The New York Times Endorses Months-Old Conspiracy Theory About Syrian Rebel
On Sunday, October 14, the New York Times came out in support for the truther-inspired, and months-old conspiracy theory that foreign arms are ending up in the hands of anti-American, Saudi-backed Jihadist terrorists in Syria.
The Times, however, did not completely endorse the truthers’ view. Only Saudi Arabia and Qatar are mentioned as the financial and military backers of the Jihadists. According to the warped worldview of the Times, the CIA is just throwing money at the wind in Syria, not funding any terrorists or arming them.
I respect the CIA’s capabilities more than the Times and other “mainstream” newspapers. I think CIA officials are smart and competent enough to deliver American taxpayers’ money to anti-American terrorists in Syria, rather than flush it all down the toilet in hotels in Turkey.
But, hey, at least we’ve come half way as far as the truth is concerned. The presence of Jihadist terrorists in Syria has been acknowledged by the most powerful and prestigious American newspaper.
We should not forget that it was only a few months ago when it was considered a fringe conspiracy theory by the “mainstream” press that the violent opposition against Assad is being led by Jihadist terrorists backed by Western governments, Turkey, and the Gulf monarchies.
At the time, the mainstream media absurdly called the anti-Assad opposition a collection of protesters who were demanding their freedom from a tyrant, and ignored the reality that they were in fact terrorists with a record of killing innocent civilians, kidnapping foreign journalists, committing massacres, looting private property, and provoking the Syrian army.
Kurt Nimmo broke down the false points within the Times’ narrative in his article, “New York Times: Weapons Going to al-Qaeda in Syria,” writing:
“In other words, the CIA and the fanatical Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia and Qatar are supporting and arming al-Qaeda in much the same way they did in Libya. In order to mute this reality, the Times describes the rebels as “hard-line Islamic jihadists” and repeats the widely debunked fallacy that the United States really wants to support “more secular opposition groups” attacking the government of Syria.”
This isn’t the first time that the New York Times has lent its weight to a fringe conspiracy theory. In late April, the Times published a report that uncovered the FBI’s fake terror cases.
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2012-10-17 17:14:30
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