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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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.
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.
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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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?