Talk:Aleppo "Playground Napalm Massacre"

Questioning the Allegations
Mostly from the later BBC report, some questions and issues:
 * Playground massacre ... always suspect-sounding. The last one we looked closely on, allegedly with widely-banned cluster bombs, didn't look so clear at all. More like a home invasion by men with guns, really, and some old cluster bomb remnants laid on the ground.
 * School bombings where people of all ages are present - in the past included refugees, and seem to have been attacked by rebels. Consider Aleppo University.
 * Here, the victims are students in class - math, in one case - but also include largely adult and teenage males. BBC reported the first victims: "a seven-month old baby boy arrived, his pink face was blistered and raw. His father was also burnt and sat helplessly on a stretcher clutching his son as the staff rushed to help."
 * "It is hard to imagine or to describe the horrors of what the pilot did." It's at least as difficult to explain how we can be sure it was a pilot at all.
 * "Eyewitnesses described the same thing - a fighter-jet circling overhead, apparently looking for targets. A large crowd had gathered at the school where the incendiary bomb was dropped."
 * "There were no shrapnel injuries or loss of blood typical of most aerial bombs."
 * "Fathers and mothers desperate for news fought to be allowed into the hospital, cursing their president, Bashar al-Assad."

Attack Timing
The first BBC report started ''a BBC team inside Syria filming for Panorama has witnessed the aftermath of a fresh horrific incident." In fact, a later report noted the victims were in front of the crew within an hour of arrival, as if the attack were timed with their arrival for maximum freshness. "Within an hour of being there we received the first sign (first patients) of what was to come." This allowed the world to bear witness as well to what seems to an exceptionally difficult witnessing to bear. (I haven't watched a thing yet). But "the regime" just can't resist a chance to brutalize its people in novel and shocking ways in front of every visitor. --Caustic Logic (talk) 11:41, 30 September 2013 (UTC)