Haditha Reporter Was Jailed By US, Shares Name With Source

Sweetness & Light ^ | June 1, 2006 | N/A

[narby]

There have been innumerable cases in the last few months of dozens of people slaughtered mysteriously by bands of gunmen.

I'd put the chances of this being a huge hoax pretty high.

For a fact, the media desperatly *wants* this story to be true.

[Sam Hill]

"For a fact, the media desperatly *wants* this story to be true."

So true. I don't know if you saw the NY Times piece where they talked about how they hired an unnamed "Iraqi writer and historian" to go to Haditha to collect stories about the incident that The Times will then report as gospel:

Times Begs For Tales Of “Marine Massacre” | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/the-times-is-desperate-for-tales-of-iraq-massacre/

They are using unnamed reporters now. As long as they will tell them what they want to hear.

[Marine_Uncle]

So. What would SS Major Houchstder of Hogan's Heros have to say about this?

[Marine_Uncle]

Ping a ling.

[PeskyOne]

Well, well, I wonder why Time and Murtha didn't tell us this?!! If this story about the Marines killing innocent people is proved to be false, and I hope and pray it is, I hope they expel Murtha from Congress without any retirement or quirks.

[Jim_Curtis]

Marines are being prosecuted on evidence produced by Reuters and distributed by Time?

[Marine_Uncle]

Ping

[eyespysomething]

I've asked this and not had an answer yet, so I'm asking on all the Haditha threads:

Was any type of autopsy done? Don't Muslims bury their dead within 24 hrs? Any ballistic tests done? Is all that in the investigation? Anyone heard anything about this?

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Your post about the muslim lying....you bet....I spend a good bit of time out at the DFW airport meeting and sending off the good folks who are defending our country. If any Freepers can come through DFW on their way to anywhere....it will do your heart good to greet the young heroes that climb off of a R & R flight every morning here... As a "Vietnam Guy" as I call myself...when talking to them.....what a great bunch of guys/now gals.... The kids out on patrol depending on the area tell me different stories....those out in Western Iraq....are big time scared shitless when they go in.....because the bad guys are without scruples...nothing new...whereas the guys around Baghdad have different challanges...kind of like mama-sons dropping grenades with the pin pulled wrapped in tape into fuel tanks...in a couple of days...BOOOOOOM...hopefully the airplane is on the ground... Again the real enemy as in Vietnam again appears to be our spineless, (you fill in the blanks) congress critters.

[MNJohnnie]

Thank you! So a shady "Journalist" who seems to be the "source" for this is suspected of being tied to the Terrorists. Here is one scumbag that needs some rigorous interrogation. Pity in our PC world that isn't going to happen.

[Fred Nerks]

Thanks for posting this, Sam Hill.

Very important background info - please read this and let your ping list know. Video evidence shows Marines were set up.

[imintrouble]

Re Murtha and some of his synchophants - is there a chance when someone campaigns for political office they could be given a professional check up for dementia - before they file???

[pissant]

And what are the chances that the terrorists would allow a non-friendly reporter to film and narrate and make claims about the incident in Haditha?

Answer: NONE.

But try telling that to the *%$#! MSM.

[MNJohnnie]

It a fraudulent claim. They are not "Reuters" or "Times" reporters. They merely call them that to give them a false aura of credibility. They are local Iraqis hired as "Stringers" to go out and dig up new stories. Basically paid informants sent out to "report" what the Junk Media wants to hear.

[MNJohnnie]

I think Murtha is being run by Moveon.org the same way Cindy Sheehan was a media creation of Moveon.org. I think they took the Terrorists propaganda and ran with it because they WANTED to belive. I hope this comes right back and bites them hard.

[MNJohnnie]

Or how does a "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" just breeze in and out of there as they want? Seems they must be working with the terrorists permission. If so, why not at the Terrorists direction?

[jazusamo]

..I spend a good bit of time out at the DFW airport meeting and sending off the good folks who are defending our country

Thank you for doing this for our military and thank for your service.

[Sam Hill]

Here's a little more information on the reason for Al-Mashhadani's arrest last year, from the Center To Protect Journalists:

U.S. forces release two long-detained journalists

New York, January 16, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of two Iraqi journalists detained by the U.S. military without charge for several months, but calls again for U.S. officials to specify charges against at least three other journalists still in custody or to release the detainees at once...

Ali al-Mashhadani, a television cameraman working for Reuters, and Majed Hameed, a correspondent working for Reuters and the Dubai-based broadcaster Al-Arabiya, were released from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison on Sunday, Reuters reported. They were freed without charge as part of a larger prisoner release that included around 500 Iraqi detainees.

Al-Mashhadani, a freelance photographer and cameraman, had been held incommunicado and without explanation by U.S. forces since August 8. Al-Mashhadani was taken from his home in Ramadi during a general sweep of the neighborhood by U.S. Marines who became suspicious after seeing pictures on his cameras. After his detention, a U.S.-Iraqi Combined Review and Release Board (CRRB) determined that al-Mashhadani posed a "threat" and ordered his continued detention. Officials did not publicly substantiate the basis for his detention.

Hameed was arrested along with several other men at a gathering after the funeral of a relative on September 15 in Anbar province. Both Reuters and Al-Arabiya said his arrest appeared connected to footage found on his camera by U.S. troops. U.S. officials never specified the basis for his detention.

Of course Haditha is in the Anbar province.

[pissant]

There is NO WAY ON THIS EARTH that the islamo-scum would allow ANY legitiamte human rights organization near them (if there is such an animal).

My bigger question is why aren't the world's headlines condemning terrorist attacks killing civies day in and day out? Sure they report on them, usually to make it appear they are winning, but if they are so concerned about civilian deaths, why the f**k don't they try shaming the terrorists with 24/7 headline like they are trying to do to the Marines?

Answer: They are on the terrorists side. We are due for a revolution.

[SJackson]

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I've little to say about this other than the Corps will handle it properly. But this is interesting background information.