Thread - The OPCW IIT report is just out, as suspected it focuses on the March 24th, 25th, and 30th 2017 chlorine and Sarin attacks in Al-Lataminah. The report concludes Syrian government forces were responsible for all three attacks.
https://www.opcw.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020/04/s-1867-2020%28e%29.pdf

The report also confirms the use of M4000 bombs in the March 24th and March 30th attack. Bellingcat had previously identified the M4000 bomb as the type used in the March 30th attack based on careful examination of open source evidence https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2019/09/24/the-first-images-of-the-type-of-chemical-bomb-used-in-syrias-sarin-attacks/

Unsurprisingly the IIT says the Syrian Arab Republic wasn't much of a help in the investigations.

This won't make anyone who makes these allegations happy anyway, but the IIT confirms it considered scenarios where the incidents were staged as part of its investigation.

The OPCW IIT lists scenarios it considered as part of the investigation, including "false flag" type scenarios.

The OPCW IIT also provides information on the general situation in the area at the time, including details of the military situation.

The section appears to refer to what @tobiaschneider was tweeting about earlier, so a very good spot by him (and a good follow on the topic of chemical weapons for you) https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1247839250978091009

I won't post it all here, but the IIT has collected really great information about the military activity in the area, and specific units and where they were. I'm sure @tobiaschneider and @GPPi will appreciate these details greatly.

The Tiger Forces involvement in chemical attacks is something covered in depth in @gppi's Nowhere to Hide report on chemical weapon use in Syria, and is again relevant here https://www.gppi.net/2019/02/17/the-logic-of-chemical-weapons-use-in-syria

Aircraft spotters, who work as an early warning network in Syria and document air activity, appear to have provide important information to the OPCW IIT.

There's some very specific details here about the preparations for the Sarin attacks that took place in Al-Lataminah, and no doubt the April 4th attack in Khan Sheikhoun. Clear evidence these attacks were preplanned.

This is some of the most detailed work I've seen about the specific locations chemical weapons and barrel bombs were stored by the Syrian government's forces.

The IIT looked into various allegations about groups transporting chemical weapons in the context of the Al Lataminah attacks, but....

..despite requests they didn't receive information from the accusers to back up those claims. Guessing they couldn't find enough conspiracy theories on the internet to steal because their usual CW truther sources didn't hear about the attacks.

Onto the March 24th incident, one of the most interesting ones for me because there's no open source documentation of it. The OPCW IIT report states Sarin was used in the incident.

The OPCW IIT report uses flight data that shows a Syrian SU22 departed from Shayrat airbase on the morning of March 24th, just before the attack occurred. This is the same airbase the Khan Sheikhoun attack was launched from on April 4th.

The symptoms of the victims are consistent with Sarin exposure. Also interesting to note some victims were in a cave, as there's an underground base near the impact site, as seen in this tweet https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1247828533558345728

Nearly a year after the attack the OPCW IIT received debris from the March 24th 2017 impact site. This debris was consistent with Syrian chemical bombs.