Du minns väl gulliga lilla Bana för ett år sedan? Hon som skrev sina lämpliga och gripande mail någonstans ifrån, innan östra Aleppo befriades från terroristorganisationen al-Nusra, utan några positiva rapporter i den etablerade presse?

Vare sig Du gjorde det eller inte har Du chansen här att påminnas om saken ett år senare! Läs bara vidare!

International Business Times skriver 3/12 ”Bana Alabed, who have been tweeting about her life in Aleppo, Syria, checked in with the author JK Rowling on Twitter on 2 December, following the reported bombing of her home.” IBT om Bana. Fantastiskt, en sjuårig syrisk flicka skriver på bra engelska.
Men detta är egentligen ingen nyhet.

På 21st Centurywire skrev Barbara McKenzie 29/11:
”First there was the Gay Girl of Damascus, back in 2011, and now we have @AlabedBana tweeting from Aleppo. The Bana story all began in September of 2016 when 7 year old Bana began to tweet from eastern Aleppo to share with the world her anxiety about living in a war-torn city. It is perhaps a sad reflection of the world we live in that her arrival on the social media scene provoked a certain amount of scepticism, hilarity even. It seems only fair to endeavour to consider the Bana case objectively.
Bana, as we are told, lives with her parents and two brothers in Aleppo. Her mother Fatemah is a teacher who ‘manages Bana’s twitter account’ and occasionally tweets herself, and her father Ghassan works in the ‘legal department of the local council’, whatever that means – the area is totally controlled by al Nusra [al Qaeda in Syria] who have set up their own council”21st Centurywire

Bana’s sole purpose in tweeting is to tell us about the bombing of Aleppo by Putin and Assad, and to ask us to do something about it (Bana herself has lost one or two friends to the bombing, though we never learn their names). The tweets are almost invariably variations on the themes of bombs, the need for peace, pray for us, save us.
Kommentar: Detta förefaller förståeligt och behjärtansvärt, rörande.

* Första tweeten 24/9: ”I need peace.”
* 30/9 kom denna ”Thousands of assad forces are storming East #Aleppo now to slaughter us, dear world save us. – Fatemah” (mamman)
* 30/9 kom också denna ”Russia and assad should be taken to the ICC if no, no one should ever be charged there – Fatemah #Aleppo”

Wee Bana hit the ground running on 24 September with about 20 tweets, and has continued at a good rate ever since, managing over 120 on 4 October (including retweets). I myself used twitter for weeks before I used hashtags and I was slow to learn the jargon. Bana, however, was up to speed from the beginning, and over the first two days we got #Aleppo, #HolocaustAleppo #MassacreInAleppo #StopAleppoMassacre. She is well up on acronyms like POTUS and OMG. Followers were impressed with Bana’s command of English idiom:

To have mastered English contractions like ‘I’ll’ and idiomatic expressions such as ‘horrible dream’ at the age of seven puts Bana in the genius category. The problem is, when cute Bana was videoed, it became apparent that she wasn’t a child prodigy at all, in fact she couldn’t put two words of English together if not rote-learned. It was clear that whoever wrote the tweets was nothing to do with the small actor reciting, eg. on her 1st day of tweeting (yes, that was all set to go from the outset too):

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Clearly, Bana cannot speak very much English, surely nothing near her incisive, highly nuanced and politicized, and often cynical commentary on Twitter. For Western media outlets like NBC News, The Guardian, the London Telegraph and others to suggest Bana wrote any of her Tweets – shows the level of news fakery that these mainstream corporate media outlets normally operate on.]
29th October was another disaster.
One sharp-eyed fan was very impressed with the new clothes sported by Bana and her brothers in the following clip (thank you Vivienne@KitchandBot):

* After three weeks Bana was following 51 people. None of them would be an obvious pick for a seven year old girl: without exception they were politicians, corporate media or social media activists. Most of them could be considered sympathetic to the war on Syria; many of them have strong links with terrorist groups.
Iyad el-Baghdadi, Louisa Loveluck, Julian Roepcke, Sophie McNeill – all determined supporters of the Syrian ‘revolution’, are very familiar to pro-Syrian activists who spend any time on Twitter. Bana is also following the pro-terrorist National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces and the White Helmets – the fake humanitarian organisation that presently has a petition calling for a No-Fly (i.e. NATO bombing) zone in Syria.

Kommentar. Läsaren ”M” tog upp detta i en kommentar nyligen då hen skrev ”Hur kan en journalist (Jonna Sima)? vara så k-rk-d (Grönköpingska) att i samma andetag hävda att Bana al-Abed har förlorat sitt hem och samtidigt har fortfarande tillgång till internet!! Kan en 7-årig flicka från Aleppo skriva felfri engelska?

Moonofalabama skrev för två månader sedan om Bana al-Abed Moon of Alabama

Ett par länkar till hennes tweets och folks reaktioner:

Twitter (Samma tweet 29/9 som ovan från IBT 3/12)
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/781876043313508352/video/1

Bluff (Hoax) från 2011.

The Guardian skrev först i en artikel med titeln ”A Gay Girl in Damascus becomes a heroine of the Syrian revolt” ”She is perhaps an unlikely hero of revolt in a conservative country. Female, gay and half-American, Amina Abdullah is capturing the imagination of the Syrian opposition with a blog that has shot to prominence as the protest movement struggles in the face of a brutal government crackdown.” Guardian

Därefter tvingades Guardian till detta ”This article was amended on 7-8 June and 13 June 2011. The blog of Amina Araf is now known to be a hoax and photographs said to be of her, accompanying Guardian stories about the blog, are of an entirely different person, Jelena Lecic. The photo that accompanied this article has been removed, and the Guardian has apologised to Jelena Lecic for wrongly associating her with the blog.”

Wikipedia

Om alla tidningar skulle använda Guardians policy på alla artiklar om Syrien (och mycket annat) skulle ursäkter och dementier fylla upp mycket plats! (Om det sker med strykning av nya osakliga, demoniserande artiklar pga. platsbrist vore dubbelt vunnet!)

Och minns ”Den blödande pojken i Aleppo”

Den blödande pojken i Aleppo och tio fakta

Jag skrev i denna artikel 21/8 ”En bild från en femårig pojke, Omran Daqneesh, i en välutrustad ambulans cirkulerar i världspressen och presenteras som ett uttryck för krigets fasor i Aleppo och som en påtryckning mot Ryssland och Syriens regering att stoppa bombningarna av terroriststämplade al-Nusra (som bytt namn till …..), dvs. al-Qaida och andra terrorist- och rebellorganisationer, med utländska dominans. Pojken och hans familj bor i den terroristkontrollerade delen av staden.

I en artikel av den kände ”Moon of Alabama” granskas detta kritiskt (Utdrag).Den sårade pojken – ett tricks av White Helmets?

Detta är baserat på en video i en artikel i Washington Post Washington Post

. White Helmets använder också barn i sin propaganda.

Också White Helmets, mottagare av Right Livelihood-priset och kandidat till Nobels fredspris använder barn i sin propaganda, som Pål Steigan skrivit om. White Helmets använder barn i krigskampanjer.

Några artiklar om Syrien.
http://jinge.se/mediekritik/atta-problem-med-amnestys-rapport-om-syrien.htm
De USA-stödda ”moderata rebellerna” i FSA i Syrien nära kollaps
Caesar: Gammal otillförlitlig rapport om Syrien dammas av
Amnesty: Ny partisk och otillförlitlig rapport om Syrien
Artikel av mig i Flamman 19/11 2015:Syrienkriget är en av USA planerad intervention
Lögner om Syrien
Aftonbladet desinformerar om Syrien
Vem startade kriget i Syrien?
USA-general, Obama, Biden: Vi har medvetet släppt fram al-Qaida och ISIS i Syrien
Vi har beskjutits av terrorister i 4 år
Läkare i Aleppo: Västs olagliga sanktioner drabbar civilbefolkningen

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