By any reckoning, the claim made this week by al-Qaeda-linked fighters that they were targeted with chemical weapons by the Syrian government in Idlib province their final holdout in Syria should have been treated by the western media with a high degree of scepticism. どう考えても、アルカイダ系過激派と繋がった 戦闘員が今週、シリアでの最後の砦である イドリブ県でシリア政府から化学兵器の標的 とされたという西側メディアの主張は、 高度な懐疑心を持って扱われるべきものであった。 (駐:アルカイダは悪いとかイスラム過激派は キチガイだと言いはるアメリカのメディアは なぜかアサド政権との問題になるとこれら アルカイダの主張を丸呑みして、連中が 『俺らはアサドにひどいことされたんだ』 というとそれを何故か厳しくチェックすることなく 鵜呑みにするという悪癖を持っている。 不思議なことではないか、アルカイダや イスラム過激派を普段は狂人あつかいしてるのに、 対シリアとなると急にそういうイスラム狂信者らは誠実な証人になる) That the US and other western governments enthusiastically picked up those claims should not have made them any more credible. 米国や他の西側諸国政府がその主張(反アサドの イスラム過激派、アルカイダなどの分派を指す) を熱心に取り上げたからと言って、信憑性が増すわけでもない。 Scepticism was all the more warranted from the media given that no physical evidence has yet been produced to corroborate the jihadists’ claims. And the media should have been warier still given that the Syrian government was already poised to defeat these al-Qaeda groups without resort to chemical weapons and without provoking the predictable ire (yet again) of the west. ジハード主義者の主張を裏付ける物的証拠がまだ 何も出ていないことを考えれば、メディアによる 懐疑はより正当なものとなる。そしてシリア政府は 優勢を誇っており化学兵器に頼ることなしに こうした過激派やアルカイダを倒すことが可能な 状態にあったこと、また西側諸国の予想通りの 怒りを買うことなく決着をつけることができる はずなのだから、メディアはもっと警戒すべき だったのだ。 But most of all scepticism was required because these latest claims arrive just as we have learnt that the last supposed major chemical attack which took place in April 2018 and was, as ever, blamed by all western sources on Syria’s president, Bashar Assad was very possibly staged, a false-flag operation by those very al-Qaeda groups now claiming the Syrian government has attacked them once again. しかし、何よりも懐疑的であることが必要だった。 というのも、この最新の主張は、前回大規模と された化学兵器攻撃(2018年4月に発生し、これ までと同様に、すべての西側情報源によって シリア大統領のアサドに責任があるとされた)が、 非常に疑わしいもので、まさに今シリア政府が 再び攻撃したと主張するアルカイダグループによる 偽旗作戦だったと分かった矢先のものだったから である。 0113番組の途中ですがアフィサイトへの転載は禁止です (ブーイモ MMeb-SzIj)2021/12/15(水) 11:38:44.72ID:qAkb2dOYM Addicted to incompetence [無能ぶりにふける]
Most astounding in this week’s coverage of the claims made by al-Qaeda groups is the fact that the western media continues to refuse to learn any lessons, develop any critical distance from the sources it relies on, even as those sources are shown to have repeatedly deceived it. 今週のアルカイダグループの主張に関する報道で 最も驚かされたのは、西側メディアが、自分たちが 信頼する情報源が繰り返し騙されてきたことが 明らかになっても、そこから教訓を学び、批判的な 距離を置くことを拒否し続けているという事実 である。
This was true after the failure to find WMD in Iraq, and it is now even more true after the the international community’s monitoring body on chemical weapons, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), was exposed this month as deeply dishonest. イラクで大量破壊兵器が発見されなかったときも そうだったが、今月、国際社会の化学兵器監視機関 である化学兵器禁止機関(OPCW)が極めて不誠実 であることが明らかになったことで、さらにそう 言えるようになった。
It is bad enough that our governments and our expert institutions deceive and lie to us. But it is even worse that we have a corporate media addicted at the most charitable interpretation to its own incompetence. The evidence demonstrating that grows stronger by the day. 私たちの政府や専門機関が私たちを欺き、 嘘をつくことも十分に悪いことである。しかし、 市場メディアが、最も好意的に解釈すれば、自らの 無能さに病みつきになっていることは、さらに 悪いことだ。そのことを示す証拠は、日に日に 強くなっている。 0114番組の途中ですがアフィサイトへの転載は禁止です (ブーイモ MMeb-SzIj)2021/12/15(水) 11:39:53.21ID:qAkb2dOYM Unprovoked attack In March the OPCW produced a report into a chemical weapons attack the Syrian government allegedly carried out in Douma in April last year. Several dozen civilians, many of them children, died apparently as a result of that attack.
The OPCW report concluded that there were “reasonable grounds” for believing a toxic form of chlorine had been used as a chemical weapon in Douma, and that the most likely method of delivery were two cylinders dropped from the air.
This as good as confirmed claims made by al-Qaeda groups, backed by western states, that the cylinders had been dropped by the Syrian military. Using dry technical language, the OPCW joined the US and Europe in pointing the finger squarely at Assad.
It was vitally important that the OPCW reached that conclusion not only because of the west’s overarching regime-change ambitions in Syria.
In response to the alleged Douma attack a year ago, the US fired a volley of Cruise missiles at Syrian army and government positions before there had been any investigation of who was responsible.
Those missiles were already a war crime an unprovoked attack on another sovereign country. But without the OPCW’s implicit blessing, the US would have been deprived of even its flimsy, humanitarian pretext for launching the missiles.
Leaked document Undoubtedly the OPCW was under huge political pressure to arrive at the “right” conclusion. But as a scientific body carrying out a forensic investigation surely it would not simply doctor the data.
Nonetheless, it seems that may well be precisely what it did. This month the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media a group of academics who have grown increasingly sceptical of the western narratives told about Syria published an internal, leaked OPCW document.
A few fays later the OPCW reluctantly confirmed that the document was genuine, and that it would identify and deal with those responsible for the leak.
The document was an assessment overseen by Ian Henderson, a senior OPCW expert, of the engineering data gathered by the OPCW’s fact-finding mission that attended the scene of the Douma attack. Its findings fly in the face of the OPCW’s published report.
Erased from the record The leaked document is deeply troubling for two reasons.
First, the assessment, based on the available technical data, contradicts the conclusion of the final OPCW report that the two chemical cylinders were dropped from the air and crashed through building roofs. It argues instead that the cylinders were more likely placed at the locations they were found.
If that is right, the most probable explanation is that the cylinders were put there by al-Qaeda groups presumably in a last desperate effort to persuade the west to intervene and to prevent the jihadists being driven out of Douma.
But even more shocking is the fact that the expert assessment based on the data collected by the OPCW team is entirely unaddressed in the OPCW’s final report.
It is not that the final report discounts or rebuts the findings of its own experts. It simply ignores those findings; it pretends they don’t exist. The report blacks them out, erases them from the official record. In short, it perpetrates a massive deception. 0115番組の途中ですがアフィサイトへの転載は禁止です (ブーイモ MMeb-SzIj)2021/12/15(水) 11:40:32.38ID:qAkb2dOYM いわれのない攻撃 昨年4月にシリア政府がドゥーマで行ったとされる化学兵器攻撃について、OPCWは3月に報告書を作成した。この攻撃の結果、数十人の民間人(その多くは子ども)が死亡したとみられる。
>However bad Assad is, and he is a dictator, he is responsible for far fewer deaths and much less suffering in the Middle East than either George W Bush or Tony Blair.