The search for truth in the rubble of Douma – and one doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack | The Independent

The search for truth in the rubble of Douma – and one doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack | The Independent

The search for truth in the rubble of Douma – and one doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack

Exclusive: Robert Fisk visits the Syria clinic at the centre of a global crisis

• Robert Fisk Douma, Syria  
• @indyvoices 
• Tuesday 17 April 2018 18:30 BST

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Bombed out civilian apartments once lived in by Islamist rebels in Douma 

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This is the story of a town called Douma, a ravaged, stinking place of smashed apartment blocks – and of an underground clinic whose images of suffering allowed three of the Western world’s most powerful nations to bomb Syria last week. There’s even a friendly doctor in a green coat who, when I track him down in the very same clinic, cheerfully tells me that the “gas” videotape which horrified the world – despite all the doubters – is perfectly genuine.