CNN - Iraq Sought To Assassinate CNN Reporters

CNN | 04-10-03 | Tall_Texan

[Tall_Texan]

CNN's Aaron Brown has a producer on who has been in Jordan and is now back in the US. He reports that there was a plot to blow up CNN's reporters and technicians who were trying to get a report in Kurdish-controlled Iraq.

Baghdad Bob made threats against the producer, whose last name is Jordan. After CNN was kicked out of Iraq last month and Hussein was overthrown, CNN obtained taped confessions from the men sent to blow up their newspeople.

The Iraqis believed the CNN unit was working for the CIA. According to Jordan, they were convinced of it.

Brown has moved on to another segment but I hope this will be replayed. The threats began in December but they chose to reveal it only now when they feel there is no chance of reprisal.

Hopefully, a link or some web content will appear to back up my report.

[Tall_Texan]

Amazing. They probably thought **everyone** at CNN must have reported life in Iraq the way Peter Arnett did and felt betrayed.

[Tall_Texan]

Correction: the producer was *in* Iraq. His name is Jordan.

[observer5]

Little did they know that CNN was working in cooperation with Bagdad Bob!

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[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

In related news, Judy Woodruff was heard to exclaim, "So Saddam's the bad guy?!"

[rvoitier]

They'll do anything for ratings.

[San Jacinto]

The Iraqis believed the CNN unit was working for the CIA.

Those people who were running Iraq are stu-u-u-u-pid!

[nhoward14]

Hmmmm... I don't know if I can believe this until Baghdad Bob denies it.

[Trailerpark Badass]

It's always all about THEM, isn't it?

[chachacha]

The Iraqis believed the CNN unit was working for the CIA.

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This is hillarious. Goes to show the Iraq's can't even tell who their friends are!

[Amerigomag]

Oh my golly. Saddam did not recognize that journalits are above the soverign laws of his nation.

What a shock.

Journalist are exempt from the human consequences of the political propaganda that spews forth from their collective mouths. Doesn't everybody know that basic truth.

[LayoutGuru2]

...they chose to reveal it only now when they feel there is no chance of reprisal

They chose to reveal it only when their ratings were in the sub-basement...

[Stopislamnow]

psssst....psssst hey, Mohammed....Fisk is a CIA agent...no, really, he is.

[Drango]

Clear case of fratricide...

[Nebullis]

They also sought to assassinate Al-Jazeera journalists.

[OneVike]

Bummer they failed.

But seriously I doubt this is true. It sounds like a story cooked by the CNN producers to get people to believe they are pro american.

CNN is Al Jazeer west and nothing will ever get me to watch them again.

[nmh]

"He reports that there was a plot to blow up CNN's reporters and technicians who were trying to get a report in Kurdish-controlled Iraq."

Too bad they didn't succeed. It would have been amusing since they are sympathetic to evil and saddam was that.

[nmh]

CNN Is just groping for attention. Using the "victim" status is a common ploy of liberals.

[ladyinred]

How strange is this? I would think that CNN would be the Iraq former govt's dream team.

[timydnuc]

After the great laugh I had at this, I realize that CNN reporters put a much higher premium on their lives than the soldiers that fight the war for their freedom. Ah, Machivellian, just perfect. The call of the coward in the face of courage. God is setting in His Heaven watching all of this, do you think he cares about a squid reporter's life over a brave man. If you were in God's place what would you do?