la version de NBC est totalement improbable.

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    L’enlèvement de Richard Engel en décembre 2012 par des « miliciens chiites » était bien un bidonnage organisé par des rebelles. Ici l’intéressé s’explique (et se dédouanant de toute responsabilité) : New Details on 2012 Kidnapping of NBC News Team in Syria
    ▻http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/new-details-2012-kidnapping-nbc-news-team-syria-n342356

    Here is what we found based on facts gathered from dozens of sources inside and outside of Syria, including two sources with first-hand knowledge of events:

    – The group that kidnapped us was Sunni, not Shia.
    – The group that kidnapped us put on an elaborate ruse to convince us they were Shiite Shabiha militiamen.
    – The group that kidnapped us was a criminal gang with shifting allegiances.
    – The group that freed us also had ties to the kidnappers.

    À l’époque (décembre 2012 donc), As‘ad Abukhalil avait pourtant indiqué que la vidéo était visiblement une fabrication :
    ▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/04/my-early-skeptical-reaction-to-richard.html

    J’avais aussi signalé à ce moment que l’« enlèvement de Richard Engel sent mauvais » :
    ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/104482

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    • @kassem
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      How NBC Knowingly Let Syria Rebels’ False War Propaganda Stand For Years
      ▻http://m.thenation.com/blog/204625-how-nbc-knowingly-let-syria-rebels-false-war-propaganda-stand-ye

      The prevailing narrative held that, as Engel reported immediately after he was freed, a group of Shia militiamen loyal to Basher Assad’s embattled government had kidnapped and mistreated the star reporter and his colleagues. Engel pointed to the language his captors used and other pronounced signs of their allegiances, ranging from graffiti scrawled on the wall of their prison to the coffee cups they drank from.

      But the narrative was false, a set-up by a Sunni rebel group opposing Assad. That much became clear on Wednesday night, when NBC quietly posted a piece to its website where Engel corrected the record. “The group that kidnapped us was Sunni, not Shia,” Engel wrote. Curiously, the piece is posited as producing “new details” about the attack, not as a correction; there was no retraction of or apology for earlier errors in reporting, as is customary.

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