Scientist Debunks US Claims—Releases Video Evidence US Bombed Syrian Cancer Research Facility

By Rachel Blevins

Damascus, Syria – The United States launched around 120 missiles  targeting the Syrian government on Friday, and as reports of the damage  surface, the evidence is showing that while the U.S. is bragging that  the attack hit a chemical weapons facility, it actually destroyed a  cancer research center. The attacked launched by the United States, the United Kingdom and  France, has reduced the Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industries Research  

Institute in Barzeh to rubble, according to a report from the Syrian Arab News Agency, which noted that the facility’s use “centered  on preparing the chemical compositions for cancer drugs, and conducting  chemical analyses of the materials entering Syria, which are used in  pharmaceutical and food industries.” 

Scientist Saeed Saeed, head of the Institution for the Development of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industries, told  CCTV+ that while the facility was used by the Organization for the  Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2013, it is now used as a research  center for pharmaceutical products because sanctions from the Western  countries that are bombing Syria have resulted in a shortage of  medication. 

“Since the Syria crisis broke out, the country has been  short of all kinds of medicines due to the sanctions from western  countries,” Saeed said. “Foreign companies stopped  exporting high-quality medicines to Syria, especially anti-cancer  medicines. So we have been conducting researches on anti-cancer  medicines here, and three anti-cancer drugs have been developed.” 

The shortage of medicine will be even greater now that the U.S. has  aided in destroying the research center—but the Pentagon is proudly  claiming that it destroyed a facility dedicated to producing chemical  weapons. 

The U.S. military claimed that the facility was targeted because it was used by “the Syrian government agency responsible for developing and producing non-conventional weapons and the means to deliver them.” At least 76 missiles  were launched in the direction of the research center, and the U.S. is  boasting that it has set back Syrian chemical weapons capabilities “for years.”  

However, international weapons inspectors declared that  the Syrian government has surrendered the last of its chemical weapons  in June 2014, and each time there have been reports of a chemical attack  in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad has vehemently denied  responsibility. 

Instead of waiting for a legitimate investigation, the United States  has attacked the Syrian government when reports of a chemical attack are  circulated by the media while refusing to acknowledge numerous  documented chemical attacks on Syrian civilians by both the U.S. and the rebel groups it funds. 

While there is speculation as to whether a chemical attack did happen  in Douma, Syria, and how it was carried out, there are also a number of  holes in the United States Military’s claim that the missiles they  launched hit a facility where the Syrian government was actively  creating chemical weapons. 

One of the largest questions in response to that claim was that if  the U.S. really had hit a facility where chemical weapons were being  produced, wouldn’t that have contaminated the air and the water system,  and arguably have killed more civilians than the initial attack the U.S.  claims the Syrian government carried out? As Saeed stood outside of the rubble from what used to be the cancer  research facility, he argued that if it had been filled with chemical  weapons, he and his colleagues would have been forced to wear gas masks. 

“If there were chemical weapons in the building, we would not be here,” Saeed said. “My  colleagues and I came here at 05:00 this morning. If there were  chemical weapons, we would need to wear masks and take other protective  measures to be staying here.”  

---

 We are the Free Thought Project — a hub for Free Thinking conversations about the promotion of liberty and the daunting task of government accountability. All of our content was created by our team of artists and writers. Learn more about us on our website thefreethoughtproject.com.