Disinformation about Syria in Western Media by Joshua Landis http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/landis140411.html

A number of news reports by AFP, the Guardian, and other news agencies and outlets are suggesting that Syrian security forces were responsible for shooting nine Syrian soldiers, who were killed in Banyas on Sunday. Some versions insist that they were shot for refusing orders to shoot at demonstrators.Considerable evidence suggests that this is not true and that Western journalists are passing on bad information.