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Chemical-weapons watchdog denies ‘sexing up’ dossier
People search for victims between rubble of a destroyed house after deadly airstrikes at the northern town of Sarmin, in Idlib province, Syria, last Sunday

A CHEMICAL-weapons watchdog has denied “sexing up” a dossier to blame the Syrian government for a chemical attack in Douma, insisting that those who leaked information into the public domain are not genuine whistleblowers.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been accused of covering up evidence under political pressure and manipulating information to say that President Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical attack against his own people in April 2018.

But a series of leaked emails and testimony from OPCW whistleblowers has highlighted inconsistencies between their findings on the ground and the chemical watchdog’s final report.

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