Posted on 11/07/2004 11:08:12 AM PST by John Jorsett
BAGHDAD, IRAQ – Quds Arab-language news wire service in recent days has reported that four Arab-language media outlets have been forced from the city of Fallujah by Anti-Iraqi Forces.
According to Quds, Al-Arabiya, Middle East Broadcasting Company, Lebanese Broadcasting Company and Al-Iraqiyah television were forced from Fallujah by Anti-Iraqi Forces because they were accused of providing biased coverage to Coalition forces by refusing to air insurgent stock footage of alleged civilian casualties. In discussions with Coalition officials, reporters from both Al Arabiya and MBC acknowledged threats to correspondents and indicated that some correspondents had withdrawn from Fallujah for their own safety and were reporting via phone from outside the city.
Saturday, seven people were killed and 19 wounded when a car bomb exploded outside the Baghdad offices of Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based TV network. A web post claimed responsibility for the bombing on the Al-Izah bulletin board (http://www.alezah.com) in the name of the ‘1920 Revolution Brigades’, and another post to the Arab Dialogue Forum (http://www.hdrmut.net/vb) claimed the attack on behalf of the Jihad Martyrs Companies in Iraq.
Shootings, abductions and other acts of intimidation by Iraqi insurgents have made it difficult for journalists to operate and report freely.
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Notice that al Jazeera isn't one of the ones targeted. The terrorists must be happy with their coverage.
They would probably be better off out of Fallujah, in any case...
1) Give them the warning and the directions for how non-comms can leave.
2) Give those that remain a short time frame to surrender unconditionally.
3) Once the time passes...pulverize the entire city with B-52's, don't leave one stone standing on another.
4) Then send in the marines to mop up, and clean up.
5) After we bomb it to rubble, use 100 D-9 cats to level it off and then sprinkle salt and pig-blood over the whole place. Not too many other places will be so anxious for Jihad after that.
Avoid the specter of large scale urban fighting where many Americans and their Iraqi allies will die. Let the Jiahdist know that we will not play their game...that we intend simply to kill them dead.
In the process, we do not allow the enemy to escaper. The directions will include check points as the only avenue of escape. Anyone avoiding the checkpoints, or anyone not approaching them as instructed is killed on site.
At the checkpoint we send all males between 16 and 70 to detention where they are thotroughly interrogated, and if found to be so much as inlcined towards the terrorists/jihadists...they end up in labor camps for the next 5-10 years, helping rebuild Iraq under armed guard.
Only very young boys, old men and women are allowed to pass through...and they are checked thoroughly as well. Any weapons, contraband, etc...sends them to detention too.
Two or three Faullujah examples like this would break the back of the terrorist/jihadist and let the Iraqi citizens who abet and harbor the enemy know that we are deadly serious about helping the rest of Iraq obtain their freedom.
It's time we talk their language and ensure that they know (and believe) that the price for their fighting us is not just military defeat, by their own beliefs it will be HELL...and not Heaven with 72 virgins. Black Jack Pershing did something like this (I believe he dipped his bullets in pig fat) and all the Jihad against him stopped.
Nice plan - I'm on board.
Maybe we'll give them some good incoming artillery to cover.
Works for me. I say level the place.
Al Jazeera was kicked out of Iraq about a month ago by the interum government for producing propaganda to aid the insurgents.
El Crock.
Duh. It's a WAR, not a TV studio. Maybe now that President Bush won his second term in a landslide, SOME news outlets might be willing to admit that terrorists are the bad guys. Not holding my breath.
No kidding.
Exactly, Jeff.
Sure works for me!
I understand we've budgeted at least 75 million toward the reconstruction of Fallujah. I'd say that covers quite a bit of breakage.
On the other hand, I hoped they invited Al Jazeera to stay.
Wouldn't break my heart if they did!
Absolutely! BTTT!
I did not know that. Smart. Although, now that the insurgents have invited journalists to 'embed' with them for the coming Fallujah assault, perhaps it would be a good time to let them come back.
Sounds good to me.
But I think I want to hold out for a Multiple MOAB Moment...
We've already set aside $75 million in reconstruction for after the invasion. I say we just add another $75 million and just flatten the whole place.
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