Latest Syria "Massacre" – Goebbelsesque Propaganda
BBC even went as far as literally admitting , after offering up another "Houla-style" narrative, that (emphasis added): …later, activists told the AFP news agency that rebel fighters had attacked an army convoy, but were beaten back and many were killed in a counter-attack. "At this stage, though we do not yet have the final count, the number of civilians killed by shelling is not more than seven," said Jaafar, an activist from the anti-regime Sham News Network. "The rest were members of the Free Syrian Army." So despite even the "activists" themselves admitting they attacked the Syrian military first and simply lost the subsequent battle which appears to have led back to their base of operations in Tremseh, the Western media decided to spin it as a calculated, mass murder of civilians, as the Guardian puts it , "timed" for "boosting morale of Assad’s armed supporters and scuppering attempts to find a political solution,"Â quoting a member of the overtly Western-backed "Syrian National Council" (SNC)