musings from the angry arab
Angry Arab, Mar 14 2012
For months, I have saying that the Muslim Brotherhood runs the Syrian National Council. Today, when three of the leaders of the Syrian National Council resigned in protests, my accusations have been confirmed. One of the three, Kamal Al-Labwani, mentioned Muslim Brotherhood’s control over the work of the SNC as one of the main reason for his resignation. He said that the Brotherhood wants to monopolize “arming and relief work” to expand their power base in Syria. Haythal Al-Malih and a whole contingent resigned from the leadership of the Syrian National Council. I mention that because it will unlikely be reported in the Western press. New TV (which has financial ties to Qatar) yesterday reported that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are providing more than $100m of monthly support for the Syrian National Council, but that amount has been lowered to $85m, presumably due to the disunity in the ranks of the opposition. Mabruk. If this is a revolution, it is a damn well-funded revolution reeking of Saudi oil and Qatari gas.
I have never ever seen the BBC lower its journalistic standards as I have seen it in the coverage of Syria as of late. Today, they covered the Syrian regime attack on Dir`ah. So they interviewed a witness from Dir`ah: only he was not identified by name, and he was not in Dir`ah, he was in Doha, Qatar, of all places. I mean, can you imagine if Israel were attacking Palestine, would the BBC interview a Palestinian residing in Tehran? Come on, BBC. The professional reporters of the BBC that I know should speak out against such lowering of standards.
I have read Assad’s emails in the Guardian. My judgment? The Guardian is a victim of a hoax hatched by the propaganda machine of the Syrian National Council. It is so lacking in credibility. It took me minutes to reach my conclusion. Al-`Alam TV guy is giving advice to Asad directly to his email? Let me guess: tomorrow the Guardian will show that the car salesman who was hired by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in DC through a Mexican drug cartel also contacted Asad and provided him with advice. And the notion that Asma’ Al-Asad, knowing that eyes are all on her, resorts to order goods through the internet is not believable. My suggestion? Syrian National Council should work harder on their propaganda output and the Guardian and Western media should at least have a little bit of skepticism when they receive propaganda materials from thus Syrian opposition. The paper admits that they were obtained from Syrian National Council. This is a joke. Did not anyone at the Guardian raise alarms at such absurd fabrications? Let me guess: the Guardian will publish tomorrow an email from Bashar to his wife in which he refers to himself as Hitler and a donkey and Shabbih. It is a matter of days.