Friday, August 10, 2012

The New York Times, yet again, justifies war crimes crimes by the Free Syrian Army

"The shabiha’s behavior, some activists said, contributes to the kind of rage that led rebels to summarily execute several people suspected of being shabiha members in a video from Aleppo that emerged last week."  And the article does not mention something that many Syrians talk about: that many of the crimes reported in the article are perpetrated by the Free Syrian Army gangs themselves. 

PS I expect the Times to start publishing such sentences soon: And activists added that beheadings and chopping off limbs is a natural and logical and understandable reaction to the crimes of the Asad regime.  Can you imagine if they ever used that language to justify Arab violence against Israelis???