{"id":46476,"date":"2019-05-30T06:35:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T11:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46476"},"modified":"2019-05-30T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:16:50","slug":"one-mans-quest-to-expose-a-fake-bbc-video-about-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46476","title":{"rendered":"One Man\u2019s Quest To Expose A Fake BBC Video About Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One Man\u2019s Quest To Expose A Fake BBC Video About Syria<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a David vs Goliath story. A former local newspaper reporter, Robert Stuart, is taking on the British Broadcasting Corporation. Stuart believes that a sensational video story about an alleged atrocity in Syria\u00a0\u201cwas largely, if not entirely, staged.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 The BBC would like it all to just go away. But like David, Stuart will not back down or let it go.\u00a0 It has been proposed that the BBC could settle the issue by releasing the raw footage from the event, but they refuse to do this. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Controversial Video <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video report in controversy is \u2018Saving Syria\u2019s Children<\/a>\u2018. Scenes from it were first broadcast as a BBC news report<\/a> on August 29, 2013 and again as a BBC Panorama special in September. \u2018Saving Syria\u2019s Children\u2019 was produced by BBC reporter Ian Pannell with Darren Conway as camera operator and director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news report footage was taken in a town north of Aleppo city in a region controlled by the armed opposition. It purports to show the aftermath of a Syrian aerial attack using incendiary weapons, perhaps napalm, killing and burning dozens of youth.  The video shows the youth arriving and being treated at a nearby hospital where the BBC film team was coincidentally filming two British medical volunteers from a British medical relief organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saving Syria\u2019s Children documentary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The video had a strong impact. The incident was on August 26. The video was shown on the BBC<\/a>three days later as the British Parliament was debating whether to support military action by the US against Syria.  As it turned out, British parliament voted against supporting military action. But the video was effective in demonizing the Syrian government. After all, what kind of government attacks school children with napalm-like bombs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One Man\u2019s Quest To Expose A Fake BBC Video About Syria It\u2019s a David vs Goliath story. A former local newspaper reporter, Robert Stuart, is taking on the British Broadcasting Corporation. Stuart believes that a sensational video story about an alleged atrocity in Syria\u00a0\u201cwas largely, if not entirely, staged.\u201d\u00a0 The BBC would like it all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1607,16011,655,9127,26001],"class_list":["post-46476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-aleppo","tag-oriental-review","tag-propaganda","tag-rick-sterling","tag-robert-stuart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46476","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=46476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46477,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46476\/revisions\/46477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}