{"id":33545,"date":"2018-04-18T17:51:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T22:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33545"},"modified":"2018-04-18T17:53:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T22:53:21","slug":"bbc-reporter-discourages-syria-questions-due-to-information-war-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33545","title":{"rendered":"BBC Reporter Discourages Syria Questions Due To \u201cInformation War\u201d With\u00a0Russia\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC Reporter Discourages Syria Questions Due To \u201cInformation War\u201d With\u00a0Russia\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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A BBC interview<\/a> is making the rounds today among opponents of western interventionism in Syria. The subject of the interview, Admiral Alan West, voiced some much needed skepticism about the establishment narrative around the alleged gas attack in Douma. Everybody\u2019s talking about it because West is an empire loyalist that nobody in their right mind would accuse of being an \u201cAssad apologist\u201d or \u201cuseful idiot of the Kremlin\u201d, as anyone else who doesn\u2019t swallow the official story hook, line and sinker is uniformly labeled.<\/p>\n

West made some sensible comments about the White Helmets and the fact that Jaysh al-Islam had far more incentive to stage such an attack than Assad had to perpetrate it. Even more helpful was his personal account<\/a> of having been aggressively pressured to make false reports about the success of the British bombing campaign in Bosnia, suggesting that those pressures can lead to bad intelligence and erroneous military responses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wonder, you know we\u2019ve had some bad experiences on intelligence,\u201d West said. \u201cWhen I was chief of defense intelligence, I had huge pressure put on me politically to try and say that our bombing campaign in Bosnia was achieving all sorts of things which it wasn\u2019t. I was put under huge pressure, so I know the things that can happen with intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s a very significant addition to the dialogue. For me, though, the most interesting comments made in that interview came not from West, but from the BBC reporter who was interviewing him.<\/p>\n

In the latter half of the interview, BBC\u2019s Annita McVeigh asked the following questions<\/a> after West\u2019s comment about Bosnia:<\/p>\n

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