person:john cantlie

  • http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=227633&cid=31&fromval=1&frid=31&seccatid=91&s1=1

    Looking at the obscene photograph of old archeologist Khaled al-Asaad’s headless corpse tied to a lamp-post in Palmyra – another image for the library of pornography that Isis produces weekly – I was struck by how deeply the “Islamic Caliphate” has stabbed the world of journalism. I’m not just talking about the reporters it has murdered or of poor John Cantlie, whose videos from inside “Caliphate territory” is a “Thousand and One Nights” saga of Scherezade-style stories, each allowing him another day of life. In fact, Cantlie’s furious objections to the US and UK governments’ refusal to talk to Isis to save the lives of hostages are valid, not least when the Americans can release Taliban prisoners in exchange for one of their own.

    No. I’m talking of the insidious, dramatic yet almost unnoticed way in which Isis and its propagandists in the Caliphate’s movie business – and in its house magazine Dabiq – have invalidated and in many ways erased one of the prime duties of journalism: to tell “the other side of the story”. Since the Second World War, we journos have generally tried to explain the “why” as well as the “who” behind the story. If we failed after 9/11 – when the political reasons behind this crime against humanity would have necessitated an examination of US Middle East policy and our support for Israel and Arab dictators – we’ve sometimes held our ground when it comes to “terror”.

    (...)

    Isis has changed all this. The Express has exhausted its dictionary of revulsion on Isis. “Bloodthirsty”, “sick”, “twisted”, “depraved”, “sadistic”, “vile” – we can only hope that nothing more horrible emerges to further test the paper’s eloquence. Isis – in videos and online – proudly publishes its throat-cuttings and massacres. It revels in the mass shooting of prisoners, videotapes a pilot burning alive in a cage and prisoners tied in a car which is used as target practice for a rocket-propelled grenade. It depicts captives having their heads blown off with explosives or trapped in another cage while being slowly drowned in a swimming pool. Isis is turning to the world of journalism and saying: “We’re not bloodthirsty, sick and depraved, we’re worse than that!”

    And we can – we must – spend far more time investigating the links between Isis and their Islamist and rebel friends (Nusrah, Jaish al-Islam, even the near-non-existent Free Syria Army) and the Saudis and Qataris and Turks, and indeed the degree to which US weapons have been sent across the border of Syria almost directly into Isis hands. Why does Isis never attack Israel – indeed, why does its hatred of Crusaders and Shias and Christians and sometimes Jews rarely if ever mention the very word “Israel”? And why do Israel’s air raids on Syria always target Syrian government or pro-Syrian Iranian forces, but never Isis? Indeed, why are Turkey’s air assaults on Isis – happily supported by Nato – far outnumbered by their air raids on the Kurdish PKK, some of whose forces in Syria are fighting Isis? And how come the Turkish press have publicised a convoy of weapons being taken across the Syrian border to Isis by Turkish intelligence agents? Are Turkish engineers running the Isis-controlled oil wells, as Syrian oil engineers claim? And why did the Isis propaganda boys wait until this month before denouncing – via a pretty lowly Caliphate official – Turkish President Erdogan, calling him “Satan” and urging Turks to rise up against his government?

    *It’s not the violence in Isis videos and Dabiq we should be concentrating on. It’s what the Isis leadership don’t talk about, don’t condemn, don’t mention upon which we should cast our suspicious eye. But that, of course, also means asking some questions of Turkey, America, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel.$ Are we up to this? Or are we going to let Isis stop us at last from carrying out one of the first duties of our trade – reporting the “other side of the story”?

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  • Alerte : l’Etat Islamique va avoir la bombe atomique, #Oupas
    https://reflets.info/alerte-letat-islamique-va-avoir-la-bombe-atomique-oupas

    Vous avez peut-être lu ici ou ailleurs que l’Etat Islamique pourrait se doter de l’arme nucléaire. L’information trouve en fait son origine dans un article du journaliste John Cantlie, aux mains de l’EI. Il publie des papiers dans Dabiq, le magazine du groupe. Son dernier papier évoque un scénario dans lequel l’EI pourrait se doter […]

  • La promesse de la bombe atomique du Daesh prise au sérieux
    http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article2540

    L’Inde lance une alerte par la voix de son ministre de la défense que l’EI « Etat Islamique » puisse obtenir la bombe atomique du Pakistan. Elle tombe une semaine après qu’un article, paru sur « Dabiq », l’organe numérique de communication du Daesh, attribué au photojournaliste John Cantlie. Ce dernier considéré otage des terroristes qui ont déclaré le Califat guidé par El-Baghdadi, présenta souvent des vidéos de propagande de l’organisation qui fonde le nouvel Etat... Nous avons diffusé un sujet sur (...)

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  • L’otage John Cantlie fait le reporter du Daesh
    http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article2393

    L’utilisation du journaliste anglais John Cantlie dans la propagande du Daesh vient de semer un certain trouble. Puisque c’est la huitième apparition de cet otage de la manière à présenter l’organisation terroriste en Etat fonctionnel et la ville irakienne de Mossoul, située dans la province de Ninive, comme apaisée. Et il est aussi difficile de deviner son état psychologique et les conditions où se réalise cette nouvelle intervention. « John Cantlie - Spiti Valley India » by Andrew Campbell - Own (...)

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  • Tourisme: Les intégristes britanniques ont changé leur lieux de villégiature

    Conflict in Syria creates wave of British jihadists - Middle East - World - The Independent
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/conflict-in-syria-creates-wave-of-british-jihadists-8533386.html

    Syria has replaced Pakistan and Somalia as the preferred front line where Islamist volunteers can experience immediate combat with relatively little official scrutiny, security agencies said.

    The Syrian rebels are drawing recruits from a variety of national backgrounds in the UK. Only a handful of those who have returned from the fighting there have been arrested and all for a specific offence: their alleged role in the kidnapping of a British freelance photographer, John Cantlie, in Idlib province last summer. Others who have been taking part in the armed struggle against the Assad regime are not deemed to be doing anything illegal.

  • ’Londoner against Londoner’ : UK fighters held journalist captive in Syria
    http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/06/13138884-londoner-against-londoner-uk-fighters-held-journalist-ca

    A British photojournalist has described the terrifying week he was held captive by radical Islamist militants in Syria, where he and another photographer constantly feared for their lives at the hands of "disenchanted" young Britons.

    Writing in The Sunday Times newspaper (site operates behind a pay wall), seasoned conflict photographer John Cantlie said he and Dutch photographer Jeroen Oerlemans were repeatedly told to prepare to die and at one point "we heard the worst noise we will hear in our lives: the sharpening of knives for a beheading."

    It was not supposed to be that way.

    Ah ben si on commence à s’égorger entre londoniens :

    “I ended up running for my life, barefoot and handcuffed, while British jihadists — young men with south London accents — shot to kill,” Cantlie wrote of the pair’s attempted escape early in their captivity.

    “They were aiming their Kalashnikov at a British journalist, Londoner against Londoner in a rocky landscape that looked like the Scottish Highlands,” he wrote.

  • Une dépêche AFP racontant la captivité de deux journalistes (un néerlandais et un anglais) rend compte d’une légère complexification dans les médias français - un temps après les médias anglo-saxons et allemands, tout de même - et occidentaux en général, de la narrative sur la crise syrienne.
    Voici l’histoire telle qu’elle nous est présentée. Les journalistes Jeroen Oerlemans et John Cantlie ont été kidnappés en Syrie par des jihadistes bien peu syriens, selon les déclarations d’Oerlemans :

    il n’y avait aucun Syrien présent, c’était tous des jeunes venus d’autres pays, d’Afrique, de Tchétchénie...

    http://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/economie/syrie-un-journaliste-libere-affirme-qu-il-n-y-avait-aucun-syrien-dans-le-ca

    Détail intéressant absent dans la dépêche AFP publiée par le site de l’Express, certains de ces jihadistes avaient un accent anglais :

    Speaking to Dutch media on Friday, Oerlemans said their captors were not Syrians, but from Britain, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
    Estimating that between 30 to 100 held them captive, Oerlemans said some of the gang that held them had “Birmingham accents”, he told Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblat.
    At least one had a “heavy south London accent” reported the Sunday Telegraph, quoting a source close to the incident.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/29/syria-john-cantlie-jeroen-oerlemans-free-syrian-army_n_1715827.htm

    Finalement les deux journalistes ont été libérés par des membres de l’ASL qui auraient intimidés les jihadistes. La dépêche se termine par une déclaration d’Oerlemans :

    L’ASL se bat pour la démocratie, ces combattants étrangers veulent imposer la charia en Syrie. Ils veulent écraser les Syriens, qui sont en principe des musulmans modérés, sous la lourde botte de la charia.

    Désormais, à côté d’une rébellion armée vertueuse (l’ASL) contre le régime universellement honni de Bachar, on évoque l’infiltration de jihadistes étrangers (voire d’al-Qaïda) profitant de la situation. Notons que cette modification de la narrative fait suite aux déclarations d’officiels américains, depuis plusieurs mois déjà, sur leurs préoccupations quant à la présence d’al-Qaïda en Syrie :

    “In February, the United States’ director of national intelligence, James Clapper, told a Congressional hearing that there were “all the earmarks of an Al Qaeda-like attack” in a series of bombings against security and intelligence targets in Damascus. He and other intelligence community witnesses attributed that to the spread into Syria of the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/world/middleeast/al-qaeda-insinuating-its-way-into-syrias-conflict.html?pagewanted=all

    Cet élément nouveau dans la narrative (al-Qaïda comme maladie opportune se greffant sur le corps jusque là sain de la rébellion armée syrienne combattant le régime) pouvant d’ailleurs tout aussi bien justifier la non-intervention directe des Occidentaux d’un point de vue militaire, les officiels américains prétendant se borner à livrer des moyens de communication et du renseignement aux insurgés, qu’une intensification ultérieure de l’implication américaine dans l’évolution de la crise, qui pourrait être présentée comme un acte chirurgical pour éliminer la tumeur jihadiste dans la rébellion. Elément combinable, d’ailleurs, avec celui des armes chimiques du régime, apparu récemment dans nos médias.
    Pour l’heure le patient serait sous observation, puisque des agents de la CIA superviseraient de la Turquie les livraisons d’armes du Qatar, de l’Arabie saoudite et d’Ankara afin qu’elles n’aggravent pas la maladie :

    The C.I.A. officers have been in southern Turkey for several weeks, in part to help keep weapons out of the hands of fighters allied with Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups, one senior American official said. The Obama administration has said it is not providing arms to the rebels, but it has also acknowledged that Syria’s neighbors would do so.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all