Looks like this finally made it to the print media.
We should start targeting some journalists.
How about Al-Jazeera HQ for a start?
Eason, jou got some 'splainin' to do.
Our soldiers are decent shots. If they wanted you dead you'd be the second to know.
Bullcrap from the guy who out Durante'd Durante.
It's like PETA hugging a whitetail buck when you're about to shoot it.
I know Eason Jordan's allegations are untrue and can prove it.
Kevin Sites is currently on assignment for NBC News in Asia.
If GIs were targeting journalists, Kevin would be on assignment in Hell.
Mr. Frank said he tried to get information out of Mr. Jordan so that he could forward it to the appropriate congressional investigative authorities. " I think Congress has demonstrated with Abu Ghraib that we will aggressively pursue reasonable allegations," he said. Mr. Frank said he has tried repeatedly over the past few days to get Mr. Jordan to provide evidence of crimes against journalists. He said Mr. Jordan promised to get back to him, "but I haven't heard anything yet," Mr. Frank said.
Barney, Barney -- if you and your corrupt colleagues in Congress were really serious about "investigating" anything really important, you would have shut down the MSM by now. Please don't insult our intelligence.
The headline SHOULD read...."GI's in Iraq target Terrorist Journalists"...What's wrong with targeting terrorist sympathizers at Al-Jezeera????...Big deal...knock their scrawning asses around the room a little. Badda-Bing!
IN all seriousness, I believe there is ample evidence of journalist working with terrorists. My main arguement is based on the reports of the journalists who did not report IEDs such as roadside bombs to troopers who then inadvertantly, without warning from those reporters, denoted the bombs and were injured as a result of the blast. The journalist got their story.
There are several reports along those lines here a FR.
Then again, there's the old joke about the captured marine and three journalists:
Anchors Dan Rather and Peter Jennings, NPR Reporter Cokie Roberts, along with a U.S. Marine assigned to protect them were hiking through the Iraq desert one day when they were captured by Iraqis. They were tied up, led to a village, and brought before the leader.
The leader said, "I am familiar with your western custom of granting the condemned a last wish; so, before we kill and dismember you, do you have any last requests?"
Dan Rather said, "Well, I'm a Texan; so I'd like one last bowlful of hot spicy chili." The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with the chili. Rather ate it all and said, "Now I can die content."
Peter Jennings said, "I am Canadian, so I'd like to hear the song 'OCanada' one last time." The leader nodded to a terrorist who had studied the Western World and knew the music. He returned with some rag-tag musicians and played the anthem. Jennings sighed and declared he could now die peacefully.
Cokie Roberts said, "I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe someday someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till the end."
The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and Roberts dictated some comments. She then said, "Now I can die happy."
The leader turned and said, "And now, Mr. U.S. Marine, what is your final wish?"
"Kick me in the ass," said the Marine.
"What?" asked the leader. "Will you mock us in your last hour?"
"No, I'm not kidding. I want you to kick me in the ass," insisted the Marine. So the leader shoved him into the open, and kicked him in the ass.
The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9mm pistol from inside his cammies and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, he leapt to his knapsack, pulled out his M4 carbine, and sprayed the Iraqis with gunfire. In a flash, all the Iraqis were either dead or fleeing for their lives.
As the Marine was untying Rather, Jennings, and Roberts, they asked him, "Why didn't you just shoot them? Why did you ask them to kick you in the ass?"
"What," replied the Marine, "and have you three assholes call me the aggressor ?!?
When you behave like the enemy, expect to be treated like the enemy. A warning to all the MSM. You're acting like the enemy.
"Al-Jazeera boy."
How cruel! It would be more accurate to call him what he was, an "In-bed with the terrorists".
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Posted by Rony on January 28, 2005 at 02:21 AM
It's about time this story (Eason Jordan's BS claims) made it into the print media......
Now lets see what CNN does.
Is there a tape or transcrpit from Davos out yet?
1) Barney Frank won't cover for the head of the DNC's best friend, CNN.
2) Al "Heads Will Roll" Jazeera won't cover for the head of their best friend, CNN.
3) A Harvard professor contradicts Jordan's anti-American soldier assertions, and
4) A democrat senator is "outraged" by Jordan's slander of our soldiers.
Is it possible that Arafat is ice skating? ;)
This article has the same glaring omission found in Howard Kurtz' piece in the WaPo today.
There is a tape of the conference. After promising to release the tape, the forum is now balking.
Neither of these articles calls for the tape to be made public. Kurtz' omission is easily explained---he's compromised by his job with CNN. I don't know why the Sun left out what I think is THE central issue of this story as news.
"was repeatedly mocked by his interrogators as "Al-Jazeera boy."
Oh what a horrible thing to do to a prisoner. It must be against the Geneva to refer to a prisoner that way.
It appears that CNN has surpassed Al jazerra and BBC as the the Blame and hate America crowd. They have become cheerleaders for terrorists, dictators and despots.
I believe that all forms of interrogation should be replaced with the simple but affective Ted Kennedy style.
Put them in a car, push the car off a bridge, and wait 14 hours.
One more reason to support the troops.
The liberal MSM continues to dig it's own grave. Dig faster boys...dig faster.