Syria Special: An Attack in Khan Shaykhoun --- Getting the Story Wrong for "Neutrality"

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News in Syria comes fast and furious. The regime makes claims, the opposition makes claims, Russia makes claims, Iran makes claims, the Saudis make claims, and the media tries to sort it out. It is a challenging, often uncomfortable task.

But "uncomfortable" or "challenging" are not synonymous with "impossible" and, frankly, sometimes the coverage falls far short of an adequate mark.

Today is a notable. example.

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Syria Feature: Anderson Cooper Smacks Down Assad's Ambassador

Anderson Cooper of CNN takes the Syria ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Ja'afari, to task over the videos posted that show human rights abuses. Ja'afari responded by calling for "objectivism", insisting that there were some civilian casualties but most of the violence was at the hands of "armed terrorist groups," Salafists, and Takfiris who are the "the outcome of the British and American invasion of Iraq".

The invasion of Iraq was over 7 years ago, so Cooper asks, why did these events happen now? And if the Syrian regime is telling the truth, then all these other reports are lies? Is Assad history's biggest victim?

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Latest Egypt Video: The Battle of Tahrir Square in Cairo

Anti-Mubarak protester gives graphic early-morning account of the battle: "Why do we have to lose people? Nobody's stopping it"

Pro-Mubarak horseriders attack

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Egypt (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Towards the Day of Departure

0540 GMT: Now see Thursday's LiveBlog: "The Battle of Tahrir Square".

0536 GMT: The pro-regime protesters and thugs have not left Cairo yet. Some of them have taken over tall buildings and are throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks at democracy protesters below outside of Tahrir Square. 

This has not stopped hundreds of protesters from continuing to join democracy protesters in Tahrir Square, swelling up their numbers.  

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