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A British television journalist attempting to gain access to thesite of a reported massacre in Syria accused rebel fighters onFriday of trying to get him and his colleagues killed by the Syrianmilitary in an effort to draw condemnation against the governmentof President Bashar al-Assad. "I m quite clear the rebels deliberately set us up to beshot by the Syrian Army," the reporter, Alex Thomson, wrote in a first person account . "Dead journos are bad for Damascus." Mr. Thomson said he and his crew from Britain's Channel 4News were traveling with United Nations monitors heading for thevillage of Qubeir, where antigovernment activists had reported thekilling of nearly 80 people, including many women and children. During a negotiation to enter the city, Mr. Thomson said his teamgrew increasingly wary of the situation after being confronted byhostile men, including one who described himself as "rebelintelligence." Mr. Thomson said the men appeared suspiciousof the Damascus identification carried by his translator and theDamascus registration of the journalists' van. "In his book foreign journos are people smuggled in fromLebanon illegally and that s that," Mr. Thomson wrote."We decide to ask for an escort out the safe way we came in.Both sides, both checkpoints will remember our vehicle." He continued: Suddenly four men in a black car beckon us to follow. We move outbehind. We are led another route. Led in fact, straight into a free-firezone. Told by the Free Syrian Army to follow a road that wasblocked off in the middle of no-man s-land. At that point there was the crack of a bullet and one of the slowerthree-point turns I ve experienced. We screamed off into thenearest side-street for cover. Another dead-end. There was no option but to drive back out onto the sniping groundand floor it back to the road we d been led in on. Predictably the black car was there which had led us to the trap.They roared off as soon as we re-appeared. I m quite clear the rebels deliberately set us up to be shot bythe Syrian Army. Mr. Thomson and a crew from Channel 4 have been in Syria since latelast month and reported on a massacre in the town of Houla from the villages nearby . Several other journalists in Syria on Friday followed the UnitedNations monitors into Qubeir. A BBC reporter, Paul Danahar, posted updates to Twitter as he toured the hollowed out Sunni village where activists saygovernment-linked militiamen known as shabiha engaged in a brutalmassacre. The Syrian government has denied any involvement in theviolence there, which it has said was overstated by the activistsfor propaganda purposes. Officials have instead said that ninepeople were killed by terrorists. Mr. Danahar described the scene in detailed updates that offeredclues to what had transpired in the village but little certainty: We are here. In front of a burnt out building is carcass of adonkey inside the buildings are gutted. The UN have not found anypeople yet Paul Danahar (@pdanahar) 8 Jun 12 In front of me there is a piece of brain, in the corner there is amass on congealed blood. This is a house in Qubeir #Syria Paul Danahar (@pdanahar) 8 Jun 12 The largest of the two houses on the hill top in Qubeir has beengutted by fire. The stench of burnt flesh is still strong Paul Danahar (@pdanahar) 8 Jun 12 The only clue to where the bodies of the people may have gone areetched into the road. UN said they were tracks made by militaryvehicles Paul Danahar (@pdanahar) 8 Jun 12 Who ever did this may have acted with mindless violence butattempts to cover up the detaills of the atrocity are calculated& clear #Syria Paul Danahar (@pdanahar) 8 Jun 12 At least two other Western journalists entered the village onFriday. NPR's Deborah Amos reported seeing a "tablecloth filled with gore" and other signsthat "some serious violence took place." Elizabeth Palmer of CBS News described the smell of death in the village but found no bodies."They've all been buried, either in this village or inthe villages around," she said. Fighting also appeared to flare back in Damascus and activists saidit was some of the heaviest seen yet in the 16-month-old rebellion.As Mr. Danahar returned to the capital, he reported seeing huge plumes of black smoke . The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China Nachi Pump , Piston Pump Parts Manufacturer, and more. For more , please visit Rexroth Pumps today!
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