I commend to Cluesforum's consideration the blog content at
http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/ in respect of
Marie Colvin.
I find many of the conclusions being stated there to be both disturbing, and probably correct.
The author makes eight main Colvin points (all of which appear to be valid, solid and worrying).
Let me re-post the tail-end picture first...and if you hadn't seen it already, look and weep....
(...think....
Moshe Dayan)
One: the initial information on this has come from the 'opposition'...
Two: The apparently well-informed/connected blog author claims that they (and other associate commentators on the middle-east) had never even heard of Colvin before.
Three: Everything on the wiki page for her was created on 22 Feb, yet are told she was a prestigious journalist for two decades,
Four: Marie Colvin is supposed to be an American, working for the British press and yet it was the French government who confirmed her death? Plus the original lead headline was that a male French journalist was killed in Syria...
Five: The death of the journalists itself could not initially be confirmed by the MSM (including by her purported NewsCorp colleagues) yet it was published in the interim with great haste and with an apparent lack of concern for next-of-kin
Six: A few hours before her death she gave an interview to CNN,where she tells the world how she witnessed the totemic death of a baby. This helped precondition the world to her existence, with the taboo subject of any child's death masking the improbably level of absolute insight she displayed about the death.
Seven- MSM claims that Syrian Government officials had effectively declared war on journalists prior to the death of the duo. So this was either an apparent self-fulfilling prophesy, or a tragic...coincidence. The author considers it to be just one part of a false narrative.
Eight- all imagery that included Marie Colvin appears (at least slightly)
odd.
There is
no way this picture is real. Look at the respective heights- unless she actually is standing on a tall/very-small soap-box. How could she be dressed like this? Where is the obligatory dak-blue flak jacket? No press affilliation pass? But a photojournalist with
no camera?
