Saturday, November 16, 2013

Reuters picture: omission


From Angry Arab's chief correspondent in Turkey:  "You may fed up Western media disinformation on Syria but here is an another one. This is  a Reuters picture, published with this caption:

" Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad carry their weapons as they walk near an Islamist flag that marks where an Islamist base used to stand in Tel Hasel, Aleppo province after capturing it from rebels November 15, 2013. State television aired a report on Friday it said was filmed in the centre of the town of Tel Hasel, 10 km (6 miles) south-east of Aleppo. The town is the third on the road to Aleppo to be taken by Assad's forces this month after the capture of Safira, close to a former chemical weapons site, and Tel Arn. REUTERS/George Ourfalian (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY)"
But as you see its an Al Qaeda flag used by Islamic State of Iraq and Sham. No need to be a veteran journalist to know this very simple fact...I sent you another one, apparently showing Al Qaeda militants mortaring the Hanano barracks in central Aleppo but Reuters claimed it was FSA that mortars the centre..."