Posted on 09/23/2005 11:41:20 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance in the Lannan Foundation’s readings-and-conversations series Wednesday night.
According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order.
Davis made last-minute arrangements Wednesday for Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica Radio’s daily news show, Democracy Now!, to interview Fisk via satellite from a television station in Toronto. He appeared on a large screen onstage at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.
The controversial British journalist, who is based in Beirut, filed many eyewitness reports on the U.S. invasion of Iraq and criticized Western reporters for “hotel journalism ,” a phrase he coined to describe correspondents who covered the war from heavily fortified hotel suites and offices.
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When Robert Fisk's papers are not in order, I say that he deliberately screwed up his paperwork, so that he can complain about government in the West being more oppressive than in the Middle East.
Like I said, they should have barred Galloway and Iranian president too!
Is this true? I hope so.
Let the man in, detain him, and ship him to Gitmo.
I'm surprised he didn't abuse himself with a broom handle to up the outrage.
Then again, there's still time to embelish, and he probably hasn't had any kind of sex in a while.
I feel sorry for the broom handle.
Yes it is!
Thank you! *smiling*
Congressman Billybob
Fisk is a cement head.
I wonder if anybody has hurt their fist.
That is not fisk--fisk is the one usually shown with a shmata around his bloody head after Pakistanis beat him up. The guy in this shot is Peter Arnette--bad but not as bad as Fiske.
Why couldn't they have done the same with George "Lord Haw Haw" Galloway?
sigh
Now if we could extend the order to cover ex- presidents and congressmen/senators...
The sole source for this seems to be a press release from a group which is willing to sponsor a Fisk lecture in the first place - so treat with caution.
That said, if this is true then WTF? You let the idiots expose themselves, you don't make 'martyrs' of them; and given the general ineptness of Bush's domestic governance, I'm awfully afraid it may be true.
Anyone who doubts that the Iraqi Army is prepared to defend its capital should take the highway south of Baghdad.How indeed?
How, I kept asking myself, could the Americans batter their way through these defenses?
This...
Produced this...
You are right...buit the same ilk.
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