{"id":36201,"date":"2020-10-18T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T16:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=36201"},"modified":"2020-10-18T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T16:25:39","slug":"ex-opcw-chief-defends-syria-whistleblowers-and-reveals-he-was-spied-on-before-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/18\/ex-opcw-chief-defends-syria-whistleblowers-and-reveals-he-was-spied-on-before-iraq-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-OPCW Chief Defends Syria Whistleblowers and Reveals He Was Spied on Before Iraq War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\">The Grayzone<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>In a Grayzone exclusive, Jos\u00e9 Bustani, the former head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, speaks out in support of two veteran OPCW inspectors who challenged a US-backed cover-up of their investigation in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Bustani also reacts to the recent US-UK-France-led effort to prevent his testimony at the UN Security Council about the OPCW\u2019s Syria cover-up scandal. And Bustani reveals new details of how he was targeted in the lead-up to the Iraq war, when the Bush administration engineered his ouster for impeding its plans to invade.<\/p>\n<p>Bustani discloses for the first time that his office was bugged \u2013 and that the OPCW\u2019s then-head of security, a U.S. citizen, vanished right after this was discovered. It\u2019s a case of history repeating itself, with the world\u2019s top superpower once again trying to silence a veteran diplomat from the Global South, whose courage and principle challenges a pro-war deception.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest<\/strong>: Jos\u00e9 Bustani, veteran Brazilian diplomat and the first Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ekoDut8shg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Grayzone: In a Grayzone exclusive, Jos\u00e9 Bustani, the former head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, speaks out in support of two veteran OPCW inspectors who challenged a US-backed cover-up of their investigation in Syria. Bustani also reacts to the recent US-UK-France-led effort to prevent his testimony at the UN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-36201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36203,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36201\/revisions\/36203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36201"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}