Syrian War Report – April 19, 2018: Journalists Find Boy Filmed in Staged Video of Chemical Attack in Douma — No Chemical Attack

• Syrian War Report – April 19, 2018: Journalists Find Boy Filmed in Staged Video of Chemical Attack in Douma — No Chemical Attack
  by https://southfront.org/
  A group of Russian correspondents led by Evgeny Poddubny has found a boy filmed by the White Helmets in their video showing people “affected” by the alleged chemical attack in Douma on April 7. According to Poddubny:
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  * 11-year-old Hassan Diab is fine;
  * He suffered no injures from the “chemical attack” because there was no attack (at least then and there);
  * The boy participated in the video for food (rice, dates and cookies).
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  Poddubny also contacted Hassan’s father – he also said that there was no chemical attack in the town.
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  The April 7 case was not the first time when the White Helmets and other pro-militant organizations used kids for propaganda purposes. During the battle for Aleppo in 2016, a photo of Omran Daqneesh after alleged strike by Russian warplanes became popular in the mainstream media (MSM) and then was used in a wide-scale campaign against the Syrian-Iranian-Russian alliance’s operation in the city.
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  After the liberation of Aleppo, Omran’s father accused militants of using his son as a propaganda tool and praised efforts of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to liberate the city.
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  Another widely known case is Bana al-Abed, that thanks to the MSM, became a popular twitter blogger constantly accusing the SAA of civilian casualties and other crimes during the operation to liberate Aleppo. De-facto, her content was one big accusation against the SAA.
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  The only problem is that Bana was almost unable to speak English in 2016 and her account was run by her mother, according to a later version designed to explain how the girl was able to produce all that text and video content.
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  Russian journalists are not alone in finding no evidence of the chemical attack allegedly conducted by the Assad government.
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  Pearson Sharp, a reporter of One America News Network also visited the city and found that all the locals say that the chemical attack had been fabricated by militants. Robert Fisk, a Middle East correspondent of The Independent, also visited the site and found no evidence of the attack. However, such reports from the ground face a strong criticism by or ignorance in the MSM.
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