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Disinfo: Terrorists and White Helmets prepare false flag chemical attacks in Idlib

Summary

The leaders of the terrorist group Tahrir al-Sham, together with Members of the White Helmets, plan to conduct false flag attacks with chemical weapons, and the destruction of civil infrastructure, in the inhabited centers of the southern part of the Idlib de-escalation zone. The purpose of these false flag attacks is to accuse Syrian government forces of  using chemical weapons against civilians and of conducting indiscriminate attacks.

Disproof

No evidence given.

Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about chemical attacks as well as recurring disinformation narrative deflecting blame for chemical attacks from the Assad regime,  painting the White Helmets as terrorists, and blaming Western governments and organizations for “false-flag attacks” in Syria.

Read here a similar case claiming that the intelligence services of France and Belgium are preparing a false-flag chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib province, in coordination with local terrorist cells and the  White Helmets group.

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Sputnik Italia (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 177
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 12/12/2019
  • Language/target audience: Italian
  • Country: Syria
  • Keywords: false flag, White Helmets, Chemical weapons/attack, Syrian War

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