Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
October 24, 2015
“Moderate terrorists” is one of the sloppiest memes the Jews have ever come up with.
These people are getting sloppier by the hour.
Russia has said it can find no moderate armed opposition to support in Syria, a day after President Bashar al-Assad reportedly told his Russian counterpart that he would talk to any that could be found.
In a statement on Friday, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said: ”From the very beginning of the Syria operation, President Putin and other representatives of Russia have spoken of our readiness to cooperate with the so-called moderate opposition.
”We have been unable to single out the so-called moderate opposition. There is not a single central force which one could cooperate with.
“All the difficulties arise from this. Neither our American nor our European colleagues, nor others are so far able to help us with identifying them.”
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The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights meanwhile said that a total of 446 people, more than a third of them civilians, had been killed in Russian air raids since September 30.
Of the total killed since then, 151 are civilians and include 38 children and 35 women, thr activist group said. The strikes have also killed 295 fighters, including 75 IS members and 31 members of al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, the Observatory said.
Middle East Eye could not verify the accuracy of the Observatory’s figures. Moscow has dismissed previous reports by the Observatory of civilian casualties from its bombings as “fake”.
It’s definitely a group known for fakery. They haven’t even explained how they get these alleged facts they are continually spouting. The head of the organization, Rami Abdulrahman, fled Syria in the year 2000 and hasn’t been back.
And it’s basically a one-man operation. The media just calls this guy up and he makes up answers as he goes along.
It really is a sick and weird joke that all these mainstream sources quote this guy uncritically.
Just look at this New York Times profile from April of 2013, admitting this is just one guy – a marketing school dropout – in an attic with bad internet, and that all his alleged sources – four guys – are personal friends from his youth:
Military analysts in Washington follow its body counts of Syrian and rebel soldiers to gauge the course of the war. The United Nations and human rights organizations scour its descriptions of civilian killings for evidence in possible war crimes trials. Major news organizations, including this one, cite its casualty figures.
Yet, despite its central role in the savage civil war, the grandly named Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is virtually a one-man band. Its founder, Rami Abdul Rahman, 42, who fled Syria 13 years ago, operates out of a semidetached red-brick house on an ordinary residential street in this drab industrial city.
Using the simplest, cheapest Internet technology available, Mr. Abdul Rahman spends virtually every waking minute tracking the war in Syria, disseminating bursts of information about the fighting and the death toll. What began as sporadic, rudimentary e-mails about protests early in the uprising has swelled into a torrent of statistics and details.
All sides in the conflict accuse him of bias, and even he acknowledges that the truth can be elusive on Syria’s tangled and bitter battlefields. That, he says, is what prompts him to keep a tight leash on his operation.
“I need to control everything myself,” said Mr. Abdul Rahman, a bald, bearish, affable man. “I am a simple citizen from a simple family who has managed to accomplish something huge using simple means — all because I really believe in what I am doing.”
He does not work alone. Four men inside Syria help to report and collate information from more than 230 activists on the ground, a network rooted in Mr. Abdul Rahman’s youth, when he organized clandestine political protests. But he signs off on every important update. A fifth man translates the Arabic updates into English for the organization’s Facebook page.
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He has been called a tool of the Qatari government, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Central Intelligence Agency and Rifaat al-Assad, the exiled uncle of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, among others. The Syrian government and even some rebels have accused him of treachery.
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Alexander Lukashevich, the spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, once described him to the state-owned RIA-Novosti news agency as a man with “no training in journalism nor law, nor even a complete secondary education.”
(In fact, he graduated from high school and studied marketing at a technical school.)
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Mr. Abdul Rahman spends so much time locked upstairs in his tiny study that Amani figured out how to Skype him from the living room. Once when he agreed to a picnic, he showed up carrying his two cellphones and his laptop. “He has taken a second wife,” his wife said with a groan.
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Mr. Abdul Rahman owned a clothing store but secretly wrote pamphlets denouncing unfair privileges granted to a few while most Syrians had to line up for basic goods. Born Osama Suleiman, he adopted a pseudonym during those years of activism and has used it publicly ever since.
When two associates were arrested in 2000, he fled the country, paying a human trafficker to smuggle him into England. The government resettled him in Coventry, where he decided he liked the slow pace. He says his main regret is having to drive 30 minutes to Birmingham for a decent Arab restaurant.
Without even mentioning his admitted bias as someone who already worked to overthrow Assad, this is not a guy you would let borrow your car to run to go pick-up coffee from the drive-thru.
But we are supposed to trust him as the singular source of accurate information from Syria? When it is admitted openly that none of the information he provides is independently verifiable?
“This is fake” seems the logical conclusion.