{"id":109388,"date":"2018-04-16T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=109388"},"modified":"2018-04-15T16:58:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T15:58:52","slug":"red-crescent-says-no-evidence-of-chemical-attack-in-syrias-douma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/red-crescent-says-no-evidence-of-chemical-attack-in-syrias-douma\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Crescent Says No Evidence of Chemical Attack in Syria\u2019s Douma"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Patients Treated by Aid Group Not Exposed to Any Chemical Agents<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>9 Apr 2018 &#8211; <\/em>The Syrian Red Crescent issued a statement today dismissing the allegations of a weekend chemical weapon attack in the city of Douma. The statement insisted their medical personnel in the city had found no evidence any such attack took place.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Red Crescent said their hospital in Douma received six patients<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/423539-red-crescent-ghouta-no-chemical\/\" > complaining of respiratory problems, but said they didn\u2019t seem to have any physical problems at all,<\/a> nor was there any trace of any chemical agents they might\u2019ve been exposed to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/red-crescent-syria.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/red-crescent-syria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/red-crescent-syria.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/red-crescent-syria-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemical attack or no, it wouldn\u2019t be surprising for some people to complain of symptoms without actually having any problems. That the Red Crescent operates a hospital in a city supposedly inundated with wounded and didn\u2019t get a single patient with confirmed exposure, however, is very noteworthy.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defense Ministry also reported that their own medics had examined some patients in Douma, and had the same result, that none showed signs of chemical poisoning. With White Helmets claiming scores killed and over 500 wounded by exposure, it seems impossible to believe that if it was true no one can find any of these \u201creal\u201d patients to confirm an attack.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>More:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2018\/04\/11\/after-syria-strikes-israel-expects-proxy-war-with-iran\/\" >After Syria Strikes, Israel Expects Proxy War With Iran<\/a> &#8211; April 11th, 2018<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2018\/04\/11\/russia-faults-trump-threats-we-dont-do-twitter-diplomacy\/\" >Russia Faults Trump Threats: We Don&#8217;t Do &#8216;Twitter Diplomacy&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; April 11th, 2018<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2018\/04\/11\/us-allies-ready-options-for-attacking-syria\/\" >US, Allies Ready Options for Attacking Syria<\/a> &#8211; April 11th, 2018<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2018\/04\/11\/mattis-us-still-assessing-alleged-syria-chemical-attack\/\" >Mattis: US Still Assessing Alleged Syria Chemical Attack<\/a> &#8211; April 11th, 2018<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Jason Ditz is news editor of<\/em> Antiwar.com.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2018\/04\/09\/red-crescent-says-no-evidence-of-chemical-attack-in-syrias-douma\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 antiwar.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 Apr 2018 &#8211; The Syrian Red Crescent issued a statement today dismissing the allegations of a weekend chemical weapon attack in the city of Douma. The statement insisted their medical personnel in the city had found no evidence any such attack took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":109389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria-in-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}