Members of the Syrian opposition caught playing dead, faking injuries and fabricating an attack on a demonstration

The footage which appears to show rebels using fake blood and lying down in groups to give the impression of a massacre provides further proof (as if there wasn't a huge amount already) that Assad's opponents are serial liars.  

 

This dishonesty is encouraged and perpetuated by the Western media who treat the videos and reports made by opposition 'activists' as if they were fact when anyone equipped with the slightest degree of objectivity can see that this is obviously not the case.These people are active participants in an armed conflict, they have no reason to tell the truth and every reason to lie.

 

Al Jazeera broadcasts faked images of a protest coming under attack

Prominent anti-Assad 'activist' 'Danny Abdul Dayem' caught lying, pretending to be under fire, making up casualties during in the prelude to a CNN interview

The incident captured here shows 'Danny' preparing for a CNN interview from the field. Unaware that he was already being filmed he is heard instructing his associates to let off gunshots and expolsions on command so as to give the impression that an area is under attack and sustaining mass casualties when this is obviously not the case. The cameraman can also be heard telling Abdul Dayem to give false casualty figures.

In a late CNN interview (contained within the second video) an indignant Dayem's only explanation for these blatant lies is to state that this footage 'should have been deleted' and that he didn't know how the Syrian's had obtained it because it was 'private.'   

Danny can't explain his lies:

Behind the scenes at an insurgent style 'civilian protest'

Note the heavily armed Jihadists hiding on the roof telling the stage managed crowds what to do while they and their placards are filmed, minus the Jihadists, for the consumption of unquestioning Western media organisations.

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