Al-Qaeda in Damascus? The Syrian state media cannot be trusted – Telegraph Blogs

Al-Qaeda in Damascus? The Syrian state media cannot be trusted – Telegraph Blogs

clipped from article: Some credit is owed to the BBC's Jim Muir, who can barely contain his laughter that SANA suspiciously responded to the attacks "within minutes" of the blasts and that an al-Qaeda operation is a "hasty conclusion to jump to".

Assad has previously tried to blame the Syrian revolution on "Salafists," "armed gangs", the CIA and "Zionists". International human rights monitors, Syrian army defectors, Western investigative journalists and on-the-ground activists have proven this to be propaganda. So now it's al-Qaeda's turn.

Shall we all pretend totalitarian lies have suddenly become empirical facts? [ read more at link]