Alleged Chemical Attack Khan Sheikhoun 4 April 2017/Timeline
Bombing
White Helmets cave complex
Sundial
The back wall of this entrance forms a sundial.
The concrete molding slats on the west wall form the time markers. The black arrow is on slat 14 from top.
The shape of south wall is approximately square.
The south wall is 29 slats high and about 30 slats wide.
Earliest photo, around 7:10 am
Shadow on text, 7 slats from top.
Shadow just above arrow, 11 slats from top: 20 degrees at 8:00 am
Shadow below arrow, 14 slats from top. 25 degrees at 8:25 am
Shadow 16 slats from top. Must also take into account the changing azimuth.
Around noon
7:10-7:30 am
About 7:25
Children on truck are seen on same EMC video around 7:25
The two sisters seen in the same position
7:30 am: The 1:16 minute continuous raw video released by CBS News is a minutes later, as shown by the shadow of the excavator on the wall. The two girls are again move, as if to position them for the cameras.
app. 7:20, perhaps 7:25 or 7:30 - includes (Mohamed Al-Qadah?) not complaining about his bleeding neck, and (Abdelhamid al-Yousef?) complaining about the cold water spray, Mohamed and other children loaded in a white van, etc. This scene faces south near the southern entrance, off-frame from above views and harder to correlate or divorce.
8:00 am
8:10 am
8:20 am
Note the shadow in the background under the concrete slab roof.
Shadows of the child's fingers are at 27,33 and 27,14 degrees
The maximum sun angle is 27 degrees. This means the video is filmed at 8:33 the latest.
8:30 am
9:20 am
Anas al-Diab with a child victim
Sundial at 9:20 am
10 am
Published by Aleppo Media Center at 1:59 pm
EXIF data provided by Reuter says Date and time of data generation: 10:00 am, 4 April 2017.
Also 10:00 am. A similar estimate can be made from shadows, so this timestamp could be from camera with the time set to Syrian daylight saving time.
Same event, staged by another White Helmet. The shadow hints that this is a few minutes earlier
11:55 am
12:30 pm
Explosions hit the cave complex.
Hospitals
8:12 - First mention of chemical attack in Whatsup group used by doctors in the area.[1]
8:30 - ("closer to") Dr. Islam claims to start receiving patients at his clinic 60 km and 45 minutes drive away from Khan Sheikhoun.
9:29 - First casualties reported at Jarjanaz clinic.[1]
Unknown hospital
8:45 am
9:25 am
Other sources
- WIP Timeline of Khan Sheikhoun Events Presented By OPCW, HRW and Other Witness Testimony - Andrew
- UN On Khan Sheikhoun - Victims Hospitalized BEFORE Claimed Incident Happened - Moon of Alabama, October 29, 2017
- >> Continuity errors << or: What happens when a movie is filmed over several shooting sessions - Qoppa on Twitter
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 How Syria and Russia Spun a Chemical Strike - The New York Times, April 26, 2017 (video)