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In
a few days, perhaps as early as Friday, June 15, at noon, the Syrians wanting
to watch their national TV stations will see them replaced on their screens by
TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are
blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals
resigning from their posts, President Al-Assad fleeing, the rebels gathering in
the big city centres, and a new government installing itself in the
presidential palace.
This
operation of disinformation, directly managed from Washington by Ben Rhodes,
the USZ deputy national security adviser for strategic communication, aims at
demoralizing the Syrians in order to pave the way for a coup d’etat. NATO,
discontent about the double veto of Russia and China, will thus succeed in
conquering Syria without attacking the country illegally. Whichever judgment
you might have formed on the actual events in Syria, a coup d’etat will end all
hopes of democratization.
The
Arab League has officially asked the satellite operators Arabsat and Nilesat to
stop broadcasting Syrian media, either public or private (Syria TV,
Al-Ekbariya, Ad-Dounia, Cham TV, etc.) A precedent already exists because the
Arab League had managed to censure Libyan TV in order to keep the leaders of
the Jamahiriya from communicating with their people. There is no Hertz network
in Syria, where TV works exclusively with satellites. The cut, however, will
not leave the screens black.
Actually,
this public decision is only the tip of the iceberg. According to our
information several international meetings were organized during the past week
to coordinate the disinformation campaign. The first two were technical
meetings, held in Doha (Qatar); the third was a political meeting and took
place in Riyad (Saudi Arabia).
The
first meeting assembled PSYOP officers, embedded in the satellite TV channels
of Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Fox, France 24, Future TV and MTV. It is
known that since 1998, the officers of the USZ Army Psychological Operations
Unit (PSYOP) have been incorporated in CNN. Since then this practice has been
extended by NATO to other strategic media as well.
They
fabricated false information in advance, on the basis of a “story-telling”
script devised by Ben Rhodes’s team at the White House. A procedure of
reciprocal validation was installed, with each media quoting the lies of the
other media to render them plausible for TV spectators. The participants also
decided not only to requisition the TV channels of the CIA for Syria and
Lebanon (Barada, Future TV, MTV, Orient News, Syria Chaab, Syria Alghad) but
also about 40 religious Wahhabi TV channels to call for confessional massacres
to the cry of “Christians to Beyrouth, Alawites into the grave!.”
The
second meeting was held for engineers and technicians to fabricate fictitious
images, mixing one part in an outdoor studio, the other part with computer
generated images. During the past weeks, studios in Saudi Arabia have been set
up to build replicas of the two presidential palaces in Syria and the main
squares of Damascus, Aleppo and Homs. Studios of this type already exist in
Doha (Qatar), but they are not sufficient.
The
third meeting was held by General James B. Smith, the USZ Zionist ambassador, a
representative of the UK, prince Bandar Bin Sultan (whom former U.S. president
George Bush named his adopted son so that the U.S. press called him “Bandar
Bush”). In this meeting the media actions were coordinated with those of the
Free “Syrian” Army, in which prince Bandar’s mercenaries play a decisive role.
The
operation had been in the making for several months, but the U.S. National
Security Council decided to accelerate the action after the Russian President,
Vladimir Putin, notified the White House that he would oppose by all means,
even by force, any illegal NATO military intervention in Syria.
The
operation has a double intent: the first is to spread false information, the
second aims at censuring all possible responses.
The
hampering of TV satellites for military purposes is not new. Under pressure
from Israel, the USZ and the EU blocked Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi, Libyan
and Iranian TV channels, one after the other. However, no satellite channels
from other parts of the world were censured.
The
broadcast of false news is also not new, but four significant steps have been
taken in the art of propaganda during the last decade.
•
In 1994, a pop music station named “Free Radio of the Thousand Hills” (RTML)
gave the signal for genocide in Rwanda with the cry, “Kill the cockroaches!
•
In 2001, NATO used the media to impose an interpretation of the 9/11 attacks
and to justify its own aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq. At that time
already, it was Ben Rhodes who had been commissioned by the Bush administration
to concoct the Kean/Hamilton Commission report on the attacks.
•
In 2002, the CIA used five TV channels (Televen, Globovision, ValeTV and CMT)
to make the public in Venezuela believe that phantom demonstrators had captured
the elected president, Hugo Chávez, forcing him to resign. In reality he was
the victim of a military coup d’etat.
•
In 2011, France 24 served as information ministry for the Libyan CNT, according
to a signed contract. During the battle of Tripoli, NATO produced fake studio
films, then transmitted them via Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, showing phantom
images of Libyan rebels on the central square of the capital city, while in
reality they were still far away. As a consequence, the inhabitants of Tripoli
were persuaded that the war was lost and gave up all resistance.
Nowadays
the media do not only support a war, they produce it themselves.
This
procedure violates the principles of International Law, first of all Article 19
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relating to the fact of receiving
and imparting information and ideas through any media and regardless of
frontiers.” Above all, the procedure violates the United Nations General
Assembly resolution, adopted after the end of World War II, to prevent further
wars. Resolutions 110, 381 and 819 forbid “to set obstacles to free exchange of
information and ideas” (like cutting off Syrian TV channels) and “all
propaganda provoking or encouraging threats to peace, breaking peace, and all
acts of aggression”. By law, war propaganda is a crime against peace, the worst
of crimes, because it facilitates war crimes and genocide.
(War is crime)
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