No White Helmets... but back to bombed hospitals and clueless Russkies using open radio channels Archived Message Posted by margo on October 15, 2019, 12:06 pm, in reply to "Casualties in Syria, where are the White Helmets?" Watching mainstream journalists implode over this story is priceless. Cognitive dissonance must have many journalists reaching for headache pills. There's still fightback but it's increasingly obvious and desperate. Fascinating phenomenon accompanying the Turkish invasion of Syria has been watching the reaction of western journalists - who once shilled for the 'moderate' ISIS and Al Qaeda 'rebels' - now having to condemn the very people they once championed. Signs of desperation include a hysterical fall-back into the old "Putin and Assad bomb scores of hospitals"-type story in the NYT, Guardian et al New York Times Headline: 12 Hours. 4 Syrian Hospitals Bombed. One Culprit: Russia. LINK https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/russia-bombing-syrian-hospitals.html This story has been swiftly addressed by Russians: Previous Message Hospital Allegedly 'Destroyed' in Syria is in Fact Well-Protected Terrorist Bunker - Russian MoD THE New York Times previously claimed that the Russian Air Forces had bombed several hospitals in Syria back in May. The newspaper said that local journalists had filmed the bombing and proved the incident via a radio recording of a ground controller giving the coordinates of the facility to the pilots. The Russian Ministry of Defence stated on Monday that the "bomb-destroyed" hospital in Syria mentioned in the NYT reports was actually a terrorist base in a cave, adding that 80 journalists saw it. "They [the journalists] saw what is actually located in such caves, or rather in well-protected terrorist bunkers with their own eyes: huge stockpiles of weapons and ammunition, including those made in the West, prisons, niches for sheltering tanks, gas masks", he said, noting that the report came after several media outlets published articles revealing details about these kinds of facilities in Idlib. The Russian military representative pointed out that "the hospital for civilians" was located in an area far from settlements in an "isolated cave", where medics couldn't have upheld any standards for treating injured people. According to Gen. Major Igor Konashenkov, the media fell for another disinformation stunt, propagated by the British intelligence services, masked as news from "activists". He also dismissed claims about "eavesdropped" dialogue between pilots and ground controllers, stressing that the military does not use open radio channels to transmit coordinates. The official was addressing the NYT articles from 13 October, which claimed that "the Russian Air Force has repeatedly bombed hospitals in Syria in order to crush the last pockets of resistance to President Bashar al-Assad". LINK https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201910141077044663-hospital-allegedly-destroyed-by-syria-is-in-fact-well-protected-terrorist-bunker---russian-mod/ Message Thread: Casualties in Syria, where are the White Helmets? - margo October 15, 2019, 11:41 am No White Helmets... but back to bombed hospitals and clueless Russkies using open radio channels - margo October 15, 2019, 12:06 pm Re: Casualties in Syria, where are the White Helmets? - margo October 15, 2019, 12:25 pm Re: Casualties in Syria, where are the White Helmets? - Raskolnikov October 15, 2019, 1:17 pm Warning; Graphic report - Poster123 October 15, 2019, 1:38 pm Some good news from Syria MoA - Tomski October 15, 2019, 2:30 pm Re: Casualties in Syria, where are the White Helmets? - Mary October 15, 2019, 7:20 pm Hamish's letter to the Times - Mary October 15, 2019, 8:03 pm How's his funding?....nm - Keith-264 October 15, 2019, 8:14 pm the link between Hallam, Hamish & WH pinned by your link below to medical charities - cheers nm - CJ October 17, 2019, 2:56 pm   Searching