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Red Cross urges U.S. and Russia to help unblock aid delivery in Syria

Syrian government forces and opposition rebels are both preventing medical assistance in particular from reaching the sick and wounded, viewing it as "military support for the other side", ICRC President Peter Maurer said on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/ ... ZC20130911


When volunteers become hostages in Syria

Three German volunteers from the Green Helmets were recently building hospitals in Syria. During the night of May 15, they were kidnapped from the city of Harem close to the Turkish border. The kidnappers are presumed to be radical jihadists.

For quite some time, the Syrian state has been unable to provide security for its own citizens, or for visitors to the country. In a report released this year, the International Red Cross stated that kidnappings and murder attempts against international volunteers had become worse than they had been in a long time. Germany's foreign ministry, which released a travel advisory for Syria, warns on its website: "The kidnapping of foreigners is on the increase."

While there are no official statistics for kidnappings, examples are numerous. This year alone, many German volunteers, foreign photographers, Syrian children, Christian missionaries and more than 20 UN soldiers were taken hostage.


Hostage-takers, whether alone or in a group, have varying motives in places like Syria. There are kidnappers who make a lucrative business out of hostages. They extort ransom fees from relatives or from companies where the victim worked. And there are also kidnappers with political motives. In exchange for the release of hostages, they demand that their imprisoned cohorts and ideological brothers be freed.

http://www.dw.de/when-volunteers-become ... a-17070576

So the US media is reporting the bits that blame Assad and omitting the bits that blame the rebels.
Propaganda, anyone?

Reuters is part of the US media.

Reuters is headquartered in the UK.

Yes. So is the BBC.

And I have access to and often read their news here in the US.

I see.
You can access Reuters and the BBC so that makes them USian or something... or... aw, fukit.

C'mon, oskar ~ John did not say either Reuters or BBC were "Usian" ~ I agree that any media outlet that has a regular presence in another country is part of that country's media ~

Sooz

No, I'm just pointing out that today we "USians" can read Reuters and the BBC news as much as we can read the New York Times. We also get BBC News on TV.