Massive NATO Disinformation Campaign Will Feature Fake Coup in Syria

Remember the spectacle we were shown in October 2003: Iraqis eagerly pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein and celebrating the U.S. take-over of their country? There were no wide-angle shots, because the plaza was mainly empty. And the "Iraqis", numbering less than a hundred, had been bussed into Baghdad for the occasion.

Well, the special effects people are busy once again. This time, they are staging a coup in Syria. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Coast Countries have asked Arabsat and Nilesat to stop broadcasting all Syrian media, public and private. NATO will then fill the void with a deluge of anti-Syria propaganda. Syrians watching TV will see their government being overthrown. They will not be told that the "overthrow" actually occurred on a stage in Saudi Arabia.

The second meeting was held for engineers and technicians to fabricate fictitious images, mixing one part in an outdoor studio, the other part with computer generated images. During the past weeks, studios in Saudi Arabia have been set up to build replicas of the two presidential palaces in Syria and the main squares of Damascus, Aleppo and Homs. Studios of this type already exist in Doha (Qatar), but they are not sufficient.

-- Thierry Meyssan, "NATO preparing vast disinformation campaign", 11 Jun 2012

The NATO propaganda will explicitly target Christians and Alewites:

The first meeting assembled PSYOP officers, embedded in the satellite TV channels of Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Fox, France 24, Future TV and MTV. It is known that since 1998, the officers of the US Army Psychological Operations Unit (PSYOP) have been incorporated in CNN. Since then this practice has been extended by NATO to other strategic media as well.

They fabricated false information in advance, on the basis of a “story-telling” script devised by Ben Rhodes’s team at the White House. A procedure of reciprocal validation was installed, with each media quoting the lies of the other media to render them plausible for TV spectators. The participants also decided not only to requisition the TV channels of the CIA for Syria and Lebanon (Barada, Future TV, MTV, Orient News, Syria Chaab, Syria Alghad) but also about 40 religious Wahhabi TV channels to call for confessional massacres to the cry of “Christians to Beyrouth, Alawites into the grave!.”

-- Thierry Meyssan, "NATO preparing vast disinformation campaign", 11 Jun 2012

According to Thierry Meyssan, this assault on the media violates Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and also violates U.N Resolutions that ban war propaganda:

This procedure violates the principles of International Law, first of all Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relating to the fact of receiving and imparting information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” Above all, the procedure violates the United Nations General Assembly resolution, adopted after the end of World War II, to prevent further wars. Resolutions 110, 381 and 819 forbid “to set obstacles to free exchange of information and ideas” (like cutting off Syrian TV channels) and “all propaganda provoking or encouraging threats to peace, breaking peace, and all acts of aggression”. By law, war propaganda is a crime against peace, the worst of crimes, because it facilitates war crimes and genocide.

-- Thierry Meyssan, "NATO preparing vast disinformation campaign", 11 Jun 2012

Meyssan lists occasions in recent years where similar propaganda efforts were attempted. One instance he neglects to list is the 31 May 2010 assault on the Mavi Marmara. The Israeli pirates started by cutting the satellite link and seizing cell phones and cameras. Passengers were captured and held for three days incommunicado. In this way, Israel prevented the truth about the raid from getting out. The void was then filled with a propaganda video. Careful observers noticed that the ship in Israel's propaganda video more closely resembled the Mavi Marmara's sister ship. The pixels indicated that the video was actually filmed in daylight, then darkened using Photoshop. Of course, our masked media accepted the video at face value and never questioned its veracity.

Original post: 12 Jun 2012 16:30, Solutions