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Instead, he was criticized for disloyalty. Hashem was also furious over AJ's refusal to cover regime instigated Bahraini violence. At the same time, it falsified reports on Assad. "In Bahrain," he said, "we were seeing pictures of a people being butchered by the 'Gulf's oppression machine,' and for Al Jazeera, silence was the name of the game."
Beirut's producer left because AJ wouldn't cover Syria's overwhelmingly approved constitutional reform referendum. Former AJ correspondent Afshin Tattansi said it's now a pro-Western tool no different from BBC and Western media. The way it covers Syria and most else is totally one-sided.
Russia and China Oppose Foreign Intervention
Both countries strongly oppose replicating Libya's model in Syria. Their vetos and resolute stand so far prevented Washington's interventionist scheme succeeding, but for how long. Regime change by any means is planned, including war.
Ominous signs suggest it. Paris-based Syrian National Council (SNC) head Burhan Ghalioun calls no solution possible without military intervention.
Washington, Britain, France, Israel, and rogue Arab states want it. For months, they've recruited, funded, armed and trained rogue killer gangs. They've destabilized Syria to facilitate Western intervention. Annan's mission was more theater than honest conflict resolution diplomacy.
Like Ban-Ki-moon, his entire UN Secretary-General tenure reflected betrayal and failure. An imperial tool, he never achieved peace or worked for it.
He didn't condemn or act against Washington's devastating Iraqi economic sanctions. They killed 1.5 million or more defenseless men, women and children. Silence betrayed his complicity.
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