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How Haditha Came to Light
Time ^ | Sunday, June 4, 2006 | JEFFREY KLUGER

Posted on 06/04/2006 8:08:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: Jaysun
Didn't they recently announce that the investigation found no wrongdoing?

Yes, but that was a different incident. Geez, the VC and NVs didn't have near the press savvy of these terrorists, and look what they managed to accomplish.

We really need to find a "tough guy" (or gal) for the 2008 elections. Otherwise we'll see helicopter evacuating our embassy staff, and a few of those Iraqis who've tried to build their country, from roofs in Baghdad and Basra, at minimum.

But unlike the VC and NVs, these folks won't leave us alone, they'll be coming for us here, at time when we're weakened militarily (as we always are after a war, win or lose), especially if the Democrats are in control of both Houses of Congress, or either, and/or the White House.

41 posted on 06/04/2006 11:07:14 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato
Otherwise we'll see helicopter evacuating our embassy staff, and a few of those Iraqis who've tried to build their country, from roofs in Baghdad and Basra, at minimum.

And there won't be reeducation camps for those we abandon. Just a quick shortening.

42 posted on 06/04/2006 11:12:07 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: MinorityRepublican
they had the ill fortune to have committed their crime in the worst possible place: outside the front door of a budding Iraqi journalist and human-rights activist.

What a coincidence. *rolls eyes*

And this "human rights activist" seems also to be oblivious to the daily beheadings that take place in Haditha. For some reason.

43 posted on 06/04/2006 11:17:01 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("Osama... made the mistake of confusing media conventional wisdom with reality" (Mark Steyn))
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To: george76
Found this link on AtlasShrugs.

A real paradise Hadhita. In April last year even the al-Guardian (!!!) characterized Hadhita as a brutal Sunni run insurgent citadel.

The executions are carried out at dawn on Haqlania bridge, the entrance to Haditha. A small crowd usually turns up to watch even though the killings are filmed and made available on DVD in the market the same afternoon.

Sweetness and light.

44 posted on 06/04/2006 11:21:20 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: observer5

Oh yeah, thats the guy who arrested and jailed for links to terrorists.... human right sactivist sure....



Exactly..This is a Suni stronghold, and there was a story I read about a little girl there who said her Brother was shooting from the house at the Troops. that when she got up to go to school She held her ears because the family knew that the roadside Bomb was going to go off. the entire family was involved in the Ambush.

It only takes a few days more for the truth to come out.

Can We trust a Lying Sympathizer? can we trust a Lying America Hating BBC?,..Can we trust a Lying American Media?


No but a slip of the tounge from a Little girl right inside the House gives it all away.

That whole House Knew in advance...I say too bad for them

and I would welcome every single soldier there back to America with open arms.

These terrorist scum are the reason for innocent lives lost

not America.

You Freepers need to find your Voices.


45 posted on 06/04/2006 11:29:11 PM PDT by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: ScaniaBoy
Previously posted on FR:

The Haditha Our Media Won’t Tell You About

46 posted on 06/04/2006 11:29:48 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Enchante

"...it's all to easy for the jihadists to have obtained a couple of US weapons with ammo, either in-country ..."

They did obtain weapons, in an August ambush of Ohio Marine Reservists.


47 posted on 06/05/2006 2:47:09 AM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: PeskyOne
Our government or military officials need to be questioning Time employees to see how well they have their story coordinated. YES.
48 posted on 06/05/2006 2:48:59 AM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: MinorityRepublican

DEPORT TIME MAGAZINE! PLEASE! . . . and take the UN with it! Wanna go along,Teddy and Nancy and Bill and Hitlery?


49 posted on 06/05/2006 4:40:11 AM PDT by RoadTest (For the love of money is the root of all evil - I Timothy 6:10)
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To: YaYa123
but back to this event, I wonder why this budding journalist didn't get shot by the Marines? I mean, if they were shooting everyone in sight, you'd think they would get this guy too.

Immediately makes you wonder, doesn't it? Why leave a witness? But then again, we've already established that it took them five hours to slaughter unarmed innocent civilians, so it's obvious these were the most incompetent combat Marines ever! < / sarcasm >

50 posted on 06/05/2006 5:05:57 AM PDT by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yes..I get the same feeling. It is really sick. It's not enough that they cover the fighting and dying in Iraq...its like that 's not enough for them... they want MORE hideousness even if they have to create it.


51 posted on 06/05/2006 6:31:54 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Moderate Mooslims.....what's that?)
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To: ScaniaBoy; All

Gee I am surprised that everyone is upset because of another Treason Media hatchjob on the War. Don't you know we have a President to slander, lie about and misrepresent over Illegal aliens? Where are your priorities?


52 posted on 06/05/2006 6:38:46 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Reading between the line...

Taher Thabet*, 43, was at home in Haditha on the morning of Nov. 19 when [after spying the column come down the road, he triggered his pre-positioned IED] around 7:15 he heard the detonation of the roadside bomb that struck a Marine humvee, killing the driver, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, 20.

The blast shattered Thabet's windows. [Thabet thinks in glee, "Oh, goody! Let's see how much carnage I caused! Ooops. Better stay low, they might put two and two together...that a real innocent would NEVER hang around in THIS neighborhood...or seek to ghoulishly and voyeuristically gawk!"] He ran outside in time to see Marines from three other humvees springing from their vehicles and heading for four homes on either side of the road. [Thabet thinks, "a'ha! Perfect, they are going to be running right into our clever ambush."]

"They went into one house. I heard gunfire, explosions and screams," he told TIME in an interview in Baghdad last month. "Then they came out and went into another. I could only stand and watch." [Thabet thinks, I COULDN'T STAND to watch anymore. TOTALLY humiliating. Our Arab brothers BEATEN! Cursed infidel dogs TOTALLY triumphant. Our plot completely failed. By Allah, I will make them pay. I will make heroic martyrs out of our fallen comrades...let's see now, how can I phoney up a story...'lessee...an atrocity, yeah, yeah, THAT's the ticket...!]

* Pathological Liars Anonymous associate member recently inducted...Thaher Thabet
53 posted on 06/05/2006 1:17:22 PM PDT by Paul Ross (We cannot be for lawful ordinances and for an alien conspiracy at one and the same moment.-Cicero)
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To: bitt
There is no such thing as a perfect war, and there never will be. The MSM that have our military charged , tried and convicted are the same traitors that were in Vietnam. From the get go, I've been against having embedded or news crews in fox holes with our GI's, because those cameras and newsman will turn and stab his partner in the back...over and over! How many times has the bad guys ever been headlined or have to stand in military trials. All we're doing is further demoralizing our troops! God Bless our Great Military.

 

54 posted on 06/05/2006 4:36:48 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: Smartass

I've been against having embedded or news crews in fox holes with our GI's,

with you, brother....

Maybe some of the big time Republican money has to go after the ailing MSM venues so that we can try to counteract all the propaganda being fed to the masses..we'll give em OUR propaganda hahaha...no, all we want is fair, concise and accurate reporting, a "shut up and write the facts" mentality...if they can educate without bias, that's all to the better...You would think the owners of these media would have more pride in their chosen responsibilities...

but then, they are also human...easily swayed by the glitter and the light...Barbra, is that YOU?


55 posted on 06/05/2006 6:34:15 PM PDT by bitt
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To: bitt
Also, I don't believe the MSM should be flying on air Force One, and/or be fed, housed, given transportation, White House office space, telephones, etc., at the expense of you and I.

 

56 posted on 06/05/2006 6:51:30 PM PDT by Smartass (Vaya con Dios - And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets)
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To: Paul Ross
I was just thinking the same thing......

how serendipitously convenient that Taher Thabat just happened to be in the right place at the right time...Hmmmm what a coincidence !

And the line about how it takes time for the truth to come out....

more like it takes Time to twist the truth into it's prefered version

57 posted on 06/05/2006 7:10:50 PM PDT by KTM rider ( Support Our Troops Donate to Irey)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wait a minute. Thabet's testimony is that he simply stood outside while U. S. Marines went from house to house to house to house killing people? And he just stood there . . . in the street . . . not trying to hide or avoid being shot? Just stood there?

Yeah, that's credible.


58 posted on 06/05/2006 7:20:32 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: MinorityRepublican
Hmm. Sounds to me like we just found out who set off the bomb...
59 posted on 06/05/2006 7:24:05 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: george76
Just amazing. Thanks.
60 posted on 06/05/2006 7:38:22 PM PDT by JasonC
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