Licorice: "The New York Times and CNN are as useless as a hamster's appendix."
Ted Turner, June 18, 2002:
Turner: 'So who are the terrorists?
I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism."
Posted on 05/28/2006 6:39:22 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon
Does the CNN have problems with translation from Arabic to English or is it a case of deliberate twisting of facts?
Yesterday Iraq's and Iran's foreign ministers had a joint press conference in Baghdad after which the CNN ran a headline that reads "Iraqi minister defends Iranian nuclear program" and wrote:
Iran has a right to develop nuclear technology and the international community should drop its demands that Tehran prove it's not trying to build a nuclear weapon, Iraq's foreign minister said Friday.
[…]
"Iran doesn't claim that they want to obtain a nuclear weapon or a nuclear bomb, so there is no need that we ask them for any guarantee now," Hoshyar Zebari said after meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki.
I wasn't there at the press conference but I was able to find an audio clip of the same part of minister Zibari's statement through Radio Sawa, and what he said here is so much different from what the CNN claimed he did (my translation):
We respect Iran's and every other nation's right to pursue nuclear technology for research purposes and peaceful use given they accept [giving] the internationally required guarantees that this will not lead to an armament race in the region…
Audio clip available here (Arabic)
Listening to the 2nd version of the story (in Zibari's own voice) it is clear that Iraq recognizes Iran's right to use nuclear power for peaceful purposes exclusively and is moreover asking Iran for guarantees, not the other way around CNN!
Why am I not surprised?
When I first heard the story by CNN, I knew there was something not right about it.
CNN LIES
That's my bumper sticker, received a few years ago from a FReeper in Israel.
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CNN is famous for creatively misunderstanding the facts in order to fit it's leftist agenda.
LOL! Cool.
Well, to be fair, maybe their translator is the one with the pro Iran agenda.
Thanks for posting! The media is like a gang of destructive kids egging each on. Somehow they see their mission as undermining support for Iraq.
Oh, PUHLEEZ!
The MSM is a den of liberal snakes.
Two translations, (at least) which are compared, should be standard procedure to assure accuracy but this is CNN.
From a cable news(?) network that has Larry King as its biggest viewer draw,stupidity and liberal bias reign and in regard to the war on terrorism, I call cnn 'The Capitulation Nonsense Network"! God bless this beautful country and all those brave young men and women willing to put their lives on the line so we all may safely enjoy this holiday.
Somehow they always manage to hire the translater with the leftest agenda.
My fault. I should have put the sarcasm tag in the post.
Ha. Thanks.....The Msm is unbelievable...but now I am watching Murtha and he is even more Viscious!
hmmmm????
Oh, I'd bet a month's salary on the latter. Things have been relatively quiet in Iraq for about a week now and they're desperately reaching.
Well done! ;-)
(IraqTheModel rocks! I've been reading that for a couple of years now.)
But when you point out that an executive from cnn flat out admitted having had a side deal with sadam not to report on atrocities in return for being allowed to keep an office in Baghdad, all you get is a deer-in-the-headlights look from them and then they resume spewing the rhetoric.
The left will continue to watch and then parrot what they hear on the LSM because they don't want the facts, they just want someone to validate what they already believe in their hateful hearts
Licorice: "The New York Times and CNN are as useless as a hamster's appendix."
Ted Turner, June 18, 2002:
Turner: 'So who are the terrorists?
I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism."
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