Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomson says Syria rebels led me into death trap

“Another dead-end.

“There was no option but to drive back out onto the sniping ground and
floor it back to the road we’d been led in on.”

Thomson claimed that they were not led into no-man’s-land by mistake.

“I’m quite clear the rebels deliberately set us up to be shot by the
Syrian army,” he wrote in a blog post on Channel 4’s website

He said that their deaths at the hands of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces
would have drawn sympathy to the rebel cause. “Dead journos are bad for
Damascus,” he said.

Thomson said he and his colleagues eventually managed to get back to the
government side. He has since left Syria.

His account was not possible to verify amid the chaos gripping Syria, but he
insisted that there was no other explanation for what happened.

“They said: ‘Go left.’ Road was totally blocked 50 yards ahead. They had
to have known.”

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists calls Syria “the most
dangerous place for journalists in the world,” saying that it has
recorded the deaths of nine local and international reporters there since
November.

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