White Helmets, humanists or terrorists? (2/3), by Luís Garcia
The White Helmets according to those who don’t believe in the White Helmets
White Helmets Mannequin Challenge
What is (was) the Mannequin Challenge promoted by the White Helmets? Before the explanation, nothing better than to watch this video:
According to the White Helmets, the objective of the event was to raise awareness about the war in Syria through the macabre act of making up fake reality and then take pictures of it, while pretending to be injured or dead.
To give the example, the White Helmets themselves, as if an allegedly first-aid organization would have nothing else to do during an armed conflict than produce mannequins and simulating injured people under the debris.
Worse, it was not only making up victims to be photographed for a supposed campaign, but also the production of fake videos of people being attacked and then rescued.
These people are more interested in staging than saving lives, they have human and technological resources to do it, they have enough free time to do it and they staged it pretty well.
More than that, due to the critics that this video provoked, a few hours after the video was uploaded, the White Helmets themselves admitted that their action had been provoked by an “error of judgment” and they decided to remove the publication where the video appeared.
Worse, in spite of the scandal that sprouted from the video that resulted in self-censorship, and despite the fact that the White Helmets themselves clarified the video was nothing more than a montage for the event “Mannequin Challenge”, the person who was rescued in the fake video, posted it on his Facebook account as a real example of frist-aid by the White Helmets!
Watch the resume of this mess on this Russia Today video:
And this one:
And now, knowing all of this, I'm supposed to believe in the following image? Or do I have the right to doubt the integrity of the White Helmets gentlemen who supposedly saved the buried man who seems to be himself a member of the White Helmets in another previous and supposed rescue mission?
Economic and political independence
The White Helmets, in their official site, claim they are independent and that they don’t receive funds from any government. That’s a lie, because Mister Mark Toner, spokesman for the US State Department, guarantees that the US donated (at least) 23 million dollars to the White Helmets!
It’s a lie, because Mister Boris Johnson, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, guarantees that the United Kingdom has donated 65 million British pounds to the White Helmets:
Moreover, the French government has publicly admitted, through the site of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to having financed the White Helmets. Here is the link to the document:
Yes, the link is broken, of course. Ask the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs why. If you want to confirm that this publication, in fact, existed, search for “Support for Independent Arab media: CFI, operator of the French Ministry of the Foreign Affairs, strengthens its position (January 2014)" on Google, and it’s the first result. The link appears in the search result, but it is no longer available.
They don’t use nor even carry weapons with them?
Another lie. A few quick Google or YouTube search easily proves the contrary. Here are two examples:
The credibility of its leader
Raed Saleh, president of the organization White Helmets, was supposed to receive, in the US, a prize for the “humanitarian work” he developed in Syria but, arriving at Dallas airport, he was told that his visa had been canceled for unknown reasons and was immediately deported. Later, the State Department of the US admitted that Raed Saleh’s visa had been canceled due to the fact that his name was present in a US government list of potential terrorists. Really?
Confronted by journalists with the enormous contradiction between the fact that the US government has been financing the White Helmets and, at the same time, the US government includes the president of the White Helmets in a list of potential terrorists, Mister Mark Toner, spokesman for the US State Department, completely screwed up, as you can see in the following video:
As the journalist pointed out at the end, “it doesn’t make sense, why are US taxpayers funding a group which leader was prohibited from entering in the US” to receive an award for his humanitarian acts?
A Syrian organization or one created by Syrians?
No, it’s not. It’s a foreign organization created by James Le Mesurier, a British security consultant, former servicemen of the British Army, expert in military outsourcing for private companies from countries that love to invade others. Blackwater (now Academy) is a perfect example of that, a military enterprise that proposes its own mercenaries to provide private security services to its clients (the same shameless company famous for having created secret prisons and torture centers as the one in Abu Ghraib).
Neutrality and impartiality
If you take the time to visit White Helmets’ website, you will find out that they present themselves as neutral and impartial. Nothing amazing coming from an organization that rescues injured people. What may amaze someone is the fact that, contrary to what they affirm, they are not neutral nor impartial at all. Evidence? Here are a few, but there are many others available online.
In this video, we can see 2 members of the White Helmets with their feet over Syrian soldiers’ corpses while they do the V sign of victory with their fingers.
In this one, we can listen a member of the White Helmets informing that he will drop the corpses of Syrian soldiers in the dump:
And in this one we see the same gentleman clearly affirming that he supports his “mujahideen brothers” (read terrorists):
And then, seriously, how can an NGO be neutral or impartial when: first, only operates in territories occupied by “rebel” forces composed in a great part by foreign mercenaries; second, it operates illegally in Syria; third, it appeals to the UN for the creation of no-flight zone in Syria like the one whose consequences were to transform Libya, that modern and developed country, into a moon-like landscape?
Pacifists, humanitarians, solidary
Neither pacifists nor humanists nor solidary nor impartial nor neutral. No. Members of a first-aid organization, composed by supposed volunteers, labeling themselves with the 5 adjectives I just mentioned, cannot assist the execution of a Syrian civilian, cannot quietly assist such barbaric acts committed carried out by members of the terrorist organization named al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria).
Moreover, they shouldn’t hang out with members of terrorist organizations caught executing civilians or not! Why? Because it is illegal to hang out with members of an organization like al-Qaeda, considered a terrorist organization by the whole planet! Watch the videos below:
Do not forget that the White Helmets never contented themselves with making an official communication to explain this atrocity, even though they guarantee that their position, when faced with the horrors of this conflict, is to always protest against any violation of human rights!
The content creation
There are many forms of having online access to proofs proving that the White Helmets “proofs” about the “barbaric acts of the bloodthirsty al-Assad” and the “imperialist Putin” are pure lies and cheap propaganda. A little search on the subject will let the reader busy for the entire day, and it will show you how misleading and faked are the “proofs” you watched over these last years on mainstream media like BBC or CNN!
I propose a specific source that I have been following for a long time, the Facebook account of Mister Tim Anderson, but there are many more credible and interesting sources out there:
The false "proofs" of Syrian-Russian barbarism produced by the White Helmets and its sister organizations are divided in various categories:
- Images taken from movies or videoclips;
- Real images from Syria used several times, with dates, victims’ names and localizations recycled over and over;
- Images from other conflicts (Gaza, Afghanistan, etc.);
- Images of destruction demonstrably performed by the rebels but attributed to Syrians and Russians;
- Events grotesquely staged, in unknown localizations, attributed to locations where there weren't any members of the White Helmets ;
- Use of the same “victim” over and over again, sometimes with the exact same clothing and scenario, but of course, with a different hero performing the rescue;
- Etc.
Here are 2 slideshows with 20 examples to illustrate what I just said. If you want to see more, visit the Facebook account of Tim Anderson or search it on online.
Slideshow 1
Did you notice that right in the first montage, on bottom right corner, there's Bana Aladeb (the little blogger from Aleppo) together with a known terrorist “rebel”? Whatever.
Slideshow 2
And now a special photo, of an injured Syrian soldier who then supposedly would have received medical treatment from the White Helmets. But no, that didn't happen. On the contrary, the same images of this Syrian soldier can be found in a site belonging to (al-Nusra) al-Qaeda, in which we get to know that, after all, he was a “Shiite pig” and he was executed!
The horrors of Aleppo
According to Western media that adore to cite the White Helmets and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, according to their supposed news and according to the videos and photos they frenetically share, we should believe with 100% certainty to this 2 points: firstly, the Russians and Syrians bombarded and killed civilians on a daily basis in a undiscriminated manner; secondly, the White Helmets are always too damn busy searching for injured to be rescued and corpses to be unearth. Or not. They stage it!
In Egypt, police forces arrested several journalists caught producing fake news on Syria. To do so, they were using a building in ruins and little girl actresses with torn clothes and faked blood:
Anyway, we watched this very same movie in 2011, with the staged “liberation of Tripoli” which was filmed inside al-Jazeera studios (Qatar). It was too obvious that this “news” was fake. 3 days after the supposed liberation, we could watch on Libyan TV (and I did it) pro-Gaddafi demonstrations in Tripoli's main square. The same square were the supposed “liberation of Tripoli” supposedly took place 3 days before! And in this pro-Gaddafi demonstrations, we could see the face if Gaddafi's oldest son!
No one ever saw them, nobody know them
Too long story. To hear or see the report of a Syrian affirming that he didn’t know the White Helmets is not enough to makes us conclude that the totality of the Syrian people didn’t know about the White Helmets. Said so, we can agree that it is useless to give only one example. If the reader wants to have an idea on the extension of the White Helmets lies, he has to spend a lot of time analyzing the many documented and collected reports by many people who have been to Syria during war time.
I suggest 2 names who I believe to be of common knowledge, Eva Bartlett and Vanessa Beeley. Here are their websites where you can find many reports:
Not only they are not known in the rest of the country but, worst, where they are found, there are several documented reports of their crimes, like White Helmet's members executing members of the real Syrian First Responders, to then rob or destroy their equipment. Yet again, an extensive research in the work of Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley and others can elucidate you very well on all these crimes.
They provide civil services to almost 7 million people
No, not true until there is evidence of so. As of now, they couldn’t provide anything to 7 million people, since the areas they control are far from containing 1 million people. Then, the only “proofs” of civil services offered to the public are promotional videos from the White Helmets themselves and pro-White Helmets propaganda videos like the ones from AJ+ and friends.
Real evidences? Where are the evidences showing the White Helmets creating electrical installations, water pipes, reconstructing habitations or cleaning the rubble provoked by the bombardments? They don’t exist! If someone can provide them, please, share them here.
On the contrary, although it is not the subject of this article, they are easily accessible (through SANA News or Russia Today, among others). Evidences are indeed provided by Syrians and Russians.
On the contrary, not only there are not evidences of the White Helmets creating public services but, worst, there are many evidences of their al-Qaeda friends destroying public infrastructure. A good examples is the destruction of the water network of Aleppo 4 years ago, one of the first targets of terrorists attacks, later repaired by the Syrian government. Or, for instance, the biggest and most modern hospital in the whole Middle East for cancer treatment, destroyed in 2013 by a terrorist “rebels” VBIED . By the way, talking about fake news, the images from this hospital situated in the outskirts of Aleppo and destroyed by the “rebels” were also recycled numerous times in the mainstream media as “evidences” of hospitals in East Aleppo allegedly by the Russian bombs. Watch this video:
Or the recent Damascus water system poisoning by the “rebels” who had the idea of adding gasoline to the water. Or the pipelines recently destroyed by the “liberating rebels” in the outskirts of Damascus. Well, I could write an entire article on this subject.
They are scattered throughout the entire country in more than 100 different locations
No, they are not. They are (or were) only in certain specific zones, the ones bordering US allies. Idlib region in the northeast, bordering Turkey. Daraa region in the southeast, bordering Jordan and Israel. The rest of the country has never seen them. Actually, the rest of the country doesn't even know that the White Helmets exist, as you can conclude by reading Eva Bartlett and Vanessa Beeley's reports on this subject.
Oh, but there are photos and videos showing White Helmets in other zones! No, there aren't. The only thing we have are staged and recycled images and videos (as Tim Anderson continuously demonstrate).
Doubtful friendships
Doubtful friendships are a perfect tool to destroy something or someone's reputation. But stupidity also helps. An example of this is Mahmoud Raslan, the photographer working with the White Helmets who recorded the rescue of little Omran Daqneesh, a rescue attributed to the White Helmets by themselves! If he was a bit more intelligent and organized, he wouldn't have committed the absurd error of filming himself having fun with al-Qaeda members or taking selfies with terrorists famous for having decapitated a 12-year-old Palestinian child just because his father was an Assad's supporter:
Another exemple of doubtful friendships is given to us by Muawiya Hassan Agha, a known member of the White Helmets who doesn't mind to be filmed together with al-Qaeda members, next to al-Qaeda flags.
Now watch these vídeos of Muawiya Hassan Agha together with members of al-Nusra (al-Qaeda) and, yes, al-Nusra flags:
By now you must already have noticed that shaved beards - as shown on the photo in the part one - is something really hard to find. If we can't find shaved beards, surely we will not find decency or trustfulness among the White Helmets community.
Nobel Peace Prize and stuff like that…
Now tell me, do you think it is normal that these gentlemen and their supporters have campaigned for the White Helmets to win the Nobel Peace Prize, to the point that they were considered the favorites? I think so, one just need to look at the long list of criminals and criminal organizations that have already won the Nobel Peace Prize. Namely Henry Kissinger, Barack Obama, European Union, and so on.
Não receberam o Prémio Nobel da Paz 2016 mas receberam o Prémio Franco-Alemão dos Direitos Humanos 2016, e logo o prémio "especial"! Estes franceses, grandes malucos, entregando prémios humanitários a terroristas na Síria no mesmo mês em que cidadãos franceses foram feitos prisioneiros de guerra pelas forças sírias, após terem sido capturados em Aleppo na companhia de outros terroristas estrangeiros, hehe!
They did not receive the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize but they received the 2016 Franco-German Human Rights "special" Prize! Ohhh, this funny French people, handing out humanitarian prizes to terrorists in Syria in the same month when French citizens were taken as prisoners of war by the Syrian forces, after being captured in Aleppo together with other foreign terrorists, hehe!
And, as if it was not enough, the Pentagon propaganda machine - commonly known as Hollywood -, and the retarded George Cloney, propose to produce a movie about the White Helmets based on Netflix's propaganda called "The White Helmets", the latter already nominated for the Oscars, hehe!
- George Clooney to make movie about Syria's White Helmets
- Oscars: 10 Documentary Shorts Advance in 2016 Race
That's all folks!
If you want to know more, please watch:
Cross Talk - White Helmets, really?
Luís Garcia
Read the first part here: White Helmets, humanists or terrorists? (1/3)
Read the third part here: White Helmets, humanists or terrorists? (3/3)
