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tl;dr: a Syrian politician publicly claimed that the US coordinated attacks with ISIS that targeted the Syrian government, and a US politician (Hilldog) privately claimed that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are providing financial support to ISIL and "other radical Sunni groups in the region." For anybody who somehow missed the memo, ISIS is ISIL. Also, Aleppo is the capital of Syria. Now that Johnson is caught up to speed, this submission was accepted yesterday morning but by some error of man or machine appears to have never actually been posted:

Remember how the US government attacked the Syrian government two weeks ago and claimed that it was an accident, even after Russia publicly called them out on it?

Al Mayadeen reports (and Sputnik International translates) a story about a conspiracy. The Speaker of the People's Council of Syria, Hadiya Khalaf Abbas, has said that "the Syrian Army intercepted a conversation between the Americans and Daesh before the air raid on Deir ez-Zor." Abbas also alleged that the US military directed terrorists to attack the Syrian government after the airstrikes were over. She claimed that details would be made public at a later point, but there is no indication of when that might happen.

The Sputnik International story actually says that "the Syrian intelligence possesses an audio recording of conversation [...]," which would mean that the Syrian government might have audio recordings to leak. However, the direct quotes don't seem to say anything about recordings. This detail could be sloppy or purposefully misleading reporting; the Russian government has a stake in public perception of this event, and they control Sputnik International. The Syrian government could have actually intercepted a conversation without recording it, and that version of events would obviously be an easier lie to maintain.

Buckle on your tin foil hats, SoyLentils. Some of the governments and/or news agencies involved in this submission are telling lies. Do you think you know which ones? Care to enlighten the rest of us?

That was submitted before the Podesta leaks hit. One juicy bit of those not discussed in the comments was Hillary Clinton talking about Saudi Arabia and Qatar providing secret support for ISIL (emphasis added):

>> 4. Armed with proper equipment, and working with U.S. advisors, the
>> Peshmerga can attack the ISIL with a coordinated assault supported from the
>> air. This effort will come as a surprise to the ISIL, whose leaders
>> believe we will always stop with targeted bombing, and weaken them both in
>> Iraq and inside of Syria. At the same time we should return to plans to
>> provide the FSA, or some group of moderate forces, with equipment that will
>> allow them to deal with a weakened ISIL, and stepped up operations against
>> the Syrian regime. This entire effort should be done with a low profile,
>> avoiding the massive traditional military operations that are at best
>> temporary solutions. While this military/para-military operation is moving
>> forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence
>> assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia,
>> which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and
>> other radical Sunni groups in the region. This effort will be enhanced by
>> the stepped up commitment in the KRG. The Qataris and Saudis will be put
>> in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to
>> dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious U.S. pressure. By
>> the same token, the threat of similar, realistic U.S. operations will serve
>> to assist moderate forces in Libya, Lebanon, and even Jordan, where
>> insurgents are increasingly fascinated by the ISIL success in Iraq

Back on the topic of the Abbas allegations, the ever trustworthy Wikipedia says this about Al Mayadeen's political slant:

The name of the channel, Al Mayadeen, means "the squares" in English, indicating its objective "to provide coverage for the Arab popular actions on the squares of change in the context of the Arab spring revolutions".[20] The channel argues that it provides journalism, which is “committed to nationalist, pan-Arab and humanitarian issues within the template of professional journalistic objectivity.”[21] In addition, it presents itself as a “free and independent media project” with 500 staff and reporters in Arab and Western capitals.[6] Its slogan is “Reality as it is” and its editorial policy emphasizes that Palestine and resistance movements wherever they are found are its point of reference.[6] It was also stated that the Palestinian cause is the channel's centerpiece.[22] On the other hand, It is also argued by France 24 and Mohammed Al Jazairy of Asharq Alawsat that Al Mayadeen represents the latest expansion of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in the field of media.[9][13] It is further claimed by Zeina Karam of the Associated Press that the channel's close ally in Lebanon is the powerful Shiite militant group Hezbollah.[23]

Al Mayadeen prefers to refer to the rebels as "terrorists," and to the actions of the Syrian government against the rebels as "cleansing" when reporting the Syrian civil war.[24] Following its first year of broadcast the channel began to be known by Matthew Keys as "anti-Al Jazeera".[25]

On 6 November 2015, the Saudi-controlled Arabsat satellite TV organization suspended and banned Al-Mayadeen from broadcasting on Arabsat's satellite system. The motive was the editorial stances of Al-Mayadeen news programs, including the spirit of Al-Mayadeen's coverage of the Saudi military intervention in the ongoing civil war in Yemen.[26]

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It is stated that the owners of the channel are anonymous Arab businessmen.[6] There are speculations about the funding of the channel. Western media claim that the channel is a propaganda platform for Iran and Hezbollah and is funded by them.[1] Omar Ibhais, a freelance Lebanese TV producer, argued that the channel is a joint venture between the Iranians and Rami Makhlouf, cousin of Syrian President Bashar Assad.[27] However, Ghassan bin Jiddo, director of the channel, denied these claims and stated that the channel is funded by Arab businessmen whose identity he would not disclose.[1]

"In war-time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." --Churchill

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