Angry Arab's correspondent in Syria responds to Al-Arabiyya's forgeries:
"The guys in Alarabyia, the Saudi news TV station, just don’t
want it to let it go, even when the world of journalism was too indulgent with
their cheep journalistic practices and their fabrications that, in the case of
their Syrialeaks,
were too dumb that even the bitterest enemies of the Syrian regime, found
themselves obliged to deny in short and embarrassed statements (in
the case of Turkey) or a single rebuking piece (in the case of Qatar) before
ignoring the whole story.
However, Al-arabyia refuses to give up although it removed
the whole section dedicated to the alleged leaked documents from its Arabic
website without saying a single word, as it always does when something stupid is
committed by their self -described journalists (someone must find a term more
convenient to describe them). The day before yesterday, Faisal
Abbas, the editor in chief of Al-arabyia English, issued “an apology on behalf
of” its channel.
Once more, the article is another fabrication by Al-arabyia. It wasn’t an
apology to the public:
The whole reason for this long
introduction is to apologize to some of our critics for a major disappointment
which I am about to bestow about them.
To all those professional
journalists who forgot or didn't bother calling us for a comment or those
café-based bloggers who think they can do a better job, I truly am very sorry
for what I am about to say.
So it wasn’t a truly apology to those who waste their time
watching or reading Al-arabyia garbage, but rather an apology to those who think
Al-arabyia has “an agenda” and “secret labs”… and this is it, the word apology
doesn’t appear anywhere else in the “apology” piece.
And actually, Mr. Abbass and its Al-arabyia seem to believe
their Syrialeaks junk has really a serious content that we missed:
With Al Arabiya News Channel's
exclusive coverage on the newly-leaked Syrian security documents coming to an
end, the time has finally arrived to voice an opinion about some of the things
that have been said since we began revealing the shocking contents of these
documents two weeks ago.
He really believes that his Al-arabyia’s rubbish are worthy
of being analyzed and commented, blaming the “café- based bloggers” (can we call
him and his peers “brothel-based journalists”?) for not doing so.
But the fact is that Syrialeaks documents don’t even deserve
to be read let alone analyzed. A Syrian proverb says: the content of a letter
can be understood by just reading the title. So one only need to read the
headers of the so called “leaked documents” to understand that he is about a
fabrication dumbly formulated.
And here is an example (the document in Arabic can be read here):
Syrian Arab Republic
The Republican Palace
External Intelligence
Service:
Branch of Operations
(235/2)
And here are my comments:
- In Syria, there is nothing called “Republican Palace”, but rather “Ministry of State for Presidential Affairs”: the term “Republican Palace” is used by the average Syrians in their daily talks.
- In Syria, there is nothing called “External Intelligence Service”
- But the most important (and obvious) is that the intelligence services (in Syria and elsewhere) aren’t part of the “Republican Palace” instruments. It’s the same as saying: White House- NYPD!!!
Then take a look at another example
which is as dumber as the previous one if not more:
An alleged work order treating an intelligence colonel as if
he is a regular army private who is ordered by his sergeant to deliver a message
to another sergeant: The so- called “work order” is actually
addressed to Colonel Souheil Hassan (a scary and influential officer) of
the Special Missions Department of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence
instructing him to head towards the intelligence branch 291 using a
civilian car (a taxi or any passing-by car for example!!!) in a mission with
the codename 247/3 and return back to his unit as soon as he accomplishes the
mission…. Really!!!
Amazingly (or maybe not), it wasn’t the stupidity of
Al-arabyia who made Mr. Abbass angry, but it was something else: an article
written by Assa’ad Abou Khalil in Al-Akhbar English criticizing the journalistic
standards of Bandar’s media… I’m sure he thought he found the momentum to fight
back not only this particular piece, but rather everything that the Angry Arab
and Al-Akhbar represent. This is, however, another story that only Mr. Abou
Khalil can estimate whether it deserves a reply.
An apology on behalf of Al arabyia: a long and needless piece
that hasn’t contained the true apology that one may wait from someone who really
want to apologize... something like:
Dear public… We are really sorry
for being too idiot… Al-arabyia will shut down soon… My colleagues and I will
quit to a more lucrative and less qualification- demanding career."
