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2018-10-31 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia: White Helmets begin filming fake chemical attack in Syria
[PRESSTV] Russia says it has received information showing that a Western-backed so-called aid group is preparing to stage a false flag chemical attack in the northwestern Syrian province of Aleppo to incriminate Damascus.

The Defense Ministry said the "White Helmets," which according to Moscow and Damascus cooperate with Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist groups in the Arab country, have already started the filming process for the attack, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported on Monday.

"The Russian center for reconciliation [in Syria] received information from residents of Aleppo that they are preparing another provocation with the use of toxic agents to accuse the government forces of using chemical weapons against the local population," said Lt. Gen. Vladimir Savchenko, the head of the center, according to the ministry.

They arrived in Aleppo from the neighboring Province of Idlib, bringing along containers holding toxic agents, he added.

The group, the official said, sought to stage artillery shellfire with the containers and also meant to provoke the Syrian military to retaliate.

The White Helmets group, projected by the West as "civil defense workers," was founded by former British Army officer James Le Mesurier in 2014. The self-styled volunteer rescue group has been repeatedly accused of acting as the media arm for Takfiri groups, and charged with staging false flag chemical attacks in a bid to prompt Western military intervention in Syria.

In April, the United States, La Belle France, and Britannia launched missile strikes against multiple targets around Syria after alleging that "video evidence" provided by the White Helmets had pointed to an earlier chemical attack in the city of Douma in the Arab country’s southwest.

Subsequent investigations showed the video had been fake.

Earlier in the year, Israel transported several hundred members of the group from southwestern Syria to Jordan overnight at the request of the US and European countries, as Damascus was preparing to launch counter-terrorism operations in those areas.

Posted by Fred 2018-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Syria 

#1 Again, CNN?
Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-31 04:22||   2018-10-31 04:22|| Front Page Top

#2 They bringing out Green Helmet guy too?

Gotta bring in the old pros for verisimilitude.
Posted by AlanC 2018-10-31 09:44||   2018-10-31 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Given drone technology, spy satellite resolution, human sources with cameras, etc., I suspect it won't be long before they give us the footage. Or keep the footage for comparison to whatever footage of the attack is released.
Posted by gorb 2018-10-31 16:12||   2018-10-31 16:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Or keep the footage to train the Blue Helmets.

It's a rainbow collision!
Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-31 16:33||   2018-10-31 16:33|| Front Page Top

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