Something Smells Funny About This.
Posted on 05/12/2004 12:21:34 PM PDT by Redcoat LI
OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM Boston Globe publishes bogus GI rape pictures Taken from pornographic website as first reported by WorldNetDaily
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 12, 2004 12:15 p.m. Eastern
By Sherrie Gossett © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Boston residents got more than they bargained for this morning when their copy of the Globe came complete with graphic photos depicting U.S. troops gang-raping Iraqi women.
Problem is the photos are fake. They were taken from pornographic websites and disseminated by anti-American propagandists, as first reported by WND a week ago.
WND contacted the Globe to question staff about the photos.
Asked whether the photos were the same as the porn photos WND already investigated, reporter Donovan Slack said, "I have no idea. I'm surprised the editor even decided we should write about it."
She added: "Oh my God, I'm scared to answer the phone today."
"It's insane," said Slack. "Can you imagine getting this with your cup of coffee in the morning? Somehow it got through all our checks. Our publisher's not having a very good day today."
Slack sent the photos to WND, which immediately confirmed they were the same porn photos reported on last week.
Slack quipped, "I'll be working at Penthouse soon."
The photos accompanied an article about Boston city councilor Chuck Turner, who distributed the graphic photographs yesterday at a press conference with activist Sadiki Kambon. Turner told reporters the photos showed U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women
"The American people have a right and responsibility to see the pictures," Turner said.
Kambon, who is director of the Black Community Information Center, said at the news conference he received the photographs by e-mail from Akbar Muhammad, a representative for the Nation of Islam.
The Globe was provided with a statement by Muhammad who wrote, "There aren't any doubts in my mind about the reports on torture of Iraqi prisoners. All you have to do is look at the pictures of Saddam Hussein after his capture when he was being examined on television across the world. He appeared to be drugged and unaware that he was being filmed to be humiliated and disgraced in front of the entire world."
As WND previously reported, the pornographic 'rape' images were carried, among other venues, on the website for the Committee for the Defense of Saddam Hussein.
In the letter given to the globe, Muhammad termed reservists, "raving beasts," and added, "I was fortunate enough to make copies of the pictures before they became unavailable on the Internet."
The pictures are still on the porn site "Sex In War" and appeared in several Arabic newspapers.
Muhammad also called for the resignation of Rumsfeld.
Turner and Kambon told the Globe they don't know where or when the photos they distributed yesterday were taken. But Turner said they came from a "very legitimate person."
"We cannot document their authenticity," he told reporters. "But you have the ability to do that."
The Globe published the photos despite the fact a skeptical Slack had raised serious doubts about them and was not able to verify their authenticity. Slack was assigned to report on the press conference and did not approve of the photos being published. The photos were approved for publication by three Boston Globe editors.
In the article the Boston Globe ran with the photos, Slack underscored her skepticism: "The images, depicting men in camouflage uniforms having sex with unidentified women, bear no characteristics that would prove the men are U.S. soldiers or that the women are Iraqis. And there is nothing apparent in the images showing they were taken in Iraq. Unlike the photographs widely publicized last week, the images appear to have been taken outdoors in a sandy area with hills in the background."
A source with the Globe said the controversy already had reached the president of the New York Times, who reportedly is furious. The Boston Globe is owned by the New York Times Co.
Turner said he and Kambon were distributing the photos to force the Bush administration to release additional documentation of abuses, which Turner said are not limited to the prison, west of Baghdad.
At the time of publication of this report, Turner and Kambon were not available for comment.
Related stories:
U.S. calls for Arab retractions
Fake rape photos infuriate Arab world
Porn site depicting 'GI rapes' shut down
Bogus GI rape photos used as Arab propaganda
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Sherrie Gossett is a Florida-based researcher and writer, formerly with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and a contributing reporter to WorldNetDaily.
Something Smells Funny About This.
Something Smells About This.
Yes, it's the pet excreta dropped on the Boston Glob, which is all it's ever been good for.
Come to think of it, I wouldn't use that low-life, commie rag to train a puppy.
Nope, no need for skepticism there. No bias from that source. Good golly Ms. Molly, is there no shame left in America today?
A study showing that the amount of time spent reading the Glob produces a proportional drop in the readers I.Q has yet to be disproven.
LOL!
Can you tell me which website is providing the copy for letters like yours?
What a dick. He just assumes you are as stupid as his typical reader.
At the Glob,Ideology is more important than truth.
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