Posted on 07/01/2005 9:46:59 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Google News proudly features this “news” article from jihadunspun.com, a known pro-terrorist propaganda site:
From Jihad Unspun:
US forces shot and killed a nine-year old Iraqi girl as she came out of her school following final exams in Baghdad. A medical specialist in Baghdad’s al-Yarmuk General Hospital told the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that an American sniper opened fire on ‘A’ishah Ahmad ‘Umar, killing her.
For its part, the US military occupation forces announced that they had begun an investigation of the Marine who shot the little girl and promised to punish him if he is found guilty.
A source in the Iraqi puppet army told Mafkarat al-Islam that the American soldier was very drunk at the time of the killing and that he was withdrawn from his observation post after the incident.
The father of ‘A’ishah, who works for the Railroad Department said that residents in the area where his little daughter was killed told him that the American had been betting with his buddies whether he could hit the little girl who had come out of the school some 700 meters from the US observation post.
For its part, the American propaganda TV station called “al-‘Iraqiyah” blamed what it called “terrorists” for the shooting of the little girl, but subsequent statements by the US military and the Iraqi puppet forces exposed the “al-‘Iraqiyah” story to be a lie.Where to begin? The Newsweek-quality anonymous sources? Or the fact that there are no Marines in Baghdad (they are deployed to the west)? Or the fact that U.S. forces in Iraq do not have ready access to alcohol?
No, instead we start with the fact that Google News was the focus of an article by honestreporting.com on this same pro-terror site back in January. Six months afterward, Google still features the pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic web site as a valued news contributor.
One could presumably ignore honestreporting.com, but Google News also ignored the April 8, 2005 State Department warning of Jihad Unspun’s suspected al-Qaeda support:
A trio of obscure Web sites and individuals has combined to spread deliberate disinformation, particularly about U.S. actions in Iraq. The entities involved are Islam Memo (Islammemo.cc), Muhammad Abu Nasr, and Jihad Unspun (jihadunspun.net).There are many sites of questionable veracity to draw news articles from, but in light of the well-documented pro-terrorist background of Jihad Unspun, one might start to question the motives of those at Google News that still consider Jihad Unspun a valid news source.
Most of the disinformation appears to originate with Islam Memo, which is a pro-al Qaeda, pro-Iraqi insurgency, Arabic-language Web site based in Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad Abu Nasr, co-editor of the Free Arab Voice Web site (freearabvoice.org), translates material from Islam Memo into English and posts it as "Iraqi Resistance Reports" on his Web site.
Jihad Unspun publishes selected articles by Muhammad Abu Nasr, giving them a broader audience.
Note: Hat tip to Rusty Shackleford, himself a former Google News contributor, who alerted me to this story.
Update: Instalanched before I could even fix the spelling of "al-Qaedariffic." Thanks again, Glenn. More spelling errors are available free of charge to my valued guests on the main page.
Posted by Confederate Yankee at June 24, 2005 07:33 PM | TrackBack
MY BS meter is pinging at full-tilt...
They say that the Marine was "drunk" - where did he get the alcohol? As far as I know, alcohol is prohibited in the country by US Forces...
They can kiss my @$$...
Which don't they own? Query FOX sometime if you want reality.
*oogle is and always has been a Left-wing left-coast operation that won't hesitate to indulge in dis-information. Try selecting for pro-2A news - you'll get a mish-mash.
Well, if the left already owns the search engines, then the rest of us had better get cracking and do something.
What is pro-2A news?
Google is selling under $300, buy a billion shares, you will be able to do whatever you so choose.
I call shenegians on this article. Us forces can and do get alcohol. yes it is prohibited. WE were allowed to drink during the superbowl, 2 cans of beer while watching game and you couldnt leave the building with the beer. Some soldiers that have less or laxed supervision got alcohol from Iraqis. The only loss our company recieved was due to alcohol and friendly fire, still under investigation(not during superbowl:p)
What do you think? What is your opinion?
"What do you think? What is your opinion?"
I haven't thought the matter through at length.
However, the left was able to accomplish great evil in the pre-Internet days by controlling the flow of information.
They have been frantic to bring the Internet under their control, so that they can regain the primacy they once knew.
It seems like owning the search engines may be a step in that direction.
That would be bad.
"Google is selling under $300, buy a billion shares, you will be able to do whatever you so choose."
So, am I to infer that, for you, the free market is to be unconstrained by considerations of right and wrong?
And what does this have to do with "What is pro-2A news?"
I think that you're right but your apparently rhetorical question was disingenuous.
"I think that you're right but your apparently rhetorical question was disingenuous."
You underestimate my ignorance.
I don't know what you mean by "pro-2A."
"pro-2A" = pro-2nd ammendment
if it was a Sniper, how would they even know it was an American since a Snipers(any country) job is to be felt and not seen... 8^)
Okay, duh on me.
I was thinking "2A" = "AA."
African American?
Alcoholics Anonymous?
Abdominal Aorta?
Ablative Absolute?
Acronym Abuse?
Anyway, if Google is filtering out pro 2nd Amendment news, then they are the enemy, and need to be made irrelevant.
"if it was a Sniper, how would they even know it was an American since a Snipers(any country) job is to be felt and not seen... 8^)"
Yeah, true, but those wankers don't know a sniper from a carnival pop-gun shooting gallery.
I can't help you on this one.
Ask me a gun or primer question or something else.
I am so tired of the left.
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