Time’s McGirk Wanted To Call Haditha “A Massacre”

New York Observer/Sweetness & Light ^ | June 5, 2006 | N/A

[AmericanYankee]

"AMY GOODMAN: And then, this Haditha journalism student, who is this student?

APARISIM GHOSH: We’d rather not say, for his own protection, but he’s a young local man. It’s not uncommon in Iraq for young people to have video cameras and cameras, and there's so much going on in their lives that they have plenty to shoot. "

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What a load of crap that answer was. The student was probably an insirgent.

[Sam Hill]

"The student was probably an insirgent."

Almost certainly.

Today's Time article describes him as:

"budding Iraqi journalist and human-rights activist. Taher Thabet, 43..."

And:

"Thabet–who last year co-founded a small outfit called the Hammurabi Organization for Human Rights and Democracy Monitoring..."

According to Time, Thabet (a "budding journalist") sat on tis for months, and never bothered to pass it on to any media outlets, or even NGOs or anything.

Hell, he didn't even bother to video this "massacre" until the next day. And even then he seems to have gotten very little revealing footage.

Time never says how they got the tape, BTW. Which is kind odf weird.

But all of the sources that Time claims are highly suspect:

The Questionable Sources For Time’s Haditha Scoop | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/budding-journalist-sat-on-haditha-tape#comment-25213

[dollar_dog]

I'm actually surprised Time didn't have in giant block letters "Massacre" on the cover seeing as how their new managing editor Richard Stengel is on record donating to a Democrat!

[kcvl]

Why Iraqis Aren't Cheering Their New Government
By Aparisim Ghosh
Time Magazine

Saturday 20 May 2006

http://tinyurl.com/ora89


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‘It helps to have an Indian passport in Iraq’
Tracking insurgents, moving with armed escort, waking up to bomb blasts — it’s all in a day’s work for Aparisim Ghosh.

DEBASHIS BHATTACHARYYA meets Time’s man in Baghdad
Aparisim Ghosh still remembers the little boy. Barely seven or eight, the victim of a car bomb attack lay lifeless at the shrine of Imam Ali in the holy city of Najaf. His body was burnt but his face was untouched — and was almost a picture of calm.... | Read..


http://tinyurl.com/sy2mp


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The U.S. military had previously refused to believe villagers who accused the Marines of murdering unarmed civilians, even when presented with credible evidence assembled by Time magazine for an article in March.

"They were incredibly hostile," said Time's Aparisim Ghosh. "They accused us of buying into enemy propaganda, and they stuck to their original story, which is that these people were all killed by the IED [improvised explosive device]."


(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

http://tinyurl.com/pf9aj

[AmericanYankee]

Funny how they make a "human rights" organization AFTER the were liberated by U.S. troops..then use the "human rights" group against our troops.


I wonder how many human rights groups and student/activists were actaully in Iraq before they were liberated.

[Velveeta]

This will make your skin crawl:

The Abominations of War From My Lai to Haditha
By Cindy Sheehan
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506B.shtml

[kcvl]

The Breaking Point
An Eye For an Eye

As the violence in Iraq grows more shocking and brutal, TIME explores the roots of the murderous rage--and why the U.S. may be powerless to stop it

By APARISIM GHOSH/BAGHDAD


http://205.188.238.109/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1167741,00.html

[AmericanYankee]

According to the star witness, a marine shot one person 7 TIMES in the head,so that would be kind of hard to believe since one shot should do the trick. This is something that an autopsy would determine very easily.

[AmericanYankee]

Maybe I didnt get the memo, but there has been no charges brought against the marines at all so how in the world can this compare to My Lai? Its not even close.

[kinghorse]

Whenever I think of these middle aged guys over there doing the press work I think of the fat Brit "journalist" in the movie The Year of Living Dangerously. That is all.

[kcvl]

July 17, 2005
Institutionalizing Biased War Reporting

Posted By: Brian Dominick

Pretty much all mainstream media institutions insist they are "objective" and "unbiased." How either of those can be true when those same outlets take explicit sides in wars is beyond me. But what is worse -- there is really not even an understanding among journalists or journalism ethicists with regard to taking sides in war. It's just a given; journalists, editors, producers and publishers are all supposed to root for the home team -- even assist the home team. And they don't even bother hiding this, despite their insistence on "objectivity."

A piece on National Public Radio's weekly show On the Media put this truism on ugly display last weekend. Entitled "Murderous Intent," the segment (transcript / audio) is an interview with correspondent Aparisim Ghosh of Time magazine, who recently interviewed a suicide bomber-to-be. OtM co-host Bob Garfield seemed to find a fascinating moral dilema in the concept of interviewing a man intent on killing Americans and then doing anything other than seeing to that source's arrest.

http://tinyurl.com/ktjvb

[kcvl]

"We launched an investigation of our own with the help of a human rights group," said Aparisim Ghosh, a writer for Time. "We spoke to some eyewitnesses. And it turns out all the people killed were killed by the Marines in small arms fire and, in a few instances, by an explosive that was tossed into the home by the Marines themselves."

http://tinyurl.com/fgqd8

[kcvl]

Suicide Bomber Report (6:00)
Suicide bombings are some of the most effective weapons used by Iraqi insurgents. And a key to that effectiveness is training. Host Lisa Mullins speaks with reporter Aparisim Ghosh, whose story about an Iraqi man who trains suicide bombers appears in the current issue of Time Magazine.

http://tinyurl.com/e7s8l

[johnny7]

Maybe it was to save his stinkin', commie neck.

[AmericanYankee]

This guy Ghosh, is a damn traitor!! Talk about aiding the enemy! This "human rights" group is packed with insurgents. Iraq cicvilains are murdered, executed and beheaded everyday for a few years and I have never once heard this group mentioned in that context.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Gauche (Ghosh) is a jihaddi masquerading as a journalist....here's his pic wearing red. I saw him on the tube and mistook him for Zacarias Moussaoui the 20th hijacker (now in Denver Max Fed); they could easily be brothers!

Ghosh:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/baghdadchris/26156348/

Moussaoui (upper right) mugshot:

http://www.mugshots.com/Terrorists/Zacarias+Moussaoui.htm

[kcvl]

Time's Aparisim Ghosh brings us "A Day in the Life Of a Baghdad ER." Dr. Jalal Taha Emad is the story's Dr. Carter, minus Maura Tierney, minus the fancy medical tools. Time reports: "Prepping the ER is a simple business; there is not much to get ready. Apart from their stethoscopes, the only diagnostic tool available to the surgeons is a Soviet-era X-ray machine. Ultrasound equipment? No. CT scans? No. MRI? No."


http://tinyurl.com/few7a

[nopardons]

Thanks for the ping.

[kcvl]

AMY GOODMAN: You say the U.S. has paid relatives of the victims $2,500 for each of the 15 dead civilians, plus smaller payments for the injured?

APARISIM GHOSH: Yes. That is commonplace in cases of innocents being killed in combat.

snip

APARISIM GHOSH: As are thousands of young people in Iraq today, but this family, in particular. She's now an orphan. There is an extended family that will look after her, but she will never -- any hope of a normal life for her now over.

http://tinyurl.com/pz83o

[pollyannaish]

FWIW, much of what we heard about VN WAS fabricated or spun. Do a little research into it.