more liberal-minded activists. I don't suspect they bothered showing us the men's section of this portion of the alleged sarin attack. They probably found that too obviously bloody even to share with their infidel dupes out here.

So we have an apparent massacre of children. It happened at the same time as and was merged right into an alleged government chemical attack. Full tally, likely over 100 as they say. (we have a growing VDC tally with names and some details - see here - so far 79 dead, all civilians: 35 men, 17 boys, 19 women, 8 girls and, as media reports claim, a Yousef family hit hard, with some 22 members all killed). In context, it's clear just who wanted a shitload of dead civilians at just that moment. I see no reason why some passing jet should want to help them out by dropping sarin on them.

Confirming the first image:
This photo has the same low (early-morning?) sunlight seen in other images from this attack, and the victims are naked and washed-off, as if contaminated with chemicals. So it seems to be part of this. It's key evidence, and I hope to get more certainty (maybe they'll argue it was just a mix-up).

Quopa on Twitter ventures 2 possible matches to children seen in a video attributed to this incident, and perhaps the most shown. Looking at it, I venture another two tentative matches. Qupoa used numbers from something else that confuse me, so I'll re-start with the kids numbered left-to-right. He (or she?) matched #1 here and #2 tentatively. I add 3 and 4. Matching features circled (forehead injury, yellow things in hair, peculiar front curls of wet hair). #4 is distinctly non-distinct, with hollows under the eyes and that certain degree of gasp.

Between them, chances are these are the same four, and we can be more clear these are in fact alleged CW attack victims, with the violent injuries. Only the most obvious case doesn't seem to appear there (or did we just miss him?)

Verifying Neck Wound 
In-Detail Post (added September)

(Added 4/9): Boy 3's matching image raises a question about his neck wound - it's not visible. Well, if it was an all-across slice we'd see it, but maybe it was just the left side (our right), and wouldn't be visible at this tucked angle – maybe that's why they tucked his chin into his shoulder like that. But the blanket beneath him seems to be red with blood there... it's not just shadow – other patches go blue-black (in the blue circles), but this is blue-purple/brown-red-black He's bleeding from somewhere around the neck, clearly on his left side. Presumably the worst of that bleeding happened somewhere else, prior to washing. But it still leaks, and he's been on that blanket for some time. #2, the girl, probably has the same brown spot under her head as the wound is turned away from the cameras.

The Second Image (added 4/9): 
I was slow to notice there are at least two stills of this scene, where almost every kid has moved or been moved (see ACLOS posting: higher resolution view is current, earlier view still visible below). So, I suppose they're alive and wiggling, not dead at all. The head wound is quite possibly a wet hair illusion. The higher resolution view clarifies that's the case with the kid marked "?", so maybe with the other. (His head is off-frame in the better view).

Also, some have noted a mark across the neck of the boy marked "?" (washed out in the view here, but it's present), taking it as a sign of strangulation perhaps. But that's  far from clear. It isn't any shade of red or purple, like damaged skin would be. I propose this is a line of mud from when he had a hose dragged across his neck, or something similar and irrelevant.

Added 4-23: Another analysis suggests that might be a head wound after all, and the same boy has an apparent abrasion next to his left eye. And the other boy's neck mark still might be something relevant.

Shrapnel Wounds? (Important Note added 4-23) 
 It's important to consider, as I didn't clearly, that there was standard bombing alleged in this attack. So gas and tipping over are not the only things to expect, but perhaps some shrapnel wounds or crushed, dusty people. Just about anything is possible in a violent explosion, but it's still quite a coincidence if he wave 2 likely fatal head wounds with no other marks on the younger kids,  and a bleeding neck wound, bruises and nothing else, for the one they'd call an adult.  It could be just that coincidence among arrange victims, or as I still suspect, a sign of Islamist murder. 

More Wounded Kids (added 4-23)
Petri Krohn noted two more examples of boys with head/neck wounds and bruising. However, these don't appear as likely execution-related, and not fatal at all, that we see.  These could be actual deaths from an explosion with unseen body wounds, injuries from some blast who were then gassed, or a coiple of things. Just hacked at a bit for effect, to help explain those other kids, who know?

A Spot of Fakery?
moved - see The Fakers

Hostages? Where From?
That's my presumption by now for anything like this. The slaughter clues noted above show why. Paul Antonopoulos at Al-Masdar News Adds this:

It is known that about 250 people from Majdal and Khattab were kidnapped by Al-Qaeda terrorists last week. Local sources have claimed that many of those dead from the chemical weapons were those from Majdal and Khattab.

That seriously wasn't known to me until I read that. Wow.

<add 7/3>https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=92a_1490988323#8qBTEl4wq6wPxqrA.99 March 31:

Syrian Arab Army forces continued their counter-offensive operation in the northern Hama countryside, Friday. The forces managed to launch an offensive against opposition fighters close to the village of Khattab and capture the village. The SAA also captured several more villages in northern Hama countryside including Al-Majdal, Soubein, and Al-Shayr.
A Ruptly video is shown of offensive - soldiers in the town at the end - it seems empty, no one greeting them, but there was no immediate news of mass abduction. 

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/jihadist-rebels-kidnap-civilians-fleeing-village-northern-hama/ April 4 is the first report I've seen, from Al-Masdar News, with no number specified, but a family member explaining “the jihadists then took them all to Khan Sheikhoun.” The same day (later, I guess) Al-Masdar reports it was 250 taken and possibly used for the attack. Another source says it was 120 (couldn't find it at the moment) <end 7/3>

Consider also these 3 entries turned up looking into the mystery of the W77 trucks:

Local IDs are already claimed, or something to that effect (unclear). However, it should be noted something that obvious stands a good chance of being untrue, and even a can serve as a distraction. Quite likely, they killed some other big batch of hostages. Consider these precedents:

* 2013 Ghouta chemical massacre: widespread claims, including supposed victim IDs, that the victims were hostages seized in Latakia a couple of week earlier - seemed almost too obvious, victims have been mostly geo-located to Ghouta - they were different, more local, less famous hostages - efforts to correlate that were wasted (ie, it distracted)

* 2014 Chlorine attacks, Hama-Idlib border region: victims were said to be displaced from other towns in the area, almost musical-chairs in nature. They said none were from Ma'an, where about 80 (Alawi) civilians were abducted about two months before the first gassed IDP report came in - connection not proven either way yet - might be too obvious, but still worth a look. There are images for a few of them.

Here: in just this same Hama-Idlib border region, Claims of IDs from abduction of perhaps hundreds of civilians - possibly too obvious, but they might be behind the last entry, so maybe not. Here there are plenty of images to check. Stakes are high. So, again, might be too obvious. I suggest investigators (in Syria especially, of course) need to stake and take two paths: check against Majdal and Khattab abductees, and consider other clues they're hostages anyway, whoever and from wherever. 

Dr. Islam, Kidnapper

At least  one video was taken inside what seems to be a clinic where a Dr. Shajul Islam works. He recently covered a chlorine attack of March 25, claiming to have victims there, and tweeted a video saying that, as one died behind him (he was too busy appealing to the world in his self-famous perfect English), but the tweet's text said they think it was sarin. Maybe just a mix-up, I presumed, but now he is on April 3 reporting sarin and clarifying it is not chlorine. So did he know this was coming? Was the March 30 attack some hybrid where chlroine and sarin were used, and are we now to sarin attacks again? 

Dr. Islam, with the possible cover-story for a hostage massacre, is a known kidnapper (or accomplice, etc. - it was a serious legal case). As Pmr9 alerts us at the ACLOS talk page:

He had been arrested on returning to the UK from Syria in 2012, and charged with kidnapping two journalists: John Cantlie, and Jeroen Oerlemans. However the trial collapsed when the two victims failed to appear as prosecution witnesses: Cantlie had been kidnapped again alongside James Foley. It's not clear what happened to Oerlemans. This didn't stop the General Medical Council, which is not bound by the same rules of evidence, from striking him off.

He qualified in London,but was struck off the UK medical register in 2013, presumably over thisissue (cited: http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1831). But a key witness didn't show up, so Dr. Islam wasn't convicted, and was allowed to go back to Syria and lodge these explanations for large numbers of dead Syrians, with an emphasis on appealing for outside intervention on video. He's apparently working with the French-based UOSSM, who back the sarin claims and the 100+ death toll, and helped lodge the similar claims from ISIS-held areas of Hama last December, that Russian jets had dropped sarin gas, killing at least 93 civilians (that was little noted, but now the same might be claimed in the turf of the overtly foreign-supported Islamist "opposition"... )  

Location Ambiguity 

This may be nothing, but ... as Petri Krohn argues at ACLOS, and I agree, about 85%, (we thought) the White Helmets videos showed the Latanmah cave hospital, some ways from Khan Shiekhoun. That might become a story discrepancy - it's a lot closer to Khatab and Majdal. But it's not so strange people would be trucked over there from Khan Sheikhoun if the hospital was decent and not full of chlorine. (Petri now says it must be a different place and I won't argue. It did seem a decent fit if filmed in the late afternoon, but the sun did seem a little too low - it didn't prove anything anyway, and let's skip the pointless graphic I had)

This is just one location involved in this incident. Other victims are shown somewhere in Khan Shekhoun or another city around there (I'm not clear yet...), being trucked in from somewhere, offloaded at a clinic, etc. Where they were allegedly exposed is unclear to me so far.

Petri Krohn has some serious points about the lack of such specifics or any evidence for a rescue operation, here. Further, he's found a location match he's certain of, right by Khan Sheikhoun (here on Google Maps). I'm presuming he's right. (I've been really busy lately and can't do as much as I'd like. Thank goodness everyone else is on the case.)