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February 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Conroy, 47, and three other journalists who remain trapped, including Edith
Bouvier, a French reporter who suffered multiple leg fractures in the blast,
requested that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) evacuate
them, along with a foreign diplomat.
But the Red Cross team has not been allowed to enter the Baba Amr district of
Homs and Syrian authorities were said to have refused the French
ambassador’s permission to accompany them.
A second rescue attempt reportedly failed on Saturday because the rebel Free
Syrian Army prevented the Red Crescent ambulances from reaching the
journalists during a ceasefire.
Such levels of distrust on both sides prompted fuelled fears that the planned
evacuation, mounted with help from the ICRC, French and British embassies
mad high level Syrian sources, would fail.
A message of reassurance was sent to the group on Saturday as the Sunday
Times team begged the Red Crescent rescuers to return to the devastated
city and try again.
Colvin’s boyfriend also sent an emotional appeal to the journalists as it
emerged that Mr Conroy was refusing to leave without her body, despite the
potentially life threatening risk of infection if his wounds are not
treated.
He said Colvin, 56, who died trying to retrieve her shoes so she could flee
the bombardment, had always been concerned about the living, adding “please
let no more people die … for her body.”
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said negotiations between the ICRC and the Syrian
regime were continuing on Sunday but had so far failed to reach a
breakthrough.
But she said it would only compound the problem if they were to send a
diplomat into Homs. “It would be completely unhelpful as well as
unfeasible,” she said. “Diplomats in Damascus have been lobbying the Syrians
provide access to the Red Cross but the only people who can grant access is
the regime itself. It is the Syrians in the decision-making seat, not us.”
It emerged yesterday that Colvin was on the ground floor of a makeshift press
centre when rockets hit the upper floors and exploded last Wednesday. She
had left her shoes at the door, as is custom in the Middle East, and ran to
the hall to retrieve them when a rocket landed just yards from the front
door, killing her instantly, the Sunday Times reported.
Mrs Conroy, an occupational therapist from, Totnes, Devon, told BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting
House programme that her husband’s group had initially been advised that
the Syrian Red Crescent were not to be trusted but must now trust that their
international profile would get them out safely.
She said she had seen the video footage of her husband in the aftermath of the
fatal rocket attack, which also killed French photojournalist Remi Ochlik,
and had since been getting by on adrenalin.
Their three sons, she said, were “coping really well” and were looking forward
to holding him.
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