by: Monitor on Massacre Marketing

date: July 4, 2015

http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-baniyas-ambush-of-syrian-soldiers.html

Excerpt:
Indeed, defector and “desperate regime collapsing” claims in 2011 went well beyond this one case, including others like the alleged regime killing of over 100 rebelling soldiers in Jisr al-Shughour next to Turkey, weeks later. Do note, it’s shady too, with Islamist eye-gouging and a real FSA defector behind it that even the Turks  – if not the ruling ones – sent back to Syria to stand trial (see ACLOS page, on-site defector profile)). Whatever one makes of those, the one claim at least remains pretty clearly fake, concocted to obscure a covert pattern of armed mayhem to destabilize the state. (see also: Peter Lee, Counterpunch – Sharmine Narwani, al-Akhbar English)