{"id":1670,"date":"2014-11-16T07:57:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T12:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2014-11-16T07:57:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T12:57:45","slug":"target-liberty-syria-hero-boy-video-revealed-to-be-government-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"Target Liberty: Syria \u2018Hero Boy\u2019 Video Revealed to be Government Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.targetliberty.com\/2014\/11\/syria-hero-boy-video-revealed-to-be.html\">Target Liberty: Syria \u2018Hero Boy\u2019 Video Revealed to be Government Propaganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">A dramatic\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: purple; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/cceu478rN_c\">video clip<\/a>\u00a0showing a young boy heroically rescuing a young girl amid a hail of gunfire in Syria has racked up millions of YouTube viewings and has been trending heavily on other social media platforms.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The mainstream media and US government jumped on the video as evidence of the absolute depravity of the Assad regime. What kind of monster purposely targets children?<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Wrote the\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: purple; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.in\/syria-hero-8-year-old-boy-saves-younger-sister-sniper-fire-risking-own-life-video-613671\">International Business Times<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<div style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The incident certainly is not the first time that Pro-Assad gunmen have targeted children in the nearly four years of the bloody civil war in Syria.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Liz Sly, the Washington Post Beirut bureau chief covering Syria, Lebanon, Iraq \u2014 and\u00a0presumably an expert in the area? \u2014 promoted the video on her\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: purple; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LizSly\/status\/531840591240650753\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0page, adding \u201cwow\u201d in her comments. Sly\u2019s\u00a0reporting consistently agitates for more US\u00a0involvement in Syria on the side of the rebels, her anti-Assad bias is solidly established.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target Liberty: Syria \u2018Hero Boy\u2019 Video Revealed to be Government Propaganda. A dramatic\u00a0video clip\u00a0showing a young boy heroically rescuing a young girl amid a hail of gunfire in Syria has racked up millions of YouTube viewings and has been trending heavily on other social media platforms. The mainstream media and US government jumped on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[655,1169,776],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-propaganda","tag-social-media","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}