Al Jazeera reporters chased out of Basra by angry mob

Fox News | April 9, 2003

[John Jorsett]

Adam Housley of Fox news just had a breaking story that Kuwait television is reporting that a couple of Al Jazeera reporters were chased out of Basra by an angry mob upset over how Al Jazeera has been reporting on the region. The Kuwaitis let them in in order to rescue them.

[WOSG]

Watch for the internal fall of Iran next.

Yes. Note that alot of those cheering Iraqis are Shia muslims. Just like Iranians.

[anu_shr]

they get sky news - rupert murdoch's channel

[WOSG]

LOL.

I am deeply saddened about this loss of comic relief for FR.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Are you registered under a trademark??

No. Why do you ask?

[potlatch]

LOL!!

[Haymarket]

Hannity mention today that the BBC didn't show the pulling down of Saddam's statue in Bagdad!

I'm no fan of the BBC but my wife watched the whole thing live for 3 hours yesterday on BBC1 (their main channel here in the UK - a feed from BBC24 News). The fall of the statue was the first item on the 6pm news, the 10pm news and also on BBC2 at 10.30pm.

[truth_seeker]

"I just a read a report on Palestinians pissed that arab news channels have been lying to them about how badly things were going for the coalition."

Yeah. They are "humiliated" again. They will riot, shake their fists, burn Israeli and American flags, threaten jihad and intifada.

Maybe they should start burning Iraq's new flag, and Kuwait's, too. That should sooth their humiliation, right?

[truth_seeker]

"A good indication to the French that they probably won't want to participate in the reconstruction, even if we allow it."

Is it possible that an Iraqi civilian, in CHARGE of bid selection, would simply pass over the French bid, with some typical beauricratic basis?

"Bid as submitted is not responsive to the requirements, specified in the RFP"

Over, and over, and over.

[Irishguy]

HA HA HA ...what a shower of arrogants dipsticks...i mean imagine how they feel this morning...man this has got to be hurting

[KSCITYBOY]

Heck - I'm still mad at ABC, CNN, CBS, & NBC for lying to us about the ground war being bogged down.

[Green Knight]

Check this out!

I also heard that Iraqis were actually killing the foreign fighters that've turned up in Iraq. Haven't found any evidence of that, though I certainly don't disapprove. If someone were to kill an al-Jazeera reporter that'd be one thing, but these are folks that came to Iraq to fight and keep Saddam's regime in power. I know I won't be weeping if those folks suffer a case of "Night of the Long Knives".

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Actually, I just use the ubiquitous ® as a sort of place holder on my tagline.

Although, I have done some Photo Shop buggery-jiggery to the good Captain to come up with my new signature logo on FR.

[ClaireSolt]

I got to wondering about this news slant that emphasizes casualties and pics from hospitals. Put it together with outrage over shots at Palestine hotel.

To me, this is more media elite behavior. Self-appointed elite media arguing that they should be a protected class and protecting their own skins by staying out of harm's way. Reminds me of the flack Geraldo got from penthouse pundits when he decided to actually go to Afghanistan to cover the war there.

Foreign correspondants were known for spending their days in hotel bars and phoning in their stories. Same ol same ol. Hospitals are supposed to be non-combatant zones, so reporters can go there without getting hurt. Then they want to say that the real story is at the hospitals. I think we are all very aware of that side of the story, thank you. There are VA hospitals everywhere in the US.

[WaterDragon]

LOL! Even half-starved and brutalized by Saddam for thirty years, the Iraqis are smarter, sharper and FASTER than the moronic Islamists. AND socialists.

[Amore]

Well, good, at least they showed it eventually. What Hannity et al. were specifically referring to was that, apparently right before the statue came down, BBC switched over to covering something else (I think unrelated to the war).

[txrangerette]

No lie - it was an earthquake in India
they were covering at first.

[potlatch]

I appreciate your 'more full' explanation. I knew I still didn't understand the last reply, but hated to admit it!!

I have a new Dell computer with "everything" in it, but haven't fooled with the Photo Shop much yet. Since you're so good at it, do you know if there are any 'Dummies" books that help with things like that??