Sunday, October 20, 2013

Rami Abdul-Rahman and his Syrian Observatory

"Still, one prominent critic says it boggles the mind that a man living in Coventry is somehow able to count and categorize the dead in Syria hour by hour, every day of the week.
"Something is going on which is quite fishy," said As'ad AbuKhalil, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at California State University Stanislaus."  The AP correspondent who wrote the story told me this:  "He says he gets “less than 100,000 euros” a year from an unnamed European NGO.    A review of news agency’s output show he’s the most cited single source on Syria; he’s even cited more often than SANA (by a long shot.)".