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CNN broadcast faked Syria news

09 March 2012 11:30 (UTC +04:00)

It was exposed that Dayem had ordered staged gunfire sounds to be made off camera during an interview. CNNâ€™s Anderson Cooper invited him to engage in damage control during last nightâ€™s show.

During the interview with Cooper, Dayem only succeeds in virtually admitting the fact that the video is suspect. Asked how the footage was leaked, Dayem starts to say â€˜we should have deleted itâ€™ before hastily stating, â€œthis has all been deleted.â€

In addition, in the original CNN interview with Cooper, Dayem claims he recovered dead bodies from civilians who had been killed â€œ400 metersâ€ away from his location, yet in last nightâ€™s interview he claims the shelling was taking place 15 kilometers away in a different city.
Dayem then states that he wants to join the Free Syria Army, in order to â€œprotect his countryâ€. How that squares with Dayemâ€™s previous calls for launching international attack on Syria.

Cooper tries to justify the fact that CNN has displayed brazen bias towards the Syrian opposition forces in constantly broadcasting dubious You Tube videos claiming atrocities by the regime, by explaining that Assadâ€™s government will not allow journalists to enter Syria.