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Notable how journalists who for years were at the forefront of pushing #Syria rebel narratives and smearing those who had the courage to question them, are now belatedly coming clean eg re #Douma, fearing perhaps the truth will soon emerge and leave their reputations in tatterspic.twitter.com/EAfgK9O2WM
Here is an example of how BBC's Riam Dalati, along with so many in US UK media, saw it as their role to smear those who raised legitimate questions suggesting for example that #Syria chemical attack scenes eg Douma may have been staged. Now, Dalati (see above) admits it was truepic.twitter.com/OIV2HFgoCs
1/2 Important to note that Dalati #Douma revelation likely isn’t some mea culpa, but the start of a damage limitation process by preempting perhaps imminent @OPCW report, the likely inconvenient findings of which BBC & UK govt by now almost certainly awarehttps://twitter.com/shoebridgec/status/1095825075591397376 …
2/2 Dalati seems to have sat on the staging revelation for months, and BBC still isn’t reporting it. Why? In those months UK US etc have been attempting to influence the OPCW report, and BBC & UK govt likely don’t want to unnecessarily reveal findings that may still be removed.
Thank you Charles.
A little too late. The damage is done & Douma will continue to be cited as fact by hawks regardless. Also don't expect an apology to be issued to the "Assadists".
Wasn't aware of this as he still has me blocked.
I was blocked by him as a 'conspiracy theorist' long ago too, but his tweets today were brought to my attention by someone who hasn't been. If you log out of twitter you can see his tweets, which is how the screenshots were obtained.
#criminal #groupthink
Foreign Policy among NATO allied nations: tends to go from
plausible deniability to obfuscation or just denial.
If your heart & mind is not in the right place, why go so far as trying
to win others hearts & minds?
The cognitive dissonance is solely theirs.
As Patrick Cockburn commented in respect of #Syria in his report soon after the battle of Aleppo here: Not since the First World War has US UK media been so dominated by the propaganda of just one side. And of course, that was the US UK backed rebel side..https://twitter.com/shoebridgec/status/826576762653925377 …
Riam Dalati blocked me before I ever saw that smearing, so I won't see if he apologises either. (It would be a decent thing on his part to unblock and do so.) More important, though, is his willingness to be honest about the staging.
A belated honesty that he appears even in his own tweet to admit he's sat on for six months. Some might think it suspicious that the 'honesty' only emerges after Harkin's report, and perhaps just before the OPCW report makes continued denial unsustainablehttps://twitter.com/ShoebridgeC/status/1095785601226420231 …
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