Omran Daqneesh

Video

 * Embedded in Independent article video
 * longer video
 * Location and building damage is uncertain based on the above footage.
 * Videos have marking AMC, which appears to be Aleppo Media Center, sponsored by Syrian Expatriates Organization, with contact address in Washington DC.

Reactions

 * Contributed by Senator John McCain (statement): --Resup (talk) 21:31, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * ''Pulled from the rubble of a damaged building in Aleppo, Omran Daqneesh has moved the world. The heartbreaking image of little Omran sitting in an ambulance – stunned, his face caked in dust and blood, a Nickelodeon character on his t-shirt – has become a symbol of the Syrian civil war and the untold human suffering it has wrought


 * Oxfam America petition calls on president Obama and/or Secretary of State Kerry for an end to the conflict, by political settlement, and also "I urge you to secure full implementation of UNSC resolutions that would help end attacks and sieges of Syrian civilians and ensure unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, notably UN Security Council resolutions 2139, 2165, 2254, and 2268." (personalization of text is allowed) “Secure implementation” could mean “enforce,” which could be the basis for a Libya-style air war or other military intervention. Promoting it, their Laura Rusu, blogs how she "found the images so awful that I could barely look. But then I forced myself to watch … We mustn't turn away.” Others agree, and have made it so you almost can't turn away, except by buying the paper and turning to page 2. --Caustic Logic (talk) 02:48, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Russia (AP via Times of Israel; TASS; Sputnik, Aug 19, 2016)
 * The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement it never targets populated areas and that rebels themselves hit urban areas in order to derail humanitarian efforts there. The ministry also said the footage of the boy’s rescue showed windows in the house next door intact, indicating that the boy’s house was not targeted by an airstrike but was hit with a mine that rebels use.
 * better translation of the ending given by TASS: "(mortar) shell or a gas cylinder widely used by terrorists there".

Analysis

 * The "Wounded Boy In Orange Seat" - Another Staged "White Helmets" Stunt - Moon of Alabama, August 18, 2016
 * Terrorists and their media propagandists in western broadcasters disseminated #Aleppo #Tagesschau - Urs1798, August 19, 2016
 * Aleppo Boy Story: Stunt to Blame Russia, Urge Escalated War - Stephen Lendman, August 20, 2016
 * Footage Of Boy In Aleppo Is Opportunistic, Vile Propaganda From Western Media - Brandon Turbeville, August 20, 2016
 * Death Of Brother Of "Wounded Boy In Orange Seat" Appears To Be An Add-On Fake -Moon of Alabama, August 21, 2016
 * How the media manipulates the ‘Aleppo boy’ - PT Carlo, The Duran, August 21, 2016
 * BBC, CNN, Guardian et al need to face the agenda they are being used to serve - Catte, Off Guardian, August 21, 2016
 * "We Mustn't Turn Away" - Omran and Abdullah, Delusion and Reality Monitor on Massacre Marketing, August 21, 2016