Russia Today Airs Dubious Video Of Syria Chemical Attack Claiming To Show Rebels Using Sarin Gas From Brown Moses Blog -- Huffington Post
A Russian news outlet has aired a series of videos purporting to show Syrian rebels using sarin gas in the Aug. 21 chemical attack. Problem is, nobody can seem to verify their legitimacy.
The footage was posted online on Monday by Brown Moses, a blogger who covers the Syria crisis from an arms trade and weapons-specific perspective. In the videos, which were supposedly retrieved from the mobile phone of a rebel killed on the Kurdish border, fighters claiming to be part of opposition group Liwa al-Islam appear to fire what Moses calls "unusual munitions," ostensibly the chemical weapons the UN has concluded were used in the attack outside Damascus. However, in the same post, Moses points to several elements of the videos that call into question their credibility: the low quality of the footage, the odd darkness despite the fact that the night of the attack was a full moon, and the propagandistic nature of the content.
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My Comment: More skepticism on this RT report is here. For the other side .... The Syrian Free Press is pushing a different story. What's my take .... I am skeptical of everyone and everything when it comes to Syria right now. Everyone is pushing an agenda .... and it is now best that when it comes to Syria everyone should question everything that comes out from the media.
WNU Editor: Hat Tip to reader Luis for this lead.
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