Funding Cut for Terrorist-Linked 'White Helmets'

in #politics6 years ago (edited)

The Netherlands has cut funding to the White Helmets for the time being. This comes as news about the White Helmets working with terrorists to orchestrate a false flag chemical attack. Netherlands thinks the group has "inadequate supervision" of their members on the ground given that they are "likely" linked to various Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist fronts, and may themselves be such a group now.


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The U.S. halted funding to the White Helmets and reinstated it earlier in 2018. But with the Netherlands, they are apparently the first government to openly criticize the White Helmets or raising concerns about their terrorist affiliations. The U.S., U.K., Japanese, German and other governments are still funding them though.

The decision came after a report from the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Directorate for International Research and Policy Evaluation slammed the Netherlands supervision of aid projects. The lack of supervision by the dutch government led to funds falling into the hands of extremists groups, like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. The Netherlands had given the White Helmets $14.5 million since 2016.

Another group that's been criticized is the Mayday Rescue "NGO" which is also linked to the White Helmets. The same person who founded White Helmets, U.K. Military Intelligence officer turned mercenary James Le Mesurier, is directing Mayday Rescue. Much of the $123 million in funds given to the White Helmets has been funneled through the Mayday Rescue. Mayday Rescue was cited as failing to properly supervise the White Helmets as well by only spending 0.9% of it's budget to do so.

The Dutch report noted "systematic control of the money flow is missing" resulting in the funds falling "into the hands of armed groups" or used in illegal trades. The fact that the White Helmets operate in areas that are controlled by terrorist-linked armed factions means there is a "inevitable" connection between White Helmet administrators and the terror groups. You can see how the link operates through one Mo'ad Barish who is a White Helmets operative and a Nusra Front extremist.

This isn't news though, at least not in the real news of the alternative media. The mainstream media are the ones who don't cover these links. Sites like acvtivistpost.com and mintpressnews.com have been covering this information since 2017, as has the Russian media. The White Helmets have been exposed doctoring search and rescue footage, being part of executing civilians and using children as props to promote intervention by the West.

White Helmets have been filming mock chemical weapons attacks recently in order to provoke U.S. strikes against the Syrian government. They of course act as the good-guy "rescuers" against the evils of the Syrian government, when it's all a fake news story that the western media gobbles up. They've already been caught as creating the fake news false flag chemical attack in April 2018.

The U.S. doesn't seem to need any alleged chemical attacks orchestrated by their funding of White Helmets, as officials have threatened to attack the Syrian government if any attack was launched against the U.S.-admitted terrorist strongholds in the Idlib province. Syria wants to get rid of terrorists what have been funded by U.S. and other western nations, and these same nations will use such national rights to attack, invade and provoke further escalations of war.


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Good riddance. The White Helmets are a sinister propaganda ploy. Absolutely scary what ppl would do to manipulate public sentiment.

Yeah, it's a big mindfuck the world sucks up.

The Netherlands, well that's a good start I suppose! ;)

1 is better than none :P

Indeed it is! That's my point. ;)

They only cut funding to safe face because of public outcry after several revelations on the newsprogram ‘nieuwsuur’. The Dutch gouvernment should resign after these revelations, but that will never happen, though ... times are changing.

If you like, you can Check my latest post about the dutch royals here ...

https://steemit.com/informationwar/@elektropunkz/dutch-weapons-of-mass-destruction

When do governments ever do the "right" thing? As long as they turn off the faucets that is, for me, better than expected! ;) Thx 4 the link. Good on nieuwsuur for covering this also!

What a surprise the uk government is still funding them! ....

Netherlands seems to always be a bit more ahead / stable / for the people than other big countries. I saw a video the other day of the white helmets staging a rescue. On the other hand, I didn’t have direct source of the video so I can’t prove it wasn’t faked to put a bad name to them. On the other hand (again) it’s being pushed to the surface now... so something must be going on. Usually when the US and UK are funding something it turns out bad....

Well when the UK or US fund things in Syria, yes it's probably bad.

Such huge amount of funds, i guess they would be put to better use if such funds we directed to UNESSCO and other non governmental organisations who build schools for children, children's health care and are always on the front line to help humanity

They may have helped before, but things are not what they seem in totality. It's a big deception now.

It's sad that groups like this still exist to propagandize those poor people in those regions. Hardly any of these 'humanitarian' organizations in these regions do much of anything humanitarian. They are just disruptors; trying to impose Western propaganda upon their citizens and then broadcast it to the world.

Some can help, but then some can get co-opted and work against the goals they claim to support...

Some certainly help but those that actually help usually don't get any support or coverage from western media. Sad state of affairs.

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it seems to pointless to decide on the basis of white helmet color, The points mention in the post is just a perception differ from country to country..As in Russia it is use for rescue.

Well they could be red and then the group would be called red helmers I guess...

Well they could be red
And then the group would be called
Red helmers I guess...

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Ha, I do love a good Russian smear job. The Turks have been doing what this accuses the White Helmets of for years and nobody seems to give a damn or call them terrorists...

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