Syrian Opposition pose with Al Qaeda flags

The association between Syria's Sunni opposition and Al Qaeda is a well established fact. Iraqi sources have confirmed that Al Qaeda fighters have been streaming into Syria for months to join the Jihad against Assad. Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri recently expressed his support for the Syrian revolt after US intelligence admitted that several suicide bombing conducted by Syria's insurgents are thought to have been linked to Al Qaeda operatives. The video below, in which anti-Assad insurgents pose with Al Qaeda flags serves as yet another warning that the West's support for Anti-Assad forces threatens to empower radical Islamists whose ascendancy would bring about unimaginable horror for countless Syrians and put the continued existence of Syria's minorities at grave risk.

Syrian 'Activtists' caught lying again

 

Syria's shameless anti-regime insurgents made an extra effort to exaggerate the number of deaths in Syria on the very same day as the UNSC was to vote on the Arab League's regime change resolution.

As usual Western media organisations were going wild and reporting that between 250 to 350 people had died over night during alleged army shelling in Homs. Western politicians and commentators were frothing at the mouth and screaming for intervention. None of them even thought to question the completely unsubstantiated figures being fed to them.


However, the story changed once Russia and China had vetoed the UN resolution and the 'activists' realised their unsuually large exaggeration had failed. Some of those they claimed were dead turned up alive and unsure as to wnhy their names were on a list of martyrs. The indignant activists were forced to massively reduce the number of deaths they claimed to have taken place. It emerged that they had multiplied the numbers given by the less dishonest opposition groups many times over.

 "Early accounts of the casualties in Homs talked of as many as 200 deaths, [reports actually claimed over 350] but one of the main activist groups later revised its confirmed toll down to 55.

The Local Coordinating Committees said it had documented 39 deaths in the Khalidiya district of Homs, eight in other districts of the city and eight in the surrounding region."[1]

The Western media completely ignored the conspicuous revision of casualties and made no mention of what was a deliberate mass inflation of casualties in Homs. The lie was an extremely cynical attempt to influence the outcome of the UN Security Council's deliberations on whether to pass the resolution on Syria. None of the useless Western politicians or media organisations thought to actually focus on the latest propaganda outrage from Syria's deceitful activists, many of them continued reporting that hundreds had died. 

This piece of propaganda comes after the opposition previously claimed a woman had been killed and dismembered, sending Western media into a frenzy and only retracting the assertion when she turned up alive on State TV insiting that she had escaped the same abusive family who had apparently been mourning her death. [2]

It just goes to show how biased and innacurate the Western portrayal of events in Syria is. It is based soley upon the claims of Assad's enemies whose record of lies, dishonesty and deceit is well documented.

The fact that Western media are acting as conduits for Islamist misinformation is a damning endightment on the quality of  our media and a fightening insight into their complete lack of accountability and dignity. 

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16883911
[2]http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-05/middleeast/world_meast_syria-woman-alive_1_security-forces-amnesty-international-human-rights-watch?_s=PM:MIDDLEEAST