…by Gordon Duff, VT Senior Editor
[ Editor’s Note : How did America learn about al Qaeda in Iraq or Saddam’s WMDs? They learned it from Rita Katz? Who found the bin Laden tapes and provided the proof for the 9/11 Commission? It was Rita Katz.
Who is Rita Katz? Rita Katz is a housewife from Brooklyn with absolutely no background in intelligence, no connections to anything other than the absolute luck of finding things on the internet that other people couldn’t.
Then again, everything she found ended up to be made up and 2 million people are dead.
How do we know 240,000 people died in Syria? The Syrian Human Rights Observatory tells us. How do we know about all the atrocities of the Damascus government? You guessed it, all of it comes from the SHRO?
Ever hear of a “barrel bomb?” The SHRO invented them?
VT has its own file on this group and why Reuters and the Associated Press and hundreds of major news outlets use information fabricated by a guy who lives over a noodle shop in the British Midlands, someone with no credibility, no personal history and no source of income.
Russia Today has taken a shot at looking into the SHRO, sending comedian Nimrod Kamer into the fray. Their approach is totally correct with one sad exception, the SHRO, as with Rita Katz, may be wrong about the number of dead but one thing is for certain, their role in the killings is clear as a bell…GD ]
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Who is behind Syrian Observatory for Human Rights? Nimrod Kamer investigates for RT
The organization has been one of the sources for the mainstream media to build their reports on Syria since the start of the civil war four years ago. The organization claims to have a wide network of contacts in the region who feed their information to the head office, where it is processed and later posted on the website, Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Since the start of the Moscow anti-ISIS campaign Russia has started featuring in its reports as well – and it was quickly picked up by major Western media outlets. One of the latest wires from the Observatory that “Russian warplanes [killed] 30 civilians in Homs including women and children” quickly made it into major news sources.
“To the degree people choose to believe social media, they can be my guest. But quite contrary to what [US Secretary of State John Kerry] has said, it is a notoriously unreliable tool upon which to base judgments,” former CIA officer, Ray McGovern told RT.
‘I am not a media organization’ – Rami Abdel Rahman
RT decided to investigate who the man behind the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is and why the media outlet is so popular with MSM. Well-known journalist and prankster Nimrod Kamer took up the job.
The two-bedroom Coventry home of Syrian immigrant Rami Abdel Rahman has been the organization’s base and the source of information for major mainstream media on anything Syria-related from the past four years, including the death toll.
Nobody quite knows who Abdel Rahman has on the ground in Syria, but information just keeps flowing on and on, usually in a dramatic fashion and with little detail.
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Kamer walked around the English city of Coventry, approaching people with questions on Abdel Rahman and how he could be located. No one seemed to have a clue they had the prime source of news from the Syrian frontline living right there in their quaint British neighborhood.
Kamer had no luck catching the director at home. Calling him on the phone, he found out Abdel Rahman went out to a shop. The journalist went about explaining that he had hoped to catch the organization’s director to quiz him on his “media organization” – but that term was met with hostility on the part of Abdel Rahman.
“I am not a media organization. I work from my home, my private home.”
The director of the Observatory seemed very distressed, talking about the dangers of meeting up for daytime interviews because “they are trying to kill me.” It was difficult to identify who “they” were, but Abdel Rahman clearly wasn’t in the mood. He asked Kamer to send him his name and details, which Abdel Rahman would then send to the police.
“When you run a media organization you should expect journalists to come and ask questions, especially if it’s such a shady and unsourced media organization… I had a great time.”
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Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.
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