MEDIA KNEW OF IMPENDING ROADSIDE BOMB AND FILMED IT!!

CENTCOM ^ | June 3, 2004 | CENTCOM

[little jeremiah]

Another thread about the same story:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1150090/posts

[spunkets]

"The CENT COM report was brief and obviously said less than they knew."

Obviously.

"which is what is sounds like"

Can you prove what really happened?

"assisting the enemy"

There's no factual info that they assisted anyone. The fact is that the jihadis could have pulled it off w/o them and the consequences could have been more disasterous. Not only that, they had no indication that they were not the targets of jihadi action. The Geneva Conventions hold them to be civilians and the only way to remain that way is to stick to their business and avoid assisting either side.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

The CENTCOM release says

The media, who were at the scene prior to the attack, told soldiers at the scene they had received a tip to be at that location prior to the attack and they had witnessed the explosion

however I don't read where it says the media knew it was going to be an attack, only that they should be at a location.

Note that the article is from "palaceofreason"

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I agree. Until CENTCOM releases more info, this is a spin by someone in order to create hype.

CENTCOM does NOT say the media knew there would be an attack.

[liberallyconservative]

"Prove to me they didn't."

Well, it's pretty frickin' obvious they DIDN'T say anything to the US Military. If they had, I doubt seriously the military would have come rolling through the area unawares.

[spunkets]

"Well, it's pretty frickin' obvious they DIDN'T say anything"

Obvious, how so? How do you know they were unaware? Folks using what is obvious called the world flat once upon a time.

[monkeywrench]

" stick to their business and avoid assisting either side."

Who do they turn to if they need assistance?

[spunkets]

"from Hot Springs?"

No.

"is"

Is means there is an identity with objective fact. I didn't see any of that in the title, or lead into the "Palace of Reason" story.

[spunkets]

"Who do they turn to if they need assistance?"

If they need protection, they can hire someone. If it involves criminal action they can call the proper authorities. Some whine that they should have free govm't guard, but that's ridiculous. They are civilians and should get what any civilian is entitled to. That amounts to the freedom to use the Yellow Pages to look for protective services.

[monkeywrench]

But, according to an article posted here a couple of days ago, the media was whining that they needed more protection by our military. I hope they aren't counting on it. LOL!

[spunkets]

They definitely should not get it. Most of them are in it as a business, in addititon to their place acting as political ops.

[El Gato]

They had no prior knowledge of what they saw.

That's their story and they're sticking to it!. I was born at night, but not last night. They knew something bad was going to happen to US troops. They might not have know that it was a 105mm artillery shell (or whatever it was) rigged to go off as the convoy passed, but they knew something.

"A covert intelligence source" would imply that they were under the control, or had pre-arrangements with those to whom they were suppling information.

I guess if I overhear two guys saying they are going to stalk and rape a girl, if I report it to the police, I'm a covert intelligence source?

[El Gato]

Just red, thanks.

Actually Islamic Green, tinged perhaps with more than a touch of Red as well.

[liberallyconservative]

So you're saying that our military WAS aware, and still rolled through the area, setting off the blast? Wow, you sure do give our military a lot of credit.

[Chieftain]

"Man, I hate the media with a passion."
Even more than lawyers?

Q. What's the difference between a dead lawyer in the road, a dead journalist in the road, and a dead snake in the road?

A. The snake has skid marks IN FRONT of it.

[El Gato]

See if you can find that the journalists had prior knowledge of an attack and could guess the details of that attack in the CENTCOM note.

I'm sure they didn't thing the "tip" was to a Wedding Party in the desert. They probably didn't know the details it's true, but it's also irrelevant.

[spunkets]

"So you're saying that our military WAS aware"

Nope.

[StarCMC]

Get ready to be VERY angry when you read this crap.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"If this is the way "journalists" regard their occupational obligations and perquisites,
they're as dangerous to our men at arms as the weapons of the enemy, and should be treated as such."

Odd how talk radio and the Internet know Hanoi Kerry is a traitor
Yet no TV or Cable newsroom will admit it.
But then again they all make $$$ airing his Presidential ads.

[Don Corleone]

Hey Spunkets!Wake up and smell the KOFI. We are in a WAR! No "journalist" in WWII would have even remotely considered hiding info from the troops he was accompanying. Ernie Pyle is spinning in his grave after hearing this story. Pull their press credentials and send them back to La La land to cover flower shows or give 'em a gun and put them up front where they can really see what is going on.