Rebels Attack Syrian TV Station, Kill Seven Workers
Pro-Regime Statement Attacked Hours After Broadcast of Assad Speech
Just hours after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s statement on the nation being in a “real state of war” was broadcast, Syria’s al-Ikhbariya TV station was in ruins. The newsroom burnt, the walls sprayed with bullets and blood, and at least seven employees killed.
The grisly scene was just one of many atrocities seen already in Syria’s nascent civil war, this time the result of a rebel faction storming the station overnight on accusations of being pro-regime.
Employees of the station say that several people were wounded in addition to the slain and that a number of the guards working for the station were kidnapped during the attack.
Syria’s information ministry condemned it as a “massacre against the freedom of the press.” Rebel commanders denied responsibility, saying it was unrelated to their ongoing civil war.
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mary
June 27th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
What are the possibility of western local rag tag mercenaries to co-ordinate hand out such an attack? Redicolous.
Change "rebels" to MI6, Mossad and CIA. Standard MO since the onslaught on Yugoslavia…
mojo
June 27th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
This is the hallmark of Al Queada, part of what is called “rebels”. I mean attacking a TV station, killing its employe is an attack on journalists all over the world, the producers, the production managers but above all innocent people. This is simply a act of barbarians. The London based “rebeles” have their propaganda machineries stationed all over the Europe, in Lebanon, the Jordanian capital, the Turkish capital and etc. all of these stations are well and non is been attacked nor their broadcasts is disturbed, because Syrian people know that what they are broadcasting is nothing but lies dictated to these “rebels" by the West, Saudis and UAE, the Turkish and Jordanian agents. Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of her self even supporting the Saudis – UAE and their feudalism agendas by creating a war this time in Syria. We give you the Oil as much as you want, what would you do for us beside money, would you give us Gaddafi, can you change the regime in Syria, in Iran, in Pakistan, so we all get richer…..!
CanuckBC
June 27th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
This is like Beograd TV bombing redux. It is obvious that NATO trainers of "rebels" work hard. To me this is another massacre of civilians by Sunni terrorists. Can you imagine what would Americans do if terrorists attacked CNN? Or Fox?
andor
June 27th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
This is a portent for things to come…
Ben_C
June 28th, 2012 at 2:12 am
Can anyone provide a link to an English transcript of Assad's 'full' speech–the speech where he allegedly claimed Syria was in a: “real state of war” the other day. I'd just like to understand Assad's actual "meaning"; however, it's not clear to me these actual words were even spoken by Assad in the first place. Even so, if he did speak them, there's no way to understand Assad's meaning without "context".
Words, and language in general, are inherently ambiguous. I'm not looking for "truth"–simply 'meaning'…but that probably goes without saying, as the only reason the lame-stream went crazy about this the other day is because many in the lame-stream concluded Assad's "meaning" and their own "truth" were one in the same–which I consider extremely unlikely.
I'm just looking for a complete version of the actual speech or, at the very least, some sort of credible confirmation these particular words were actually said by Assad–meaning they are in quotation ("") marks from a source who could reasonably at least 'pass' as 'credible'). The more "context" the better.
Also, the TV station bombing seems more consistent with an act of pure "terrorism" targeted at the Regime's civil service, rather than a propaganda stunt intended for an international audience based on the information available.
Drasko Jovanovic
June 28th, 2012 at 7:40 am
Readers of this articles debate who is behind this attack on "public midia" i.e. TV station. Perhaps I should remind you that a very "civilized" organization, NATO, percision bombed and destroyed a TV station in Belgrade Serbia, killing 11 people.
The crime is in the eyes of the beholder.