Western media currently has a former Syrian Cosmonaut, who is teaching about the "murders of the Assad regime" in Turkish universities, while Al-Qaeda and ISIS commit their crimes and oppress the people.
Were you talking about this clown:
Since joining the fight against Islamic State, Russia’s efforts in Syria have been repeatedly attacked by the Western mainstream media, which have published many unconfirmed reports employing scaremongering tactics.
The source in all the stories the story was identified as the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is run by one man – Rami Abdulrahman. Just recently, Abdulrahman said that the last time he had been in Syria was 15 years ago and that all the information for his reports is taken from “some of the Observatory activists” who he knows
“through common friends.”
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One of the most widely cited ‘organizations’ in the Western media pertaining to the Syrian conflict is the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). As Tony Cartalucci astutely noted back in 2012, in his article:
West’s Syrian Narrative Based on “Guy in British Apartment”, the Western media portrays the SOHR as a group of impartial and highly skilled professionals who are based in Syria:
“One would believe this to be a giant sprawling organization with hundreds of members working hard on the ground, documenting evidence in Syria with photographs and video, while coordinating with foreign press to transparently and objectively “observe” the “human rights” conditions in Syria, as well as demonstrate their methodologies. Surely that is the impression the Western media attempts to relay to its readers.”
The
SOHR was founded in 2006 by the enigmaticRamiAbdulrahman (also spelled Abdurrahman, but his real name is Ossama Suleiman), who is also the director of the one-man group.
He is the only individual publicly listed as working for the SOHR, with even the
New York Times admitting in a 2013 article that the SOHR is “virtually a one-man band”.
Secondly,
Abdulrahman is not an impartial individual himself, and is starkly opposed to the Syrian government. He told
Reutersin 2012 that he would only return to Syria “when Bashar al-Assad goes”. (It should also be noted that when he was still living in Syria, Abdulrahman supposedly served three brief spells in a Syrian jail for what Reuters called “pro-democracy activism” – you can make of that what you wish).
Furthermore, the SOHR
casualty count for certain periods in the Syrian conflict often differs
from the figures calculated by specialists from around the world.
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