BBC’s upcoming White Helmets ‘documentary’ gears as much as be a personality assassination of those that problem Syria conflict narratives

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The BBC is making ready an assault in opposition to journalists, former diplomats, lecturers and scientists who problem the dominant pro-war narratives in opposition to Syria underpinned by the pseudo-humanitarian White Helmets.

The British public broadcaster has despatched out requests for feedback to those that have dared to reveal the position the UK authorities and its intelligence companies have performed within the destabilization of Syria, which look extra like neo-McCarthyist cost sheets. The producer of an upcoming Radio four documentary collection had been in electronic mail and phone dialog with the creator of this text, in addition to Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria, and members of the Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda (WGSMP) since June 2020. The results of these conversations, throughout which the proof emanating from severe scientific analysis and on-the-ground testimony was introduced to the producer, was a well-recognized record of accusations of “conspiracy theorism” and solutions of “incentivized” Russian or Syrian bias.

Fellow unbiased journalist Eva Bartlett has spent lengthy durations of time inside Syria, reporting from lots of the most high-risk areas in the course of the Syrian Arab Military allied campaigns to liberate swathes of Syrian territory from the US coalition-proxy occupation. She had this to say concerning the electronic mail she acquired a number of days in the past:

“The questions emailed to me by the BBC proof a predetermined intent to character assassination. This strategy exhibits an utter lack of journalistic integrity on the a part of the BBC.

The BBC’s hostile insinuations in opposition to me arrogantly infer that neither I nor the Syrians I interview assume for ourselves, however are puppets of the Syrian and Russian governments. My journalism dates again to 2007 and is kind of in depth, with 13 years of on the bottom expertise, from Palestine and Syria, to Venezuela and jap Ukraine, and elsewhere.

My focuses have been on giving voice to Syrians disappeared by company media, highlighting the terrorism they endured by terrorist teams which the West dubs “rebels,” and highlighting conflict propaganda by retailers such because the BBC.”

It was clear from the BBC’s line of questioning that this was not a real investigation into the life and occasions of White Helmets founder, and former British navy intelligence officer, James Le Mesurier. It’s successfully a harm limitation train designed to discredit the proof that factors to the White Helmets being a propaganda assemble with extremist connections funded by the US/UK coalition to vilify the Syrian authorities and allies, thus justifying navy intervention by proxy and aggression in opposition to a sovereign nation. The aggression contains financial sanctions which have devastated the Syrian financial system and brought on widespread poverty and meals insecurity among the many Syrian folks. 

The upcoming BBC programme – ‘Mayday’ – seems to be an try to whitewash British intelligence operations inside Syria. Operations that have been lately additional uncovered following the leak of alleged UK Overseas Workplace paperwork, reported by Grayzone, which detailed the extent to which the UK authorities offered media and PR help to the armed teams in Syria. These teams successfully embrace Al Qaeda and Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS) associates akin to Jaysh Al-Islam and Ahrar Al-Sham, who’re liable for the horrific bloodshed and devastation of infrastructure within the areas they invaded and occupied.

The UK and EU government-funded Mayday Rescue organisation was established by Le Mesurier to offer an middleman administration of the funds the UK authorities was offering to the White Helmets as they embedded themselves with armed teams in extremist-controlled areas all through Syria, extra lately completely in Idlib, the final remaining and “largest Al Qaeda haven since 9/11.” Le Mesurier died in November 2019 having fallen from the balcony of his Istanbul house which he shared together with his third spouse, Emma Winberg. Three days earlier than his dying, which was dominated a suicide, Le Mesurier had reportedly admitted to defrauding Mayday Rescue of funds offered by UK and European governments.

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It is usually value a reminder that the Dutch authorities had withdrawn funding from Mayday Rescue in 2018 following an in depth investigation that had concluded an absence of assurances that funds weren’t being hijacked by the armed teams in Syria, together with Al Qaeda. 

The BBC pins its arguments on the view that the White Helmets are a “humanitarian” organisation – an Oscar-winning phantasm that has been dismantled by a number of the most acclaimed unbiased journalists and researchers of our time, together with Cory Morningstar, Rick Sterling, Eva Bartlett, Stephen Kinzer, Robert Parry, John Pilger, Gareth Porter, Ray McGovern, Phillip Giraldi, Craig Murray and former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, to call only a few. 

The previous UK ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, additionally acquired the BBC invoice of indictment and he issued this assertion in response: 

“The BBC have systematically tried to suppress views on Syria which run counter to the usual one-sided narrative. This programme’s efforts to smear dissenters takes BBC conduct to a brand new low. By alleging conspiracy theorising the place there’s solely evidence-based reporting and evaluation, the BBC is displaying its frustration at being unable to stifle truth-telling. 

The one conspiracy right here is no matter coordination has taken place between the BBC and British authorities liable for failing to attain regime change in Syria regardless of throwing many hundreds of thousands of taxpayer cash on the effort. Why is the BBC not drawing consideration to the most important failure of British overseas coverage since Suez, as judged by its self-proclaimed goal of eradicating Assad, relatively than busying itself with making an attempt to take down unsupported particular person dissenters who’ve ranged in opposition to them the huge wealth and assets of the institution?

The cost of largest failure since Suez as judged by its personal goal of regime change is stinging as a result of palpably true, and can with luck get some play within the observe up. It is an angle that has been largely misplaced within the welter of element.”

On October 5, the US and UK envoys to the UN Safety Council (UNSC) led the marketing campaign to ban the previous Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) director common, Jose Bustani, from briefing the united states assembly presided over by Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia. Nebenzia accused the US/UK-led truth-suppressors of bringing the united states into disrepute. One week later, the BBC, a de facto UK-state-media outlet, kicked off its assault on the people liable for highlighting the corruption of the OPCW and the fraud that was the ultimate report on the alleged Douma chemical assault in April 2018.

One member of the WGSMP, Paul McKeigue, has printed his conversations with the producer. Concerning the Douma incident, McKeigue informs us that “a reader of this correspondence might fairly conclude that [..]Raed Saleh (White Helmets chief) has one thing to cover, and additional that [the BBC producer] is, for some cause, colluding with him by serving to him to keep away from having to reply” to questions relating to the whereabouts of the our bodies of the alleged chemical weapon assault victims. A part of my response to the BBC additionally alludes to the obvious suppression of proof:

“A BBC producer, Riam Dalati, has acknowledged publicly that the Douma hospital scenes, the location of the alleged chemical weapon assault in Syria, 2018, have been staged. As has been identified repeatedly to Riam Dalati and the BBC, if the hospital scenes at Douma have been staged so too have been the movies of the deceased within the Douma condominium block. The BBC have by no means reported this data, nor has it handed the knowledge obtained by its producer to both the OPCW FFM or the IIT. It’s extraordinary and fully unjustifiable that the BBC ought to be withholding this important data from a UN linked organisation.”

Dr. Piers Robinson, the co-founder of the WGSMP, accused the BBC of suppressing fact: 

“The BBC can be making an attempt to smear lecturers researching alleged chemical weapons assaults in Syria as ‘conspiracy theorists’, regardless that their work has been supported by the main chemical and organic weapons knowledgeable the late Julian Perry Robinson and vindicated by whistleblowers and leaks from the OPCW itself. The BBC just isn’t partaking in journalism however relatively suppression of the reality.” 

In conclusion, the BBC just isn’t an trustworthy dealer. Our work as journalists and researchers is to mine for the reality. The BBC’s output, particularly as regards to overseas affairs, is produced in lock-step with UK overseas coverage aims. Within the context of the conflict in opposition to Syria, this has resulted in a sample of omission and censorship that has underpinned UK FCO efforts to foment battle inside Syria and to overthrow the internationally recognised Syrian authorities.

The outcome has been an unlawful conflict that has brought on dying and struggling for hundreds of thousands of Syrian folks. Concerning the UK/US intelligence-incubated, Al Qaeda-linked, White Helmets, the BBC may very well be thought of complicit in manufacturing consent for an additional “humanitarian conflict” by their lack of “rigorous journalism” and omission of the info surrounding this UK state-client-propaganda-manufacturer. Simply because the BBC defended the WMD “dodgy file” that decimated Iraq and led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, we now see the BBC rallying across the chemical weapon “dodgy file” that has enabled the prolongation of the barbaric conflict in opposition to the Syrian folks.

Editor’s word: RT has reached out to the BBC producer for touch upon points raised in Vanessa’s article. A BBC spokesperson gave this response:

“The BBC’s journalism is rigorous, unbiased and neutral, and that might be evident to anybody who listens to this new collection.”

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