Posted on 08/09/2014 1:42:17 PM PDT by Hojczyk
What are major news organizations doing sending jihadi-approved photos from inside the Islamic State?
Abu Mirwan -- not his real name -- has worked as a photographer in Iraq for well over a decade. He is now filing photographs for an international agency, he said in a telephone interview in early August. (He wouldn't say which one). After the IS takeover of Mosul, Mirwan, a Sunni Iraqi, reached out to an agent of the caliphate, who said he could get him permission to work again. The agent was true to his word, Mirwan said. He even shared a pleasant meal with three IS leaders, who told him they would help him by giving him stories and inviting him to see IS events.
The congeniality didn't last long. Mirwan says that a few days later, he was taken to see another member of IS's leadership. It was a very different meeting. The IS leader threatened Mirwan, telling him that if he did anything that damaged IS's reputation, he'd be killed and that if he took any photographs without IS knowledge, he'd be given 100 lashes.
From now on, he was told, before he sent out any photos, he'd have to share his memory cards for approval first. And that's how he's operated since, Mirwan says. IS invites him to cover events, such as military shows and rallies. He photographs them, with a minder in tow, and when he's through, he clears his images with an IS representative before they go out to either the international agency he works with, or to a local agency he works with which then passes them on to its international contacts.
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
Title has nothing to do with article???
It’s time to dust off the old book on ‘Carpet Bombing”.
Ha-Ha! Made you click!
Yes Bomber Harris and Curtiss Lemay if still Alive would be my choice for President and Veep.
Obtuse relationship, like the title of the kids movie; “How To Train Your Dragon”.
“The IS leader threatened Mirwan, telling him that if he did anything that damaged IS’s reputation,”
What reputation? Why does this sound familiar about one’s reputation being ruined?
It's called click bait.
This all goes back to George W. Bush and his refusal to accept that this is a war against Islam.
It’s all in the lighting.
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