Michelle Malkin: “There were no six Sunnis burned.”:
The sad part about this is, Michelle and Bryan had to go to Iraq to verify a false story that the AP should have! Please go to her site and see the photo’s that correspond to the article she wrote that is featured in the NY Post today.
Bryan Preston and I visited the area during our Iraq trip last week. Several mosques did, in fact, come under attack by Mahdi Army forces. But the “destroyed” mosques all still stand. Iraqi and U.S. Army officials say that two of them received no fire damage whatsoever. Another, which we filmed, was abandoned and empty when it was attacked:
Capt. Aaron Kaufman of Task Force Justice, which works closely with the Iraqi Army battalion that was on the scene and monitored events as they happened, told us: “It was blown way out of proportion, there was nobody lit on fire.”
Capt. Stacy Bare, the civil-affairs officer who took us on patrol in Hurriya, concurred: “There were no six Sunnis burned.”:
Lt. Col. Steven Miska, commander of the Dagger Brigade at Forward Operating Base Justice, observed: “Part of it is, if you’re relying on Iraqi reporters, well, what are their biases? What clans are they from and tribes? Why are they telling me this? What’s his underlying motivation? And if you quote a police chief, well, those guys have underlying motivations, too . . .”
“I’ve gone out and found police chiefs on the street and said, ‘What happened here?’ Something just blew up and he told me, ‘Well, U.S. airplanes just bombed this building.’
“I said, ‘What are you talking about? It was freakin’ insurgent rockets that just hit the building, I picked them up on radar.’ ” But he just told the reporter on the street that U.S. warplanes bombed the building and killed 13 people:
Deception and manipulation are also tools of the insurgent trade. Satellites, cellphones and Internet cafes aid insurgent and militia propaganda wars 24/7.
It behooves the Western media to acknowledge these realities and maintain as much transparency about their sources and local stringers as possible.
Allah will have video posted tomorrow.
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January 21, 2007 - 10:42 AM on January 21st, 2007
Live, From AP: The Jamil Hussein Dog and Pony Show
Michelle Malkin just returned from Baghdad, Iraq, and among the things she saw there were some disturbing sights. She was able to view the still standing mosques that the AP’s Jamil Hussein said were damaged and destroyed by firebombings and that any…
January 21, 2007 - 11:41 AM on January 21st, 2007
On patrol in Mosul
Sgt. Fred Abernathy, a security force team leader and combat lifesaver, treats a child’s foot while on patrol in Mosul.
January 21, 2007 - 11:54 AM on January 21st, 2007
Update: Leftists Attempt to Close Down Newspaper F
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January 21, 2007 - 12:13 PM on January 21st, 2007
Biden Warns Against USA Defending Herself
Just another case of pre-emptive surrender by a leading Democrats
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January 21, 2007 - 12:57 PM on January 21st, 2007
The Best Laid Plans of Mice
The rodents that people call politicians are always trying to make our lives easier. They fail to see that less intrusive government is the best way to do it and instead impose more upon us in the way of taxes and regulations. The liberals in office …
January 21, 2007 - 01:30 PM on January 21st, 2007
The fact that nobody was burned, that some of the mosques werne’t even damaged, the truth, actually, matters not to the BHDS, blame America first, cut and run crowd.
The story sounds good and furthers their agenda. So it is adopted and propagated by AP and other degenerates.
January 21, 2007 - 01:36 PM on January 21st, 2007
Open Trackback Weekend #38
Wow… I can’t believe it’s the weekend already! Please leave a post and I’ll be sure to send a tb ping your way. Keep in mind that I have to manually send pings so it may take a little while…
January 21, 2007 - 03:10 PM on January 21st, 2007
Opposing Obama Isn’t About Race
I usually look at the editorial page of the Las Vegas review-Journal on Sundays, just to see what Vin Suprynowicz has written. I don’t allways agree with him, but as one of the few true libertarian voices in media, he…
January 21, 2007 - 03:11 PM on January 21st, 2007
StopTheACLU.Com Blocked By Filtering Company
On the basis, I would presume, that it is a porn site! After all, how else do you explain its classification as “Adult/Mature Content”? News Bukit has the story. So I’m sitting at my favorite Panera/St. Louis Bread Company, eating…
January 21, 2007 - 03:18 PM on January 21st, 2007
Burma To “Destroy The Christian Religion”
There is a silent persecution going on in Burma, and most people do not know about it. What is more, the hints have been available for some time, but little has been done. Now there is a document available that…
January 21, 2007 - 03:33 PM on January 21st, 2007
Is WWIII Upon Us?
Some of you are a little apprehensive when it comes to this subject, I however am not, I see what’s going on all over the world and realize that if something does not happen soon, regardless of what we want, a future global war is a very real and ser…
January 21, 2007 - 04:15 PM on January 21st, 2007
Are You Proud To Be An American?
Do you still stand proud every time you see the American flag? Have you ever? These are questions that are easy to ask yourself, but may not be so easy for some to answer honestly.
January 21, 2007 - 05:23 PM on January 21st, 2007
“Your’e FireD”
A Mus–lim woman police officer has sparked a new debate by refusing to shake hands with Britain’s most senior police chief for religious reasons.
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January 21, 2007 - 05:52 PM on January 21st, 2007
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January 21, 2007 - 06:24 PM on January 21st, 2007
Well yes! the enemy is working to cut our heads off and many our inside our own government just look at the evil ideals of political foreign ideals who hate freedom, just look at the story about the jihadist Sen.Barack Obama and that story is dead, he did go to a Madrassa, he knew Bin Laden, he did Deal in Drugs, And he is on the inside with a will to take us down to the path of hell, But no one cares at all, you people are fools, just look at MEcha and its plans for you, and no one cares, you people may as well be dead. Listen to savage nation.
January 21, 2007 - 06:26 PM on January 21st, 2007
Our visit to Verizon or How NOT to handle Customer Service
My brother and I drove to Carrollton around noon along with my youngest and my son. I finally managed to get in touch with the guy who had the cell phone, apparently he was in church in Newnan, which…
January 21, 2007 - 07:19 PM on January 21st, 2007
Well all I can say is that it is been know for sometime now how the A(terrorist)P is sympathetic to terrorists. At my blog if I must quote anything from them I reference it as I did here. They are absolute liars and their sources are skewed. It is ashame Michelle and Bryan had to go to Iraq to debunk this story, but thank God they did.
Last night I purposely watched a segment on CNN with Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent based in London. She was interviewing Muslims – you know “the religion of peace thing” – AGAIN. Anyhow, she made a point of saying how Muslims are disgusted with the US foreign policies. She interviewed several Muslims to back that claim up. It is pathetic how many around the world will go to great lengths to lie, skew, malign, and even kill – just to prove that we Americans and our troops are ‘evil’.
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January 21, 2007 - 08:01 PM on January 21st, 2007
Boots (and paws) on the ground in Iraq
A soldier and his sniffer dog take 5 in Mosul
January 21, 2007 - 09:35 PM on January 21st, 2007
Nearly Back Online/OTP
Well, after 9.5 days without electricity, we now have (*knock on wood*) power restored: So, make this a good one, folks. This is an open trackbacks post. Hit me with your best shots, cos I’m depending on you to bring me back up to speed on what’s…
January 21, 2007 - 11:26 PM on January 21st, 2007
Justice Department Priorities?
Leaks of classified information would seem to be pretty serious crimes worthy of prosecution. Apparently the seriousness of the investigation into leaks varies in inverse proportion to the sensitivity of the information leaked.
January 21, 2007 - 11:44 PM on January 21st, 2007
The First Whatever President
It is over a year between today and the first primaries, but already the Presidential field is getting crowded. The New York Times has the following complaint about this problem. The candidates could be forced to move more quickly to…
January 22, 2007 - 10:10 AM on January 22nd, 2007
3. Layla,
I think your view (or maybe also the media which of course want to sell sth.) is a little bit exaggerated. I would say apart from the people in the middle east, few people have such extreme feelings about the two sides, that they would either claim that Islam and terrorism belong together, nor that Americans and their troops are evil.
Besides, are there still any people who need AP, Fox or Al Jazeera to make up or change their minds? This conflict has somewhat taken (too) long enough so that everyone should be aware on how to evaluate it, or not?
October 16, 2007 - 12:14 PM on October 16th, 2007
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