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KurtNYC

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Mon Jun 25, 2012, 06:17 PM Jun 2012

French photojournalist covers the horrors of Homs Syria (GRAPHIC)

I went looking for some back story on Syria and found this impressive documentary segment on the siege of Homs in February of 2012. I was in a couple other threads today about the state of MSM journalism in the US -- I think this 11 minute segment really shows the difference between what passes for news 24/7 on cable in the US versus most other western countries.

Saw this last night and the sheer courage of this photojournalist is incredible. He went looking for a story...




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French photojournalist covers the horrors of Homs Syria (GRAPHIC) (Original Post) KurtNYC Jun 2012 OP
Homs was not a city under seige and in ruins, as reported. That's small-scale urban warfare. leveymg Jun 2012 #1

leveymg

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1. Homs was not a city under seige and in ruins, as reported. That's small-scale urban warfare.
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 06:40 PM
Jun 2012

Horrifying, ugly, civilian victims, but not the sort of massacre by massed artillery that many western media claimed earlier this year.

Homs was not flattened by the Syrian military, as these images and other videos that have come out now show. We have been lied to about Syria, just as we were lied to by the Regime Changers about Iraq WMD. Please see, http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002847403

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