Elder of Ziyon relays reports that Iran is sending their brutal secret police force to put down Syrian anti-government protests. He also reports that YouTube has video of mourners at a funeral for a slain Daraa protester chanting "Neither Iran nor Hezbollah ... only to be a Muslim who is afraid of God."
read here: Elder of Ziyon: Report: Two planeloads of Basij militia arrived in Syria on Saturday
A commenter has complained that the sources for this report are weak, or as he puts it "the story is complete crap". Although it has been reported by the Beirut Observer and by Kol Israel's Arabic edition, with details including the airlines and airport used, flight numbers and the times of arrival, both articles rely on anonymous sources. I'll keep an open mind with respect to information contradicting these articles, but feel that they're worth reporting here with a grain-of-salt alert based on the anonymous sources and lack of corroborating reports from other media outlets.
(Thanks to the commenter.)
UPDATE (3/25/2011 7PM): According to a report on Ynet (read here):
A commenter has complained that the sources for this report are weak, or as he puts it "the story is complete crap". Although it has been reported by the Beirut Observer and by Kol Israel's Arabic edition, with details including the airlines and airport used, flight numbers and the times of arrival, both articles rely on anonymous sources. I'll keep an open mind with respect to information contradicting these articles, but feel that they're worth reporting here with a grain-of-salt alert based on the anonymous sources and lack of corroborating reports from other media outlets.
(Thanks to the commenter.)
UPDATE (3/25/2011 7PM): According to a report on Ynet (read here):
Deraa's Mukhtar (village chief) Muhammad al-Mehamid claimed that protestors in the city captured an Iranian sniper brought into the area to fire at protestors. "What's happening in Deraa is a great embarrassment to President Assad," he said in a TV interview. "Images of weapons which Syrian TV said came from Deraa are baseless. The Syrian intelligence cooked it up. The fire came from one source only – the Syrian's regime."
According to al-Mehamid "we have captured a man and we're waiting for the media to publish the truth. See that the man caught is a bearded Iranian who can't speak Arabic and has come to shoot us. We ask the international media – come see the truth."
1 comment:
The source of this report? "مصادر خاصة" --private sources. I.e., the author's imagination.
The Iranians had the same rumors that Lebanese Hezbollah was sending forces to Iran to crush the street demonstrations.
Maybe they're just moving their respective repressive forces around, like in a shell game.
The Asad regime is perfectly capable of crushing its own population, and doesn't need to fly in planeloads of foreigners to do it for them.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!
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