Syria: massacre reports emerge from Assad's Alawite heartland

 I think this will turn out to be a complete falsification, and Jonathan Steele and the Guardian have been caught passing on pro-Assad propaganda. There have been repeated reports over the last two years that the rebels have engaged in sectarian massacres, over and over they have proved to be untrue.This time we get a convenient narrative that the régime wanted to hide the massacres to begin with (something completely unprecedented), and still won't let reporters in to do any independent confirmation. We get three of Assad's murderers put up to support this fable. And Rajaa Nasser, labelled an "opposition politician". Here's Rajaa Nasser from last September:

 'President Assad's regime normally tightly restricts criticism in areas it controls, but the NCB's Rajaa al-Nasser said the Damascus authorities had permitted all Syrian political figures to attend the conference "without restrictions." '*

 I think he's part of the loyal opposition to Assad, that is tolerated as long as it does the régime's bidding when needed.
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19692967]