As you know, whenever the armed groups in Syria kill a member or supporter of the regime, they all rush to Facebook and Twitter to blame the murder or the bombing on the regime itself, often claiming ridiculously that the victim had a change of heart days before he was killed (by them of course). Look at this one about the kidnapping of the archbishops: "Archbishop Ibrahim had been supportive of President Bashar al-Assad
and had urged his followers not to abandon Syria, but he had recently
turned critical of the government. In an interview with the BBC on April
13, the archbishop said that perhaps a third of Syria’s Christians had
left the country and that he could not blame them, considering the
“difficult circumstances in terms of security and the threats they face
daily.”
In the same interview, the archbishop chided Mr. Assad’s government for “not dealing with the crisis in a better way.” First notice that they recycle the lies from opposition Facebook sites and claim that the archbishop--a known supporter of the regime--turned critical. But the evidence provided is so flimsy. Even the agents of Syrian regime in Lebanon make that claim: that the regime could have handled the situation better. That is hardly an indication of a change of heart. But most importantly: it is known that gangs of the opposition kidnapped the two men and killed the driver. There is no independent reporting in the Times: it is all parroting of opposition unsubstantiated claims.
PS Even the pro-Syrian opposition, MTV in Lebanon reported that the church sad that they were kidnapped by Chechnyan rebels of the armed groups.
PS Even the pro-Syrian opposition, MTV in Lebanon reported that the church sad that they were kidnapped by Chechnyan rebels of the armed groups.
