Syria Analysis: Russia’s Propaganda Over “Rebel Chemical Attack” in Aleppo

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RT caused further confusion — perhaps deliberately — by mixing up the Aleppo claim with the Assad regime’s chlorine attack on Saraqeb in Idlib Province on Monday.

RT’s package headlines “two chemical attacks in Syria in the past few days” and puts up a map identifying both Aleppo and Saraqeb. However, the report and interview with a correspondent never mentions that the Assad regime’s helicopters carried out the Saraqeb attack, leaving viewers with the impression that rebels were responsible.
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In late April, Russia and the regime claimed that rebels had deliberately struck a hospital in western Aleppo city, killing three people, with rockets. The assertion came after weeks of reports of Russian-regime airstrikes destroying medical facilities, and days after an attack on the al-Quds Hospital in eastern Aleppo city which killed 55 staff, patients, and visitors. However, dissection of the photographs and video used by Russia and the regime did not point to a rebel rocket as the cause of the explosion.
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Those issues will not deter Russia, of course. Instead, Moscow is already putting out another propaganda message, claiming that rebels are preventing civilians from using “humanitarian corridors” — the existence of which is suspect — to leave eastern Aleppo city. Meanwhile, RT is featuring its journalist’s questioning of State Department spokesman Mark Toner about the supposed “toxic gases” in western Aleppo city with the headline, “Are Chemical Attacks Enough for US to Pull Aid from ‘Moderate’ Rebels?”

And — even if close critique of the claims raises suspicions — Russia can claim success, at least in muddying the situation to divert attention from Russian-regime airstrikes. Instead of focusing on the Saraqeb incident on Wednesday, CNN put out the neutral “Reports of Chemical Gas Attacks in 2 Syrian Cities”.

Read more http://eaworldview.com/2016/08/syria-feature-russias-propaganda-over-rebel-chemical-attack-in-aleppo/

[DetlefK]

1. RT's reporting is so slanted, it cannot be anything but propaganda.

From "clinically insane" US-generals running the Pentagon, to misreporting hooligan-brawls at the EM2016 that would make Russia look bad, to citing Trump's family's denials as evidence that it wasn't russian hackers that stole the DNC-emails...

If you want to read only half of the story, go to RT.