CNN's AntiAmerican MOTTO and CREED : Ted Turner, June 18, 2002:
"So who are the terrorists?
I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism."
Posted on 08/01/2007 6:49:30 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous
It would be amusing if they allowed some Korean ROK troops to conduct the op.
I am told by a relative who has been stationed in Korea in the past that those troopers are ruthless in battle and don’t tend to show mercy to prisoners.
CNN's AntiAmerican MOTTO and CREED : Ted Turner, June 18, 2002:
"So who are the terrorists?
I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism."
“Well, this might be the case, but it shouldn’t have been on TV in the first place until the op was wrapped up one way or the other.”
We don’t know that it isn’t over. Just because the msm reports that’s it’s beginning or in the process, doesn’t mean that it isn’t all over and the msm is just trying to grab headlines and ratings.
Idiots. Good grief.
I’m conflicted... certainly CNN shouldn’t have ran with the story... but aren’t we a bit guilty of the same thing by spreading this information on FR?
Nice pic of Ted Turner, and so appropo:
Yellow journalism, Yellow teeth.
I understand what you mean.
But consider this, whenever you see the roofs of apartment buildings in Kabul and in Pakistan, what do you see? Satellite dishes.
I imagine there are people whose only job was to only watch news programs to collect tactical intelligence on the coalition.
As soon as they get something good, get on the satellite phone and call it in.
"A story repeated on National Public Radio during the annual reading of the Declaration on the Morning Edition program was that King George III's diary entry for July 4, 1776 read: "Nothing of importance happened today". In fact, George III never kept a diary. The error was corrected in 2007."
I don’t think CBS News needs to be excerpted (crossing my fingers)...
Lots of details here...
(CBS/AP) A local Taliban commander in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province has told CBS News that Afghan and U.S. soldiers are going door to door in the area in a new effort to rescue 21 South Korean hostages.
“There weren’t any Taliban there, but now they are going there to ambush the troops and clear them from the area,” the militant, who identified himself as Haji Nurullah, told CBS News in a telephone interview.
Nurullah said there hadn’t been any gunfire or other combat yet, but that coalition troops were knocking on doors in three villages in the Shelghar and Karabagh districts, asking residents to support the government rather than the Taliban.
He said troops had also knocked on the door of a well-known madrassa, or Islamic religious school, in a nearby village.
The military maneuvers came hours after leaflets were dropped by military aircraft in the area, warning residents that an operation was imminent and that, for their safety, they should head to government controlled areas.
CBS News’ Sami Yousafzai reports that the only area truly controlled by the U.S.-backed government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the area is central Ghazni City — the Taliban wields huge influence and boasts a lot of support in the outlying areas.
Interviewed by CBS News on Monday, the Taliban’s senior commander in Ghazni province, Mullah Sabil Nasir, warned; “If they do conduct an operation here, it will be a 100 percent failure.”
“They know our locations and our areas, if they leave Ghazni City, we are everywhere,” Nasir added confidently.
Earlier Wednesday, a Taliban sub-commander in Ghazni province, who has direct contacts with the militants holding 21 South Korean hostages, told CBS News that none of the captives had been killed or died of natural causes, contradicting reports in some media that there had been two deaths.
Twenty-three South Korean church members were abducted more than two weeks ago from a road in Ghazni province. Militants have killed two male members of the group, and their bodies have been recovered by Afghan authorities.
“No one is in critical or serious condition,” Taliban sub-commander Mullah Abdullah told CBS News by phone at approximately 1:00 p.m. local time — an hour after an alleged deadline passed for a deal to secure their release.
Various media reported Wednesday that the militant group had set a deadline for 1:00 p.m. (3:30 a.m. EDT) for the Afghan government to release a number of Taliban prisoners in exchange for the hostages.
Abdullah did not mention a deadline, but said negotiations were still ongoing, now directly between Taliban members and South Korean officials.
Interviewed by CBS News on Tuesday, Nasir expressed frustration at apparently not being able to negotiate directly with South Korean authorities, suggesting Karzai’s government was blocking any such discussion.
Abdullah did not elaborate Wednesday on the progress of the apparently new lines of communication between Taliban militants and South Korean representatives.
The leaflets dropped earlier on Ghazni province did not say when or where the military operation would be launched. A Defense Ministry spokesman said he had no immediate comment.
Abdullah dismissed any plans for a government military siege to rescue the hostages, saying the captives were not being held in one group, and they were no longer in the area from which they were abducted.
“The Afghan government just wants to make us angry, and push us to kill all the hostages at once to bring an end to the crisis,” Nasir, the senior Taliban commander told CBS News on Tuesday.
The South Koreans were kidnapped while riding a bus July 19 on the Kabul-Kandahar highway. They are the largest group of foreign hostages taken in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion that drove the Taliban from power.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/01/terror/main3121766.shtml
I just read the headline and screamed “A$$*****” because I knew right away what they had just done.
I hope these SOBs get theirs someday. Now at least we know they are equal oppty terrorist lovers.
They even side with them when there’s nothing particularly anti-American to gain from it.
After the CNN newsreader (about an hour ago) read the retraction, she said “sorry for any confusion this may have caused anyone.” Confusion???? How about the deaths of these hostages? I guess that could be a little confusing to them.
OK posting police.
Yep, I heard that too..I think they knew they screwed up and were looking for a way out of it that didn’t make CNN look worse than they usually do.
HELLO NY Slimes leaking all our secrets!
The media is on the side of the jihadis, so they think it’s a good idea to help them. Also, they would like a few deaths so that they can get some good footage and improve their ratings.
They must have interupted the almost constant whining and hand wringing the media is going thru with the purchase of Dow Jones by Murdoch.
Could be the raid is on going.
Yeah, my first thought too.
Fricken' CBS. Don't they know that by now that we know WTF a F*****G Madrassa is? Same with all so-called journalists. Us poor ignorant hicks just can't retain a simple definition from one news article to the next. Why don't the also define the words imam, or Islamic clergyman, and mosque, or islamic place of worship, everytime they are mentioned? I personally am tired of the way that we are expected to revere the religion of islam as if its followers were somehow more devout and special.
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