At Cannes, the film I shot during the seven-month campaign for the liberation of Libya was shown in the presence of two Syrian fighters who were able to leave their country clandestinely.
At the very moment the film was being shown, one of the most horrifying carnages perpetrated since the beginning of this other war, the one Bashar al-Assad has been conducting against his people for over a year, was taking place at Houla, in Syria.
His face masked by the rebels' flag, this is the declaration one of the two Syrian fighters made before the press that day:
I have just seen the film of our French friend about my Libyan brothers, about their war of liberation, about the aid they received, without which they would be dead. I am a soldier. I wept. My tears were an expression of my emotion, but also of my anger. We, the Syrians, are dying. Where are the French and English planes, the planes of our brother countries? Where are the arms that came from all over to the fighters in the Libyan desert? Where are you, friends of freedom? Why do your governments no longer hear your voice, your appeals? Why are they afraid of Assad, they who had no fear of Kadhafi? Why? Why? We can win the war for freedom. With you. Help us. Please. Thank you, France.
Mr. President, I wish to cite these words while the toll of this cold-blooded slaughter at Houla, committed with heavy weapons, grows greater hour by hour.
I wish to pass on to you this appeal for help, just as the images of these 32 children in the city's small morgue, their skulls smashed, their faces reduced to pulp, appear before us.
And, as it is my turn, I wish to ask you a direct question:
Will France do for Houla and Homs what she has done for Benghazi and Misrata?
Will you use your considerable personal credit, and that of our country, to come back to our allies of yesterday and, with them, with Great Britain, the United States, the Arab League and Turkey, map out a strategy that goes beyond the "unwavering support for the Annan mission" mentioned in the press release from the Elysée, this Monday at 6:00 PM?
Will you see to it that the group of countries friendly to the Syrian people, among whom, thanks to our galvanizing role in Libya, we enjoy a decisive influence, reflect upon the rapid enaction of one or several of the options already on the table, waiting only for a captain: security perimeters at the Jordanian and Turkish frontiers, proposed by Qatar; the idea advanced by the Turkish Foreign Affairs minister of "no-kill zones," creating a sanctuary, at the heart of the country, for elements of the Free Syrian Army equipped with defensive weapons; zones in the sky where death helicopters are banned and, on the ground, where armoured vehicles transporting troops and war materiel are forbidden?
Or will you let yourself be overwhelmed by the defeatism of the Norpois who have always been proven wrong, still predicting, on the eve of the fall of Tripoli, a "quagmire," and who now go about everywhere muttering Syria-is-not-Libya, and Assad-is-not-Kadhafi or that Russia-and-China-will-inevitably-veto-it -- the result being that we do nothing, we risk nothing, we continue to sit here idly in the face of the atrocities?
I know, Mr. President, that you have other urgent matters, another agenda, commitments you have made and that you must keep.
But what was most urgent -- to go to Afghanistan and prepare the anticipated retreat of our troops or to take the initiative in Syria?
What is the most important -- to announce the reduction of your ministers' salaries and the freezing of gas prices or to introduce a resolution, at the Security Council, authorizing the bombardment of those tanks stationed on the outskirts of the cities, ready to fire?
Reassure the Franco-German couple, let Angela Merkel get to know you better, save the euro -- these are imperative obligations -- but save a people? And in what way do the dramatic events in Greece prevent you from picking up the phone, as your predecessor did, to convince your Russian and Chinese counterparts that their blind support for Syrian State terrorism dishonors and weakens them?
We met, at your request, on January 27th, when the electoral campaign began.
I had reminded you that, on March 10th, 2011, before the Libyan emissaries who had come to ask France's aid, Nicolas Sarkozy had intimated that if the Security Council should block a resolution demanding respect for "the responsibility to protect" that is one of the obligations of the United Nations, he would fall back on a reduced version of legitimacy based upon the support of the European Union and the Arab League.
On that day, you seemed, retrospectively, to believe that to be a reasonable course of action.
You seemed, especially, to share the idea that Assad is no stronger than Kadhafi once was -- and that, in reality, his power depends upon our abstention, our laisser-faire attitude, our cowardice.
This is one of the reasons I voted for you.
I hope I was not mistaken.
As the masked Syrian fighter said: Let's not be afraid of this paper tiger.
Ladies and Gentlemen, world famous WAR SALESMAN - Bernard-Henri Lévy - is in town !
Are you bored with the old war in Libya, which seems rather rusty, worn out, dusty and obsolete ?
He has a brand new war for you in Syria !
With new killing equipment, fresh smell of children's blood, or burnt corpses, or smoke from bombed hospitals, schools, fire stations, infrastructure, and those scenic views of mutilated, tortured bodies laying on the streets - BHL has it all for you in store!
He provides the spectacle of war that has never been more riveting, more exciting, more thrilling !
And most importantly, his "spécialité de la maison": lies, lies, lies...
• the Mebo MST — 13 timer fragment, which Thomas Thurman of the FBI's forensic laboratory said that he identified on June 15, 1990;
• Mebo's Swiss owner, Edwin Bollier, is interviewed at length;
• forensic scientist, Dr Michael Scott, describes DERA's 'forensic expert', Alan Feraday, as a technician without any formal qualifications as a scientist;
• solicitor, Alastair Logan, criticises DERA's Dr Thomas Hayes for the forensic evidence that was used to convict the Maguire Seven;
• former CIA operative, Oswald LeWinter says the appointment of 'Libyan dirty tricks expert', Vincent Cannistraro, to head the CIA's team investigating Lockerbie 'would be funny, if it were not an obscenity';
• DoD Whistle Blower Lester Coleman linked the bomb to a terrorist cell trained by CIA operative, Edwin P. Wilson; and,
• best-selling author, David Yallop, reviews the available evidence and looks at who might have been responsible for the Lockerbie bombing.
The documentary disputes the conclusion reached by the official investigation into the bombing of Pan Am 103, instead advancing the theory that the bomb was introduced onto the aircraft by an unwitting drug mule, Khaled Jafaar, in what the filmmaker claims is a CIA-protected suitcase.
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, former prime minister of Iran, discusses the idea that Iran took revenge for the shootdown by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988.
"Neil Clark: I think it is absolutely correct. I think what we have got here on the agenda is pretty obvious. For the last 15 months there’s been an attempt by Western powers, backed by Arab Gulf states, to topple the regime in Damascus.
And this reminds me – and I’m sure it reminds a lot of people too about what happened back in the late 1990s in Yugoslavia – a situation where the Milosevic government there was under enormous pressure as well. What we had then was Western forces backing rebels against that regime. We had so-called massacres taking place which were then used as a pretext for military intervention, which has caused what we’ve got in a NATO bombardment in Yugoslavia.
And 12 months ago we had exactly the same thing again with Libya. We had atrocity stories come out of Libya. America and Britain were at the forefront of saying “look, we’ve got to intervene” – which is what happened in the end of course. And so, it’s déjà vu, it’s like 1999 and 2011 all over again."
As prime discuss-monger of the elite "philosophy brigade" in the French Air-force, he craves for action.
Alas, his piercing rhetoric will fall on deaf ears.
No one let alone Hollande is willing or able to repeat the criminal Libyan adventure.
THE HOULA MASSACRE: Opposition Terrorists "Killed Families Loyal to the Government" Detailed Investigation
This incisive report by independent Russian journalist Marat Musin dispels the lies and fabrications of the Western media.
The report is based on a chronology of events as well as eyewitness accounts. Entire pro-government families in Houla were massacred. The terrorists were not pro-government shabbiha militia as conveyed, in chorus, by the mainstream media, they were in large part mercenaries and professional killers operating under the auspices of the self-proclaimed Free Syrian Army (FSA):
"When the rebels seized the lower checkpoint in the center of town and located next to the local police department, they began to sweep all the families loyal to the authorities in neighboring houses, including the elderly, women and children.
Several families of the Al-Sayed were killed, including 20 young children and the family of Abdul Razak. The people were killed with knives and shot at point blank range.
Then they presented the murdered [corpses] to the UN and the international community as victims of bombings by the Syrian army, something that was not verified by any marks on their bodies."
We call on our readers to forward this report far and wide, post it on facebook. .
This stands in stark contrast to the original narrative the US, UK, France and other NATO members have used to accuse the Syrian government for the atrocities, and even as the basis to expel Syrian diplomats. As stated by UK Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, (emphasis added) "We are appalled at what appears to be credible reports that the Syrian regime has been responsible for the deaths of 92 civilians in Houla, including 32 children. The UN Head of Mission has been able to confirm the numbers and also that artillery tank shells have been used. If this is the case then it's an act of pure, naked savagery and we condemn it in the most strongest possible terms."
Clearly Burt was not reading credible reports, nor has he or his government made any credible attempts to retract their earlier accusations now confirmed to be fabrications. Instead, what the West has done, is distort each new piece of actual evidence that emerges, as the Syrian government and their Russian counterparts struggle to objectively ascertain what happened in Houla, Syria. An example of this comes from the Guardian, who contradicting its own earlier reports, began citing "witness" accounts admittedly provided by Syrian opposition leaders and seemingly custom-tailored to refute the latest evidence presented by Russia before the UN Security Council.
Thanks.
Other than Gaddafi’s “overblown rhetoric,” which the U.S. was quick to dismiss when it suited its purposes, there is to date still no evidence furnished that shows Benghazi would have witnessed the loss of “tens of thousands” of lives as proclaimed by Obama, Cameron, and Sarkozy. This was best explained by Professor Alan J. Kuperman in “False pretense for war in Libya?”:
“The best evidence that Khadafy did not plan genocide in Benghazi is that he did not perpetrate it in the other cities he had recaptured either fully or partially—including Zawiya, Misurata, and Ajdabiya, which together have a population greater than Benghazi….Khadafy’s acts were a far cry from Rwanda, Darfur, Congo, Bosnia, and other killing fields….Despite ubiquitous cellphones equipped with cameras and video, there is no graphic evidence of deliberate massacre….Nor did Khadafy ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi, as Obama alleged. The ‘no mercy’ warning, of March 17, targeted rebels only, as reported by The New York Times, which noted that Libya’s leader promised amnesty for those ‘who throw their weapons away’. Khadafy even offered the rebels an escape route and open border to Egypt, to avoid a fight ‘to the bitter end’”.
October 26, 2011 _- Washington, DC. 27 October (Asiantribune) -- Libyan Leader Muammar Qaddafi was traveling under a negotiated “White Flag” truce last Thursday in an agreement to leave Libya. More claims from sources inside Misrata, Libya that the Libyan National Transitional Council did in fact agree to allow Qaddafi and his convoy safe passage out of Libya.
In addition rebel sources in Misrata claim US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was informed of the “White Flag” truce negotiated and agreed to by Libya’s NTC while visiting Libya Wednesday October 19.
A widely read Internet blog site Larry Sinclair.org reveals the above information noting that the site received them from reliable sources inside Libya.
The question now emerge is whether Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama engage in the firing on a White Flag convoy with the intent to assist in the capture and murder of Libyan Leader Muammar Qaddafi?
The web site Larry Sinclair.org further reports: “It is our opinion that the information received from our sources inside Libya is factual. It has also been reported that journalists were not immediately allowed to report from the site of the US Drone attack on Qaddafi’s convoy until the rebels had the opportunity to dispose of any remaining evidence of the “White Flags” which were clearly connected to the convoy vehicles.”
Which should not be surprising considering the "The Highway Of Death":
http://www.countercurrents.org/lagauche280210.htm
"If the Libyan war was about saving lives, it was a catastrophic failure
Nato claimed it would protect civilians in Libya, but delivered far more killing. It's a warning to the Arab world and Africa"
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David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy won the authorisation to use "all necessary means" from the UN security council in March on the basis that Gaddafi's forces were about to commit a Srebrenica-style massacre in Benghazi. Naturally we can never know what would have happened without Nato's intervention. But there is in fact no evidence – including from other rebel-held towns Gaddafi re-captured – to suggest he had either the capability or even the intention to carry out such an atrocity against an armed city of 700,000.
What is now known, however, is that while the death toll in Libya when Nato intervened was perhaps around 1,000-2,000 (judging by UN estimates), eight months later it is probably more than ten times that figure. Estimates of the numbers of dead over the last eight months – as Nato leaders vetoed ceasefires and negotiations – range from 10,000 up to 50,000. The National Transitional Council puts the losses at 30,000 dead and 50,000 wounded.
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It is quite clear that the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" based in London and receiving the entirety of their reports via "phone" & YouTube videos from Syria, is working in coordination with both US-funded NGOs and the British Foreign Minister. Considering that Hague similarly coddled Libyan opposition leaders in London while playing a key role in promoting the NATO attack on Libya and the subsequent installation of a BP oilman as "prime minister," Abdelrahman's consorting signifies a verbatim repeat of the now openly fraudulent and genocidal NATO campaign in Libya.
Just as in Libya, where "human rights activists" have now admitted to fabricating the evidence used by the International Criminal Court and the United Nations to rubber stamp Wall Street and London's designs for regime change, likewise the "evidence" from Syria has turned out to be a complete fraud, derived by opposition "witnesses" and compiled by a corporate D.C. think-tank director into a UN "human rights report."
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"When the over 160 monitors, after one month of enquiries, issued their report … surprise! The report did not follow the official GCC line – which is that the “evil” Bashar al-Assad government is indiscriminately, and unilaterally, killing its own people, and so regime change is in order.
The Arab League’s Ministerial Committee had approved the report, with four votes in favor (Algeria, Egypt, Sudan and GCC member Oman) and only one against; guess who, Qatar – which is now presiding the Arab League because the emirate bought their (rotating) turn from the Palestinian Authority.
So the report was either ignored (by Western corporate media) or mercilessly destroyed – by Arab media, virtually all of it financed by either the House of Saud or Qatar. It was not even discussed – because it was prevented by the GCC from being translated from Arabic into English and published in the Arab League’s website.
Until it was leaked.
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/Report_of_Arab_League_Observer_Mission.pdf
The report is adamant. There was no organized, lethal repression by the Syrian government against peaceful protesters. Instead, the report points to shady armed gangs as responsible for hundreds of deaths among Syrian civilians, and over one thousand among the Syrian army, using lethal tactics such as bombing of civilian buses, bombing of trains carrying diesel oil, bombing of police buses and bombing of bridges and pipelines."
www.voltairenet.org/France-s-secret-war-against-the
"During the assault on the rebel stronghold in the Homs district of Bab Amr, the Syrian army took more than 1,500 prisoners, mostly foreigners. Of these, a dozen French nationals requested the status of prisoner of war, refusing to give their identity, rank and unit of assignment. One of them is a Colonel working for the DGSE transmission service.
In arming the Wahhabi Legion and feeding it with satellite intelligence, France conducted a secret war against the Syrian army, which caused more than 3,000 deaths among the military, and more than 1,500 among civilians in ten months of fighting."
Also interesting: www.voltairenet.org/Alain-Juppe-accused-by-his-own
"On 19 March 2012, a high French official invited Arab journalists based in Paris to inform them of the internal battle being waged within the French government and, in particular, the Quai d’Orsay [the French Foreign Ministry] regarding Syria. According to this person, the French Ambassador in Damascus, Eric Chevallier, whose embassy had just been shut down and who had returned to Paris, challenged Minister Juppé in front of his colleagues. He accused Alain Juppé of having ignored his embassy reports and of having falsified summaries of them to provoke a war against Syria."
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/06/save-syria-demand-end-to-supporting.html
1991: Paul Wolfowitz, then Undersecretary of Defense, tells US Army General Wesley Clark that the US has 5-10 years to "clean up those old Soviet client regimes, Syria, Iran, Iraq, before the next great superpower comes on to challenge us." Fora.TV: Wesley Clark at the Commonwealth Club of California, October 3, 2007.
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2012: With NATO's Libyan intervention resulting in a weak US-backed Tripoli client-regime, perpetual infighting, nationwide genocide, and the succession of Benghazi in the east, the NATO-backed Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), listed by the US State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (listed #27) begins mobilizing weapons, cash, and fighters to begin destabilizing Syria. Headed by LIFG's Abdul Hakim Belhaj, this would be the first confirmed presence of Al Qaeda in Syria, flush with NATO weapons and cash. The Washington Post would confirm, just as stated by Hersh in 2007, that the US and Saudi Arabia were arming the sectarian extremists, now labeled the "Free Syrian Army." The Post also admits that the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, as stated in Hersh's 2007 report, was also involved in arming and backing extremist fighters. Land Destroyer: "US Officially Arming Extremists in Syria," May 16, 2012.
A few days have passed since the BBC irresponsibly passed off this 2003 picture of dead Iraqis as depicting dead Syrians in last week’s Houla massacre. The original photographer, who works for Getty Images, said “Someone is using someone else’s picture for propaganda on purpose.”
http://www.infowars.com/syria-danny-caught-staging-cnn-war-propaganda-stunt/
‘Syria Danny’ Caught Staging CNN War Propaganda Stunt
Footage appears to show “activist” coordinating fake gunfire
Astounding footage has emerged of ‘Syria Danny’ – the dubious “activist” who appears on mainstream news every week begging for a US or Israeli military invasion – in which he apparently coordinates gunfire and explosions to be staged during his interview with CNN.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13744980
Syria Gay Girl in Damascus blog a hoax by US man
A blog purportedly written by a gay woman in Syria, which described life in Damascas amid the current political unrest, has been revealed to be a hoax.
This is a civil war, as in many nations including the USA is bloody, killing many and in the end unlike the American Civil war where the federal government won, if the rebels in Syria win the streets will flow with blood and the only money fed into the wrecked nation will be for arms to fight more wars.
Today it is time for the iron lady to state the USA is out of supporting the Arab Spring and the blood it is causing and telling the people of Syria that they are in a fight for their lives and future and to support the more moderate of the two factions and that is for all of the media lies the Syrian government.