Isis funded by UK & US - the fog of war

[Mark Thibodeau]

If "the Working Group concludes that the White Helmets killed the
individuals in question", then "the Working Group" is full of fucking
shit.

YOPJ

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:19 AM Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 May 2019 06:53:40 GMT
>
> "peterthooper at juno.com" <peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:
>
> > Questions that arise: a) is there a way to elicit elucidation without evocation of execration of the questioner - I mean, obviously one could research on one’s own, but is it wrong to think that, on a Pynchon list, someone who already did that would be willing to cobble together a P’s-eye-ish view of the situation with telling details, a measure of compassion, fitting it into larger Mideast and global perspective, and some of the other narrative qualities we all admire? Which would be volunteer work, and a honking big ask, come to think of it. But no harm in asking, eh wot?
>
> Sorry, I do not have the time to attempt to write something like that
> and make it worthwhile.
>
> > b) whoever did the original massacre —-
> > (and is there any indication who - if not the Syrian government- that might be? There’s that Graham Greene novel about CIA doing a car bomb or something in Saigon to justify more military action that springs to mind, and it’s not like the US doesn’t have the world’s largest stockpiles of CW, which hipsters understand to mean not only Country and Western music, but also chemical weapons)
>
> The Working Group concludes that the White Helmets killed the
> individuals in question:
>
> "We conclude that the staging of the Douma incident entailed mass murder
> of at least 35 civilians to provide the bodies at Location 2.
>
> It follows from this that people dressed as White Helmets and endorsed
> by the leadership of that organization had a key role in this murder."
>
> http://syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers/assessment-by-the-engineering-sub-team-of-the-opcw-fact-finding-mission-investigating-the-alleged-chemical-attack-in-douma-in-april-2018
>
> I am not yet willing to believe that the White Helmets murder children
> and use their dead bodies as stage props (this, however, may only be due
> to my lack of imagination). It seems possible that these poor people
> were the victims of aerial bombing by the Syrian Army, and the White
> Helmets merely placed their bodies in position. Note that the OPCW did
> not carry out any autopsies.
>
> See also:
>
> BBC Syria Producer Riam Dalati: "Sick and tired of activists and rebels
> using the corpses of dead children to stage emotive scenes for Western
> consumption."
>
> https://twitter.com/ShoebridgeC/status/983698078741024768
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