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[DXB-KNIGHT]

Subbed Video available here containing the leaked documents.

In May, a shopping mall blaze in Qatar killed 19 people, most of them children at an unlicensed Doha nursery.

The fire which began in a sporting goods store in Doha’s Villagio Mall had started, according to official statements, “due to faulty electrical wiring in a fluorescent light.”

All 19 people killed in the inferno on May 28 were foreigners, including two fire fighters, 13 children and four teachers.

Officially, the fire was not premeditated.


The Villagio mall blaze in May which killed 19 people in the Qatari capital. (Reuters)
However, leaked files reveal that the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad might have planned the Villagio blaze.

The leaked documents are highly-classified Syrian security files obtained by Al Arabiya from opposition sources.

The channel said that it has verified and authenticated hundreds of these documents and that it has decided to disclose ones with substantial news value and political relevance.

'Embarrassing Qatar'

A telegram from Syrian Major General Dhu al-Himma Shaleesh to the Syrian ambassador in Qatar, asking to find ways to ‘embarrass’ Qatar. (Al Arabiya Exclusive)
A telegram sent in February from the presidential palace in Damascus to the Syrian Embassy in Qatar unveils important information on the Syrian strategy to “embarrass” the Qatari state.

Syrian Major General Dhu al-Himma Shaleesh, head of the president’s Special Security force, wrote to the Syrian ambassador in Qatar, Hajem Ibraheem, requesting from him to serve “the supreme interests of the (Syrian) state.” Shaleesh informed the ambassador of the need to humiliate Qatar after its supposed role in supporting the Free Syrian Army, the country’s main armed opposition group.


A letter sent from Shaleesh to President Assad stating the Villagio Blaze mission was accomplished. (Al Arabiya Exclusive)
Shaleesh had requested from the Syrian ambassador in Qatar to provide him with suggestions on how Syria would proceed to implement its strategy and put the Gulf state in a critical situation to weaken its image and alter public opinion of the state.

A second highly secretive document dated June 2, also sent from Shaleesh but this time addressed personally to President Assad, acknowledges the “success” of the first operation aimed to destabilize Qatar and embarrass it in front of the world.

Shaleesh named the operation “Villagio blaze.”

Al Arabiya's exclusive series on the newly-leaked security documents continues tomorrow.

 

[Vagabundo]

Scumbags, the lot of them

 

[Inflammable Slinky]

Just so you know, Al-arabiya tends to make shit up like crazy. A recent headline of theirs said that assad rescued the turkish pilots shot down and executed them, then returned their bodies to the crash site.

The Turkish government came out and said that was bullshit. So yeah, truckload of salt.

 

[EatinOlives]

Was I the only one who read the topic title as "Assad behind deadly ball maze"?

 

[manipulate]

I reckon this is nonsense.

 

[Canis lupus]

Just so you know, Al-arabiya tends to make shit up like crazy. A recent headline of theirs said that assad rescued the turkish pilots shot down and executed them, then returned their bodies to the crash site.

The Turkish government came out and said that was bullshit. So yeah, truckload of salt.

I only trust AlJazeera. Al-Arabiya, PressTV, RT, they all seem to have an agenda.

 

[Jb]

I only trust AlJazeera. Al-Arabiya, PressTV, RT, they all seem to have an agenda.

So does AJ. They're the Quatari regime's most effective weapon after the Quatar Investment Authority ($115 B of assets).

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

Whither these documents are true or not, the daily leaked documents are gaining mainstream interest in the MiddleEast.

 

[commedieu]

all media is controlled...major media.

So what source is there to believe when it tells the truth..?

 

[Xcellere]

inb4 solid warrior felating Assad.

 

[Jb]

all media is controlled...major media.

So what source is there to believe when it tells the truth..?

Most major media we're familiar with are not owned by their government. It's your job to recoup the information with multiple different sources, across countries and political lines, to try to figure out what's bullshit from what's real.

 

[Steelrain]

Uh.....yeah, not buying it.

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

Social Media really helped weaken the grip of controlled media it might be less credible but majorly help in seeing the unedited truth.

 

[commedieu]

Most major media we're familiar with are not owned by their government. It's your job to recoup the information with multiple different sources, across countries and political lines, to try to figure out what's bullshit from what's real.

I agree with the last part, but media is owned by governmental friends, that contribute to campaigns...

Very hard to rely on any of them for true leaked information thats not immediately disavowed as if the concepts are so foreign and alien...then years later.. the truth comes out, and we all pretend "well we knew that already!" but was never factual.

 

[Jackpot]

Much as this would fit just lovely into my views of Assad, the source is untrustworthy. Also aren't their claims that Russia ordered the execution of those 2 Turkish pilots (from the same leaked docs) more thread-worthy?

 

[Typhoon_Ex]

Yea... that sounds like total BS.

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

Much as this would fit just lovely into my views of Assad, the source is untrustworthy. Also aren't their claims that Russia ordered the execution of those 2 Turkish pilots (from the same leaked docs) more thread-worthy?

Found out about that recently, the first thing that I heard about was the Qatar Fire on my feed. My friend told me that I was LTTP regarding the leaked documents and it's still going on. True or not I find them interesting.

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

Draw a dick on their signs or something... murdering women and children isn't exactly embarrassing anyone.