Syrian white helmets. How the “White Helmets” killed children for “evidence” of a chemical attack in Syria

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Oh, that little Syrian girl who is regularly saved by the White Helmets.

Yesterday, December 9, the newspaper VZGLYAD published an article “Berlin and Paris demanded that Damascus ensure the exit of the White Helmets from Aleppo.” After which I decided to learn more about the White Helmets organization.

Berlin and Paris demanded that Damascus ensure the exit of the White Helmets from Aleppo. December 9, 2016, 11:34 pm

Damascus must ensure the exit of civilians from eastern Aleppo, including members of the White Helmets organization, which positions itself as a human rights organization, said the Foreign Ministers of Germany and France Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Jean-Marc Ayrault. “We demand that the regime and those who support it ensure the safe evacuation of those members of the White Helmets who want to leave. Civilians must be able to leave the conflict zone safely and unhindered,” the document says.
http://vz.ru/news/2016/12/9/848597.html

Aleppo will soon return to the control of the Syrian authorities. December 9, 2016, 04:30

The day before, the Permanent Representative of Russia to world organization Vitaly Churkin, following a meeting in which UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura participated, said that all members of the UN Security Council at a closed meeting on Thursday proceeded in their speeches from the fact that Aleppo would soon return to the control of the Syrian authorities. All members of the UN Security Council at a closed meeting on Thursday assumed in their speeches that Aleppo would soon return to the control of the Syrian authorities, said Russia's permanent representative to the world organization Vitaly Churkin following a meeting in which UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura participated.
http://vz.ru/news/2016/12/9/848398.html

What do they write about the White Helmets organization itself in the Western media?

1. Syrian "White Helmets" - who are they? October 6, 2016

Syrian Civil Defense is an organization for the protection and rescue of civilians, better known as " White helmets". These unarmed volunteers, whom we often see in amateur videos posted on the Internet, digging out the wreckage, saving lives. They began their work in Syria in 2013 and since then they have been the first to go where bombs fall, pulling victims of airstrikes from under the ruins of destroyed buildings.
“Here is my hand. Do you see me? Don’t be afraid. I will break this stone and get you out of here,” one of the volunteers says to the woman buried under the rubble.
“Help me. Give me your hand... You are almost free,” the man convinces.
This organization, which remains outside of politics, but is accused by Moscow and Damascus of having links with terrorists, is engaged in saving people in the regions outside the control of the Syrian government. In Washington, the head of the White Helmets, Raed al-Saleh, called for donations to the Civil Defense, whose members are regularly killed by bombs.
"So, over the past eight days, we have witnessed a brutal campaign against Aleppo. We have documented 1,700 air strikes on the city. 19 of these involved bunker bombs. In two hundred cases, these were cluster bombs and weapons that were internationally banned." says al-Saleh.
The organization consists of more than three thousand women and men who come from different corners Syria, leaving their jobs as bakers, engineers, and school teachers.
“There are currently 120 volunteers working in Aleppo. 12 of them were injured, so we are trying to conduct training in the city to recruit more rescuers,” shares al-Saleh.
These images, filmed in Idlib, went around the world. A White Helmets volunteer rescues a four-month-old girl named Wahida, injured and covered in dust, from the rubble. The rescuer cannot stand the stress and cries.

2. The White Helmets of Syria saved thousands of lives. Now they are nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. August 18, 2016

Syrian Civil Defense units, also known as White Helmets" were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Made up of some 3,000 volunteers, the White Helmets, who are credited with saving more than 56,000 lives, can now receive the most famous "peace prize" on the planet.
In the words of 29-year-old volunteer Ishmael Alabdullah from Aleppo (from his recent interview), you can see the whole philosophy of the White Helmets:
"When you see people suffering, you need to do something to help them. I consider everyone who remains in Aleppo, everyone, to be heroes."
On their website, the White Helmets explain “what it takes to save a life”:
"In the deadliest conflict of our era, an incredible group of heroes was born. Former weavers, bakers, teachers and other ordinary Syrians came together to save lives from the rubble of bombing and the brutality of the war in Syria. Now their hallmark - the white Syrian Civil Defense helmet - for million is a symbol of hope.
When bombs fall from the sky, the White Helmets need to hurry. Where public services no longer operate, these unarmed volunteers risk their lives to help anyone in need, regardless of religion or political affiliation. These volunteers saved more than 60,000 lives through their work.
The motto of the White Helmets is taken from the Koran: “Whoever saves the life of a person, it is as if he saves the life of all people.” In a conflict where too many have chosen violence, the White Helmets wake up every day to save the lives that others try so hard to take.
Their bravery has inspired people all over the planet - from children in Syria playing lifeguard to students in Norway awarding them their city's Peace Prize; and now they are nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize."
The “Nobel Peace Prize for White Helmets” campaign is supported by more than 120 organizations. Among Syrian organizations:

the Syrian Nonviolent Movement;
Kesh Malek;
Dawlaty;
Women Now for Development;
Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression;
United Medical Office of Eastern Ghouta;
Syrian Network for Human Rights;
Local Duma Council;
Homs Media Center;
Free Syrian Lawyers Union;
and Baytna Syria.

Among international organizations:

Asfari Foundation;
Christian Aid;
International Trade Union Confederation;
Islamic Relief UK;
Pax Christi Vlaanderen [nider];
Syrian American Medical Society;
Doctors of the World UK;
Mayday Rescue;
Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies;
Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations;
Karam Foundation;
Syria Relief and Development;
and Bridge of Peace.

The White Helmets were nominated by, among others, Jo Cox, the UK Labor MP who was brutally murdered by a 52-year-old man on June 16, 2016. Following Cox's death, her husband Brendan set up a memorial fund to raise money to help causes the late MP supported. Three organizations were chosen: the NGO Royal Voluntary Service helping older people, the HOPE Not Hate movement for a modern, open Britain and, finally, the White Helmets.
In just five days, almost 41,000 people contributed nearly £1.35 million to the fund and the campaign has since passed its £1.5 million target. The head of the White Helmets, Raed Saleh, even presented the family with an honorary white helmet, a highly symbolic award that is “usually reserved for volunteers who have died saving civilians in Syria.”

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1. "White Helmets" of Syria - fiction and reality. 17 October 2016, 13:45

What role do they play in the information war?

A young man wearing a white helmet and a distinctive blue and yellow insignia on his sleeve spends four hours digging through the rubble of a destroyed building in Idlib province in northeastern Syria. Finally, he sees what he is looking for - a baby. He carries the baby to the ambulance as if it were his daughter.
This is how Western media portray the Syrian Civil Defense volunteers, also known as the White Helmets. But what does reality look like?
It's no secret that Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, dozens of non-governmental organizations have been established in the country. As a rule, these organizations have beautiful names, and they advocate for the rights and freedoms of Syrians, while providing some kind of humanitarian assistance.
In 2012, the list of these organizations was supplemented by the “Syrian Civil Defense” (SCD). It was founded by former British intelligence officer and private security specialist James Le Mesurier, who has been involved in various conflicts around the world, including Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.
Over the course of a few years, Syrian Civil Defense has transformed from an NGO into a structure with its own uniforms, symbols and even vehicles. Now the CDF has 119 centers throughout Syria - in Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Homs, Hama, Damascus. In 2016, an attempt was even made to nominate the White Helmets for the Nobel Peace Prize. And only a few remember that its volunteers showed up only in territories captured by the opposition, and since then they have not allowed representatives of the International Red Crescent Movement and the Red Cross to go there*.
The Helmets claim that their organization is an independent humanitarian NGO, officially not dependent on any political party or military group.
Nevertheless, The Helmets Receive Huge Donations from Various Governments - United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and Holland. But their largest donor - Agency international development USA (US Agency for International Development, USAID ), which funds various NGOs around the world. In April 2016, US State Department spokesman Mark Toner confirmed that the agency had provided the Helmets with at least $23 million since 2013.
It is clear that by receiving such donations, Syrian Civil Defense must promote the interests of those countries that invest in it. A striking example of this is the attack on a UN humanitarian convoy near Aleppo on September 19. White Helmets volunteers “accidentally” happened to be on the scene and were the first to report the attack and immediately blamed Syrian and Russian aircraft.
Allegedly, volunteers found some bomb fragments at the site and saw Syrian helicopters. This information was then cited by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights**. And then the US authorities made their conclusions based on the so-called report of this Syrian NGO.
What is interesting and unusual about this fact is that humanitarian activists ended up in territory controlled by the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra***. But, if we study more deeply all the available information, then everything will become clear.
Thus, Vanessa Beeley, a British expert on the Middle East, says that the White Helmets are creating the environment necessary for a military invasion of Syria by the United States and its allies, and are also collaborating with various terrorist groups.
According to Bili, the CDF operates in territories controlled by Jabhat al-Nusra, and not only ignores the crimes committed by terrorists, but also does everything to create a positive image of these thugs in the media.
Further evidence of the Helmets' connection to terrorists is the fact that on April 20, 2016, the United States denied an entry visa to the organization's head, Raed Saleh, when he traveled to receive an award from InterAction, an alliance of humanitarian aid agencies. help. According to the official version, his visa had expired when he entered the country. However, according to the New York Times, he was identified as a terrorist suspect.
Moreover, many White Helmets activists are members of armed groups. There is ample evidence that they sympathize not just with the opposition, but with terrorists. “Helmets” enthusiastically share photos and comments on social networks Twitter and Facebook, showing who exactly works in the so-called “Syrian Civil Defense”.
It becomes clear that the White Helmets are not a humanitarian organization, but a cover that is used to support militants of various terrorist groups. In addition, "Helmets" are used to spread the necessary false information. Civil Defense activists constantly post on their Twitter accounts photographs of hospitals, schools and mosques that were allegedly bombed by the Syrian Air Force and its allies. Following this comes the turn of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and then the Western media.
However, experienced journalists question the reliability of the White Helmets' information. Independent Italian journalist Marinella Correggia found that not a single medical organization never stated that its structure was hit during bombing campaigns by the Syrian or Russian Air Force. None of the buildings damaged or destroyed as a result of their bombings had the necessary identification marks. Italian researchers concluded that these buildings, which were located close to militant groups, were field hospitals and had no connection with any state system health or international organizations like the Red Cross.
It is clear that Syrian Civil Defense does not pursue the goals that its leaders claim. The Helmets don't just provide humanitarian assistance; they collaborate with terrorist groups.
It is clear that the information provided by Helmets about the attack on a UN convoy near Aleppo and other crimes allegedly committed by the Syrian Air Force and its allies is highly dubious. The investigation that the UN plans to launch should not be based on Helmet allegations, but on objective information provided by all parties to the conflict.
Thus, the image of a rescuer wearing a white helmet created by the Western media disappears and the reality emerges - the uniform of a humanitarian organization is worn by people who sympathize with terrorists.

2. Syria: Killers in white helmets. Investigation of Constantinople. Who is behind the Syrian "humanitarian organization"

Today we will talk about the White Helmets organization in Syria. Officially, this organization is called the Syrian Civil Defense. Ministry of Emergency Situations in the territories of Syrian militants. Usually, when you need to blame Russia for the bombing of peaceful Syrian terrorists, for the destruction of hospitals and schools, it is these guys who find themselves in the center of events - with wounded children in their arms and professional cameras on their shoulders.

The founder of the Helmets was James Le Mesurier, a former British army officer and later a mercenary in the Oliva group. This is a private military firm closely associated with the notorious Blackwater Academy PMC.
And she, in turn, carries out orders from the Pentagon and the US government. Le Mesurier is in fact a British military intelligence officer with an impressive record, a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, has served in some well-known theaters of war, including Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. In general, wherever it is necessary to organize first a humanitarian catastrophe, and then a humanitarian intervention. With the subsequent victory of democracy, of course.

In the West, the White Helmets are praised as the only organization saving Syrians from the humanitarian crisis. This sounds very ironic, because, as you know, since 2013 Syria has been under severe sanctions from the United States and the European Union. The import of food and medicine into the country is prohibited, and all foreign assets are frozen. The White Helmets officially exist through donations and international grants. The main sponsor is the well-known George Soros Foundation.
The first contribution was made in 2013, when the organization first appeared. An office in Istanbul, equipment from Turkish rescuers and 300 thousand “lifting” ones received helmets. Then another 13 million dollars. Now, annually, according to official sources, the treasury of the Syrian aibolit receives 30 million dollars from the USA, Britain and the Netherlands. There are other sponsors. According to Syrian sources, the organization's budget is about $50 million. As we understand, such money is not given out to anyone in the West just like that.

"White Helmets" play an important role in the information war. Western media It was never possible to find a moderate opposition in Syria. Syrian democratic revolutionaries turned out to be bearded Wahhabis who cut off heads, blow up cultural monuments and carry out terrorist attacks not only in Syria, but also in Europe. In the context of the confrontation between dictator Assad and the Syrian opposition, even the most duped by liberal propaganda viewer will support Assad as at least the lesser evil from the point of view western man. The “White Helmets” became the media image that covered up the atrocities of Syrian opposition militants.
These "Baywatch" guys love to share their exploits on social media. Let's take a look.
Here they are in civil defense uniforms.

But in their spare time, no, no, they’ll take up the old stuff.

Baker, merchant, tailor, who will you be? - A terrorist, that's who.

Among the rescuers there are also excellent make-up artists. For example, a girl was painted with a terrible wound and declared a victim of the Russian VKS.

And this young man, according to the Western press, is the only doctor left in Aleppo. Allegedly, he is treating civilians right under the bombs of Russian aircraft. Only this doctor’s surgical instruments are quite strange.

The White Helmets operate only in territories controlled by militants. They can often be seen in Jabhat al-Nusra videos (banned in Russia). For example, these civil activists rejoice with terrorists after the capture of the city of Idlib in March 2015. And another human rights activist and civil defender was captured abusing a captured Syrian soldier.
That is, by and large, these are the same militants, sometimes dressing up in white shirtfronts and helmets to pose as civilians. Their work is highly valued in Syria itself. For example, one of the leaders of Syrian al-Qaeda(banned in Russia), Jabhat al-Nusra, whose full name, by the way, translates as “front to help the Syrian people,” Abdullah Muhaisini in his interview thanked the White Helmets for their hard work: “I don’t call them Syrian Civil Defense , I call them mujahideen in civilian clothes. They are real mujahideen, no different from those who fight in the trenches or in bomb carriers. There is no difference between them, and may Allah reward them fiercely."
It turns out that this is a kind of terrorist emergency service, killers in white coats. The organization has 3 thousand activists - one might say, a full-blooded division. One of their leaders, Farq al-Habib, was the head of the group that captured Homs; he is even recognized as a terrorist in the United States.

That doesn’t stop Washington from continuing to praise the White Helmets. There are other crimes behind the White Helmets. Together with the French organization Doctors Without Borders, they launched several business projects in Syria that had previously been tested by Western colleagues in the Balkans, Libya and other conflict zones. This is drug and weapons smuggling and, most importantly, human trafficking. And not necessarily whole: organ trafficking is rampant in refugee camps.
In a word, true humanists.

3. Syria through the eyes of eyewitnesses: journalist Vanessa Biley on the US propaganda war , October 28, 2016

British journalist and writer Vanessa Biley spoke at the press conference “The situation in Aleppo through the eyes of eyewitnesses,” which is being held in Moscow on October 26. She noted that the propaganda spread by the so-called “White Helmets” is the most terrible component of the war, a FBA correspondent for Economy Today reported.
Vanessa Biley stated that The West, through propaganda, wants to create a shadow state in Syria.
Biley emphasized that three wars are unfolding in Aleppo: indirect, waged by the United States and allies, dirty and sanctioned - extremely destructive for the Syrian people. At the same time, according to her, the most terrible and destructive component is the propaganda that is spread by the USA and NATO.
It is worth noting, as Biley stated, that the information that comes from Aleppo is disseminated by the White Helmets group. The journalist emphasized that the information conveyed by this group is filled with propaganda.
"White Helmets," Vanessa Biley clarified, constantly claim that they remain neutral and objective and do not receive any funding. At the same time, the group is actually funded by the UK Home Office, as well as other EU countries that transferred about 23 million euros to the organization. At the same time, all these countries have officially declared that they want regime change in Syria.
It is also noteworthy that the White Helmets group was trained by officers in Turkey. One of these officers, as the journalist said, is connected with an adviser to George W. Bush, as well as with a part-time agent who publishes videos of the Islamic State group (banned in Russia).
Biley noted that this group does not directly participate in executions, but condones it. "We saw how they celebrate the murder of two Syrians. The White Helmets are not against executions, they participate in propaganda against Russia," she said.
Most of the information that Americans receive comes through Western-supported NGOs, said Vanessa Biley. They are located in Turkey and create the information that is supported by NATO.
The goal pursued by Western propaganda is simple: to remove the Syrian government and create a shadow state, as Biley emphasized. According to her, so The British Foreign Office provides support not only to the White Helmets, but also to the Syrian Forum.
It is worth noting that, according to the journalist, there is also a positive component information war, which is actively unfolding in Syria. As Biley noted, independent media lobbies are being created in the country. She told how one day a man came up to her and apologized for previously giving money to the White Helmets. “Now we want to give money to activists and defenders of the civilian population,” Biley reported his words.

4. During the day - activists, in the evening - terrorists: bandits put on real performances for the media on camera

These people are called “Syrian heroes in white helmets,” there are rumors that they want to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and Western media claim that this is almost the only volunteer human rights organization involved in rescuing Syrians in particularly dangerous areas.
We are talking about the “White Helmets” - supposedly volunteers pulling people out from under the rubble in cities where fighting. As a rule, their “rescue operations” are accompanied by accusations of war crimes against the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Air Force. But if you take a closer look, it becomes clear that the activists are themselves bandits in disguise, performing real performances on camera.

These shots went around the whole world. They allegedly show a resident of one of the Syrian cities buried under rubble, and the “rescuers” who are helping him get out.

However, then a group photo appears online, where the “bombing victim” poses for the camera with volunteers without a single scratch on his body. Later, a photo of this “local resident” even appears on social networks, where he is dressed in military uniform fighter of the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

The White Helmets' feature is children who died as a result of air raids. But this often turns out to be fake. Boys and girls, as a rule, are fake, and their wounds are professionally applied makeup.

In fact, “Helmets” are financed by the USA, Britain, Holland and the Arabian monarchies, and the “volunteer” movement was founded by a certain James Le Mesurier. Experts believe that he is a British army officer, an intelligence officer, a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and a person associated with the famous private commercial structure Blackwater Academy (an American private military organization, which carries out secret combat missions outside the United States).

The White Helmets are the same terrorists who fight in their ranks and help them commit war crimes. In this footage, militants execute a man. And a minute later they are helped to remove the body by... the “White Helmets” who stood nearby during the execution.

5. Secret and non-humanitarian mission: what the White Helmets are doing in Syria . 19 October 2016, 20:11

The White Helmets organization is often featured in Western media as rescuers who are ready to sacrifice their lives to help Syrians affected by the conflict. Activists who collect donations for their organization on the Internet even make documentaries. In addition, the White Helmets receive funding from the United States. At the same time, according to Bashar al-Assad, the group “is hiding behind a humanitarian mission, but pursues other goals.” It is noteworthy that the White Helmets often work in regions of Syria controlled by militants. RT correspondent Anastasia Churkina managed to talk with a representative of the White Helmets, Abdurrahman al-Mavvas.

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A representative of the organization, who was received in Paris by the country's President Francois Hollande, assures that “rescuers are operating in accordance with international humanitarian law.”
At the same time, the volunteer noted that the organization is supported by external sponsors: “We are an activist group that receives funding from the US, UK, Germany and the Netherlands.”.
He assured that all funds go to “saving lives, equipment, vehicles, which are necessary to search and rescue victims.”
Let us recall that earlier the White Helmets organization was accused of falsifying evidence of the death of civilians allegedly as a result of Russian airstrikes.

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When asked by RT correspondent Anastasia Churkina whether the source of funding for the White Helmets affects the work of the organization, the activist answered negatively. “We do not get involved in political and military issues”, said Abdurrahman al-Mawwas.
At the same time, video materials of the White Helmets organization are actively used by the foreign press. Representatives of the mission also work in territories controlled by Syrian militants. Guests of the CrossTalk program aired on the RTD TV channel talk about how the humanitarian mission ends up in areas occupied by opposition groups and ignores the civilians who suffered at their hands.
Previously, information appeared in the media that representatives of the White Helmets may be involved in the terrorist organization Al-Nusra Front *, since they were reportedly present at the executions, which the militants filmed on video. Abdurrahman al-Mavwas avoided answering RT’s question about connections with terrorists, saying that he represents a humanitarian organization. “We are a group of volunteers from Syria, there is data on the number of people saved, I think you have seen all our videos,” he explained.
The White Helmets are not the only organization whose erroneous data was replicated in foreign media. For example, citing research by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, some publications wrote about civilians killed as a result of Russian airstrikes in Syria. But RT found out that the head of the center has not been to Syria since 2000, and receives all the figures from his friends, as well as from other not the most reliable sources.

6. Flash mob under bombs: White Helmets activists were again accused of staging a video in Syria. November 22, 2016, 6:45 pm

The White Helmets organization, which calls itself a human rights organization and works mainly in territories controlled by Syrian militants, has again found itself at the center of a scandal. The Revolutionary Forces of Syria (RFS) portal published a video allegedly showing White Helmets activists participating in the popular Mannequin Challenge flash mob during a staged rescue operation. After Internet users drew attention to the professional work of the actors and directors, RFS removed the video from its page, provoking another debate about the true goals of the “humanitarian mission” in Syria.

At first glance, it may seem that the video captures a real rescue operation in one of the Syrian cities, where a local resident was partially buried under rubble. However, at the beginning of the video, following the rules of the Mannequin Challenge flash mob, neither the victim nor the White Helmets activists move while the cameraman walks around them with a camera.
After a few seconds, the Syrian seems to come to life and begins to scream in pain, clutching at the rescuers. At this time, the sounds of a busy city are heard behind the scenes, and rescuers begin their work.

Thus, if you cut off the first part of the video, you get a complete feeling of the real work of rescuers at the site of shelling in Syria, which users reminded of in the comments to the video.
“Incredible! Watch how the White Helmets film their productions,” Walid wrote, attaching photographs of the actors.

The so-called “rescuers” associated with the militants from the Syrian Civil Defense organization (also known as the White Helmets) recently launched a new wave of propaganda materials on the Internet. This time, pseudo-activists accused the Syrian army of allegedly using cluster bombs when shelling the Eastern Ghouta oasis in Damascus. Federal News Agency (FAN) analyzed the materials and found out how the White Helmets manipulate the facts in their “revelations.”

The White Helmets are a terrorist propaganda arm that positions itself as a non-governmental organization that is not associated with any opposition or terrorist organizations. Pseudo-“rescuers” are notorious for their highly artistic productions illustrating “regime atrocities.”

However, Syrian Civil Defense activists were repeatedly caught forgery: the same children were present in different materials, and the “victims” who were supposed to be lying dead opened their eyes. Moreover, when government forces liberated war-torn Aleppo in 2016, local residents said that armed militants were hiding under the guise of “rescuers.”

“Helmets” operate exclusively in territories controlled by terrorist organizations, mainly “ Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" - an alliance of Syrian groups associated with terrorists " Jabhat al-Nusra 1"(banned in the Russian Federation). After the liberation of Aleppo, the “rescuers” disappeared along with the militants. But the head of Helmets in Idlib shone in the company Abu Jabera And Abdullah al-Muhaysini, chapters of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

Cassette question

Several armed groups operate in the suburbs and eastern districts of Damascus, as well as in the oasis of Eastern Ghouta. In the territory controlled by Jaysh al-Islam militants, in the city of Duma, “activists” and employees of the White Helmets are conducting vigorous activity, trying to accuse the Syrian government forces of shelling civilians. Moreover, active members of the organization publish photographs and videos on social networks, which are then picked up by the media for an information attack on the Syrian government.

In November 2017, for example, photographs of ammunition appeared from “activists,” which they called the remains of cluster bombs allegedly fired by the Syrian army at Douma. The “rescuers” also published a video in which they themselves came “under fire” and photographs of the victims of the “shelling.” It is noteworthy that the White Helmets once again show injured and dead children, trying to put pressure on the pity of the Western public.

The White Helmets' materials spread across the Internet, but immediately gave rise to a lot of controversy. Thus, activists of the notorious Conflict Intelligence Team portal, relying on materials from Syrian “rescuers,” write that Damascus uses cluster munitions, which “scatter many small destructive elements over a large area and are prohibited by an international convention to which most countries of the world are parties.” At the same time, activists say, Russia and Syria did not join the convention.

Of course, CIT activists seemed to accidentally forget that, in addition to Russia and Syria, the United States, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and South Korea, Poland with Turkey and several dozen other countries. Of course, the activists did not pay attention to the fact that in one of the publications, which was actually made not in the Duma, but in the settlement of Khamuria, the details of the photographs did not match. In two photographs, the aerial bomb lies at different angles and it is not clear whether it is one bomb, and it was dragged from place to place, or whether it is two completely different ammunition. In addition, the bomb shown in one photo did not leave a halo from falling in the other. But all these discrepancies are just the tip of the iceberg: in fact, activists spread a skillfully constructed “fake” from the White Helmets.

You can't fool the facts

The factual material on which anti-government researchers rely is quite controversial. The photo shows 3O10 submunitions from a 240-mm 3O8 cluster mortar mine, which were allegedly used by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) during the shelling of Duma. The only photographed combat element is an unexploded cluster munition for destroying armored vehicles - although it weighs 3.9 kg, surprisingly easily stuck into the ground, as if by chance, near the place where the asphalt ends. However, taking into account the supposedly high-speed fall and sticking into the ground, next to her there is not even a small funnel, which appears when even a lightly weighted load falls, not to mention an impressive piece of metal. There are no traces of combustion around the element, or fragmentation damage around it.

The video with the White Helmets, which depicts an alleged “attack” with cluster munitions, also deserves a detailed analysis. Firstly, the video begins very shortly after the beginning of all the events - yes, they could have been cut off, but “rescuers” know where to look and what to film. It is noticeable that the camera is an ordinary telephone and is not attached to the operator’s body or head, as evidenced by strong shaking.

Followed by two explosions: pops and black smoke. And herein lies an important detail: they too weak. 3o10 ammunition uses hexal as an explosive. It explodes very powerfully and produces a detonation speed of about 8 thousand m/s depending on the density, and in ammunition it is not lower than 1700 kg/m3. The explosion temperature of hexal is 5000 degrees Celsius, which means smoke burns, without having time to form.

At the same time, each “cassette” must contain at least 640 grams of hexal, that is the explosion would have been many times more powerful. What do we see on the recordings? The explosion is comparable in strength to a standard 400 gram TNT stick, or to a simulated explosive package. Judging by the locations of the explosions, the charge was clearly laid in advance so that no “outsiders” are seriously injured during the journey - clouds of dust rise, but there are no large debris. This means that the charge was placed so as not to throw any potential destructive elements.

However, this staged nature of the action does not prevent “activists” from declaring “victims” of a staged attack. Materials from the same “White Helmets” are of high quality: V emergency situation, immediately after the “shelling”, a professional camera captures “rescuers” packing the child’s corpse into a bag. "Helmets" are always present on videos dead or injured children, where at that age they could not be. If their parents know about the “constant shelling,” then why are the children alone? Rarely does a White Helmets report capture grief-stricken relatives, although it covers the situation from different angles. So it is here - not a single adult provides any details of the incident, which means that the White Helmets are again using children, trying to play on emotions, but without providing any details.

There are a few more interesting details in the above case. A child being pulled from the rubble lies in the middle of an ordinary garbage that shows no trace of exposure to fragments. Moreover, the force of a real cluster bomb explosion is so powerful that the human body(especially a child!) would be torn apart by a shock wave and damaging elements into pieces. Thus, the question arises - did the child really die in this place, and where are the grief-stricken relatives who could record his death?

Expert: provocations against Russia and Syria will increase

Military expert, editor-in-chief of the Kassad information and analytical center Boris Rozhin in conversation with a correspondent Federal News Agency (FAN) noted that this is not the first time such accusations from the White Helmets regarding cluster bomb attacks have been heard. However, if at first pro-American sources tried to blame Russia for this, now they are turning attention to the Syrian army:

“The official position of the Russian Ministry of Defense is that Russia does not use cluster munitions. Since Russia officially denies and does not legally voice this situation in any way, the United States is turning its attention to the Assad government. They are bringing together the topic of accusations of using cluster munitions with the use of chemical weapons, especially after the story of vetoing the extension of the UN-OPCW mission.”

The expert notes: since the topic of chemical munitions in Khan Sheikhoun has been exhausted from the point of view of facts, the topic of cluster munitions has revived again, and again it is voiced by the White Helmets, an organization that is associated with the Syrian Al-Qaeda 1 (an international terrorist network prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation).

“The fact that she was pulled out suggests that they cannot come up with anything new about Assad, but are trying to throw information bombs under the past meeting of Assad with Putin, Putin’s meeting with Erdogan and Rouhani, in order to soften the negative ending scenario for the Helmets war. I am sure that there will be more such accusations as the fighting continues. The matter here depends on information policy, since it is clear that “Helmets” are voicing a propaganda line that has long been formed regarding the use of cluster munitions.”

At the same time, the expert recalls that several air bases of the Syrian Air Force, including large ones, were and remain under the control of militants. From there, the militants and their henchmen from the White Helmets could receive all the necessary ammunition to create provocations against the Syrian army.

“With regards to the warehouses of the Syrian Air Force, during the war the militants controlled most of these air bases, where old aircraft and ammunition were located. And in principle, there were no problems with having ammunition for organizing provocations,” the expert noted. – Moreover, the issues of importing chemical weapons from Libya were discussed. And if the concept itself has been discussed and it works, then to organize provocations there is no problem in carrying ammunition to organize the staging.”

However, Boris Rozhin is confident that the story with “cluster bombs” in the Duma will not have any consequences, since even in the West the majority already understands that Assad has already resisted, and these information attacks are somewhat belated.

“In the course of a further war, when pro-American militants decide to prolong the conflict and negotiate some conditions, information provocations against Russia, Assad and especially Iran will naturally increase. In addition to the performances, there may be several bloody actions, like Khan Sheikhoun. Accordingly, a provocation will be organized, say, in central Syria, or in the south, with the aim of fabricating a pretext for striking the SAA or Iranian formations, as happened with the Shayrat air base,” concludes Boris Rozhin.

1 The organization is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Unknown assailants brutally killed 7 employees of the White Helmets organization and took away their equipment in the city of Sarmin in the north-east of Idlib in Syria.

Damascus Herald writes about this on Twitter.

Let us recall that it was the testimony of the White Helmets about the alleged use by the Syrian authorities of chemical weapons in Idlib, became the reason for a US missile attack on the Shayrat airbase by Syrian government forces.

The accusations of using chemical weapons are not based on anything. Nothing at all. Neither logic nor facts. Almost all “evidence” is staged filming and outright lies. But studying the personalities of some representatives of the White Helmets amazed even seasoned cynics.

And here is how the well-known “Deutsche Welle” covers this same event ( Deutsche Welle - DW):

Seven White Helmets killed in Syria

In Idlib province, unknown assailants shot dead workers of the White Helmets humanitarian organization. The radical group that controls the area promises to find the attackers.

White Helmets employees in Syria (file photo)

In the city of Sarmin, in the province of Idlib, unknown assailants shot and killed seven employees of the Syrian humanitarian organization White Helmets. This was announced on Saturday, August 12, on the organization’s Twitter page.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the White Helmets were shot in the head. The reasons for the attack are still unknown, and the identities of the attackers have not been established. Unknown people also stole some of the equipment and stole two minibuses belonging to the organization.

Idlib province is under the control of rebels from the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, AFP notes. Representatives of this radical association called the incident a “horrific crime” and promised to find and bring to justice the organizers of the attack.

The White Helmets have been helping since 2013 civilian population Syria, which found itself in a war zone in territories not controlled by Damascus. In 2016, this organization was awarded an alternative Nobel Prize. The White Helmets have about 3,000 employees. It is reported that during civil war in Syria they saved about 60 thousand people.

And one more, in my opinion, very interesting material:

Who are the White Helmets in Syria

Balashov's report: Humanitarian skin [Russian response] Published: Oct 5. 2016

http://tsargrad.tv/articles/belye-kaski-s-rukami-v-krovi_29000

Syria: Killers in white helmets

Investigation of Constantinople. Who is behind the Syrian "humanitarian organization"

The founder of the Helmets was James Le Mesurier, a former British army officer and later a mercenary in the Oliva group. This is a private military company closely associated with the notorious Blackwater Academy PMC.

And she, in turn, carries out orders from the Pentagon and the US government. Le Mesurier is in fact a British military intelligence officer with an impressive record, a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, who has "worked" in some well-known theaters of war, including Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. In general, wherever it is necessary to organize first a humanitarian catastrophe, and then a humanitarian intervention. With the subsequent victory of democracy, of course.

James Le Mesurier

In the West, the White Helmets are praised as the only organization saving Syrians from the humanitarian crisis. This sounds very ironic, because, as you know, since 2013 Syria has been under severe sanctions from the United States and the European Union. The import of food and medicine into the country is prohibited, and all foreign assets are frozen. The White Helmets officially exist through donations and international grants. The main sponsor is the well-known George Soros Foundation.

The first contribution was made in 2013, when the organization first appeared. An office in Istanbul, equipment from Turkish rescuers and 300 thousand “lifting” ones received helmets. Then another 13 million dollars. Now, according to official sources alone, the treasury of the Syrian aibolit receives 30 million dollars annually from the USA, Britain and the Netherlands. There are other sponsors. According to Syrian sources, the organization's budget is about $50 million. As we understand, such money is not given out to anyone in the West just like that.

The White Helmets play an important role in the information war. Western media have failed to detect a moderate opposition in Syria. Syrian democratic revolutionaries turned out to be bearded Wahhabis who cut off heads, blow up cultural monuments and carry out terrorist attacks not only in Syria, but also in Europe. In the context of the confrontation between dictator Assad and the Syrian opposition, even the most fooled viewer by liberal propaganda will support Assad as at least the lesser evil from the point of view of a Westerner. The “White Helmets” became the media image that covered up the atrocities of Syrian opposition militants.

These "Baywatch" guys love to share their exploits on social media. Let's take a look.

Here they are in civil defense uniforms.

But in their spare time, no, no, they’ll take up the old stuff.

Baker, merchant, tailor, who will you be? - A terrorist, that's who.

Among the rescuers there are also excellent make-up artists. For example, a girl was painted with a terrible wound and declared a victim of the Russian VKS.

And this young man, according to the Western press, is the only doctor left in Aleppo. Allegedly, he is treating civilians right under the bombs of Russian aircraft. Only this doctor’s surgical instruments are quite strange.

The White Helmets operate only in territories controlled by militants. They can often be seen in Jabhat al-Nusra videos (banned in Russia). For example, these civil activists rejoice with terrorists after the capture of the city of Idlib in March 2015. And another human rights activist and civil defender was captured abusing a captured Syrian soldier.

That is, by and large, these are the same militants, sometimes dressing up in white shirtfronts and helmets to pose as civilians. Their work is highly valued in Syria itself. For example, one of the leaders of the Syrian al-Qaeda (banned in Russia), Jabhat al-Nusra, whose full name, by the way, is translated as “front of assistance to the Syrian people,” Abdullah Muhaisini, in his interview, thanked the White Helmets for hard work: "I don't call them Syrian Civil Defense, I call them mujahideen in civilian clothes. They are real mujahideen, no different from those who fight in the trenches or in bomb trucks. There is no difference between them, and may Allah reward them. They are fierce are fighting."

It turns out that this is a kind of terrorist emergency service, killers in white coats. The organization has 3 thousand activists - one might say, a full-blooded division. One of their leaders, Farq al-Habib, was the head of the group that captured Homs; he is even recognized as a terrorist in the United States.

That doesn’t stop Washington from continuing to praise the White Helmets. There are other crimes behind the White Helmets. Together with the French organization Doctors Without Borders, they launched several business projects in Syria that had previously been tested by Western colleagues in the Balkans, Libya and other conflict zones. This is drug and weapons smuggling and, most importantly, human trafficking. And not necessarily intact: organ trafficking is rampant in refugee camps.

James Le Mesurier

These "Baywatch" guys love to share their exploits on social media. Let's take a look.
Here they are in civil defense uniforms.

But in their spare time, no, no, they’ll take up the old stuff.

Baker, merchant, tailor, who will you be? - A terrorist, that's who.

Among the rescuers there are also excellent make-up artists. For example, a girl was painted with a terrible wound and declared a victim of the Russian VKS.

In a word, true humanists.

Before we had time to really rejoice after some US representatives declared that they did not intend to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, a new provocation began. And what a one! Comparable to the one that happened in 2013 and almost led to direct aggression against Syria.

And in this new black provocation, the same “White Helmets” were involved, which were already used for the information war against the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation, when the Syrian army liberated Aleppo. The same ones who “heroically saved” the same girl several times from the “evil” Syrians or even Russians.

The Russian Foreign Ministry in those days drew the attention of the world community to the fact that “ The White Helmets are not shy about taking overtly staged photographs. Now we are talking about an even larger provocation, one that threatens to completely disrupt all the latest efforts to establish peace in Syria.

So, on April 4, the “news” thundered throughout the world: the Syrian army allegedly used chemical agents again. This time - in the city of Khan Sheikhoun, Idleb province. Different media reports different numbers of victims - from 58 to 100, as if competing to see who can name the most.

The so-called White Helmets volunteers flash on the screens, carrying out some kind of “rescue work.” An office called “Idleb Media Center,” which includes these same “White Helmets,” spread the “news”: that Syria or even the Russian Aerospace Forces used chemical weapons against civilians. Once again, speculation on the suffering of women and children. In addition to the White Helmets, the so-called “Observatory for Human Rights in Syria” was involved in this case. The one that is located in London and was previously caught in lies and falsifications. All the “cooks” of the dirty information kitchen are right there again.

The reaction of Western countries is immediate. Convening of the UN Security Council. If only they would have reacted so quickly when “opposition” terrorists staged monstrous explosions in Damascus on March 11 among Shiite pilgrims from Iraq (more than 70 dead). Or when on March 15, on the anniversary of their bloody pseudo-revolution, they flooded the Syrian capital with blood, staging several barbaric terrorist attacks (again, dozens of victims). But then it was not even possible to accept a press statement from the UN Security Council condemning these crimes. Because they cannot be blamed on the Syrian leadership. In vain did Syria and Russia demand that these crimes be condemned.

And, of course, no UN Security Council even thought of meeting after the terrible terrorist explosion in Russia. What about the lives of some Iraqis, Syrians, Russians! However, not all Syrians. The lives of those living in Idleb province are of particular value: this is territory controlled by the “opposition.” Therefore, a completely different approach: if someone touches them, immediately demand the most drastic measures.

First, France demanded the convening of the UN Security Council - the same France that still continues to consider Syria its colony and which in 2013, during a similar chemical provocation, most actively proposed bombing Damascus. Britain and the USA immediately joined it.

All the peace-loving rhetoric American politicians flew off like tinsel from a Christmas tree thrown into the trash. Now Donald Trump himself - the one who has repeatedly considered Obama's policy towards Syria to be too aggressive - is saying the exact opposite. "Uh These monstrous actions of Bashar al-Assad are a consequence of the weakness and indecisiveness of the previous administration"- this is what the new American president now says through his official representative. And he recalls that his predecessor Barack Obama said that the use of chemical weapons is a “red line.” But then, Trump now laments, Obama did nothing.

Stop! How do you mean “didn’t do anything”? This is where we come to the most important thing.

So, what did Obama do when, in August 2013, Syria was accused of using chemical agents near Damascus? He threatened direct aggression, which almost did not happen. The madmen were stopped thanks to Russia's diplomatic efforts and Syria's agreement to completely eliminate its chemical weapons.

In 2014, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), acting jointly with the UN, reported: Syria no longer has chemical weapons. Everything was taken out and destroyed. Liquidated and production capacity for its manufacture.

After this, the United States and other Western countries repeatedly tried to blame the Syrian army again in the use... of weapons that no longer exist. But we were talking about isolated victims. And so an “information bomb” was concocted, in which dozens of victims (if not a hundred) appear.

The Russian Ministry of Defense responded to possible accusations against Russia as follows: “ Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft no strikes in the area settlement Khan Sheikhun of Idleb province was not inflicted».

However, it is unlikely that they will blame Russia directly. Most likely, they will focus on accusations against the Syrian leadership. And on this basis, Russia will be accused indirectly: they say, “look what a terrible regime it is defending.”

And here is the reaction of Syria itself. The country's Foreign Ministry stated: “ The Syrian army does not have chemical warheads. All accusations against her are fabricated... The SAR government denies the slanderous campaign launched against it. Syrian troops did not use chemical agents even in the most difficult battles with terrorist groups».

The Syrian Foreign Ministry recalled that official Damascus has fulfilled all obligations associated with joining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Chemical Weapons in 2013.

In this regard, one cannot help but recall that the same Syrian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly sent letters to the UN Security Council, in which sounded the alarm about the presence of toxic substances in terrorist groups. The answer was always silence.

Russia and China recently tried to raise the issue of the presence of dangerous substances in the possession of anti-Syrian terrorists in the UN Security Council. On March 25, these countries submitted a draft resolution to the vote, which speaks of the need to counter the use of chemical weapons by terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. A little over a year ago, on April 14, 2016, Russia and China had already introduced a similar draft resolution, but some Western countries refused to support it.

Now the most severe accusations are being made against Damascus. The speed of reaction to any sneeze by companies like the White Helmets and the Observatory for Human Rights is simply amazing. Because when it came to the use of chemical weapons by various “opposition” groups, neither speed nor zeal was noted. On the contrary, there was real sabotage of any attempts to condemn the “oppositionists.”

Diplomats of the Russian Federation (and possibly China) face another battle. I would like to hope that this battle will not go beyond the hall where the UN Security Council will meet. Because otherwise the consequences could be terrible, and all attempts at a peaceful settlement would collapse overnight. The “White Helmets,” and most importantly, their masters, with their black lies, are provoking an escalation of the conflict precisely at the moment when there was, albeit weak, hope for its completion.