THE GUILT OF ROBERT STEPHEN FORD

The US Ambassador to Syria, Robert S Ford, has published some curious photos taken by satellite on the Embassy Facebook website. This is covered in everybody's favourite NATO media The Guardian.

The US state department has published satellite photos said to show mass graves in Syria after government forces attacked civilian areas.

A website operated by the department is displaying the photos, taken by a commercial satellite, of what it says are mass graves dug following a massacre near the town of Houla.

[source : Satellite pictures back up Houla massacre accounts, The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/02/satellite-pictures-houla-massacre, 02/06/2012]

Ford says the photos show a mass grave in Taldao that was not present before the slaughter of last weekend.

So what?

Is Ford suggesting that this is a mass grave in Taldao that has not yet been discovered by the residents of Taldao? I find it impossible that a week later such a mass grave lies undiscovered by the residents of Taldao.

So is Ford suggesting that the local militia dug the grave themselves during or after their alleged slaughter? The questions raised by this make the NATO media narrative even more ludicrous. For what such a mass grave would imply is that besides the local militia being able to walk the streets of the FSA stronghold Taldao for hours, in broad daylight, in military fatigues, and slaughter children for hours without any resident filming it or the FSA themselves intervening, the militia even had time to at least dig a mass grave to bury their victims.

But if the image shows a mass grave that we know about already, then what is Ford telling us? "Look. Here is a grave that you all know about already."?

I think Ford is guilty, and he knows it.

For those who don't know, Ford was involved in the formation of death squads in Iraq.

Even the clueless British Ambassador to the UN Mark Lyall Grant admits the presence of death squads in Syria.