Saturday, March 01, 2014

The ambush of fighters who after a propaganda meeting by Syrian National Coalition became civilians

The propaganda of the Syrian National Coalition is as dumb as the sponsoring Saudi propaganda. When the news of the ambush in Syria first came out, there was in fact confirmation in Syrian opposition websites (including the Syrian Observatory) that those victims were indeed fighters. In fact, there were stories that most were non-Syrian Arabs. But the news of the ambush was so demoralizing that somebody in a regional or international intelligence service which runs the aforementioned shop decided that this should be turned on its head and be used as a propaganda offense against the regime, but it was too late at that point and many of the fighters had military fatigues on as was seen in the picture.  The newscast of New TV in Lebanon yesterday mocked those claims by Syrian National Coalition (and their media commissar's ally Ms. Liz Sly) to the effect that those were civilians (non-Syrian Arabs mostly really) who decided to sneak in a most dangerous area and to do so while accompanied by large numbers of fighters armed with missiles.  New TV suggests that this band of fighters were trained by Israel and that the Israeli strike on Lebanon was intended as an act of revenge.