Houla massacre carried out by Free Syrian Army, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

[World Socialist Website]

Last month’s Houla massacre was perpetrated by opposition forces aligned with the Free Syrian Army, according to Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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[blindpig]

Even without such corroborative accounts, the silence of the world’s media on the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung report is extraordinary. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is a respected, indeed conservative, publication, with a circulation in the hundreds of thousands and a daily readership in 148 countries. Yet no major newspaper took up its report, because they are all complicit in the dissemination of naked propaganda. There is literally nothing in the reports of the mainstream Western media that can be taken as good coin.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

So much for the Arab Spring, so much for the Twitter Revolution. The method and hardware have been co-opted and added to the vast array of the enemy's propaganda options. Put not your faith in 'secret weapons', fat lot of good they did Hitler. Our victory will not be found in devices but in the hearts of the people.

US policy in Syria has from the start been based on the whipping up of a Sunni-based sectarian insurgency, with the aim of destabilising and deposing Assad’s Alawite regime. This, in turn, is linked to US preparations for a military attack on Iran, which would be further isolated in the Middle East with the demise of Assad, its major ally in the region.

With the experience of Bosnia and Kosovo to draw upon, this was done not merely in the certain knowledge that bloody internecine fighting would result, but with the intention of provoking civil conflict in order to provide a pretext for military intervention in humanitarian guise.

Need I remind anyone of the value of nihilism?

[Dhalgren]

Also of immediate relevance are reports on the web site of the Monastery of St. James the Mutilated in Qara, Syria. On April 1, Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix wrote of an incident in the Khalidiya neighborhood in Homs in which the FSA gathered Christian and Alawite hostages in a building and blew it up. They then blamed the Syrian army.

“The Al Amoura family in Al Durdak village, in the Homs area, was exterminated by Wahhabi terrorists. Forty-one people from this family had their throats slit in one day”, she also reported.

Agnès-Mariam stated that of Homs’ one million inhabitants, two thirds of the population had fled, including over 90 percent of Christians, due to the activities of “snipers and acts of criminal aggression” against “the Alawite and Christian minorities, Shiites, and many ‘moderate’ Muslims who did not choose to participate in dissident activity.”

There is no depth to which these NATO killers will not stoop. They are ripping the shit up and hoping for the best. Where are all those "peaceniks" from 5 or 6 years ago? Shouldn't there be some "protests" out there, somewhere? No one gives a shit anymore. NATO is the biggest threat on the planet. How long will it be allowed free rein without opposition?