The
Syrian people are suffering under the ‘moderate rebels’ and
‘opposition forces’ backed by the US, NATO member states and
their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. Yet their suffering is
largely ignored in the mainstream media unless it furthers the agenda
dictated by the State Department.
This
article is the first in a two-part series of one Western journalist’s
journey to Aleppo, a city ravaged by an insurgency supported by the
United States, NATO member states, and their allies in the Gulf
states and Israel. In Part I, Vanessa Beeley lays out the mainstream
narrative on Syria, revealing a neoconservative agenda promoted by
NATO-funded NGOs. These NGOs paint the destruction of the historic
city as being caused by the Syrian government under Bashar Assad, not
the violent armed insurgents which receive arms, funding and training
from Western governments and their allies.
Aleppo
has become synonymous with destruction and “Syrian state-generated”
violence among those whose perception of the situation in the
war-torn nation is contained within the prism of mainstream media
narratives.
The
NATO-aligned media maintains a tight grip on information coming out
of this beleaguered city, ensuring that whatever comes out is
tailored to meet State Department requirements and advocacy for
regime change. The propaganda mill churns out familiar tales of
chemical weapons, siege, starvation and bombs targeting civilians–all
of which are attributed to the Syrian government and military, with
little variation on this theme.
The
purpose of this photo essay and my journey to Aleppo on Aug. 14 was
to discover for myself as a Western journalist the truth behind the
major storylines in the U.S. and NATO narrative on Syria.
Passing
the former Aleppo Central Prison
We passed
the former Aleppo Central Prison, where the Ahrar al-Sham coalition,
Daesh, and their associates staged a prolonged siege, holding SAA
soldiers trapped inside from April 2013 to May 2014. According to a
revelatory Al-Akhbar article written after the liberation of the
prison by SAA forces attacking from outside, there were two main
reasons for the siege:
“The
militants wanted to achieve two secondary goals: recruiting some
prisoners after ‘liberating’ them, and taking advantage of the
prison’s strategic location. That is in addition to the main goal
of freeing dozens of Islamist prisoners, the majority of whom (61 to
be precise) belong to Jund al-Sham.”
It’s
another fact never mentioned by the media beating the drums of war
who are working in lockstep with the State Department to maintain the
“Assad must go,” “no-fly zone,” “boots on the ground”
narrative: Across Syria, the so-called “moderate rebels”
released prisoners–convicted rapists, murderers and other hardcore
criminals–in order to swell the ranks of their terrorist armies.
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