Lies of Neil MacFarquhar

In every article on Syria, MacFarquhar inserts this sentence:  "The Syrian government blamed “terrorists,” its catchall phrase for the opposition..."  1) Just yesterday the Syrian government's foreign ministry spokesperson, Jihad Al-Maqdisi, clearly refuted this notion and spoke about "intellectual opposition" to the Syrian regime.  2) While it is true that the lousy Syrian regime Pavlovianly blames acts of violence that it perpetrates on unnamed "armed terrorist gangs", the Free Syrian Army gangs do the same by blaming acts of violence of their own making on `Alawite "armed thugs".