"Just as one small little piece of supporting evidence to see how Dexter Filkins New Yorker piece on Hezbollah – errors and journo duping detailed here – gets dutifully injected into the ongoing information operations war, check out this hilarious stretch piece by Al-Arabiya (owned by the liberal, democracy promoting Saudi monarchy) which uses his piece in an even clearer polemical manner, even managing to stretch Filkin’s own badly stretched accusations, source, implications (my favorite parts in bold):
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[Al-Arabiya - Adel Al Toraifi] In a lengthy report published by the New Yorker magazine this week, the famous journalist Dexter Filkins wrote about the growing concerns within Hezbollah circles [emphasis on multiple circles and not just the sole, anonymous DANY] about the ongoing civil war in Syria, where the Assad regime is fighting for survival with the support of its allies in Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Filkins, who spent some time in Beirut’s southern suburbs and in the border regions adjacent to Syria, was able to talk with some Hezbollah fighters and even attended the memorial services of some elements who had died while fighting alongside the Syrian regime in its efforts to quell the uprising." (thanks Nicholas)
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[Al-Arabiya - Adel Al Toraifi] In a lengthy report published by the New Yorker magazine this week, the famous journalist Dexter Filkins wrote about the growing concerns within Hezbollah circles [emphasis on multiple circles and not just the sole, anonymous DANY] about the ongoing civil war in Syria, where the Assad regime is fighting for survival with the support of its allies in Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Filkins, who spent some time in Beirut’s southern suburbs and in the border regions adjacent to Syria, was able to talk with some Hezbollah fighters and even attended the memorial services of some elements who had died while fighting alongside the Syrian regime in its efforts to quell the uprising." (thanks Nicholas)
