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February 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Managing a weak smile, Ms Bouvier spoke calmly from the dim room in the Homs
medical centre, where she lay on a couch, covered by a blanket. The room
appeared more like a room in someone’s house than a hospital.
“Here the doctors have treated us very well, as best they can, but they
can’t carry out surgical operations so I need as soon as possible a
ceasefire to be put in place and medical transport – or at least a car in
decent condition – that can take me to Lebanon to be treated,” she pleaded.
In a separate video message, Mr Conroy, a photographer who was working
alongside Ms Colvin for the Sunday Times, also appealed for assistance.
He said he had suffered “three large wounds” to his leg, although he appeared
to be in better shape than his French colleague. He also lay on a couch,
covered in a blanket, in a dim room that did not even appear to have
overhead lighting.
As a doctor discussed his injuries, a shell could be heard detonating nearby.
“He needs help to be evacuated from here as the missiles – as you just heard –
are hitting the houses all the time,” the doctor said. “He is in a safe
place now but we are not sure if they can hit us, so we need your help to
evacuate Paul.”
Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik were
both killed in the same blast that wounded Bouvier and Conroy in Homs on
Wednesday
The Foreign Office
has earlier reported that Mr Conroy was on his way out of Syria but it is
understood that there was a hitch in evacuating him and repatriating Ms
Colvin’s body.
Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, said in London the French government
had been in contact with the Syrians. “According to the last telegram I saw
Damascus had ordered the governor of Homs to facilitate the safe evacuation
of the journalist from Homs but I cannot confirm this,” he said.
At least five Western reporters were inside a building housing a temporary
press centre in Baba Amr when it was struck by at least four shells on
Wednesday. During a lull in the bombardment, the reporters attempted to
escape but as they attempted to make their way onto the street a rocket
struck the building, killing
Ms Colvin and Remi Ochlik, a French photographer.
The Syrian government yesterday defiantly denied claims that its forces had
deliberately targeted the press centre by locking on to satellite telephone
signals coming from the building.
“We reject statements holding Syria responsible for the deaths of journalists
who sneaked into its territory at their own risk,” Syria’s foreign ministry
said in a statement.
But Nicolas
Sarkozy, the French president, said it was clear that the
journalists had been deliberately targeted.
“Thanks to globalisation, you can no longer commit murder under cover of utter
silence,” he said. “I saw the images. There was a decision to bomb a place
because journalists were there. Those who did this will have to account for
it.”
At least 52 people were killed in Syria today, the youngest being a
four-year-old girl.
More than 30 Syrians were killed in Homs on the same day as Ms Colvin and Mr
Ochlik, but the international outrage caused by the mounting death toll in
the city has so far failed to persuade Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian
president, to call a halt to the offensive.
Raising fears that the bloodshed will only worsen, tanks were seen advancing
into Baba Amr, signalling the possible beginning of a ground offensive to
reclaim the district from the lightly-armed rebels holding it.
Rockets, artillery and mortar rounds continued to fall on Baba Amr and the
nearby district of Inshaat.
There were reports of atrocities outside the city as well, with activists
reporting that 13 men and boys from the same extended family were lined up
and shot by government forces in Hama province. The family shared the same
surname as Riad al-Asaad, the head of the rebel Free Syrian Army.
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