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WESTERN MEDIA BREAK THEIR SILENCE ON ALEPPO WITH FLAGRANT LIES, OMISSIONS, OBFUSCATIONS
Syrian
News:
“Abdulrahman was killed by a terrorist rocket on his way home back
from school today (April 25).”
-Eva
Bartlett, In Gaza (republished at SOTT.net, Uprooted
Palestinians)
Terrorists
mortars, rockets, and Hell Cannon-fired gas canister bombs continue
to rain down on Aleppo for the past few days (a dramatic increase
from the sporadic but frequent terrorism Aleppo residents have been
ravaged by over the years). Since April 23, over 1000 terrorists’
rockets/missiles/gas canisters have ravaged Aleppo (see: Syria:
Aleppo is Burning and Western Media is Silent),
killing at least 40 residents and injuring over 300, according to
al-Alam journalist, Rabea Kalawandy‘s April
27 report.
In
a more recent update, Kalawandy
wrote:
8
martyrs so far. In #Aleppo as
a result of the moderate opposition shells including children and
women.”
The
actual number of those murdered will likely be far higher,
particularly with many of the injured being critically-injured.
“6
civilians were killed, 25 others wounded when Islamist rebels fired
a barrage of mortars and homegrown missiles into the government held
districts of Ashrafiyah, Nile Street, Mokambo and Al-Khalidiyah, in
the northern city of Aleppo.
In a video published by Anna News, Aleppo residents spoke out about their daily suffering from the rebel’s constant shelling that took away many lives and did massive damage in Government-held Aleppo.”
A
resident speaking in the video had one month prior lost two sons, as
well as his hand and forearm to terrorists’ shelling on his
neighbourhood.
LYING MEDIA PLANTING NATO AGENDA ARTICLES:
In
a lengthy April 27 BBC propaganda piece, when it finally got to the
issue of Aleppo, the article said nothing about the current situation
in Aleppo, and for some reason felt the need to use quotation marks
when referring to established terrorist groups Da’esh and the Nusra
Front:
“Russia,
of course, has said it is largely striking at IS and al-Nusra
“terrorists”.”
Granted,
the piece is meant specifically to be anti-Russian propaganda, but
yet, not a single mention of the past few days of al-Nusra and other
terrorists’ horrific bombardment of Aleppo’s residential areas.
Instead,
BBC inserts an undated photo of Aleppo “subjected to airstrikes”,
a photo with two hefty men resembling Nusra or other terrorists in
the background, one of whom seemingly wearing military fatigues,
incidentally.
A
search on BBC’s website, using the query “Aleppo”,
unsurprisingly turns up zero other articles (other than the
anti-Russia piece) on Aleppo the past four days of terrorists’
bombardment of Aleppo.
The
Guardian ran the same photo in its April
26 piece by
authors based in Turkey, this time with the photo caption: “A
wounded boy is helped out of a ruined building after an air strike on
the Fardous neighbourhood in Aleppo.”
The
Guardian omitted the fact that Fardous is occupied by terrorists.
Further, had the Guardian done a search on the photographer, Ameer
al-Halabi,
they would have found photos like
this showing
the photographer’s proximity to clearly armed terrorists, as well
as this Feb
2016 photo showing
so-called “White Helmets” “rescuers” in Aleppo.
Rather
than being “civilian” rescuers, White Helmets have a different
claim to fame: foreign-funded “regime change propagandists &
terrorist allies” operating primarily in al-Nusra and Da’esh
strongholds, as explained in detail in investigative writer, Vanessa
Beeley’s, “Syria’s
White Helmets: War by Way of Deception”
and “Syria’s
White Helmets: War By Way of Deception ~ ‘Moderate Executioners’“.
As
for the Guardian piece, it is full of the standard MSM obfuscations,
and does not highlight the crisis that is Aleppo under terrorists’
bombardment. Instead it employs the standard accusatory rhetoric,
mourns for the “Civil Defence” aka “White Helmets” aka
terrorist supporters and propagandists.
In
fact, BBC, Guardian, AFP, CBC, etc, all read from the same tired,
lying script: pretending that WH are rescuer workers, lambasting the
Syrian army/airforce/government, and utterly ignoring or downplaying
the immense tragedy of the massacres actually taking place by
western-backed terrorists.
None of this is surprising, but it is most certainly infuriating. There is no respect for actual loss of life by terrorists in Syria; the humanitarian cards are played and manipulated only to serve the long-dead rhetoric of the NATO-alliance criminals.
None of this is surprising, but it is most certainly infuriating. There is no respect for actual loss of life by terrorists in Syria; the humanitarian cards are played and manipulated only to serve the long-dead rhetoric of the NATO-alliance criminals.
ENDURING
THE BOMBARDMENT:
Syrian
political analyst and freelance writer, Kevork Almassian, noted an
uplifting development: “The “Syrian Specialist Hospital” in
Aleppo declares it will treat the injured civilians by the Turkish
Western backed terrorists for free.”
Syria: The Real US-NATO
Creators of Hell in Aleppo
Vanessa
Beeley
As
US and NATO propaganda reaches another crescendo in Aleppo, it is
important to remind ourselves of a few salient facts. First and
foremost we need to understand that the prevailing force occupying
Aleppo and terrorising civilians is US and NATO backed Al Nusra in
the city itself and ISIS in Northern and Eastern outlying areas.
We
are re-publishing an article written in 2015 with the testimony
of an Aleppo civilian who remains anonymous because of the possible
threat to their family and friends if their name were to be made
public. The content of the article is still relevant, even now, as
The Syria Campaign in familiar fashion twists the truth into the
shape of western propaganda.
According
to the Syria Campaign, every missile that has targeted civilians in
Aleppo has been dropped or fired by the Syrian Government forces.
Please
note that their infographic is based upon information supplied by the
SNHR another Soros backed NGO on the ground in Syria.
Read
about the George Soros funding for the Syria NGOs at 21st Century
Wire: George
Soros Anti-Syria Campaign Impresario
Notice
the sharp contrast with reporting from SANA, the
foremost Syrian media outlet with reporters inside Aleppo.
“Aleppo,
SANA- Sixteen civilians were killed and scores others, most of them
children and women, were injured due to terrorist rocket attacks on
the residential neighborhoods of Aleppo city by the terrorists of
Jabhat al-Nusra and other armed groups affiliated to it on Friday.
A
source at Aleppo Police Command told SANA reporter that as
worshippers were wrapping up Friday Prayer, terrorist organizations
fired dozens of shells on the neighborhoods of Bab al-Faraj,
al-Midan, al-Muhafaza, Seif al-Dawla, al-Iza’a, al-Martini and
al-Nile Street.
Many
citizens were killed, a number of houses were destroyed and fire
erupted in two places in al-Nile Street and Bustan al-Zahra
neighborhood due to terrorists using explosive shells to cause
massive damage in the area.
A
medical source at al-Razi Hospital said that 16 dead bodies arrived
to the hospital in addition to 32 injured persons, some of them are
in critical situation and most of them are children and women.
Nine
civilians were injured, including 5 children, in terrorist rocket
attacks that targeted the villages of Qastal Jando, Baflouna and
Qatma in Efrin area in northwestern countryside of Aleppo province on
Friday, local sources told SANA reporter on Friday.
The
terrorist attacks caused material damage to the locals’ properties,
the sources added.”
Syria:
Welcome to Hell
First
published at TheWallWillFall.Wordpress.com
HRW,
Amnesty International and assorted Humanitarian offshoots are on a
ceaseless crusade against the SAA use of barrel bombs. Today,
Ken Roth even compared the use of Barrel bombs to the destruction
caused by the nuclear bomb used on Hiroshima whilst failing to
mention that the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2014 can very
credibly be compared
to Hiroshima in
its destructiveness and tonnage of explosive dropped on innocent
civilians in the besieged & battered enclave.
According
to Roth, barrel bombs are also responsible for all refugees…not our
Governments imperialist, murderous plundering of sovereign nations.
Then Annie Sparrow [ Roth’s wife] is blaming all destruction
in terrorist occupied Idlib on the SAA.
Never
a mention of US backed terrorist chemical weapons, hell cannons,
mortars, suicide bombers, beheaders, racists and rapists, on
their Captagon
fuelled murderous
invasions of civilian areas.
The barrel
bomb itself
is a rudimentary missile, cheap to produce [around $ 200 per bomb
depending upon level of TNT]. It has design faults in that the
fins on the bomb are still not aerodynamically perfect, despite
several changes.
The
detonation depends upon the bomb falling vertically on to its nose to
trigger the detonator. It actually has a relatively high
failure rate Its supposed advantage is that it can be launched
from helicopters and the accusation is always that only the SAA use
helicopters in Syrian airspace.
This
has been proven untrue. It has been well documented that Turkey
supplied helicopter cover for terrorist forces. “In
the morning attack on Kassab,
Syria on March 21, 2014 it was Turkish military helicopters which
began the attack. That morning 88 unarmed civilians were
killed, and 13 of those beheaded. The Turkish military assisted
the FSA, Jibhat al Nusra, and Al Qaeda that morning with heavy canon
fire and helicopter missiles shot at the Kassab police station.”
“The
barrel bombs are a non-issue cooked up to vilify the SAA because
other countries are not using them. I suppose it would be
better if they could afford Tomahawk missiles at $1-2M apiece.
We know how surgically precise they are and never touch civilians.
If the SAA were dropping perfume they would probably be accused of
chemical weapons.”
Direct
quote from Khaled Abdel-Majid, the secretary general of the united
Palestinian factions that are fighting the extremists in Syria,
particularly Yarmouk, alongside the Syrian Arab Army.
Compare
this description from a battle hardened fighter tackling the
terrorist threat on the ground in Syria to the sensationalist
marketing campaign from another Soros propaganda firm,
the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
Fundamentally
the Barrel bomb is a bomb…and a very crude one that bears no
resemblance to the sophisticated missiles being deployed by the US
and NATO alliance targeting civilian structures that goes unreported
in western and gulf media.
“A
military source told SANA that warplanes of the Washington alliance
violated Syrian airspace and attacked civilian infrastructure in
Mare’a, Tal Sha’er, and al-Bab in Aleppo countryside on Sunday.
The
source added that the warplanes attacked the biggest electric power
plant that feeds Aleppo city, which resulted in cutting off power
from most neighborhoods in Aleppo city.
Just
a week ago U.S. air attacks had attacked another power station and a
big distribution transformer al-Radwaniye also east of Aleppo.”
NGO
Complicity with Terrorism in Syria
It
must be remembered that the SAA [Syrian Arab Army] is fighting a war
but not against anti government rebels or moderates as
depicted in the mainstream media. Rather its a dirty war against a
merciless, depraved and bloodthirsty proxy army funded, armed and
supported by the Empire interventionist alliance [US, Turkey, KSA,
Jordan, NATO, Israel].
It
is undeniably documented that Turkey is the main rat
run,
supplying weapons, supplies, chemical weapon ingredients and manpower
often via the pseudo aid convoys. Serena
Shim reported that WHO trucks were
running arms and equipment to “rebels” shortly before she was
killed in a mysterious car accident, after receiving death threats.
RT: Trucks
are crossing Syrian-Turkish border with no restrictions near Reyhanli
checkpoint, according to Russian Defense Ministry who released the
footage.
“Moderate
Rebel” Mortars and Hell Cannon
In
war, regrettably, civilian life is lost, it is unavoidable and
particularly when terrorists embed themselves into civilian areas,
converting civilians into human shields. Of course this is
never mentioned by the Ken Roths and Annie Sparrows. Neither is
it mentioned that the SAA make every feasible effort to evacuate
densely populated civilian areas prior to targeting terrorist cells.
Another
aspect of this warfare that is consummately ignored are the terrorist
mortars and hell cannons that cause extensive structural damage and
massacre civilians with a range of up to one mile.
How
is it that these HRW “witnesses” on the ground [presumably under
a barrage of missiles from both SAA and “rebels”] can
categorically state what is causing damage and loss of life. The
unreliable barrel bomb or the ground based and mobile hell cannon
units that fire upon civilian areas indiscriminately or even
the terrorist
dug tunnels, packed
with explosives and detonated as a diversion before they attack
SAA/NDF positions.
“A
fighter from the Syrian “moderate rebels” Bridge Sultan Murad is
bombing the Shekh Maqsod neighborhood in Aleppo city. [Kurdish
area]
At the 0:32 he is saying “Throw it on civilians , to the depth , they think we will not target civilians”
Read
Eva Bartlett’s account of terrorist mortar attacks: The
Terrorism We Support in Syria: A First-hand Account of the Use of
Mortars against Civilians
First
Hand Account from Aleppo
“The
people are crying and terrified by the “moderate peaceful
opposition”. But we can’t bomb them because the “international
community” will blame the Syrian army of using their unprecedented
super ultra weapon that is way stronger than a nuclear bomb: Barrel
bombs!
The
terrorists are using mortars, explosive bullets, cooking-gas
cylinders bombs and water-warming long cylinders bombs, filled up
with explosives and shrapnel and nails, in what they call “Hell
Canon”. (google these weapons or see their YouTube clips. The
cooking-gas cylinder is made of steel, and it weighs around 25 kg.
Imagine it thrown by a canon to hit civilians? And imagine knowing
that it’s full with explosives?
Yet,
the media is busy with the legendary weapon of “barrel bombs”!
They came to spread “freedom” among Syrians! How dare they say
that Syrian army shouldn’t fight them back?
For
the first time last night, we smelled gunpowder. The shelling was so
extreme to smell gunpowder in the air.
Results
were nothing but new innocent victims. I mean, the terrorists failed
in gaining new land, or occupying new buildings or quarters. They
lost many of their “zombies”, but they don’t count, because
they have no families or friends to weep on them like the case with
civilians.
I
apologize that I’m very upset, mostly not from the attackers and
whoever is supporting them in Turkey over here (and Israel and Jordan
in the south); but mainly from the liars in that conference in
Britain or at the UN , who keep lying and lying, piles and tons of
lies, about “freedom” and “barrel bombs” and live in their
perfumed and ironed suites and ties, happy with their Ph.D. degrees
in stupidity and fooling the world, having no problem in obtaining
clean water, electricity, warm food, and the rest of services that we
are suffering over here to obtain part of them.
Those
people travel in 1st class airlines, and live in 5 stars hotels, and
ready to come on TV channels to weep upon the “Syrian people”
and blame the “regime” while giving a blind eye upon all the
terrorists they are funding and supporting. I wish these people,
whether they were Arabs or Westerns, Muslims or Christians, Syrians
or others… I wish them Hell! And to taste and suffer the same pain
they caused to innocent people.
Syrian
army had defended the city, and all the lies on the media claiming
the terrorists victories are nothing but rumours and gossip.”
The
Hell cannon is a “wildly
inaccurate” weapon
even according to the Empire one man propaganda band, Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights. In Aleppo the SAA is marooned in
the centre of the Old Citadel and is fired upon by “rebel”
positions scattered throughout the city. These inaccurate
weapons are known to have caused massive damage to ancient Aleppo
edifices but have also torn into civilian areas and ripped civilian
limbs and bodies into shreds.
Hell
Cannon Aleppo
“Aleppo
city has shrunk to a fifth of its original size, and became
so crowded with refugees that fled their areas after they fell into
terrorist hands. I walk everyday in the city. I see children, young
girls without limbs because of a terrorist mortar or shrapnel
that targets them randomly and causes terrible
wounds and horrific memories that will never leave them.
The
girl who lost one leg is standing on her good leg and selling
bread, while the little boy who lost one arm is selling chewing gum.
Those are the “injured” people who are mentioned fleetingly in
the news, just numbers in one line of a report, after each
attack from the terrorists. “Injured” doesn’t mean scratched or
having a bleeding finger; it means someone lost his eyes or her
limbs.”
~ The
Wall Will Fall Aleppo Files
There
is, unequivocally, a need to report upon all mortalities
as a result of this devastating US NATO neocolonialist war against
Syria. However the glaring bias towards the demonization of the
legitimate national fighting force, battling a vicious, brutal and
mercenary enemy is an insult to the intelligence & courage
of the Syrian people and a deliberate obscurantism of truth and the
extent of the duplicity and hypocrisy of our own governments.
***
Author Vanessa Beeley is a contributor to 21WIRE, and since 2011, she has spent most of her time in the Middle East reporting on events there – as a independent researcher, writer, photographer and peace activist. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Syria Solidarity Movement, and a volunteer with the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine. See more of her work at her blog The Wall Will Fall.
Even those familiar with the worst of the Syrian conflict are shaken by the scale of the latest assault, as bombs and guns seek out civilian targets
The
Guardian has broken its silence to produce this propaganda today
Even
those familiar with the worst of the Syrian conflict are shaken by
the scale of the latest assault, as bombs and guns seek out civilian
targets
The
president of Aleppo city council, Brita Haji Hasan, had a picture on
his phone. It showed the corpse of Hasan Amory, 29, a father of two
and council engineer who that morning had been killed by a Syrian air
force missile as he headed into work in the opposition stronghold.
“We
have had massacres on a daily basis for six or seven days,” Haji
Hasan told the Observer, during an interview in the Turkish city of
Gaziantep, 30 miles from the Syrian border.
“They
are destroying schools and civilian targets using barrel bombs,
airstrikes and machine guns. Another colleague of mine was killed
yesterday while I spoke to him on Skype.”
As
the most senior civic leader in Aleppo, Haji Hasan has been trying to
make life livable in the most impossible and dangerous of
circumstances. “It is a terrible situation,” he said. “But we
are trying to live.”
Syria’s
largest city is once again under bombardment: its residents are, once
again, exposed to pitiless, wanton attack as the world looks on. The
ferocity and cruelty of the bombing of Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad’s
air force has shocked even those familiar with the worst of this
conflict.
Since
breaking its ceasefire eight days ago, the regime has launched more
than 260 airstrikes, 110 artillery strikes and 18 missiles, and has
dropped 68 bombs, according to the civil defence organisation in
opposition-controlled Syria known as the White Helmets.
Aleppo
has been excluded from a partial ceasefire agreed elsewhere in the
country late on Friday evening. On Saturday the regime’s airstrikes
began at around 10am with a volley of seven missiles hitting civilian
areas in the space of half an hour, killing at least six people and
injuring 20. That came after attacks on Friday left at least eight
people dead and destroyed a medical facility and a water pump,
threatening the city’s vital supplies, according to reports.
NGOs
demand end to Syria atrocities as Aleppo airstrikes continue
Read
more
On
Thursday, bombs destroyed a hospital backed by Médecins Sans
Frontières and the International Committee of the Red Cross, killing
the city’s last remaining paediatrician, along with 26 other
people, including three children.
Staffan
de Mistura, the UN envoy for Syria, declared the cessation of
hostilities agreement brokered by the US and Russia as “barely
alive” as a result.
The
UK’s special representative for Syria, Gareth Bayley, tweeted:
“#Russia needs to get control over the #Assad regime’s attacks on
civilians.”
US
secretary of state John Kerry meanwhile urged a return to the
nationwide ceasefire in Syria and said attacks on Aleppo must stop
immediately.
“The
secretary expressed his deep concern about the deteriorating
situation in Aleppo, where the ... regime (of President Bashar
al-Assad) continues to escalate the conflict by predominantly
targeting innocent civilians and parties to the cessation of
hostilities,” his spokesman John Kirby said.
Such
is the onslaught that the Observer understands humanitarian
organisations are considering pulling out of Syria’s biggest city.
A draft statement being circulated among NGOs warns of a “complete
absence of the fundamentals of safe humanitarian intervention, and
the absence of a clear mechanism to monitor and document violations
of international humanitarian law and human rights law”.
It
further claims that there is “growing, recurrent targeting of
humanitarian organisations, teams, and the vital centres that provide
services to civilians in the province, by the Syrian regime and its
allies”.
It
goes on: “The most recent assaults included the shelling of Syrian
civil defence centres, al-Quds children’s hospital, NGOs’
ambulance systems, and a number of administrative offices of the NGOs
operating in the province.”
The
UN high commissioner for human rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al
Hussein, on Saturday condemned the “monstrous disregard for
civilian lives” by all parties to the conflict and called for
urgent de-escalation.
Analysis
Aleppo is a such a prize for both sides that its suffering just goes
on
The
west’s lack of appetite for military intervention has left Syria’s
rebels feeling they have nothing left to lose
This
figure includes around 140 people killed by government-aligned forces
in airstrikes and shellings of rebel-held areas, 19 of them children,
it said. Insurgent shelling of government-held areas was said to have
killed 96 people, including 21 children, according to a report from
Reuters.
Al
Hussein also made reference to widespread rumours that new Russian
artillery sites were being established on the outskirts of Aleppo.
“The violence is soaring back to the levels we saw prior to the
cessation of hostilities,” he said. “There are deeply disturbing
reports of military build-ups indicating preparations for a lethal
escalation.”
In
his interview with the Observer, Haji Hasan confirmed that Aleppo was
under partial siege, and that the last remaining road had been under
almost constant attack since the two-month ceasefire between
opposition and regime forces was broken by Assad. He said that he had
heard about the Russian build-up on the periphery of the city but
that he could not confirm this presence.
“In
2013 there were two million people in and around the city,” he
said. “There are 400,000 right now. Some people just fled, but
these 400,000 won’t leave – even though they know that at any
time they could be bombed or killed. It is semi-siege right now. The
only road connecting Aleppo is always targeted by airstrikes, the
Castello road. This road is targeted by airstrikes and snipers, too.
It is a dangerous road, but we have to use it, there is no other. If
that goes, we will be besieged. It will be a disaster.”
Late
last week, in another illustration of just how dangerously fraught
the politics of the city are becoming, Haji Hasan was seized by
Kurdish secret police at his home at 9am on Thursday after having
made the 10-hour trip back through the badlands of northern Syria.
He
was subsequently detained in the police station before being taken to
the Kurdish city of Afrin, in north-west Syria. His whereabouts on
Saturday were unknown.
Sources
close to Haji Hasan, who has sought to build a consensual council for
the crisis-stricken city, said it was unclear why the Kurdish forces
would interfere in the civilian government. The vice-president of
Aleppo’s city council, Zacharia Amino, condemned Haji Hasan’s
detention as a violation of human rights. The father of eight, who
had been keeping services running in the city, had been taken from
the citizens when they needed him most, said friends. A statement on
Saturday said: “We firmly condemn this violation and we demand the
democratic council to release immediately the president of the local
council of the city of Aleppo and to explain this precedent and to
offer official excuses.”
A
temporary “regime of calm” announced by the Syrian army late on
Friday appeared to have taken hold in two other areas blighted by
recent fighting: in the north-western coastal province of Latakia and
on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus. The Syrian government said
the “regime of calm” – from which a military source said Aleppo
was excluded – was an attempt to salvage a wider ceasefire deal
reached in February.
Aleppo
has been divided for years between rebel and government zones. Full
control would be the most important prize for Assad. He claims the
fighters in the city are al-Qaida extremists.
The
UN has called on Moscow and Washington to help restore a
comprehensive ceasefire to prevent a collapse of talks aimed at
ending a conflict in which more than 250,000 people have been killed
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