TALDAO : AS CLEAR AS BLOOD

It is now becoming clearer what happened last weekend in Taldao.

Two families in particular were targetted.

The Abdelrazzaq family and al Sayed family.

Regarding the Abdelrazzaq's, over 60 were killed from this one family. They occupied a small cluster of houses close together. It is reported that this family refused to join the rebellion and supported Assad.

Regarding the al Sayed family, a similar story exists, with one member recently elected to the Syrian People's Assembly.

SANA now quotes witnesses that say the killers were selective, killing the al Sayed family, but leaving the families living either side of the al Sayeds alone.

The witness noted that next to al-Sayed house was a house belonging to Nidal Bakkour, the leader of another group, and that the people in that house are still alive while the others were killed, and that the same applies to several houses near the detachment, concluding that the massacre was simply an attack against specific families by the gunmen.

...The witness added that another family that was targeted is Abdelrazzaq family which consists of four household and supports the government, noting that the houses belong to al-Sayed family are located next to the houses of gunmen and their relatives, wondering how the gunmen's children weren't killed if the attack had been perpetrated by "Shabiha" as some claim?

[source : Witnesses to al-Houla Massacre: Massacres Were Carried Out Against Specific Families That Support the Government, SANA, http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2012/06/02/422915.htm, 02/06/2012]

In typical one-sided fashion, The Guardian has an article that attempts to create a timeline of the events last weekend. Their source?

Maysara, a local elder who doubles as a leader in the Syrian Revolutionary Council, said the shelling lasted for about three hours.

[source : The Houla massacre: reconstructing the events of 25 May, The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/01/houla-massacre-reconstructing-25-may, 02/06/2012]

So no biased sources then.

There is also a ridiculous quote from a 'nurse' in the same article.

"They were targeted because they were linked to the regime," one of the nurses treating the wounded men said. "The Shabiha wanted to create the impression that other forces were responsible."

So according to this 'nurse', who at least admits that these two families were targetted because they were Assad supporters, the militia killed over 60 from one family who supported Assad and many more from the pro-Assad al Sayed family, when the militia are said to be pro-Assad?! They killed about 40 anti-Assad but then killed 70 pro-Assad? Naaa. Don't believe it.

Over 60 from one family alone! That's over half the total!

Other aspects of the events of Taldao last weekend not mentioned in the NATO media are
1. the deaths of and injuries to local policemen and military, which if true would indicate a strong presence of FSA in the area at the time, and if the FSA were in the area at the time then what did they do stop the slaughter?

2. the attack on a local hospital (same question)

How easy would it be for a anti-Assad Sunni bandit death squad to enter the town, slaughter two pro-Assad families, claim to some that they were local militia from neighbouring towns to blame it on them, then allow those survivors to survive to tell the tale, then disappear into the night, then for the NATO media to instantly claim Assad did it to get a war going?

Remember. All this happened in broad daylight over half a day in a FSA stronghold. Plenty of film of the aftermath; dead children, corpses ready for burial, etc, but only one dodgy film of one alleged shelling, which actually shows a man with a RPG.