We cant really be surprised now can we?





A senior British journalist claims that Syrian
rebels tried to lead him and his colleagues into a trap so they would be killed
by government forces, to discredit the regime of President Bashar
al-Assad.

Channel 4 News chief correspondent Alex
Thomson said a group from the Free Syrian Army led his team into the line of
fire because ‘dead journos are bad for Damascus’.

He said his vehicle was shot at before the
team managed to ‘floor it back to the road we’d been led in on’.

He wrote: ‘Suddenly four men in a black car
beckon us to follow. We move out behind. We are led another route. Led in fact,
straight into a free-fire zone. Told by the Free Syrian Army to follow a road
that was blocked off in the middle of no-man’s land.

'At that point there was the crack of a bullet
and one of the slower three-point turns I’ve experienced. We screamed off into
the nearest side-street for cover. Another dead-end. There was no option but to
drive back out on to the sniping ground and floor it back to the road we’d been
led in on.

‘Predictably the black car was there which had
led us to the trap. They roared off as soon as we re-appeared.

‘I’m quite clear the rebels deliberately set
us up to be shot by the Syrian army. Dead journos are bad for Damascus.’


His comments on the Channel 4 website came as
clashes were reported near the centre of the Syrian capital, while UN monitors
finally reached the hamlet of Mazraat al-Qubeir where up to 78 people, including
women and children, were reportedly killed by militia loyal to Assad two days earlier.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2155668/Syria-massacre-2012-Channel-4s-Alex-Thomson-attack.html#ixzz1xHk2Rn2A