Baby Milk Plant Bump.
Posted on 05/22/2004 1:09:45 PM PDT by livesbygrace
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Dozens of people killed in a U.S. attack in the Iraqi desert Wednesday were attending a high-level meeting of foreign fighters, not a wedding, and photos shown to reporters in Baghdad support that belief, according to the senior coalition military spokesman.
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said six women were among the dead, but there is no evidence any children died in the raid early Wednesday near the Syrian border.
Coalition officials have said that as many as 40 people were killed in the attack.
He said that video showing dead children killed was actually recorded in Ramadi, far from the attack scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
"Kimmitt said that troops did not find anything -- such as a wedding tent, gifts, musical instruments, decorations or leftover food -- that would indicate that a wedding had been held.
Most of the men there were of military age, and there were no elders present to indicate a family event, he said.
What was found, he said, indicated the building was used as a waypoint for foreign fighters crossing into Iraq from Syria to battle the coalition."
This is a huge story -- America's Jenin hoax. Watch it get buried on the back pages, or not reported at all.
The Arabs have been developing their own propaganda outlets to the west and have done very well owing to the hatred most of our media feel for the President.
Our local newspaper, in the rack at the general store, has a big headline: "Wedding Bombed in Iraq." You can bet that next week's paper will not have a headline saying "Wedding Not Bombed in Iraq."
Al Jazeera is just the tip of the iceberg. The Arabs have learned very well how to manipulate our media.
JeninRedux.
It must really suck for the left to be wrong so often.
Can't our military recognize party favors when they see them? < /sarcasm>
Good news in Iraq is bad news for the stealth-commie Dems!
yep.
the kool aid drinkers over at the new york times.
Not all that hard when they're so willing (eager?) to be manipulated.
Manipulate our media??? Our media are co-conspirators and need to be sent to Cuba with their brothers. They are supporting terrorists, giving aid to terrorists, therefore they are terrorists.
.... meaning that there is a ready-to-go AGITPROP response
to any generalized attack. This could be old footage of victims in the crossfire of some previous engagement in Ramadi.
It was wheeled out to make this seem like an attack on civilians.
45 military age smugglers and foreigners, not a bad engagement after all.
But clearly they over-reached and our own military are not dummies. I urge you to correct your local newspapers.
oh, if only the Bush WHite House had as quick a 'spin response' team as the Jihadists!!!
...and our media is all too willing to be led around by the ***** by anything that makes the US look bad, regardless if it is true or not...........
Baby Milk Plant Bump.
You know, if the press really was serious about cleaning up their image, thought obviously they aren't, printing front page over the fold retractions of stories just like this would be one of the more important things they can do.
Everyone makes mistakes. It takes integrity to admit to them though.
Of course, it is interesting that the press's mistakes all lean one way. Whether it is the bogus rape pictures or now this wedding hoax, they only seem to make anti-American mistakes...
If that is what their weddings are like, I would hate to see an Iraqi hockey game.....
The women might have been prostitutes brought in from Syria. Syria has tons of hookers.
Like Clark Griswold said when handing out berets to his family in Paris: "Wouldn't want to look like a bunch of tourists..."
I love it! Thanks for the great graphic!
Is it manipulation, or simply allies working together in the same cause?
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