Syrian Protesters In Homs (UPDATED): The Government killed And Mutilated Three Of His Own In Order To Incite Sectarian Strife!

This kind of crazy propaganda from Syrian protesters reporting to western news outlets has been going on for long now. Giving credence to such statements is like giving credence to the saying that the US government was behind 9/11 in order to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. And giving credence to these statements from the Syrian revolution 2011 is like giving credence to the Syrian regime explaining that the bloodshed in Syria is done exclusively by protesters who want to accuse the regime of the bloodshed! So either we believe all three possibilities or we reject them alltogether! Any other alternative is like picking and choosing what we want to believe in without further evidence.

On Sunday, residents of Homs, Syria’s second-largest city, discovered the bodies of three Alawites mutilated and dumped in a deserted area, according to Omar Idlibi of the Local Coordination Committees, a group that helps organize and document protests. All three were armed government loyalists, he said.

News of the deaths enraged other Alawites, who went on a rampage, according to residents and activists. Three people were killed, including a mother of three, and scores of shops owned by Sunnis were burned and vandalized, Mr. Idlibi said.

“The reaction was so violent and quick that we suspect the regime had a hand in the killings,” Mr. Idlibi said.

For how long will they be lying about the blood on their hands? And for how long western media are going to give credence to these lies by publishing them?

UPDATE:

A letter on the sectarianism of the protesters

It seems that the main feature of the Syrian revolution 2011 is the alliance between western (US) funded Syrian exiles and salafis, the former using the latter as proxies in their attemtp to topple the Assad regime, but ultimately salafis also will use exiles. Here is a facebook page for the Homs revolution: on the upper right band they have a sourate in Arabic, it says: 'Paradise exists in the shadow of the sword' (attention, islamist facebook pages of the Syrian revolution in english or other non arabic languages do not show material that can offend western readers).
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Iraq: A Broken Country

Look at these people, do they seem happy and liberated?

The irony in this picture gallery is that it is published by The New York Times who happily trumpeted the war on Iraq, remember Judy Miller?

You can read here an excellent article from Alain Gresh on Iraq seven years post US invasion.

Also, from Al-Jazeera: The US between two wars.

Marek Edelman, commander in Warsaw ghetto, dies at 90

I read the article from the New York Times this morning and was moved by the story of this man. However, when talking with my husband about him he mentioned that Edelman was known for his anti-zionism. I was surprised that in the NYT article there was no word about the issue. Edelman was a long time member and militant in the general Jewish Labour Union 'Bund' known for their anti-zionism. Edelman himself was anti-zionist and that put him at odds with some of his ghetto anti-Nazi militants who later immigrated to Israel.
In Haaretz for example, most of the story was about Edelman's disconnection from Zionism.

However, zionism and anti-zionism aside, this was a courageous man with a clear cut moral stamina that forces our admiration.

Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question

From The New York Times. Another Time, another president, another NYT rethoric. Now that the new coming adminsitration is willing to talk before it strikes, the news will follow. Note that the NYT coverage of the war in Goergia has changed in a matter of less than two months.