I am FURIOUS! Why is this Hamid, a Swedish-Iraqi journalist allowed to study in this country while he aids and abets our enemies? Who paid for this "student" to fly back and forth to Iraq four times to take pictures of our soldiers?
My suspicion is that Nick Berg was a Michael Moore mole who was supposed to meet up with the "fun-loving" guys from al Qaeda and give Moore some good footage for his movie. Instead, Berg ended up on a spit, roasting over a fire.
What I don't understand is why some network, FOX perhaps, doesn't go and do a special about how far we've come in Iraq.
Coulldn't agree more!
We never ever hear about the good things that are going on.
Thank goodness for Freerepublic. If I may.
IRAQ THE MODEL
http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/
Sunday, June 27, 2004
Warning!! Good news. Hazardous for pessimists, trolls and anti-war!
:: This morning, Al-Hurra TV reported that the IP succeeded in locating and disarming a big bomb placed in a car in the crowded Al-Jihad district in Baghdad. The bomb was made up of more than 50 kilograms of highly explosive materials together with some artillery shells.
The report also showed pictures for the car and the explosives.
:: Al-Sharqiya TV reported that the IP forces in Basra made a successful arrest of the largest oil-smuggling gang.
The report said that the IP arrested nine members of the gang and found 24 tankers loaded with oil and ready to be smuggled outside Iraq.
:: Al-Sabah paper reported that the IP has arrested the biggest abduction and assassination gang in Baghdad.
There was a fierce fight and heavy gun fire exchange before the IP could arrest the gang with their chief and there were no casualties among the IP.
The gang is believed to have connections outside Iraq.
:: The general directorate of passports declared that Iraqis are going to have new passports instead of the travel document issued by the CPA that are not accepted by most countries and are valid for a single trip only.
The new passports are prepared with high quality that make them uneasy to be faked and will be available to all Iraqis starting from the 5th of July.
:: Yesterday, a friend of mine who’s a doctor visited us. This friend was working in Yemen for five years and has came back 3 months ago to work here despite the fact that he was getting paid about 3 times the usual payment doctors get here.
It’s worth mentioning that most of my friends who were working in Yemen, Libya, Jordan, etc have came back to Iraq and others are still considering despite the large difference in salaries.
This friend of mine along with the others have been searching for a job since he came back and couldn’t get an answer. He was considering going back to Yemen since he didn't see any sighn of hope.
Yesterday he went to the Health ministry and they told him that his application was approved and that he’ll start working next July. He was also told that all the doctors and paramedics who were out of job for any reason will go back to work in chronological order according to the date of their applications but the need for their services will be considered in deciding who gets the job first. They told him that the ministry’s plan is to provide job opportunities for all the new graduates, health workers who left their job for any reason and any one who can be helpful in a plan to reduce unemployment and to promote healthcare in Iraq.
- posted by Omar @ 14:04
These Iraqi blogs are really good,
***What I don't understand is why some network, FOX perhaps, doesn't go and do a special about how far we've come in Iraq.***
ABSOLUTELY!
Huh, Mr. Hmaid, can anybody say saddam's and michael moore's equivalent of Monica.
In light of Hans Blix, this is a odd shared nationality. Makes you wonder who his employer was prior to Moore.
I read this five minutes after reading a Ventura County Star interview with a UC Santa Barbara (liberal university) professor who'd been to Iraq and found the people positive and hopeful, to his surprise. Guess you see what you want to see in Iraq.
We are lucky here in Seattle to have a radio talk show host in Iraq.This man is so positive about what the U.S. is doing over there.He tells it like it is,And he tells the TRUTH!
Bryan Suits
bsuits@fisherradio.com
As you may know, Bryan is a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army. That makes him pefectly "suited" to discuss a wide range of military issues on KVI. It also means that, from time to time, he may be called away to fulfill certain military obligations.
Bryan is now in Iraq. Fortunately, Bryan is able to join us, via satellite from Baghdad once or twice a week on the Rusty Humphries Show. Be listening weekdays between 9am and noon for Bryan's expert insight. It isn't clear exactly when his tour of duty will end. Whenever it does end, Bryan WILL be returning to his evening slot on KVI.
Thanks, Bryan, for serving our country. We look forward to your return and we look forward to hearing from you while you're away.
SPECIAL REPORT
"I Thought This Was the End"
Journalist Urban Hamid kidnapped in Iraq.
by Urban Hamid
Editor’s Note: Swedish journalist Urban Hamid’s words—and photos—first appeared in the Bullhorn’s March 11 Issue (“Iraq One Year Later”) in the form of a transcribed interview with James Thompson from the “Bullhorn Talk Show” on KRFC 88.9 FM. At the time, Hamid had recently returned from Iraq, where he spent time with the U.S. Army’s Charlie Company and with his family—he is half Iraqi.
Hamid, who once lived in Boulder for several years and attended the University of Colorado, went back to Iraq in early April. On his way to Baghdad from Amman, Jordan, he became wrapped up with the so-called Saraya al-Mujahedin, or Mujahedin Brigades, a name previously unfamiliar to the world—that is, until they kidnapped Japanese civilians (reportedly two humanitarian volunteers and a photojournalist) and threatened to burn them alive if Japan didn’t withdraw its 550 troops from Iraq. As of press time, various reports had confirmed those hostages were still being held, and seven Chinese citizens were taken captive on April 11.
On Thursday, April 8, Hamid was kidnapped and detained with seven South Korean missionaries, who claimed they were doctors and nurses instead of messengers of Christ. The Korean hostages were released seven hours later; Hamid was released within the hour, and faced even more peril in the middle of a firefight between Iraqis and American forces.
What follows is Hamid’s account of events, first published in Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. The following version has been translated from the Swedish and edited for style and content.
(snip)
http://www.rockymountainbullhorn.com/Week_33_2004/nv1_news2.htm
I have contacted the Republican National Committee and made the offer to them. Friends of mine in S. California did THE CLINTON CHRONICLES and over 200 other films. I am prepared to write it and they are prepared to do it. The problem is that there seems to be no interest at the RNC.
The RNC needs to have a film out there showing the words of all the RATS who talked about WMDs, regime change, etc., but who now conveniently forget their positions because of politics. The film needs to show the failure of Clinton to get bin Laden. It needs to show the good that has happened to Iraq. And it needs to show that every month Hussein is out of power, over 3,000 lives have been saved. Yes, while he was in power, each month 3,000 were killed because of him. Women were raped. Men were put into vats of acid or industrial shredders. Children were imprisoned. Limbs and heads were cut off. That is the Iraq that we are changing.
Protesters disrupt Cannes festival
excerpt:
Later, Moore revealed he had smuggled three camera crews into Iraq to film disillusioned US soldiers for his new documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11.
~snip~
I can't understand this quote. The people of Iraq are starting self government after living for decades of life under a tyrant. What was expected, we would kick out Saddam and pile into our planes and leave? Talk about wanting instant results. The left in this country are even worse. What was Roosevelt's "exit strategy" in 1941 when we went to war with Japan and Germany? Sixty three years later we are still in those countries. What about Truman's "exit strategy" in Korea? Its been 51 years and we still have troops there.
I fault in part the education system. If people had any idea about past conflicts they might understand this one a little better.
Michael Moore/Berg ping!
Original "research" thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143602/posts
Here's a start.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160853/posts
GOOD WORK HILDY!!!!!!!!!!!! We need to send this around, hopefully someone will pick it up, investigate and get it in the news. "Documentary" my a**!!
Hmmm. Makes me wonder who ol' Hamid's been interviewing. Al Quaida operatives, perhaps?
Because it would either be too expensive to do, or too low a ratings, or both, apparently in the estimation of FNC's News Division editors. Witness how as soon as we had liberated Baghdad, even Fox News had more or less eliminated its war coverage (except for a token), and went to the sensation & scandal-of-the-week mode...such as the current ongoing travesty with the Scott Peterson trial 24/7.
In Imperial Rome, it was Bread and Circusses.
Today, it is the 10-second sound-byte summaries, with lurid video snapshots that substitutes for real reporting. It is likely with the importation of CNN's celebrities...such as Geraldo and Van Sustern, these 'acquisitions' were early signs of the dilution of FNC's philosophical committment which distinictiveness had raised FNC to the top of the heap in the first place, and the descent thereto into 'run of the mill' same-old same old. Fair & Balanced? Only if it fits in 'Round the World in 80 seconds.'