Zainab al-Hosni, the “Flower of Syria,” Alive and on TV: Will Human Rights Organizations and Mass Media Issue Corrections?
By Yoshie Furuhashi | Monthly Review | October 5, 2011
Zainab al-Hosni, dubbed the “Flower of Syria,” who the Syrian opposition claimed was tortured and murdered, burned and decapitated, by the Syrian government, has just appeared on Syrian TV, very much alive.
The case of opposition propaganda about Zainab al-Hosni is particularly noteworthy because this is one that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the most influential human rights organizations, both eagerly seized upon, seeking to turn its sensationalist character into a spur to prod the UN Security Council to act against Syria.
Will AI and HRW, and mass media such as CNN, France24, and the Associated Press, which followed the human rights organizations and also uncritically promulgated the Syrian opposition claim, issue corrections? Or will they continue looking for a new Syrian opposition remake of Kuwait’s “incubator babies” story or the Libyan rebels’ “African mercenaries” story?
Here is the video of the TV interview with Zainab, who says she fled from her family home because her brothers were beating her:
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Lazarus… Elvis… Osama bin Laden… Zainab… and today Hitler… the story is becoming commonplace.
Well, if theY still refuse to acknowledge her resurrection, they can OBL her and kill her again!
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yes, we now live in a world where ‘reality’ is all ‘relative’, say, if you’re a zionist controlled relief organization run by the mossad in Syria, you can truthfully report the deaths of virtually the entire country, as well as people who never existed.
this is what happened on 9/11 in New York City. zio controlled puppet Robert S. Mueller immediately was wagging a list inside of two hours of freshly declared hijackers from Saudi Arabia who didn’t know it yet, as virtually all were still alive and breathing, that they were casualties with Vindicar and must now report to a disruptor chamber in the city to be
added to the mass casualty list.
Atilla The Hun, Lee Harvey Oswald, and maybe even now Tim McVeigh now can be resurrected in living color on your TV screen, for the low price of 29.95, including shipping and handling, if you respond in the next ten minutes to this
magnificent television offer.
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