Confusing Syria with Libya? Fact checking Amnesty International’s “ hospitals investigation”
AI’s conclusion from its “research” in Syria, which consisted significantly of collecting Al Jazeera and Al Arabia type media accounts including the dubious reports on the same subject by CNN’s Arwa Damon and sundry anonymous U-tube clips is, interestingly, virtually identical to what it concluded from its investigation in Libya on the same subject.However, there is a great distinction between Syria and Libya, their medical professions and their current challenges.  AI claims this week, without convincing material, probative or relevant evidence that Syrian authorities, including Hospital administrators and staff, have since March 2011 turned Syrian hospital into instruments of repression in order to crush protests and demonstrations.  ” AI offers as its proof of these claims the weakest and seemingly most competition-driven support of any Amnesty International report I have read. IAI offers as its proof of these claims the weakest and seemingly most competition-driven support of any Amnesty International report I have read. It reeks of yet another orientalist double standard and ignores similar claims from citizens in western countries of similar actions by their governments.
[In next article below,i  offer a critique on DR FRANKLIN LAMB's continual support for AI..