‘There’s a real strong sense of excitement, expectation, anger as well. They want to see this man dead. They don’t just want justice to be done, they want to see it being done, not just for his crimes, but for the boundless cruelty of the Assad regime.’
Jeremy Bowen, BBC.

Vanessa Beeley comments on Jeremy Bowen in Syria: “This is not journalism, this is jingoism.”
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-18th-december-2024

As previously repeated on my Substack, the BBC assisted in this ‘regime change’. Juliette Harkin, former BBC Media Action Project Manager and an expert on Syria states… “we [BBC Media Action] worked in 2004 with individuals within the [Syrian] ministry who wanted change and tried to get them to be the drivers of that. All media development work that has been done within Syria has, in my opinion, been predicated upon this idea that there can be change from within – you have an authoritarian regime and you find who the reformers are within that [regime] and work with them…”

Vanessa Beeley’s former colleague at UK Column, Patrick Henningsen posts on Twitter X:
‘This is so patronising: how Western media have taken a known killer, a terrorist, and thrown a suit on him, and are now telling you he’s done his act of contrition by overthrowing the ‘Assad regime’… in exchange for a Al-Qaeda regime. Truly disgusting levels they’ve sunk to now…’
https://x.com/21WIRE/status/1869679306256928851

BBC sees crowd surge over rumoured execution of Assad henchman
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c3e3vjk4e7vo

Oh dear. Merry Xmas everyone!

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