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Volunteers by day, terrorists by night: The double life of White Helmets
SOTT ^ | 29 September 2016

Posted on 10/02/2016 5:29:51 PM PDT by Lorianne

Volunteers of the White Helmets civil defense organization have a double life: they are 'volunteers' by day and terrorists by night.

Photos, published online, reveal 'the second life' of volunteers of the White Helmets civil defense organization that operates throughout the Syrian territory, controlled by the 'moderate' opposition.

According to the photos, the volunteers spend one part of their lives, providing assistance to civilian population, and then transform into members of terrorist groups and shoot at the same civilians.

The White Helmets, also known as the Syrian Civil Defense (SCD), was founded in early 2013 by British security consultant James Le Mesurier. The organization is supported by Mayday Rescue, a foundation, registered in the Netherlands. The SCD was created as "a response to indiscriminate bombardment of civilian communities in rebel-held areas by the Syrian Arab Air Force." However, according to an official statement, the mission of the White Helmets is "to save the greatest number of lives in the shortest possible time and to minimize further injury to people and damage to property."

Now volunteers of the White Helmets operate in 114 local civil defense centers across 8 Syrian provinces with high presence of various militant groups: Aleppo, Homs, Idlib, Damascus Countryside, Hama, Latakia, and Daraa.

(Excerpt) Read more at sott.net ...


TOPICS: Syria
KEYWORDS: syria; sytia; terrorism; terrorists; whitehelmets
Photos at source.

This is why there is no "side" for us to support in Syria. It's a mess, but it is their mess. We simply should not be involved in a region with this much chaos and duplicity. There is no single 'enemy' and no ally.

1 posted on 10/02/2016 5:29:51 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Is this British person of the same ilk as that man who is from England with that “mercy” group who acts as England’s arbiter of the “genocide?”


2 posted on 10/02/2016 5:33:40 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Lorianne

“Volunteers by day, terrorists by night: The double life of White Helmets”

Think I’ve heard this song before...

Every night the local gentry
Slip out past the sleeping sentry
They go to join the old V C
In their nightly little dramas
They put on their black pajamas
And come lobbing mortar shells at me


3 posted on 10/02/2016 5:39:11 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Lorianne

Sure there is side to support.

Assad.

He was the lawful government of Syria and was, for a dictator, relatively even handed (mostly because he was a religious minority - Alawite).

Pull out and let the Syrian government finish this mess.


4 posted on 10/02/2016 5:41:14 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Lorianne

There are no moderates. It is shite murderers vs sunni murderers. The shite murderers are proped up by Russia, while the sunni murderers are by the West. Persian vs Arab war that is going to reduce the population growth in the Middle East.


5 posted on 10/02/2016 6:06:54 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Lorianne

Is Al Qaeda better for us than a relatively secular dictator?

Is it better for Israel? Is it better for anyone?

It only made sense to topple Assad if you were preparing to take down Iran. If you are allied with Iran, financing their nuclear program, taking down Assad no longer makes any sense at all.

And make no mistake, our government is allied with Iran. Granted, their policy is incoherent because they are simultaneously allied with Muslim Brotherhood, but coherence isn’t Obama’s strong suit. There is a glitch in his auto-pilot.


6 posted on 10/02/2016 6:08:23 PM PDT by marron
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To: sagar

That’s a plus.


7 posted on 10/02/2016 6:09:04 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Lorianne

Thought this was about the VC-White Mice. *sigh*


8 posted on 10/02/2016 6:13:58 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: sagar

Hillary got 25 million dollars for her foundation from the Saudis. What did the Saudis get? Could it be the take down of four secular Middle East governments? Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria?


9 posted on 10/02/2016 6:49:40 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: Karliner
White Mice

A term, I have not heard in over forty years!

I remembered it! Maybe.
Police RVN?

10 posted on 10/02/2016 6:54:23 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: Lorianne

I picked a side.

God’s side.

Neither of the major forces are invoking the name of God, nor the praise of jesus. Thus, no winners.

I sound like a jerk but there is science to what I’m saying here.

This is the first conflict where upper brass has been making moves to remove Christ from the military. It’s one side of islam fighting another side of Islam and for some reason we have to pick a side ?

Hardly. The bible talks about Damascus. God’s at the keyboard now.


11 posted on 10/02/2016 6:57:06 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: cradle of freedom

This is cold war II. America supports the sunni murderers and Russia supports the shite murderers. The Persian/Arab pawns fight for their masters and they do not know it ,which could be a good thing depending on your interests.

Russia gains by flooding Arabs into Europe. Europe is weakened. West is broken.

America gains by a burning Middle East since it keeps regional powers like China and India busy. The Islamic bloodbath is knocking at their doorsteps. Half of China is Islamic and the Northwestern India is as well. They might just go to war before this is all said and done.

Buy LockeedMartin and NorthupGrumman.


12 posted on 10/02/2016 7:08:17 PM PDT by sagar
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Triggered memories! Not that I would know. Not a nam vet but close enough for me to hear and read enough stories. It was the first thought I had when I read the article until I hit “Syria.” You are no DUMBGRUNT!


13 posted on 10/02/2016 7:33:46 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: sagar

It is the European and American governments that are swamping their own nations with Middle Easterners, Russia has nothing to do with it. I think what is happening is far more bizarre. This may sound crazy but I believe that the western powers including us are making a desperate leap toward the New World Order by bringing in an a limitless supply of Muslims into the western nations. They have made a deal with the Saudis and other Muslim nations to join them in their global government. The only way to get the Muslims to go along with it would be to allow them to invade the Christian nations and let them impose their Islamic ways on the westerners with the western governments sacrificing their citizens as they look away. We are already seeing it in European countries and in the United States citizens are becoming dhimmis—beleaguered second class people who are abused by the Muslims while the politicians, police and courts look away or give the Muslim criminals insultingly easy sentences.

The elites want their one world empire and they will do anything to get it.


14 posted on 10/02/2016 7:35:35 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: Celerity
The bible talks about Damascus.

Isaiah 17. In my tagline.

15 posted on 10/02/2016 7:35:49 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: sagar

There is a complementary geo-political theory that I have read, I don’t know if it is true as this is new to me but it is about getting control of an area from the Middle East through Eastern Europe which is a strategic area as whoever controls this area controls Eurasia. Britain (our true masters) has had several wars with Germany and Russia to control this area. I am rather fuzzy on this but who knows.

Look up www.wikispooks.com. I don’t know who is behind this website but it has a very different slant on things.


16 posted on 10/02/2016 7:46:47 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: Little Ray

I agree. Syrian women could dress as they pleased - look at any photo of 2010 Aleppo - and there was an education system.

Syria was just about the only country in the Middle East where people had the freedom to change their religion - therefore, Syria had a tiny community of Mormons. I wouldn’t care to be a Mormon, but they apparently saw something in it, and signed up. Their reward was that Mitt Romney, their co-religionist, supported violent regime change in favour of jihadists. It is like a world gone mad.

Anyway, in supporting the Asad govt, one is supporting the general, very important principle of respecting sovereign rights. Without these rights, any country could be overthrown by rising powers such as China, who might not like their government.


17 posted on 10/03/2016 3:42:33 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: Lorianne

OANN, at this very moment, is reporting on the sham that is the White Helmets.

$123 million in western funding, and they are a propaganda group. OANN completely unpantsed them. I have to believe they have produced a YouTube link for those that don’t subscribe to OANN.

It’s a blockbuster report.

I cannot say enough good things about OANN. It’s the channel Fox should have been. Relentlessly upbeat too.


18 posted on 04/22/2017 7:20:07 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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To: RinaseaofDs

I’ve requested a link to this segment from OANN for posting here.

Explosive reporting. Far better than Fox.


19 posted on 04/22/2017 7:33:51 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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