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Journalist Pierre Piccinin
created a furor lately, testifying in a videotaped interview that,
while kidnapped, he had overheard conversations indicating that it was not
Assad but the rebels themselves who had released nerve gas in Damascus
killing over 1,000 people. Several Italian publications expand on that
story, and the last one translated below suggests that while Piccinin was,
strictly speaking, telling the truth, he omitted important details.
All in all, however, it is understandable that these two
captives might want to depict their captors in the worst possible light. We
must remember that the official story in Europe is that the Obama
administration’s conclusion that Assad is guilty is generally accepted
without question. Naturally, Quirino, who derives his livelihood from
journalism, would be hesitant to tweak the powers that be.Nonetheless, note well that Quirino does not imply that it was Assad
who used the nerve gas. He simply says he and Piccinin had no way of knowing
one way or the other.The take-away from these two men’s stories is that the “Syrian
revolution” is not the secular one originally portrayed in the world
press but is now firmly in the hands of Islamists who are violently
opposed to the West and to Christianity, despite receiving financial
support from the West.These reports show that, regardless of whoever released the deadly gas in
Damascus, these “rebels” are not people who deserve to receive arms or
any kind of support from the West. Nor do they deserve to have us fight
their battles for them. In fact, in light of these men’s stories, and
considering that, in international law, war is to be waged only when the
aggressor attacks or threatens your country or your ally (Italian
journalists, for example), the West would be on a surer footing if it
declared war on the “rebels” in Syria.Here is more to the story from
ImolaOggi (my translation from the Italian):
Piccinin:
Islamist kidnappers very violent, anti-Western and anti-Christian9 Sept.
While kidnapped in Syria, Domenico Quirico underwent “two feigned
executions” as revealed by Pierre Piccinin, the Belgian teacher freed on
Sunday together with the Stampa correspondent after 5 months in prison.“We were subjected to very hard physical violence,” he stated to the radio
station Bel Rtl, explaining that he and Quirico had succeeded twice in
escaping but were recaptured and punished. According to Piccinin’s story,
this resulted in weeks of hell at the hands of “very violent, very
anti-Western and anti-Christian Islamist groups.”“Domenic underwent two feigned executions at pistol point and at one point
we thought they would kill us because they told us we had become a problem
for them and they would be rid of us,” said Piccinin. A dramatic situation
from which the two of them, who had “managed to stay alive,” had tried twice
to tried to escape.” “We took advantage of the prayer [probably referring to
the Muslim prayers]. We had taken 2 kalashnikovs and had left the building.
For 2 days, we traveled around the countryside before being recaptured and
severely punished for the attempted escape.”
Domenico Quirico, an Italian journalist captured and
imprisoned together with Pierre Piccinin, was quoted by his newspaper La
Stampa.
http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/esteri/siria-giornalista-domenico-quirico-stato-libero-volo-verso-948658.htmlMy
translation:In good health,
he told La Stampa he was not treated well by his captors. “I had tried to
tell the story of the Syrian Revolution,” he said, “but you could say this
revolution betrayed me. It’s no longer the secularist revolution of Aleppo.
It’s turned into something else.”
According to the
following story at the site Giornalettissimo, Quirico, who was captured
and imprisoned, together with Piccinin, says they had no knowledge of the
nerve gas attack at the time it occurred, indicating that Piccinin’s story,
though based on fact, was somewhat tendentious at best:My translation again:
In Mattinata,
Italian-Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin had stated that he and Domenico
Quirica knew that the chemical weapons attack in Syria was not perpetrated
by Assad’s men but by the rebels. Quirico, in a conference with La Stampa,
denies all of this and downsizes the scope of Piccinin’s statements.DOMENICO QUIRICO AND PIERRE PICCININ on the premises of his
newspaper, Stampa foreign correspondent Domenico Quirico regarding the use
of gas in Syria, states “We were in the dark about what had happened.
Through a closed door, we had overheard a conversation…” La Stampa writes
“There is no element to say whether it is based on actual fact or whether it
was chatter. “It is folly to say that I know it was not Assad who used the
gas.”[omission of irrelevant portion]
THE STORY ABOUT THE SKYPE CONVERSATION He [Quirico] and the
historian Pierre Piccinin, with whom he had been sequestered in a room
blindfolded, knew nothing about what was happening on a daily basis in
Syria, including the gas attack in Damascus. Only one day, taking advantage
of a half-closed door, the two hostages overheard a conversation in English
via Skype between 3 people who were saying that the gas attack in the two
areas of Damascus was the work of the rebels as a provocation to prompt the
West to intervene militarily.
Until July of
2009, Don Hank was operating a technical translation agency out of his home
in Wrightsville, PA. He is now retired and residing in Panama with his wife
and daughter.A former language teacher, he holds an undergraduate degree in French and
German from Millersville State University (PA), a Master’s degree in Russian
language and literature from Kutztown State College (also in PA), has
studied Chinese for 3 years in Taiwan at the Mandarin Training Center, and
is self-taught in other languages, having logged a total of 8 years abroad
in total immersion situations.He is also the founder of Lancaster-York Non-Custodial Parents, a volunteer
organization that provides Christian counseling for non-custodial parents.© Copyright 2013 by Donald Hank
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/hank/130910
See also
The Hidden Control of the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR)
The fall
and rise of human violence
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“… in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be
lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving,
slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers
of God….
“…all who desire to live godly in Christ
Jesus will suffer persecution. But evil men and impostors will grow
worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue
in the things which you have learned…” 2 Timothy 3:1-14