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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Aaronkin ago
Damn nice job of research. Here is the list of their Board of Directors from their website.
*Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz and CEO, co-chair by the Board of Directors of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
*Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn is co-chair of NTI
*Ted Turner co-chair of NTI, billboard advertisement, cable television (CNN Founder), sports team ownership, sailing, environmental initiatives and philanthropy.
*Lord Browne of Ladyton (Des Browne) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament and Vice Chair NTI.
*Joan Rohlfing became president and chief operating officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative in January 2010, after nine years as NTI's senior vice president for programs and operations. She is responsible for managing all NTI programs and operations, overseeing an annual operating budget of $15-$20 million. *Ambassador Alkaabi is the permanent representative of the United Arab Emirates to the IAEA as well as the UAE's Special Representative for International Nuclear Cooperation.
*Alexey Arbatov head of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is chair of the Nonproliferation Program of the Carnegie Moscow Center.
*Chuck Bowsher Served 15-year term of office as the Comptroller General of the United States and head of the General Accounting Office (GAO).
*Edmund (Jerry) G. Brown Jr. Trustee for the Los Angeles Community College District in 1969, Secretary of State in 1970 and Governor in 1974 and 1978, 1998, Brown was elected Mayor of Oakland, California Attorney General in 2006 and 2010 Governor of Ca. to present day.
*Professor Liru Cui is Senior Advisor to CICIR as well as it's former President. CICIR is a think-tank in China known for its comprehensive studies on current international affairs.
*Ambassador Rolf Ekéus is chairman emeritus of the board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. From 2001 to 2007, he served as high commissioner on national minorities for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has held a number of diplomatic posts, including Swedish ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2000 and head of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM).
*Gideon Frank A former director general of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, director of the research reactor in the Soreq Nuclear Research Center, deputy general manager for engineering and technology at the Soreq Center and general manager of the Center.
*Dr. Margaret A.Hamburg former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), founding vice president and senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a foundation dedicated to reducing nuclear, chemical and biological threat, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Commissioner for New York City, and Assistant Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.
*Igor S. Ivanov is a professor at Moscow State Institute for International Relations. Previously, he served as minister of foreign affairs, from 1998 to 2004, and secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation from 2004 to 2007. Ivanov holds the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He took part in the work of several U.N. General Assembly sessions, many international conferences, and in particular, co-chaired the Bosnia settlement talks in Dayton, Ohio. From 1991 to 1993, he represented the USSR and then Russia as ambassador to Spain.
*Ambassador Riaz Mohammad Khan spent nearly 40 years in Pakistan’s Foreign Service, holding various assignments at Pakistani missions around the world, USSR, China, UN, Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Union He was also Additional Secretary in charge of international organizations and arms control issues for Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Spokesman of the Foreign Office.
*Dr. Jeong Kim Former President of Bell Labs got his Bachelor degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, while simultaneously working as a partner in Tech Startup Digitus, U.S. Navy, where he served as a nuclear submarine officer, AlliedSignal to work at the Naval Research Laboratory, launched Yurie Systems, a data networking company whose technology enabled telecom carriers to consolidate voice, video, taught engineering at the University of Maryland, served on the U.S. Presidential Commission on Review of U.S. Intelligence, the External Advisory Board of the CIA, and the Award Committee for the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and a whole lot more.
*Former Indiana State Senator Richard Lugar is the President of the Lugar Center, a non-profit organization focusing on nuclear non-proliferation, food security, and other critical issues. Lugar also recently announced the creation of the Lugar Academy at the University of Indianapolis, including a Washington semester internship program for Uindy students and other student leaders. Lugar was also recently named a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar at the new School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University.
*Admiral Mike Mullen Former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, spent four years as chairman—the top military advisor to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
*Ronald L. Olson is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.
*Michael Peterson President and Chief Executive Officer of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, CEO of Peterson Management, LLC and is Co-Founder of GPX Enterprises, LP, a private investment firm.
*Sir Malcolm Rifkind Queen's Counsel in 1985. In 1970, councilor in Edinburgh, MP for Pentlands, appointed to the Front Bench in 1975, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, at first in the Scottish Office, Minister of State in 1983, member of the Cabinet in 1986 as Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Defense and 1995-97 he was Foreign Secretary.
*Ellen O’Kane 16 years of public service in Congress and the State Department, Obama's Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, successfully closed negotiations of the New Start Treaty with the Russian Federation in March 2010 in Geneva, after months of stalemate. Secretary Tauscher also represented the United States at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations in May 2010.
*Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, and Special Adviser to EU HRVP Federica Mogherini, on behalf of whom she wrote the European Global Strategy and is now working on its implementation, notably in the field of security and defense.
redgreenpill ago
What's noteworthy there is that Admiral Mike Mullen, who served as top military advisor to both GW Bush and Obama, as you noted, was one of three people added to the board of directors just last week!
http://www.nti.org/newsroom/news/adm-michael-mullen-and-nathalie-tocci-join-ntis-board-directors-amb-laura-holgate-serve-vice-president-material-security-and-minimization/