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screenshot 'BBC News - Syria_ Agony of victims of 'napalm-like' school bombing' September 2013 - DISINFORMATION

 

Apophenia via Grumpy Opinions.

‘The following report contains disturbing images.’ This is how the BBC website introduces a report by its BBC Panorama’s Syria correspondents Ian Pannell and Darren Conway on August the 30th, 2013. The story contained a video, ostensibly shot near Aleppo, Northern Syria, by an anonymous school headmaster, and documenting the aftermath of a napalm attack on his school, supposedly perpetrated by the Syrian armed forces on August 26th.

According to the story, the “evil” forces of Bashar al-Assad, at a time when they had just about established their strategic advantage over the anti-government rebel forces and the foreign mercenaries they had been fighting for over two years, had found nothing better to do than attack a school, a target which presented no military interest whatsoever, with napalm[…]

H/T Bare Naked Islam.