Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
 Hamish de Bretton-Gordon       (soldier) | |
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| Born | September 1963 |
| Alma mater | Tonbridge School, University of Reading |
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is a chemical weapons expert and chief operating officer of SecureBio Limited. He was formerly a British Army officer for 23 years and Commanding Officer of the UK's Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Regiment and NATO's Rapid Reaction CBRN Battalion.[1]
De Bretton-Gordon is Managing Director CBRN at Avon Protection, the recognised global market leader in respiratory protection system technology specialising primarily in Military, Law Enforcement, Firefighting, and Industrial.[2]
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Novichok nerve agent
On 4 March 2018, a Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was reported to have been poisoned in Salisbury with a nerve agent which British authorities identified as Novichok. Theresa May told Parliament that she held Russia responsible for Skripal's attempted murder.
According to Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, Novichok was allegedly developed in the Soviet Union at a laboratory complex in Shikhany, in central Russia. Vil Mirzayanov, a Russian chemist involved in the development of Novichok, who later defected to the United States, said the Novichok was tested at Nukus, in Uzbekistan.[3]
Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, who visited the site at Nukus, said it had been dismantled with US help. He is among those advocating scepticism about the UK placing blame on Russia for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal. In a blog post, Murray wrote:
- “The same people who assured you Saddam Hussein had WMDs now assure you Russian ‘Novichok’ nerve agents are being wielded by Vladimir Putin to attack people on British soil.”[4]
Douma chemical weapons attack
Following an alleged chemical weapons attack on 7 April 2018 in the Syrian town of Douma, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon said:
"A sophisticated nerve agent was used at Douma, not just chlorine. Only Assad has the capability to produce these substances inside Syria. And using chemical weapons is his standard modus operandi."[5]
These assertions were made before the arrival of an OPCW mission in Douma to investigate the alleged attack, which begs the question: "On what evidence are these categorical assertions based?"
Deployments
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon's operational deployments included the 1st Gulf War, Cyprus, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq (multiple tours) and Afghanistan (2 tours) and has been in Syria & Iraq frequently in the last 3 years. This considerable experience in the field places Hamish de Bretton-Gordon as one of the world’s leading and most current experts in chemical and biological counter terrorism and warfare.
De Bretton-Gordon is a visiting lecturer in disaster management at Bournemouth University.[6]
Doctors Under Fire
In December 2017, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon and fellow director David Nott of Doctors Under Fire highlighted the case of seven children with curable cancer who were said to be dying in Ghouta, Syria, for want of drugs and nourishment. They claimed Union of Syrian Medical Care and Relief Organisations (UOSSM) hospitals in Ghouta were on their knees with very few medicines left, and that kind words for the dying children were the only palliative care available.[7]
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Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Novichok And Theresa May's "45 Minute Moment" | Article | 15 March 2018 | Is Britain off to war (in Syria) to save the government from all sorts of disasters back at home? Challenging a Prime Minister in the midst of an international conflict is always difficult – just look at the vitriol thrown at Jeremy Corbyn for doing so yesterday – who was proved right in the face of the same accusations with Tony Blair. | |
| Document:Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense | blog post | 3 September 2020 | Craig Murray | The US and Saudi Arabia have every reason to instigate a split between Germany and Russia at this time. Navalny is certainly a victim of international politics. That he is a victim of Putin I tend to doubt. |
| Document:Russia Claims US Deploys Warships For Imminent Attack On Syria, Trains Militants For False Flag Attack | blog post | 17 March 2018 | 'Tyler Durden' | United States-led coalition to "retaliate" for another false flag chemical attack done by the White Helmets in Syria |
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- ↑ "UK's claims questioned: doubts voiced about source of Salisbury novichok"
- ↑ "The Novichok Story Is Indeed Another Iraqi WMD Scam"
- ↑ "Former head of Britain's special forces says Assad 'doesn't need to use gas' because he's 'already won the war' but give May 'benefit of the doubt' over intelligence"
- ↑ "Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE". Military Speakers. 1952-06-26. Retrieved 2017-06-30.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "Syrian children dying from cancer need more than kind words"
