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Al-Jazeera airs more sniper video
AP ^ | October 22 2006

Posted on 10/22/2006 6:17:54 PM PDT by jmc1969

More video has aired, allegedly showing Iraqi snipers targeting American troops.

The video shows at least three soldiers falling to the ground after apparently being shot by snipers in separate attacks. It's unclear when or where the attacks took place. The footage was stamped with the emblem of the Islamic Army in Iraq, a major Sunni Arab insurgent group.

CNN aired sniper video last week. The network has defended that as part of an effort to show what it calls the "unvarnished truth" about the war.

California Congressman Brian Bilbray has criticized CNN for airing what he terms "a terrorist snuff film."

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aljazeera; cnn
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1 posted on 10/22/2006 6:17:55 PM PDT by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

I'm not clicking on the link.


2 posted on 10/22/2006 6:19:50 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: jmc1969

Here's a curious item, why doesn't CNNs "truth" ever support our country let alone the administration?

CNN truth = propaganda


3 posted on 10/22/2006 6:20:36 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: jmc1969

Al Jazeera probably got their footage from CNN.


4 posted on 10/22/2006 6:21:10 PM PDT by Hoodat ( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
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To: jmc1969
CNN aired sniper video last week. The network has defended that as part of an effort to show what it calls the "unvarnished truth" about the war.

The "unvarnished truth" would be to show something positive going on over there. CNN didn't even bother covering the first ever democratic election.

5 posted on 10/22/2006 6:21:14 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Karl Rove you magnificent bastard!)
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To: jmc1969

Bet a coke that CNN airs this, too.


6 posted on 10/22/2006 6:21:17 PM PDT by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: jmc1969
Anybody got some stuff showing Al-Jazeera field reporters going down?

Gotta' be some of that stuff around. Might as well start running it.

7 posted on 10/22/2006 6:27:06 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: jmc1969
It seem that left romanticizes all terrorist insurgence... some one need to reminds them that the Klu Klux Klan also started as a "terrorist insurgency" group
8 posted on 10/22/2006 6:28:17 PM PDT by tophat9000 (If it was illegal French Canadians would La Raza back them? Racist back their race over country)
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To: jmc1969
FOX news pissed me off again for the umptey umpth times when they aired that disgraceful specimen, Marvin Kalb.

He argued that CNN not only had a right but a duty to air this piece of filth.

And...let me get this right, we're not supposed to question these people's patriotism???

9 posted on 10/22/2006 6:30:28 PM PDT by evad
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To: jmc1969
"The network has defended that as part of an effort to show what it calls the "unvarnished truth" about the war.

Hey cnn, howzabout showing your terrorist brothers committing a human sacrifice by sawing the head off of a hancuffed civilian while chanting "allahu akbhar" to satan? Maybe the unvarnished truth of a homicide bomber blowing up muslim children getting candy and toys from Infidel Crusader Soldiers? No? Might tarnish the image of the one's your plugging for?

If President Bush's poll numbers are actually dropping among Republicans it's because he's not prosecuting these traitors, the ny times and others for treason and giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

10 posted on 10/22/2006 6:30:36 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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Did CNN show the Mohammad cartoons as well?
11 posted on 10/22/2006 6:32:47 PM PDT by bennowens
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To: jmc1969

And .. Duncan Hunter, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee has written a letter to Rumsfeld asking that CNN's embedded reporters be removed from Iraq.

I'm not holding my breath, but I sure wish Rumsfeld would do it.


12 posted on 10/22/2006 6:33:16 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Rep.Duncan Hunter asked Rummy to pull CNN`s ticket in Iraq for this sickening footage. Got to wonder if it was staged just for the Clinton News Network. Please call your Congress Critter and ask them to support Congressman Hunter.


13 posted on 10/22/2006 6:33:39 PM PDT by bybybill (`IF TH E RATS WIN, WE LOSE)
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To: jmc1969

What's truly pathetic is communist news network's grandstanding about getting this "exclusive" footage from their contacts in the insurgency, as if they are some self important "respectable" journalists. What a load of B.S.

The cnn staff most likely got this video straight off the internet, like youtube which has been posting these sorts of videos for years now.


14 posted on 10/22/2006 6:36:29 PM PDT by World_Events
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To: evad

I saw Kalb....but he is a newsman...they stick together.

Have you ever watched Newswatch?? The only people they get mad at are Bush and Rush.


15 posted on 10/22/2006 6:37:56 PM PDT by Txsleuth (EVERYONE VOTE---AND VOTE REPUBLICAN,...even if you have to hold your nose!)
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To: CyberAnt

I think it should be investigated how they got that video.

I know there were some questions, when the first part of the war was going ....that CNN's reporter Nic Robertson seemed to have a lot of footage that seemed to be "right place at right time" type. hmmmmmm??


16 posted on 10/22/2006 6:39:55 PM PDT by Txsleuth (EVERYONE VOTE---AND VOTE REPUBLICAN,...even if you have to hold your nose!)
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To: jmc1969
and to think that those terrorist shitheads get kids gloves treatment at CAMP GITMO (better meals, best healthcare in their entire stinking life, Korans!!, prayer mats, bigscreen TV beaming live view of Mecca) courtesy of the ACLU, RED CROSS, ACLU and of course the American Taxpayers!!
17 posted on 10/22/2006 6:41:54 PM PDT by prophetic
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To: tophat9000
Glad you brought that up. The American experience in liberating a formerly enslaved population is that the former owners really never get over the idea that they should "own" the former slaves anyway.

When the Union failed to utterly destroy the Southern slave-owning class and its army, it was then necessary for the nation to have to put up with their nonsense for another century.

It's going to be the same in Iraq. We either run the Sunni Arabs out of Iraq, or let the Shia slaughter them, else there will be no end to the so-called "insurgency".

18 posted on 10/22/2006 6:45:49 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: evad

I wonder if Kalb thinks that CNN also has a "duty" to air the WTC jumper films that are out there. He's nothing but a leftist hypocrite. Many leftist hypocrites are showing up on FOX News Channel these days. I took Limbaugh's advice and completely stopped watching any news. Especially FOX. They've thrown in the towel and gone over to the dark side, IMHO. I get all my news here now.


19 posted on 10/22/2006 6:46:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Today We FREEP! Tomorrow We Vote!")
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