Bump and Elect Diana Irey
Posted on 07/02/2006 12:24:49 PM PDT by Chickenhawk Warmonger
There have been many complaints about how our media reports the stories from Iraq. Countless articles have been written about the selective nature of reports from the field – focusing on the negative and completely ignoring the positive. Documents uncovered in Iraq have demonstrated how the insurgents use the American media for propaganda dissemination.
Now I have uncovered something even more shocking and disgusting. Our media is using pro al-Qaeda, pro Iraqi insurgency organizations as the basis for their reports – more importantly as sources of information that is damning to our soldiers.
While researching the claims of US soldiers raping a young Iraqi woman and then killing her and her family, I came across an article from Mafkarat al-Islam via Free Arab Voice. The article cites eyewitness testimony about the US rape and murder of the Iraqi family. According to Free Arab Voice, the report was filed on Saturday night at 11:55 Makkah time.
Today’s Washington Post posted an article by Ellen Knickmeyer. The article’s headline purported the subject of the article as the Baghdad market bombing but the text of the article was almost exclusively devoted to the rape and murder allegations. At the bottom of the article, the Washington Post cited “Two Washington Post special correspondents in Mahmudiyah contributed to this report.” The article cites a Saturday interview with two eyewitnesses to the attack.
The accounts in the Washington Post and Mafkarat al-Islam are almost identical, down to the job held by the father of the rape victim. Both reports describe the condition of the young woman’s body in the same manner.
To be fair, the Washington Post article does have this little caveat in the midst of their article…
“It was impossible to independently confirm the accounts given by the two men. Although some of the details, such as the home’s location, coincided with those given by the US military official, it was also impossible to immediately reconcile differences, such as whether the alleged rape victim was 15 or 20.” According to the US State Department, Muhammad Abu Nasr, co-editor of the Free Arab Voice website is one of the main purveyors of deliberate disinformation about US actions in Iraq. Abu Nasr “translates material from Islam Memo into English and posts it as “Iraqi Resistance Reports” on his website.”
Here is one pertinent example of disinformation from Abu Nasr that involves American soldiers raping young Iraqi girls…
“On December 19, 2004, Abu Nasr claimed an attack against Abu Ghraib prison was sparked by a letter from a female inmate named Fatima. In the letter, which seems undoubtedly to be a fabrication, Fatima claims to have been raped repeatedly, along with 13 other girls.
The charges in the letter are totally groundless and Fatima herself appears to have never existed. Only six females were held temporarily at Abu Ghraib prison at various times from July to mid-December 2004, two of them for treatment in the medical facility. None of them were held for more than 10 days and none were sexually assaulted.
Despite the fact that the claims in “Fatima’s letter” are baseless, the sensationalistic, outrageous nature of the charges ensured that the letter was widely reposted on Internet sites and circulated by email. Jihad Unspun posted in on December 24, 2004.”
If the reporters for the US media are utilizing pro-terrorist disinformation sites as the basis for reports, they should be punished appropriately. Distribution of disinformation that undermines our country in a time of war does not fall under the First Amendment protections. America and our soldiers deserve the truth – not the propaganda disseminated by our enemies. The least the media could do is cite the names of the “special correspondents” – but that would disclose their failure to sort fact from fiction.
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On college campuses, conservative papers are thrown out of their machines and baskets by liberal students and professors, why can't patriots return the favor to their liberal MSM masters by emptying their newspaper machines onto the street?
Bump and Elect Diana Irey
HMMMM.... Excellent point. Since he seems to be the WAPO's favorite source, it's entirely possible.
The MSM in the United States are intentionally operating in deception. If the details of an event or story consists of 12 pieces of the same pie, the MSM will serve up one piece and tell you that is the whole pie. If you want to know about the other eleven pieces of pie you will have to look elsewhere. It's a despicable way to operate a news network or newspaper, but they do it for their ideology and feel its their duty to keep the public uninformed.
Exterminating professions?Sounds a little extreme:)How about riding the offending journalists out of town on a rail immediately after tar and feathering?
Sam Hill posted a similar story on Sweetness and Light blog--good going, folks, let's expose all of these liars!
I hate the word "militants" and "insurgents". These groups are murderers plain and simple. Call a spade "a spade."
Media sources ping.
It would be safer and even more legal if we just smammed their mailboxes with facts. The same could be true with letters to the ed., Op-ed columns and speak-out efforts. The Left gets very upset with real facts. The majority of the public still gets its news from the MSM so we must hit their opinion areas with those facts to educate the sheeple.
Maybe i misunderstood.What does "the list of professions that require extermination...."mean to you?Perhaps your definition of extermination and mine are different.I'm all for exposing and prosecuting journalists and newspapers that print lies and/or leak secret information(EX NYTimes),but extermination?Isn't that just a little over the top?
Entirely!
Good article, thanks for posting.
"If the reporters for the US media are utilizing pro-terrorist disinformation sites as the basis for reports, they should be punished appropriately."
I'm sure they are doing this very thing. But, just as chickenhearted Congress does nothing about SCOTUS' obvious usurpation of powers, the chickenhearts will reign...
Things that make you say, Hhhhmmmmmm..
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Frankly, I'd rather a thousand journalists get whacked before one of our volunteer soldiers gets killed by a turd who is emboldened by those journalists. I blame the MSM for at least half of the deaths of our soldiers for the last 50 or more years. If the nit-wit NY times spent more time on the courage and deadly accuracy of our sniper troops and less on divulging secrets and weaknesses, we'd be closer to finished and probably more than a 1,000 dead soldiers would be alive.
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