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Vanessa Beeley is a British investigative journalist focused on the Middle East. Recently returned from Syria she reported how 600,000 people moved from East to West Aleppo to take refuge when the NATO-backed rebels attacked the city in 2012.[1] Vanessa Beeley is clear that Syria's White Helmets, lauded in the West as a group of volunteer first-responders, funded by the US, Britain and others to the tune of $100 million and nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, are nothing but terrorists. She accuses the White Helmets of stealing ambulances and fire engines, and even killing Syria's real Civil Defence officials.[2]
The Syrian people are suffering under the ‘moderate rebels’ and ‘opposition forces’ backed by the US, NATO member states and their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. Yet their suffering is largely ignored in the mainstream media unless it furthers the agenda dictated by the US State Department.
Analysts have observed, the White Helmets achieve on average 4 or 5 videos per day, depicting their heroic rescue efforts. The REAL Syria Civil Defence have evaluated these videos and cast doubt as to the White Helmets being true first responders or USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) experts. They pinpointed various anomalies (i) the equipment used is too heavyweight for the delicate operation of finding bodies beneath collapsed buildings (ii) the treatment of injured bodies is dangerous, they are flung onto stretchers with no back support or neck brace, for example. Many of the paramedic procedures shown on film are also deemed questionable. The White Helmets rarely travel without a sizeable camera team or crew of mobile phone cameramen. The REAL Syria Civil Defence do not.
On multiple occasions, the White Helmets have been exposed staging rescue scenes for both photo and video, recycling images of children and incidents from the conflict in Syria, to support their narrative, editing video which misrepresents the scene in question, using images from a previous incident or even fake images altogether. There are many documented instances of this.
The leader of the White Helmets, Raed Saleh, was deported from Dulles Airport in the US, April 2016. No real explanation was ever given for this decision. Mark Toner of the US State Department fielded questions from media but did (i) Admit to funding the group with $ 23m and (ii) suggest that Raed Saleh might have “extremist connections”. Raed Saleh has recently been allowed back into the US in September 2016 and spoke at the UN New York with the Dutch Mission. However, no explanation has been given for this reversal of the previous decision to deport Saleh.
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
a reply to: MarioOnTheFly
You lost me the moment you mentioned RT, which is so far up Putin's butt that it has a great view of his lower intestine. No.
You lost me the moment you mentioned RT, which is so far up Putin's butt that it has a great view of his lower intestine.
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
a reply to: MarioOnTheFly
You lost me the moment you mentioned RT, which is so far up Putin's butt that it has a great view of his lower intestine. No.
One of the very few benefits of this refugee crisis... we get to talk to the people of Syria first hand. And what they're telling is pretty damning for the picture the U.S. is painting.
originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: elementalgrove
For someone who claims to be so in the know, you seem to parrot every other mindless anti American idiot.
If you really think it's JUST Assad's forces vs Al Nusra then it is you that wilfully ignorant.
Do your "friends" really believe Assad gives a rats arse about them??