Vi skrev for nyligt om den 'stribe af uhyrligheder' i Syrien som var tilskrevet Assads styrker, alt kommende fra en primær kilde: 'Det Syriske Observatorium for Menneskerettigheder' (SOHR), en 'oppositionsgruppe' som er kørt af en syrisk 'expat' bosiddende i Coventry, England. RT har siden forfulgt sporet af den flygtige 'Rami Abdulrahman' og hans fantastiske påstande om begivenheder i Syrien:


Fra det første øjeblik at Rusland lancerede luftangreb imod terror mål i Syrien den 30. september, er Abdulrahmans ord igen blevet gentaget som fakta på tværs af den vestlige presse, denne gang ydende den påstand at den første bølge af russiske luftangreb imod terror mål havde dræbt 36 civile. Abdulrahman's evner til at observere lader til at være så indsigtsfulde at han 'bekræftede' disse civile dødstal endog før at luftangrebene startede.

Langt fra at være "isoleret af det internationale samfund", som Obama påstod i byen New York i mandags, så ankom Putin idag i Paris for samtaler med Frankrigs præsident Hollande og Tyskland kansler Merkel - angiveligt for at diskutere de næste skridt mod freden i Ukraine, men Ruslands intervention i Syrien og det systemskifte i den globale magtbalance som det forkynder vil sikkert være på toppen af deres dagsorden.

'IS' (Islamisk Stat), har i mellemtiden reageret til luftangrebene ved at poste en twitter advarsel 'Death to Putin: We are coming #soon' med et billede af Kremlin i brand. Bemærk logoet øverst til venstre: endnu engang har vi den private amerikansk-israelske SITE efteretningsgruppe at takke for at 'tale på terroristernes vegne'...

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Kommentar: Denne artikel er delvis oversat til dansk af sott.net fra: Information war goes into overdrive as West reacts to Russian intervention in Syria


Inventing crimes out of whole cloth, or worse, passing off crimes committed by themselves or their stooges in order to hoodwink the masses and sell wars, is standard operating procedure in U.S. foreign policy. In 1990, America's largest PR firm, Hill & Knowlton, was paid $10 million in 1990 by Bush Senior to pull off a 'Saddam-Hussein-is-evil-incarnate' media campaign. Most notoriously, they enlisted the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter to appear before a US congressional committee, where she poured her eyes out over "Saddam's Elite Republican Guard throwing babies out of incubators", despite no such thing having taken place.
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En tårevædet 15-årig Nayirah al-Sabah ved hendes udtalelse der afspilledes for en kommite I Kongressen, som I praksis forseglede Saddam Hussein og Iraks skæbne I den amerikanske befolknings øjne. Det blev siden afsløret at hun var datter af Kuwaits ambassadør I USA og Canada og var sat på opgaven af Hill & Knowlton, det største PR-bureau I USA.
History may not repeat exactly, but in modern America's case, it's currently stuck on 'repeat', playing the same sadistic track over and over. As the Western media scrambles to counter the shift in domestic mass opinion behind support for Russia's intervention in Syria, it is busy rehashing old 'crimes' committed by the al-Assad 'regime', in the vain and fast-vanishing hope that at least some of the wickedness they attributed to al-Assad can be passed off onto Putin.

A case in point was yesterday's 'exposé' in the London Guardian on an anonymous person going by the name 'of Caesar' who claimed to 'defect' from said 'regime' to Qatar with thousands of photos of 'victims of Assad torture in Syrian detention centers'.

Qatar, which has invested at least $4 billion in the war against Syria, and promised to commit another $20 billion in the 'reconstruction' of the country it has actively been annihilating, is hardly a disinterested party. Qatari Emirs are hell-bent on removing the al-Assads and remaking Syria in their own franken-Islamic image. That is why, on the eve of Syria peace talks in Geneva in January 2014, the anti-human, medieval state of Qatar commissioned an elite London law firm - Carter Ruck - to whip up a glossy 'report' on al-Assad's "industrial-scale torture and murder."
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Den påståede “afhoppede militærfotograf” kendt som Cesar (blå jakke med hætte) under afhøring af den amerikanske Kongress I juli 2014 om 50.000 billeder, der viser ofre for tortur af regimet, som han påstår at have smuglet ud af Syrien til Qatar på USB sticks.
The London law firm they hired, Carter-Ruck, is about as reliable an 'independent' source as Tony Blair is a 'peace envoy'. Carter-Ruck was, curiously enough, instrumental in launching another earlier propaganda maneuver against Syria (that whole shrill spiel about 'Assad's chemical weapons of mass destruction'). As Joe Quinn pointed out here, "Carter-Ruck has a long track record of 'defending' important, scandal-ridden clients and corporations against "defamation" that turned out to be not so defamatory after all."

Going by the pattern in Syria to date, it's highly probable that these 'torture photographs' show entirely different victims, and that this 'independent report' was cooked up for propaganda purposes; specifically, to bolster the manufactured perception that Bashar al-Assad is 'the newest Hitler', and thus call for him and his family (and hundreds of thousands of their fellow Syrians) to be massacred by NATO.

It's far more likely that the victims 'uncovered' by 'Caesar', like most others held up to Western audiences as victims of Assad's 'regime', were tortured and killed by the foreign 'Islamic' mercenaries co-funded by Qatar and Saudi Arabia - after all, thousands of hours of actual video evidence showing them doing such in Syria, Libya and elsewhere are all over YouTube. Alternatively, these photographs show victims from among the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Libyan torture victims under US occupation/bombardment.

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If we think back to the hysteria generated in 2012 by images of butchered children in the 'al-Houla massacre' in Syria, while it was an 'Assad massacre', the story was blasted out across all propaganda channels, but it then disappeared down the memory hole when it emerged that the victims were actually dozens of Syrian children in families loyal to the Syrian government, shot, knifed, and axed to death by the CIA-trained 'Free Syrian Army', with possible direct assistance of US agents.

Yes, those same 'moderates' against whom the Russian military is now launching airstrikes, and about which the Pentagon is very upset. It needs to be stressed that there are no 'moderate terrorist groups' in Syria. This is merely a distinction used in Western discourse because it enables the regime changers to 'keep their options open' and the narratives 'dynamic'. The very same people labelled 'ISIS' one day can be re-branded 'rebel fighters' the next, and it's impossible to verify who is who. So when US Senator John McCain complains that "Russian airstrikes were against the individuals and groups that have been funded and trained by our CIA," we can, for once, take this distinguished international observer at his word.