The shelling of Damascus

I knew it. I went to the New York Times to see if Anne Barnard in Beirut and the rest of her team (cheerleaders of the Free Syrian Army and other Syrian "rebels") would cover the day of indiscriminate shelling of Damascus.  There was nothing but one picture with this caption: "A Syrian girl being carried into a clinic on Thursday after airstrikes by government forces in the rebel-held area of Douma. The strikes, which killed eight, came after rebels fired dozens of mortar rounds at nearby Damascus, killing at least five."  So the sequence of the caption admits that this recent confrontation was started by the rebels but it has a child as a victim of the shelling by the government by not by the rebels, and it only says that the rebels lobbed "mortal rounds at nearby Damascus, killing at least five" but it does not say that they killed civilians.  In the Western media, all victims of government bombing are civilians, and all victims of rebel bombing are military and shabbihah.  They don't mention how the Arab (Saudi and Qatari) media are covering the indiscriminate shelling of Damascus with glee. The headline of the Arab coverage is that they shelled a "restaurant frequented by Bashshar".  And some Syrian opposition media even claim that the regime shelled itself although Zahran `Allush threatened to bomb Damascus and has been doing that after he received a large stash of cash from his benefactors in Saudi Arabia.