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On 4/13/17 10:17 AM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:
http://www.unz.com/article/the-nerve-agent-attack-in-khan-shaykhun-syria/
Postol is a joke. In the aftermath of the August 2013 Ghouta sarin gas
attack, he began working with Maram Susli, "The Syrian Girl".
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/17/the-kardashian-look-a-like-trolling-for-assad.html
As the wrangling continued, Lloyd and Postol grew to rely on their new
colleague, Susli. She was adamant in her assertions that the attack was
carried out by the rebels in a “false flag” attack, designed to prompt
American intervention. And she was no fan of Kaszeta and Higgins.
Susli, the one-time chemistry grad student, started helping Lloyd and
Postol with research into hexamine. Armed with that research, Postol
began emailing Kaszeta with questions about his hexamine analysis.
Postol presented his outreach as simple academic curiosity about
Kaszeta’s research. There was no mention of Susli’s involvement.
The email exchanges started out as cordial, if cold, but gradually grew
more confrontational. Postol argued that the presence of hexamine at the
attack site could be explained by the presence of the chemical in
explosives of the warhead used to deliver the chemical weapons.
After a few volleys, Postol cc’ed “syriansis...@gmail.com” on a reply to
Kaszeta. Things went quickly downhill from there.
After Susli boasted of her knowledge of nerve agents, Kaszeta warned
Susli’s school, University of Western Australia, that she might be
engaging in potentially dangerous research involving chemical warfare
agents.”
Susli, in turn, threatened to sue. “.@DanKaszeta you have used racism
and lies against me,” she later tweeted. “But I’m going to use chemistry
to bury your career.”
And Postol rose to his new compatriot’s defense. “By all professional
standards, and by all standards of courtesy, SyrianSister has
distinguished herself as a consummate professional,” Postol wrote to
Kaszeta. “You, on the other hand, have made an unbroken string of
technically false claims.”
Then, Postol wrote to the FBI about Kaszeta, warning of the “potential
criminal implications” of his accusations against Susli. “In addition to
making a false claim of a terrorist activity… Mr. Kaszeta has also
targeted Ms. Susli because she is a descendent of Syria,” Postol
continued. “This raises further questions about whether the false report
of terrorism also qualifies as a hate crime.”
So far, there’s no public evidence of FBI follow-up. But the letter was
nonetheless a notable development. The esteemed MIT professor, whose
previous, deeply reported analyses had caused governments to rethink
their multibillion-dollar missile defense systems, was now defending a
grad student who took it as fact that, as she put it, “the U.S.
government has been experimenting on Ebola as a biological weapon.”
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