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É sabido que na
montagem do alegado «ataque químico» em Douma – já desmentido por vários
repórteres estrangeiros que estiveram no local e entrevistaram os habitantes
--, «ataque cujo único propósito foi justificar o ataque com mísseis dos EUA
e aliados – esse bem real e que não esperou pela chegada da delegação da OPAQ
--, tiveram papel principal os chamados Capacetes Brancos.
Quem são esses
Capacetes Brancos? Que papel desempenham em geral?
Em vários sites
de notícias que consultámos a informação sobre eles é escassa. Encontrámos,
porém, um artigo da AbrilAbril, da autoria de Manuel Augusto Araújo, que proporciona uma informação fundamentada sobre eles e que
recomendamos.
Para o leitor
que não lê português deixamos ficar abaixo a tradução em inglês.
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It
is a known fact that in the fabrication of the alleged "chemical
attack" in Douma -- already denied by several foreign reporters who
visited the site and interviewed the inhabitants -- an “attack” whose sole
purpose was to justify the attack with missiles of the US and allies -- a real
one that did not wait for the arrival of the delegation of the OPCW --, the
main role was played by the so-called White Helmets.
Who
are these White Helmets? What role do they play in general?
In the
several news sites we have consulted the information about them is scarce. We
have, however, found an
article in AbrilAbril, authored by Manuel Augusto Araújo, which
provides well grounded information about them and which we recommend.
For
the reader who does not read Portuguese, we leave below the English
translation.
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The false façade of the
white helmets
By
Manuel Augusto Araújo, AbrilAbril,
Sunday, April 22, 2018
They are in Portugal. It is a good time to unmask this humanitarian terrorist
organization whose mission is to whitewash the military actions of the Daesh
and al-Qaeda for the public opinion.
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The White
Helmets have already arrived in Portugal, with strong echoes in the media, as expected. They are supported
by a powerful propaganda machine funded with the strong assistance of the Saudi
Arabian Wahhabites, of which one of the most active is the billionaire Hani
Farsi, financier of a documentary about this NGO invented and organized in 2013
by James Le Mesurier, a security expert and former British military secret
agent with a long history in some of NATO's most controversial theaters of
intervention: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.
Le
Mesurier is a product of the British elite of the Royal Military Academy in
Sandhurst, and has also been integrated into a series of top-level missions by
the United Nations, the European Union and the UK Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Follow the Money
The first major financiers were the Saudis, then seconded by the foundations of
Georges Soros and the governments of the United States and Britain and other
Western countries, plus the gifts made through gatherings that are crumbs but
make up the photo. In 2016, some sources estimate that this "group of
volunteers" received about 300 million dollars.
Not
all support is visible, such as the one of USAID, well known for its links to
the CIA in the reconversion or attempted reconversion of regimes that evade the
hegemonic US sphere in South America , Ukraine and the Middle East .
In its July
2015 report, more than 16 million dollars are registered with the White Helmets.
Once the
patrons of that troupe had been disclosed, the London newspaper The Telegragh sought to minimize the
negative mpact of those revelations by highlighting the "humanitarian role
of the White Helmets in Syria", while recognizing what before, with great
vehemence, Western governments and media networks linked to them had denied:
that the White Helmets were integrated into the ISIS and Al-Qaeda, a fact
illustrated by
a photo of an ISIS mercenary guarding a White Helmets store where a flag of the
Islamic State was raised. In reality they are a façade to whitewash
the al-Qaeda terrorists and their heteronyms. It is they who do the human face make
up of terrorism.
War propaganda for tender hearts
The White Helmets are assisted by a group of experts on propaganda. It is a well-built
machine that fabricates videos to stir the soft hearts of many people of
goodwill, innocent and truly concerned about the victims of a brutal war that
has never been a civil war -- another big forgery.
They
are part of the pinwheel of NGOs working actively to meet the goals of US
secret agendas and their varied intelligence services. Their great
effectiveness comes from mingling with the NGOs that do commendable
humanitarian work. They can even raise honest people in their support and in
their ranks, as has happened with other NGOs. Some realize their true
objectives when, in the eagerness to quickly achieve results, the bosses issue
orders that run counter to the ends of these organizations. This has happened
in various parts of the world where they have acted and act: Yugoslavia, Libya,
Tunisia, and Sudan. At present they are most active in Syria and Iraq.
The “civil defense” of the Islamic State
When the White Helmets appeared, whoever commanded them was so confident in the
advance on the ground of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State that they did not
refrain from publishing videos of joint
confraternizations celebrating victories. There are still some of
these videos on You Tube, though most
of them have been deleted and one cannot find a few more of them where they
appeared in the beheading sessions mixed with the tormentors at a time when
this horror was very popular. In fact the White Helmets operate as the Civil
Defense of the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, the priority of their humanitarian
activity has always been the terrorists. They were and are their paramedics.
Once
the euphoric time passed away, there emerged
the videos saving civilians from the rubble. The excitement of the
bloody days when Isis and al-Qaeda occupied a large part of Syrian territory
was ending and it was urgent to change the image. Now the videos were
multiplying with this new face, from Aleppo and Ghouta, to pressure public
opinion on the imminence of the terrorists being defeated -- as it happened.
Lights, action, cut!
Many
of these videos were staged, as was demonstrated. If any doubts persisted, it
was the rebels themselves of the Syrian Revolutionary Forces who removed videos
of rescue operations by the White Helmets, after many of their followers stood
against the clear falsification of the filming.
The
images of a girl who was rescued at three different locations from miles away,
the one of a man being saved from the ruins of a bombed-out building, who freed
himself from the hands of his two saviors without problems and full of life --
certainly due to negligence in the cutting of the film or because they were so
confident in their power to convince that they thought no one would notice --
became famous. In another video, even more brazen, they tried to revive a
mannequin, making him a victim. The evidence did not withstand the most
distracted look, and the SRFs excused themselves with such ridiculous rhetoric
that it is not broken by a laugh because of the seriousness of the situation on
the ground.
The propaganda to which Portugal does
not escape
A well-oiled propaganda machine, which includes their coming to Portugal,
promoted them as the non-political NGO that they never were. They even managed
to get a documentary, paid by Saudi money, about their action on the ground,
where their true essence is hidden and their humanitarian work highlighted. A
documentary that was candidate to the Oscars and obtained some international
awards.
Films
and videos are a powerful propaganda and forgery gear. If anyone has doubts,
check out all the films about the Vietnam War. Those of Coppola, Apocalypse
Now, Kubrik, Born to Kill, Oliver Stone, Platoon or The Hunter of Michael
Cimino -- probably another six films -- give a brutal picture of the war, which
merely for the excellence of their quality are not buried in the other almost a
hundred where the favorite heroes are Stallone and Chuck Norris, much more
widespread on television, where it even seems that the United States has won
the Vietnam War, a fact the Vietnamese obviously do not know.
The
White Helmets propaganda is so effective that some have tried to get them
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which would ease their financial backing
and put them in a gallery alongside Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who
launched 100,000 bombs and missiles in seven countries, put US military forces
in 138 countries -- 60 in the time of George W. Bush -- increased tenfold drone
utilization, reaching all civilian and military targets, increased expenditures
in military operations at $ 18.7 billion. They would not look bad in such companionship
and would illustrate that gallery where peace is a black hole.
A parenthesis for the "fake
news"
The war in Syria, since it was unleashed, is an enormous mystification, as José
Goulão, in AbrilAbril, has fully demonstrated. The White Helmets,
since their inception, are an important piece in this gear and they work hard --
they are paid for that -- in the whitewashing of the terrorist forces. Masked
with the humanitarian cover, they are the main source of information and
diffusion of "fake news", raising a fierce attack to the advances in
the field of the Assad regime. Their reports spread like viruses through social
networks, irrespective of their being true or false. They are skilled and experienced
in fabricating successes to bleed pious souls around the world and provide
evidence that makes irrelevant any other source for the US and its allies to
take action against the Syrian government and its allies. The last great
performance was in Ghouta, as
they had already done in Aleppo. It had an irrefutable aim, to try at
least delaying the attacks of the Syrian army for the terrorists to recover, to
rearm and, if possible, not to be defeated. They are among the most active
agents for the horror of war to last. They are entirely and actively part of
this horror about which Robert
Fisk's report to The Independent, in Douma, is enlightening.
Returning to Portugal
This "humanitarian organization" is now here, in Fafe, at the
invitation of the Just Earth and being the target of several fundraising
actions. It is one of their many publicity and public relations activities that
they organize with recognized efficiency in the western countries, taking
advantage of the connivance of the media at the service of the oligarchies.
Around here, they have had media coverage with great impact with the
particularity of having not failed in labeling the terrorists as rebels, a
delightful euphemism.
Contrast
this coverage with that given to Maria
de Guadalupe, the Argentine missionary nun who was in Portugal reporting her
experience in the Syrian war. While the White Helmets, the
paramedics of the terrorists of the Isis, of Al-Qaeda and their heteronyms, are
multiply incensed and propagandized, Maria de Guadalupe had almost no air time
and, despite her distancing from the conflict, she even became nicknamed the
diabolical nun. Another episode of the damnation of these times we live and the
enormous manipulation that surrounds us.
