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Syrian 'White Helmets' flee to Jordan with Israeli, Western help

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These guys are western, Qatari and Saudi intelligence officers, who set up the "White Helmets" as a cover group for their operations.

Wikipedia:

According to The Guardian's Olivia Solon, claims by contributors to the English language Russian RT television network and Sputnik news agency have also come under critical scrutiny.[8] According to the fact-checking organisation Snopes.com these accusations against the White Helmets are unfounded.[104] Likewise, multiple journalists have raised serious questions as to the credibility and government ties of individuals making accusations against SCD.[105][106] According to The New York Times's Linda Qiu, Assad's claim that the White Helmets are "Al-Qaeda members" was "without evidence".[107]

What is your source, Burning Bush?

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Wow, Wikipedia, Snopes, and New York Times! Must be true then... Does anyone still trust these sources?

From what I've seen, I say the White Helmets are up to no good.

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And, just like when the MKO evacuated (so much nicer than 'fled') Iran, the reaction of the vast majority of the population was 'good riddance, don't come back'.

Though the involvement of the last surviving Apartheid regime should put paid to any but the most determinedly blind thinking they might have been 'good guys' in any meaningful sense.

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From what I've seen, I say the White Helmets are up to no good.

So what have you seen? I’ve never even heard of them.

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How do you know they didn’t?

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If this pretend to be neutral group is neutral how come that they were always within the territory controlled by Daesh and other extremist groups and never helped save lives of wounded regular army men. They are really one sided interest rescue and propaganda group heavily controlled by USA-Israel cartel.

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As Burning Bush says, the "White Helmets" are indeed a terrorist-affiliated propaganda construct funded by, among others, the British Government:

"In fact, since the White Helmets were founded in Turkey by a former British MI5 officer named James Le Mesurier, the group has received at least $55 million from the British Foreign Office, $23 million or more from the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Transition Initiatives — the State Department’s de facto regime change arm — and untold millions from the Kingdom of Qatar, which has also backed an assortment of extremist groups in Syria including Al Qaeda."

The White Helmets are supported by a PR front called the Syria Campaign. The Syria Campaign is supported by British-Saudi billionaire Hani Farsi and a Syrian-British oil tycoon named Ayman Asfari. Bizarrely, they tried to recruit Roger Waters. Waters, to his great credit, knew they score and publicly denounced them at a concert in Barcelona.

https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/04/19/exclusive-emails-show-how-the-white-helmets-tried-to-recruit-roger-waters-with-saudi-money/

"the most damning evidence in this regard is not controversial in the slightest. It comes directly from the White Helmets themselves. Numerous videos and photos have surfaced showing the White Helmets parading on the dead bodies of Syrian government forces and flying the flags of known terrorist organizations. An in-depth report on The Syrian War Blog last year examined the social media profiles of 65 different White Helmets-connected figures and found numerous posts in support of ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham and other listed terrorist organizations. Some even posted pictures of themselves with known terrorist leaders or waving the flag of terrorist groups like ISIS, and many proudly displayed images of dead Syrian soldiers.

Most incredible of all is the footage of White Helmets attending the executions of Syrian civilians and soldiers by terrorist groups, moving in to cart the dead bodies away mere seconds after the victims are brutally slain."

https://www.corbettreport.com/whitehelmets/

Boris Johnson gives them 65m pounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2mWdvgCOqs

Remember that supposed "chemical weapon attack" in Douma claimed by the White Helmets in a video that went viral in April this year?

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-gas-douma-robert-fisk-ghouta-damascus-a8307726.html

Well, the OPCW report released on July 6th (and largely ignored by corporate media) says there was no chemical weapon attack. It was just a White Helmet propaganda event:

https://www.opcw.org/news/article/opcw-issues-fact-finding-mission-reports-on-chemical-weapons-use-allegations-in-douma-syria-in-2018-and-in-al-hamadaniya-and-karm-al-tarrab-in-2016/

In short, the White Helmets are a fake.

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In short, the White Helmets are a fake.

Not fake, a CIA/MI6 asset to be protected and saved for use in Iran in the coming year.

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Of course Israel will not allow Syrians, refugees or otherwise, to enter the country. Syria has been the unrelenting enemy of Israel since 1948 and it would be the apex of stupidity to allow large groups of the enemy to enter, to not even to mention paying for their keep. Israel is not the EU that has allowed millions of Mohammedans entry from misguided "humanitarianism." Sometimes it is safer to be tough than to cave to the international do-gooders. The Israelis are well aware of the uncompromising nature of Mohammedans and their revenge culture. After all the Arab-Israeli wars, the Israeli government takes national security seriously, unlike the weak and cowardly European elites who have foisted hordes of Mohammedans from the Middle East and Africa on their own populations and forced them to pay for the elites' largesse so that they can posture and preen about how "humanitarian" they are. Security comes first.

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Alfie Noakes, thank you very much for more information about how White Helmet group was operating in Syria and whom are backing them.

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Very predictable move. Western intelligence and Gulf monarchies save their vaassets.

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Oops, slip of a finger. Allies save their valuable assets - interesting to note that Syrian troops "used chemical weapons" only in areas where WH were at stand-by with cameras rolling.

Saving WH reminds the evacuation of the US Embassy in Saigon in April 1975. No doubt who is winning the war.

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What the report says is that no nerve agent was detected in Douma but that some chlorine was detected and they are working to verify the significance.

So, no nerve agents but some chlorine. Okay, but chlorine is everywhere, isn't it. In food, textiles, swimming pools, antiseptics, the water we drink, 85% of all pharmaceuticals, paper, planes, trains, boats, paint and so on. You'd be hard pushed to find an inhabited place in the world without chlorine. Hell, the Americans want to sell the world chicken dipped in chlorine!

There was no chemical attack in Douma. It was a fake story propagated by the White Helmets.

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That the Israeli regime, that not only 'rescued' the Phalangists who were willing to slaughter civilians, but gave them homes in Israel, wouldn't do more than transport these guys through regime held territory as fast as they could tells you everything you need to know about how nasty the 'White Helmets' who have refused the Syrian government offer of amnesty are.

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