TIME Exclusive: IRAQ INSURGENTS SHOW OFF FIREPOWER TO TIME

Time ^ | Sunday, Dec. 07, 2003 | Brian Bennett and Michael Ware

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The insurgents load three air-to-air rockets they have modified to launch from the ground, flash a signal with car headlights and disappear. A second team creeps in to fire the volley, while a security detail armed with assault rifles and machine guns forms a perimeter.

Everybody involved in TIME's little terrorist escapade shoud be in prison. This is to be expected from al-Jazeera. Now TIME is spreading Islamofascist propaganda.

[gatorbait]

Look at these snotty , traitorous dirtbags! They'll next go out and participate in the murder of GIs or Iraqi civilians and say it is jounalism..The swine , utter, low crawling swine.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Can you BELIEVE this article? Talk about propagandizing for the enemy and shilling for progressives!

This is an all "Time" low.

[tet68]

(At no time did TIME reporters have prior information about attacks.)
(snip)
Showing Firepower: Inside Attack on Baghdad Airport: At the modest farmhouse of a fellow member of his network of insurgents one recent evening, Abu Ali—the nom de guerre he has chosen—welcomes seven fighters into a room lined with worn sofas. Checking his watch, he abruptly rises from a sofa, throws on a woolen overcoat and orders everyone, including the reporter, to move out. The men pile into three cars and tear off in different directions. For more than an hour they cruise near the launch site until all looks clear. Then a small team walks into a flat field to aim a rack of homemade launching tubes toward the lights of the Baghdad airport, home to U.S. chopper squadrons, supply units and the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, less than two miles away. The insurgents load three air-to-air rockets they have modified to launch from the ground, flash a signal with car headlights and disappear. A second team creeps in to fire the volley, while a security detail armed with assault rifles and machine guns forms a perimeter. Beyond these fighters, according to the cell’s security chief, a ring of men with shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles and rocket-propelled grenades is watching for U.S. helicopters that might try to stop them, TIME reports.


Oh no, they just went along for the ride.
Hang 'em.

[Anti-McGovern]

This at least is ground for revoking their credentials inside Iraq. Seems to be the Justice Department should also start an investigation.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

I wouldn't be surprised if TIME paid them under the table.

I can just picture the reporters kissing their ass and telling them how noble their cause is, how their real enemy is Bush, how they have the support of the Progressives, how the WoT is illegal, how Bush is a Nazi, how Muslims are the victims of War crimes in Guantanamo, how they should keep it up, because together they can end the illegal US occupation... etc, etc.

They share the same goals.

[denydenydeny]

Bennett reports the dispute over the battle’s body count bears echoes of Vietnam, where casualty figures were routinely inflated.

No, what REALLY echoes of Vietnam is Time's feverishly anti-American reporting.

[VOA]

No, what REALLY echoes of Vietnam is Time's feverishly anti-American reporting.

Looks like TIME is following CNN's "Blood For Interviews" policy that CNN
had in gaining access to Saddam and his buddies for news reports.

[niteowl77]

This is advocacy journalism taken to its logical extreme. Like the peaceniks that recently arrived, they are part of a coordinated effort that "somehow" manages to avoid kidnapping and IEDs. That they get away with it is a mockery, and were I a soldier in Iraq, I'd be sorely tempted to make certain that, somehow, they got some action.

OTOH, if this kind of treachery results in some useful intelligence, then by all means let the bastards run all over hell and then nail their sources one by one.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Looks like aiding and abetting the enemy to me.

[NormsRevenge]

I don't relish saying it but, Not a surprise, really.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Blood Boil Alert!!

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Look at some of the actual statements:

"Guerillas Trying to Drive U.S. Casualties So High That American Public Turns Against The War "

(No. MEDIA and their Rat pimps trying to drive casualties so high...)

"Fedayeen militiamen"

(What? The F was the Saddam/Uday version of the Iraqi SS! Instead, they define this Iraqi SS group as 'citizens rising up as a group with arms to overthrow the tyrannical US'. This REALLY set me off. Progressives are anti militia, anti self defense, anti liberty, anti gun...yet PRO all of the aforementioned when used to KILL AMERICAN SOLDIERS fulfilling an unprecedented, extremely difficult mission to protect us all. They have officially taken the position that is moral for Fedayeen to kill soldiers. And the Rat leadership must have OK'ed it.)

"Over the past three months, TIME has interviewed dozens of insurgents and disgruntled Iraqis, attended resistance meetings..."

(No. They met with enemies of the US and aided and abetted their war effort, witholding info that could have killed soldiers and civilians. Calling them by other names does not fly)

"of course, frequent personal searches for phones and tracking devices. (At no time did TIME reporters have prior information about attacks.)"

Since they are on the same side, the killers had no reason to shake them down so thoroughly. Time would not have zotted them anyway. Who is kidding who? This was a meeting of allies, and the reporters were probably treated as such. This BS covers their ass so they can say "We know nothing and were helplessly innocent" when they are interviewed by the military.)

"As seen from the inside, the insurgency looks as complex and diverse an enemy as the U.S. could possibly face."

(Huh? Time has also redefined what is in reality, RAGTAG at best)

"At the modest farmhouse of a fellow member of his network of insurgents one recent evening, Abu Ali—the nom de guerre he has chosen—welcomes seven fighters into a room lined with worn sofas."

(Romanticizing the enemy. How sweet.)

"Then a small team walks into a flat field to aim a rack of homemade launching tubes "

(After all of this hype about the most formidable enemy we could possibly face, this is their example, their 'best shot'?)

""They could succeed."
(If they had a .00001 chance, technically, they 'could' succeed. Probably taken out of context. From all reports I have read, we have been successful this month. Yet Time now conveniently hides the Dec stats, while they endlessly trumpeted the bad Nov stats.)

"Leaders of small cells that once acted independently now share intelligence and tactics and divide up targets. "They’re colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors who are really the hard-core loyalists," "

(Out of context again, implying that the Iraqis have a complete command and communications structure in place. An outright deception. Why don't they mention the command structure that have been arrested so far?)

"Many are thought to be devout Iraqi Muslims who believe that fighting "infidel" occupiers is a Koranic imperative..."Islam tells us that no one should occupy our land. The Koran allows us to kill anyone to defend our country."

( is anyone else sick of leftists in the media showing total respect for Islam, while attacking Chrisianity at every turn? In the ME, it is always, this holy place, this respected holy imam, this holy day. They paint the entire population as observant Muslims too. What they are saying here is that the Iraqis have a religious right and duty to kill us, AS WELL AS the moral right they outlined in earlier paragraphs)


"It also allows Bush to avoid the charge that the war actually increased danger to the U.S."

(There it is! They wrote the story around this conclusion. Bush lies. Bush is incompetent, etc. Speaks for itself.)

"the dispute over the battle’s body count bears echoes of Vietnam, where casualty figures were routinely inflated. "

(Yet another Vietnam analogy. Analogies are always an easy way to mislead- and they make full use of them, stoking Vietnam era sentiment. Why would the govt lie, knowing it would be exposed in a few days?)

"The U.S. has not been giving out such numbers in Iraq, but seemed eager to publicize this battle’s hefty total."

(So why did they make the analagous accusation. To use the 'Vietnam Card'?


This propaganda should serve as a wake up call to us all. The govt has to speak up about this propaganda. It must be revealed to sheeple who will not understand what is really going on here. There is a war at home, and only a few people realize it and/or are willing to do something about it.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

'No blood for ionterviews'. Boycott Time. I like that.

[Anti-McGovern]

I brought this up to my democrat wife and she was disgusted. I think we could get traction with this.

The action item we should be looking for is that Time reporters be kicked out of the War Zone.

[woofie]

Bathists vote Democrat

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"OTOH, if this kind of treachery results in some useful intelligence, then by all means let the bastards run all over hell and then nail their sources one by one."

Won't happen. They absolutely went out of their way in the article to say they know nothing, all of their gear was confiscated, they know nothing... it's transparent.

Let's face it. Whatever they DO know, they will hold in confidence. You can take that to the bank.

[Spruce]

Jackals.

[gatorbait]

This propaganda should serve as a wake up call to us all. The govt has to speak up about this propaganda. It must be revealed to sheeple who will not understand what is really going on here. There is a war at home, and only a few people realize it and/or are willing to do something about it.
The problem is Time runs all those feel good ads and wraps itself in the 1 st amendment whilst using it as bumwad. Another problem is tha tTime , like the rest, stays on message and keeps hammering it home. I have to laugh when I hear about conservative control of the media.. it's a lie, bold faced and easily disproven, yet it is accepted ,since it is too difficult to bestir oneself away from a Simpsons re run.