Western-backed rebels are claiming another huge massacre in the al-Kubeir village in Hama Province, Syria. By various accounts from various factions at least 78 people, and potentially 100, were killed, including a number of women and children.
The rebels are saying that the killings were carried out by an unnamed pro-Assad militia, which armed with guns and knives killed a large portion of the tiny village’s population for no apparent reason. So far Syria’s state media hasn’t reported on the killings at all.
The incident comes just weeks after another reported massacre, in the Homs Province, in which 108 people were killed. In that case, the rebels’ initial claim that the deaths were the result of shelling were disproven, and later both sides insisted the other had carried out the killings.
Fighting in Syria has been on the rise since this weekend, when the rebels announced that they would no longer abide by the UN-brokered ceasefire. Since then, rebels have claimed over 100 troops killed in an offensive.
This is a lie by the terrorist and Anti-war’s willingness to publish it makes Anti-war appear as a propaganda tool of the terrorists.
It may indeed be "a lie by the terrorists" (it probably is, just as every other statement from all sides involved probably is).
However, Antiwar.com did not "publish it." Antiwar.com "reported that they said it," and the reportage was skeptically framed.
If there's a "propaganda tool of the terrorists" present, my money's on you. You're very punctual and reliable in putting forth empty criticisms that have no basis in reality. Reliable enough that it seems reasonable to assume your hostility to fact and truth is no accident.
antiwar.com links to plenty of pro-Empire articles, like AP and such.Here few articles with, other side of the story (that are so much UNDER-REPORTED).
Eyewitnesses Corroborate Syrian Government Account of Houla Massacre http://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2012/06/06/eyewitne…
THE HOULA MASSACRE: Opposition Terrorists “Killed Families Loyal to the Government” http://arabisperatirugativaptiugoslavii.wordpress…
Syria’s Srebrenica Blamed on Iranian Special Forces http://www.purpleserf.com/http://arabisperatiruga…
I agree with Thomas that the article is very skeptically framed. Personally, I don't think Ditz believes it, but for the sake of objectivity, he's not drawing any conclusion regarding the claim since he (or any of us for that matter) doesn't know for certain.
I'm very skeptical of these claims of massacres coming from "activists." What's missing from these Assad regime massacre stories are MOTIVE. It simply makes no sense for the Syrian army to march into a town and commit the crimes the "activists" claim they're commiting. Who gains from these stories? cetainly the Assad regime. I don't care if someone believes I'm covering for the Assad regime, the stories coming from these "activists" make little sense to me, especially once you consider that it's always the rebels who come off looking good when their claims are taken as fact.
Thomas, I really don’t have to say much. Two things expose you:
1) Headlines, such as of this article, 2) the priority you give for posting, as well as for not posting some comments. You may think of yourself as an admin but I think you are biased and are no different from a dictator king in your little kingdom. I don’t blame you since you work for Anti-war.com and your job requires that you defend and protect it. So, please don’t ever occupy the high ground and pose as if you have the moral authority and are in the right.
I am sure you are the terrorist Nathan because I told you in the past you are sheeple and you need a geoplotlcal education. As Sunni Muslim I know better than you who doesn't know anything about the world beyond your border. The Shi'ite believe the killing of three million Sunni Muslim will expedite the coming of their Mahdi (Anti Christ) who entered the cave 1300 years ago. Whether you agree or not it's a prophecy and it's just around the corner. The west will allie with the Sunnis and will fight the Shi'ite which will end up with the defeat of the Shi'ite the will be followed by the Armageddon. Most of the bloggers here lack education about the relgious structure in the Middle East. I am sure most of you are fools which was evidence after 911 when we suffered as Muslims from your hatered toward us. Now the same ball rolling in the same direction. They are fooling you again forgetting that Al-Asad regime is cooperating with the Zionist regime against Sunni Muslims.
beeboltwu, you are talking nonsense, and appear to be full sectarian hate to Shiites, but luckily I’m neither Sunni nor Shiite.
By the way, the 19 terrorists who blow up the Trade Towers were all from Saudi Arabia and were Sunni Wahhabis, so you, as a Sunni, should be ashamed of it.
No wonder a few million Jews can beat the shit out of all Arabs because instead of Sunni and Shiite uniting, you are constantly hating and killing each other. You certainly deserve it.
>>>"The Shi'ite believe…"
I'm sure that some of them do. I'm also sure that in this country I wouldn't have a long search to find Catholics and Baptists who feel the same way about each other.
Fortunately, in this country, at this time, the number of godnuts who would like to kill one another is very small and under control. This, however, could be changed by some false flag or instigated church bombings and atrocities to heat up and spread the hate. Follow this up with some timely shipments of heavier weapons to increase the lethality of the fratricide and sure enough the "Good Guys" are going to have to come in with much heavier weapons to mass slaughter and destroy and enslave the devastated survivors – for their own good.
And all this "altruism" will cost you is the resources that your children need for a better future and the installation of a puppet dictator over you who knows that those resources rightly belong to the Empire.
You are a fool, you believe your part of the bullsh-t end time scenarios. Please have a brain and get out of the Wahabi bullshit that is poisoning your brain.
Not only you are not a Sunny Muslim but I am sure that you are working and get paid by the Saudis or UAE having a Sunny Mosque under your supervision somewhere in this world. Your job is to breath the agendas of these people and divide people. In the other hand you are stupid because there is no such “phrosophy” exist and even so is 2012, yet it is you and your kings whom are bound by their sect as Wahabbis and others whom want to change the time taking it back to 1300, I mean look at you and how the Saudis and UAE social politics and its social politics works and functions, is there any Churches in Saudi Arabia or for that matter in UAE, but there are Churches in Syria so is the freedom of religion, is there such thing in Saudi Arabia or UAE…. Go home get yourself the basic education then talk.
No mojo, he is probably a simple mind fooled by the Wahabis and their bullshit. Hopefully he will wake up some day.
No one is claiming anything other than that it was done by a militia. The only question is, which militia?
And the lesson is this: where the power of the state is broken- as it was in Lebanon, in Somalia, in Bosnia, and in Iraq- the militias are unleashed, and the massacres follow.
Ironically enough it's the state that keeps the militias from killing each others' children. Even pro-regime militias are kept in check until the state is attacked and weakened, and state troops withdraw.
The opposition in Syria has taken up arms, driven the state out, and now, militias rush into the vacuum.
The change to armed resistance, and the encouragement of that armed resistance by the Gulf States and the West, is what allows these massacres to happen. The blame lies with them.
That's the reason to "support" Assad- or at least, oppose the idea of removing him with nothing to take his place, which is a recipe for disaster.
Ironic to be pointing out the necessity of the power of the state on a Libertarian site, but there it is. If anyone can suggest a way to keep the militias in their homes in the absence of state power, I'd be glad to hear it.
The Syrian army would NEVER kill woman and children – NATO waiting for this and fakes such stories to get their justification for their "HUMANITARIAN BOMBINGS"
But they should kill all those foreign and the few dumb ass killers and traitors working for NATO.
>>>"Antiwar.com did not "publish it." Antiwar.com "reported that they said it,"
"He said / He said", imbedded in a swirling pool of nebulous innuendo crafted to let the reader know (wink wink) who the good guy (the truth teller) is and who the bad guy (the liar )is, while disingenuously feigning journalistic integrity.
I can get all that from CNN, Fox, NYT, WP or any of the other proven mouthpiece supporters of the Empire's aggressions against the world's people.
But, from the AntiWar.com mission statement I get this:
"…our purely journalistic mission, which is to get past the media filters and reveal the truth about America's foreign policy."
So, where is the journalism in this and other articles in question? All I'm seeing is a parroting of MSM presstitutes and a blatant borrowing of their filters. And, more importantly to the stated mission of this site, where is the analysis of "America's foreign policy" in the articles in question (unfortunately now the overwhelming contribution of cyber ink from this site)?
I wouldn't believe statements from Syrian "rebels" or "opposition" spoon fed to US or European media if they said the sun rose in the East that morning,