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Thread: I’m as guilty as anyone of admiring Pity the Nation when it was the first book I’d read on #Lebanon and I knew nothing else about the place, and little else about its author Robert #Fisk, who has died at 74 (1)
The first thing to say is Lebanese readers themselves were never so easily impressed by the book, as @emile_hokayem reminds us, and as @aelghossain, @faysalitani, and many others will also remind you if you prompt them (2)
Fisk died with his once-envied reputation largely in ruins, having spent the better part of the last decade peddling inexpiable untruths for this century’s leading mass murderer, Bashar al-Assad. See, e.g., @im_PULSE’s extensive documentation of this (3) pulsemedia.org/2016/12/03/rob…
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Robert Fisk’s latest “EXCLUSIVE” reveals just how little he knows about #Syria's opposition, its foreign relations & support networks.

Gloss over inaccuracies & he’s “revealed” what we've known for yrs - #Saudi backed the multilateral MOC, arming #FSA.
independent.co.uk/voices/syria-w…
#pt: #Saudi was a principle backer of the MOC; a multilateral structure created to centrally coordinate armed support to [extensively] pre-vetted #FSA groups in northern #Syria.

120mm M75 mortars were one of many systems provided through MOC channels - inc. to units in #Aleppo.
#pt: The purchase of arms from E. European states by countries backing #MOC (& #MOM in the south) has been extensively documented - it’s not a secret.

+ #Fisk’s portrayal of #Aleppo in late-2016 is insanely inaccurate - #ISIS had *0* presence & #Nusra was about 1% of fighters.
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