Dr Chris Busby: Intelligence and the effects of bombing Syria.
Channel: Chris Busby
Date: 16/04/2018

Dr Busby discusses the concept of  "Intelligence" as applied to recent events in Salisbury and Syria. He points out that it is not very intelligent to bomb chemical weapons depots since this will clearly spread the toxic materials over the local population. He and colleagues have employed the NOAA-HYSPLIT computer dispersion program to simulate the releases from attacks of all three targets. The plume from the supposed chemical weapons dump 15 miles west of Homs is modelled as it happened and the results show the contamination of local populations in villages to the east of the site. Similar plots show large scale potential contamination at the other two targets, one in north Damascus. This, of course, assumes that there was chemical weapon material there, but this was the basis for the attack, so the attackers apparently thought so. The issue of "disinformation" is raised in relation to the current arguments about fake news.