In November 2019, James Le Mesurier the founder of the White
Helmets fell to his death from a balcony in Istanbul. With good reason, many
people believe he was murdered and given that these events took place in
Istanbul, many have pointed to the Erdogan government.
And yet there's little reason to believe the Turkish
government was hostile to Le Mesurier and the movement he was involved with.
The White Helmets along with the London based Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights (SOHR) were the two primary propaganda outlets for the Western media
campaign against Assad, a role that has now been assumed by outlets such as
Bellingcat among others. Erdogan was hostile to Assad and openly backing some
of the Islamist forces behind him. Additionally the 'rebels' operating in the
White Helmet friendly zones were (and are) hostile to the Kurdish SDF-YPG
militias... Erdogan's enemies within the theatre. So in other words, it makes
sense that Le Mesurier started and trained the White Helmets within Turkey and
the nation functioned as their logistics base.
Given the souring of relations between Ankara and Washington
I don't doubt for a moment that American media outlets were both quick and keen
to place the blame for his death on Erdogan. However, I am inclined to think
there were other forces with much stronger motives that sought his death. Indeed
it's surprising to me that the media hasn't attempted to turn this into yet
another Anti-Putin campaign. He as an ally of Assad, would certainly have an
interest in seeing Le Mesurier out of the picture.
Whether it was Moscow, Damascus or even Tehran, Le Mesurier
had plenty of enemies. His organisation was effectively an ally of al Qaeda-affiliated
elements within Syria and the White Helmets have been repeatedly exposed as
staging false attacks and making false claims. Some members of the White
Helmets have also been caught on camera while directly involved and participating
in Salafist violence.
Even the OPCW revealed the fraudulent nature of one of the
chemical attacks in 2019 as it called into question the official narrative.
Time and time again these attacks which are pinned on Syrian or Russian air
strikes are revealed to be launched from the ground... indicating a false
flag.... or in some cases there's reason to believe the attacks were entirely
false and the injuries and dramatic footage little more than staged.
Tareq Haddad the ex-Newsweek reporter who tried to call
attention to the OPCW whistleblower was blocked by his editors indicating a
reticence on the part of Western media to go against the official narrative.
Whether this is self-censorship or direct control is still an open question.
For Haddad's part, he quit and has gone public exposing the blatant corruption
and bias in Corporate Media newsrooms.
Le Mesurier was no idealistic philanthropist heading a
humanitarian organisation. No, Le Mesurier who seems to have made a career
operating within war zones and in connection with regime change operations was affiliated
with intelligence outfits on both sides of the Atlantic, for both the British
and former NSC member Richard Clark as a private security consultant. His White
Helmets are partisans in the fight. They take sides and operate freely within
the zones controlled by Tahrir-al Sham, an umbrella organisation that is
compromised of al Qaeda affiliated militias. These are the 'allies' the US is
so often talking about. The media is always quick to mention the Syrian Kurds
of the SDF/YPG militias and yet the 'other allies' in places like Idlib are
little more than al Qaeda. Even figures within the US government admit this but
the Western media never explains this when they show their pictures and give
their reports regarding the Syrian government's campaign to retake the
northwestern enclave.
The fact that Le Mesurier's White Helmets operate openly in
the Salafi militant zones shouldn't surprise us. He's been around for awhile
and worked with some of these same elements over twenty years ago in Kosovo....
another one of Washington's dirty wars based on yet another endless series of lies
and propaganda.
Western media has attempted to scrub and spin Le Mesurier's
record and if anything the story has been suppressed and has after just a
matter of weeks all but faded away. When the story does come up, the focus is
on Russia and their attempts to flood the web with conspiracy theories and to
mislead the Western public. It would seem the lies never end and there is no
shame. The narrative cannot be challenged and now that there are solid bogeymen
in place, the Mainstream media plays that card endlessly. However, the truth
runs contrary to their narrative. Not only was Le Mesurier an intelligence agent
but the White Helmets aren't what people think. In addition to being affiliated
with al Qaeda elements, the people on the ground in Syria have nothing nice to
say about them. Of course given that Netflix put out a movie on them and they
were being promoted for a Nobel Prize there are some serious people (with significant
influence and investment) with their reputations on the line. To put it another
way, it's too late to back-track on the narrative. The White Helmets must be
heroes. No matter what is revealed, Western media outlets are going deny, spin,
lie or do whatever they have to do to protect their integrity and the
reputations of various monied supporters.
In some respects it was a fitting end to Le Mesurier's
endeavours. He lived by the sword and died by it and certainly the Syria Regime
Change operation or proxy war has resulted in failure. Hundreds of thousands
have died and yet had Assad been ousted, the fallout might have been even
worse.
There have been suggestions that Le Mesurier had fallen out
with certain of his backers and there's has been some suggestion that his
failures may have made him enemies on all sides. This is usually said in
connection with his 'depression' and the like, suggesting that his fall was
indeed a suicide. Well again I seriously doubt that. It wouldn't be the first
time corruption had resulted in retribution from former backers and allies but
I haven't seen any evidence for this as of yet.
Based on everything I've heard and read I don't believe this
to be the case but of course it is always a possibility. Who killed him and why
may never be known. But his death seems to mark the end of one of the final chapters
in what has been a long and terrible episode, a tragic and wholly unnecessary
war that was instigated, fomented and aggravated by figures like Le Mesurier
and the Western Deep State he was connected to. If he was killed by Western
intelligence agencies as some have suggested, it would have to be part of a
'clean slate' strategy. Dead men tell no tales and if Le Mesurier's world was
crumbling he might have shot his mouth off and worried some that he was getting
ready to write a book or talk off script. If the operation was nearing the end
of its shelf life and there were messes that needed to be cleaned up... that
might explain it.
All that said, the obvious culprit would be the Assad regime.
However if they really wanted him dead and had the means (with Russian help or
not) to get to him.... why wait until the end of 2019? It would seem they would
have wanted him gone back in 2014. That simple fact gives one pause and drives
one to consider other players and other motives.
Murders and deaths are always tragic but it's hard to weep
for those who spent their lives profiting on the deaths of others and played (at
the very least) an indirect role in so many.
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