Media Disinfo Machine Rebrands US-Supported Islamist Terrorists 'Freedom Fighters'

In an article about media’s support of the role of the United States’ Full Spectrum Dominance agenda, Professor Michel Chossudovsky details Monday recent evidence of this related to Syria, where the Pentagon’s been itching for an all-out invasion and occupation for political gain and no other reason and has backed Islamic terrorists for this end.

“The attacks by opposition forces largely integrated by Al Qaeda terrorists can no longer be denied,” Prof. Chossudovsky reports Tuesday. “What is now occurring is a re-branding of the various terrorist formations covertly support by Western intelligence. The latest slur of media disinformation consists in providing a “human face” to Al Qaeda.”

While media acknowledges the Al Nusrah front is integrated by Al Qaeda-affiliated rebels, media is now portraying Islamist rebels affiliated with the New Islamic Front with Washington’s support as “freedom fighters” involved strictly in para-military operations.

Chossudovky Numbers Syrian-related Media Fabrications

According to the media reports, Chossudovsky maked the following three points:

1. The opposition rebels are predominantly Syrian nationals.

2. They are not targeting innocent civilians.

3. They are acting in a responsible fashion. They are no longer involved in terrorist acts. They are targeting government forces and the pro-government National Defense Force militia, set up in towns and villages across Syria.

Attack on Alawite Village in Hama Province

Reuters reported a recent rebel attack on an Alawite village in Hama province suggesting civilians’ deaths were few; were largely resultant of “collateral damage;” and were attributable to “neglect” related to the Syrian government evacuation programs.

“Read carefully (emphasis added0,” asserts Prof. Chossudovsky, quoting the Reuters report. “The Reuters report casually denies the atrocities committed by US-NATO-Saudi sponsored terrorists:”

Islamist fighters battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces seized control of an Alawite village in the central province of Hama on Sunday, part of an offensive to try to cut off supply routes from Damascus to the north of the country.

The report denies, despite ample evidence, that the “freedom fighters” killed civilians. Detailed government data on civilian casualties are dismissed;

But the government said the dead were mainly women and children and accused the fighters of committing a massacre on the eve of the resumption of peace talks in Geneva.”

Reuters prefers to quote “evidence” the fake UK based Syrian Observatory reported. Those killed were part of the government’s militia forces:

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the Islamists killed 25 people in the village of Maan, mainly from a pro-Assad National Defence Force militia.

Residents of Maan, around 5 miles east of Syria’s main north-south highway, are from the same Alawite minority as the Assad family which has ruled Syria for the last four decades.

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The Observatory said most women and children had been evacuated from the village before it was taken over.

(Reuters report Chicago Tribune, February 9, 2014

“Freedom Fighters” are “Overwhelmingly” Syrian National

Reuters fails to acknowledge something amply documented by media reports and official data: most of the rebels are mercenaries recruited in Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, not to mention several European countries including Britain and France.

The “freedom fighters” are “overwhelmingly” Syrian nationals, according to Reuters:

Rebels fighting to overthrow Assad are overwhelmingly from the country’s Sunni Muslim majority, backed by Islamist and jihadi fighters from across the Islamic world.

“Video footage released on Sunday showed a rebel fighter performing Muslim prayers on top of a municipal building after the seizure of Maan, one of several sites in Hama targeted by the rebels in recent days. Another video showed the dead body of a pro-Assad fighter.

The Observatory said most women and children had been evacuated from the village before it was taken over.

(Reuters report Chicago Tribune, February 9, 2014

Yarmouk: The Palestinian Urban Suburb

Chossudovsky says, “A BBC report pertaining to the Palestinian Yarmouk, urban suburb of Damascus, sustains the legend of opposition “activists” and “freedom fighters” coming to the rescue of Palestinians:”

The situation has grown desperate since last summer when the Syrian army blocked regular supplies to the camp in an attempt to force out rebels [Al Qaeda terrorists supported by US-NATO] holed up inside.

Activists’ videos and photographs have shown little children crying in hunger and with visible signs of malnutrition. Residents told the BBC that recently there have been about 100 deaths from starvation.

The strategy of the Al Qaeda rebels — advised by Western and Israeli Special Forces — has been to block supply routes of food and essential commodities. “And then the media comes in and blames the government:

“Babies also died because there was no milk. Their mothers couldn’t breastfeed them because they were sick and undernourished.”

Palestinians in Yarmouk say they have resorted to eating boiled herbs and plants found growing near their homes.

The report insinuates government forces – that acted in support of the Palestinians – are responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Yarmouk.

At the same time, the BBC refutes its own lies. It acknowledges that Syrian authorities supported the Palestinians from the very outset:

The unofficial camp was set up as a home for refugees who left or were forced from their original homes because of the 1948 war that led to the creation of Israel.

Although the Syrian authorities did not give citizenship to refugees, they had full access to employment and social services. Many say they had relatively good lives compared to their counterparts in other Arab countries.

Yet the BBC in its coverage of Yarmouk, insinuates that the terrorists integrated by Western advisers had the support of the Palestinians against the Syrian government and that ultimately the “freedom fighters” allowed the supply routes to be opened to the United Nations relief programs led by the UNRWA:

Armed rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad moved into the camp and found support among some Palestinian groups.

After months of negotiations, a deal was struck at the end of last year between the Syrian authorities and Palestinian representatives to allow food to be delivered to the camp. BBC, February 10, 2014

Again, media is falsifying evidence in favor of the Unied States and its supported terrorist rebels, swaying public opinion against a government and toward an illegal attack and occupation.

In the Russia Today interview with Prof. Chossudovsky in which he says the United States was in “dialogue with the Islamic terrorists.”

“You don’t dialogue with terrorists,” he says, ad.ding how the U.S. is supporting them.

Prof. Chossudovsky said, “There can be no peace” until this root cause of the humanitarian crisis ends.

Sources: Global Research, Russia Today