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New York Post ^ | 5/13/04 | RYAN SAGER

Posted on 05/12/2004 11:44:22 PM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:21:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

May 13, 2004 -- IMAGES are important. That's why America's major TV networks and newspapers have a responsibility to show the full Nick Berg video. Forget Abu Ghraib: Those are the words I've heard most often since the tape of militant Islamists cutting off Berg's head was made public Tuesday - though the first word was seldom forget.


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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abughraib; berg; danielpearl; dannypearl; fabrizioquattrocchi; fabrizioquattrocci; images; iraqipow; mediabias; nickberg; pearl; prisonerabuse; quattrocchi; savages

1 posted on 05/12/2004 11:44:22 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
The news media will NEVER show those images, because it might inflame our anger at the islamists, with whom they identify.
2 posted on 05/12/2004 11:48:52 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Why the long face, John?)
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To: kattracks; All
Crosslinked:

-The Berg Beheading- some links--

3 posted on 05/13/2004 12:06:02 AM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)... the 00's? The Decade of Lunatics...)
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To: kattracks
Too bad people feel the need to appeal to public emotions. Complete extermination of terrorists is the rational thing to do! Intelligent people do not need to see more horrific images to understand this
4 posted on 05/13/2004 12:42:24 AM PDT by eclectic
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To: Jeff Chandler
Ok. If the networks won't show it then demand that taxpayer funded PBS show it.
5 posted on 05/13/2004 12:45:57 AM PDT by Texasforever (The French love John Kerry. He is their new Jerry Lewis)
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To: F14 Pilot
ping
6 posted on 05/13/2004 12:48:55 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. --Elmer G. Letterman)
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To: kattracks
Absolutely.
7 posted on 05/13/2004 1:00:04 AM PDT by miltonim (Fight those who do not believe in Allah. - Koran, Surah IX: 29)
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To: Jeff Chandler; mhking; archy; Travis McGee; dyed_in_the_wool; Cannoneer No. 4; SJackson; onyx; ...
more to the point: seeing the video induces a crystalline clarity in the viewer.

This is not "about" what we are "fighting for"

THIS IS NO OTHER THING BUT WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING AGAINST.

The alphabet news do not want us to have so clear an understanding of this war.
8 posted on 05/13/2004 6:21:26 AM PDT by King Prout (ChiComs salivate (Kerry: another Clinton) and leering say "I'll buy THAT for a dollar!")
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To: King Prout
bump !

9 posted on 05/13/2004 8:55:09 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is ONLY ONE good Democrat: one that has just been voted OUT of POWER ! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Jeff Chandler
ALLAHU AKBAR! = THE MUSLIM CALL TO MURDER.
10 posted on 05/13/2004 11:38:26 AM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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