Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Video of Al-Buti explosion: the sad decline of the work of Jim Muir of the BBC

Syrian opposition groups have a consistent pattern: they blame the regime for all bombings and explosions and they even blame the regime when their own men and henchmen are killed.  It has become quite comical.  And the various lies and fabrications of the Syrian exile opposition groups circulated on youtube are obediently reproduced by Western media.  Jim Muir of the BBC was an excellent correspondent in Lebanon for the now-defunct Middle East International.  Now, like almost all other Western correspondents in Lebanon, he merely reproduces the lies and fabrications of the Syrian opposition.  Take the so-called video of the assassination of Al-Buti.  Suddenly, the Syrian opposition groups produced the worst fabricated video that I have seen: it is so clearly fabricated and oddly edited that it is laughable.  For this, I did not post here out of respect for readers.  Not to my surprise, Jim Muir decided to write about it and to give it credence. You have to believe that the explosion barely affected the man sitting a few feet from Buti and barely affected the camera in his hand.  And the way Al-Buti resurfaced is in fact cartoonish, literally.  I can't say that I am shocked to see the dramatic decline of Western media in the coverage of Syria.  Mr. Muir: is there anything that you won't believe from the side of the Syrian exile opposition? Anything? I really have no doubt if Muir is told that creatures form outer space are fighting with the regime he would write about it and give it credibility. 

PS Why do I have the feeling that this badly edited and doctored video is part of the US "non-lethal" aid?