Pulverized buildings were shown which are reportedly the remains of a research facility in Damascus after a cruise missile blitz. The article states that the RAF joined US and French forces in unleashing a "blitz on evil Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapon capabilities..."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6041478/syria-air-strikes-bombing-strike-uk-us-chemical-weapons-assad-latest-pentagon-russia/
Okay, so here we have "NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative) Building a Safer World" with NTI's Syria page showing that its primary biological weapons agent facility is reportedly located at the Damascus-based Scientific Research Council. Here anthrax, cholera, and botulism are developed by the Biological Research Facility and produced. It is believed that all research, development, and production activities and facilities associated with the Biological Weapons program are under the direct control of the Centre D'Etude et Recherche Scientifique (CERS). On April 14, 2018, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a CERS facility in Damascus had been potentially struck during US missile strikes on chemical weapons sites. Pentagon officials later reported that the facility had been destroyed. What in the hell is NTI all about???
http://www.nti.org/learn/countries/syria/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Scientific_Studies_and_Research_Center
Whatever NTI is, it is also located in Washington D.C. Its website says the following:
"Every day, we work to prevent catastrophic attacks with weapons of mass destruction and disruption - nuclear, biological, radiological, chemical and cyber. Working with leaders, partners, and citizens around the world to develop policies to reduce reliance on nuclear wapons, prevent their use, and end them as a threat."
Here's the shocker - The Board of Directors include Ernest J. Moniz, Sam Nunn, Ted Turner, Des Browne, Joan Rohlfing, Ambassador Hamad Alkaabi, Alexy Arbatov, Charles A. Bowsher, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Liru Cui, Rolf Ekeus, Gideon Frank, Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., and several more.
Its advisors include Warren E. Buffett, David A. Hamburg, and Siegfried S. Hecker.
http://www.nti.org/about/board-and-advisors/
I can't figure out exactly what NTI is or does, but something is very, very wrong.
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iwar ago
It simply looks like a part of their research and educational institutions.
Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology (HIAST) is a university 300m away.
http://www.nti.org/learn/facilities/489/
https://hiast.edu.sy/en/about-us
HIAST is subordinate to the Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC)
http://www.nti.org/learn/facilities/478/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Scientific_Studies_and_Research_Center
NTI looks like some international body probably funding and collaborating research or some initiatives, with I guess the true purpose being intelligence, keeping track of capabilities etc.
Good they bombed it at night, otherwise it would probably be filled with hundreds of normal working people and students.
lexsird ago
Intesting. All from a new account on a post that I don't recall seeing when I posted. Yeah and you supposively posted before me. Why no voats up or down? Too much info to be ignored on a hot thread like this. Probability of planted post high. After all we're seeing a 'glitch in the matrix' with the upvoat count.
When getting sloppy finger fucking things, they smell.
Vindicator ago
Upvoat bug has been happening for over a month since Putt ported new code. There are numerous threads about it in v/voatdev.