Bump and Elect Diana Irey
Posted on 07/02/2006 12:24:49 PM PDT by Chickenhawk Warmonger
There have been many complaints about how our media reports the stories from Iraq. Countless articles have been written about the selective nature of reports from the field – focusing on the negative and completely ignoring the positive. Documents uncovered in Iraq have demonstrated how the insurgents use the American media for propaganda dissemination.
Now I have uncovered something even more shocking and disgusting. Our media is using pro al-Qaeda, pro Iraqi insurgency organizations as the basis for their reports – more importantly as sources of information that is damning to our soldiers.
While researching the claims of US soldiers raping a young Iraqi woman and then killing her and her family, I came across an article from Mafkarat al-Islam via Free Arab Voice. The article cites eyewitness testimony about the US rape and murder of the Iraqi family. According to Free Arab Voice, the report was filed on Saturday night at 11:55 Makkah time.
Today’s Washington Post posted an article by Ellen Knickmeyer. The article’s headline purported the subject of the article as the Baghdad market bombing but the text of the article was almost exclusively devoted to the rape and murder allegations. At the bottom of the article, the Washington Post cited “Two Washington Post special correspondents in Mahmudiyah contributed to this report.” The article cites a Saturday interview with two eyewitnesses to the attack.
The accounts in the Washington Post and Mafkarat al-Islam are almost identical, down to the job held by the father of the rape victim. Both reports describe the condition of the young woman’s body in the same manner.
To be fair, the Washington Post article does have this little caveat in the midst of their article…
“It was impossible to independently confirm the accounts given by the two men. Although some of the details, such as the home’s location, coincided with those given by the US military official, it was also impossible to immediately reconcile differences, such as whether the alleged rape victim was 15 or 20.” According to the US State Department, Muhammad Abu Nasr, co-editor of the Free Arab Voice website is one of the main purveyors of deliberate disinformation about US actions in Iraq. Abu Nasr “translates material from Islam Memo into English and posts it as “Iraqi Resistance Reports” on his website.”
Here is one pertinent example of disinformation from Abu Nasr that involves American soldiers raping young Iraqi girls…
“On December 19, 2004, Abu Nasr claimed an attack against Abu Ghraib prison was sparked by a letter from a female inmate named Fatima. In the letter, which seems undoubtedly to be a fabrication, Fatima claims to have been raped repeatedly, along with 13 other girls.
The charges in the letter are totally groundless and Fatima herself appears to have never existed. Only six females were held temporarily at Abu Ghraib prison at various times from July to mid-December 2004, two of them for treatment in the medical facility. None of them were held for more than 10 days and none were sexually assaulted.
Despite the fact that the claims in “Fatima’s letter” are baseless, the sensationalistic, outrageous nature of the charges ensured that the letter was widely reposted on Internet sites and circulated by email. Jihad Unspun posted in on December 24, 2004.”
If the reporters for the US media are utilizing pro-terrorist disinformation sites as the basis for reports, they should be punished appropriately. Distribution of disinformation that undermines our country in a time of war does not fall under the First Amendment protections. America and our soldiers deserve the truth – not the propaganda disseminated by our enemies. The least the media could do is cite the names of the “special correspondents” – but that would disclose their failure to sort fact from fiction.
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On college campuses, conservative papers are thrown out of their machines and baskets by liberal students and professors, why can't patriots return the favor to their liberal MSM masters by emptying their newspaper machines onto the street?
Bump and Elect Diana Irey
HMMMM.... Excellent point. Since he seems to be the WAPO's favorite source, it's entirely possible.
The MSM in the United States are intentionally operating in deception. If the details of an event or story consists of 12 pieces of the same pie, the MSM will serve up one piece and tell you that is the whole pie. If you want to know about the other eleven pieces of pie you will have to look elsewhere. It's a despicable way to operate a news network or newspaper, but they do it for their ideology and feel its their duty to keep the public uninformed.
Exterminating professions?Sounds a little extreme:)How about riding the offending journalists out of town on a rail immediately after tar and feathering?
Sam Hill posted a similar story on Sweetness and Light blog--good going, folks, let's expose all of these liars!
I hate the word "militants" and "insurgents". These groups are murderers plain and simple. Call a spade "a spade."
Media sources ping.
It would be safer and even more legal if we just smammed their mailboxes with facts. The same could be true with letters to the ed., Op-ed columns and speak-out efforts. The Left gets very upset with real facts. The majority of the public still gets its news from the MSM so we must hit their opinion areas with those facts to educate the sheeple.
Maybe i misunderstood.What does "the list of professions that require extermination...."mean to you?Perhaps your definition of extermination and mine are different.I'm all for exposing and prosecuting journalists and newspapers that print lies and/or leak secret information(EX NYTimes),but extermination?Isn't that just a little over the top?
Entirely!
Good article, thanks for posting.
"If the reporters for the US media are utilizing pro-terrorist disinformation sites as the basis for reports, they should be punished appropriately."
I'm sure they are doing this very thing. But, just as chickenhearted Congress does nothing about SCOTUS' obvious usurpation of powers, the chickenhearts will reign...
Things that make you say, Hhhhmmmmmm..
Ping to article
Frankly, I'd rather a thousand journalists get whacked before one of our volunteer soldiers gets killed by a turd who is emboldened by those journalists. I blame the MSM for at least half of the deaths of our soldiers for the last 50 or more years. If the nit-wit NY times spent more time on the courage and deadly accuracy of our sniper troops and less on divulging secrets and weaknesses, we'd be closer to finished and probably more than a 1,000 dead soldiers would be alive.
By RYAN LENZ. BEIJI, Iraq -- Five US Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and ...
GIs May Have Planned Iraq Rape, Slayings - Washington Post 7/1/06
"I blame the msm for at least half of the deaths of our soldiers for the last 50 years or more."I agree.What about VN?"If the nit wit NYTimes spent more time on the courage and deadly accuracy of our snipers and less on divulging secrets and weeknesses we'd probably be closer to finished.."Correction:We would already be finished.
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Sam has tracked the KOS Community as being blogger/reporters and present in Iraq.
I started checking the blog sites of those that feel they have a conflict of interest with the Marines/Navy in reference to the accused rape. Kennedy and Kerry are on the Kos blog rolls.
The KOS Community traces out further than that Daily Kos site also. It goes into a media community and even out further to investments and pharmaceuticals.
The media community even shares reporters with each other.
So, you can say the reports get shared far and wide.
You are absolutely correct.
Thanks for the info, Calpernia.
Wow, great find Warmonger, thanks for the Ping XZ!
Interesting article.
BTTT
To be fair, the Washington Post article does have this little caveat in the midst of their article…
This is technically called CYA
"We would already be finished."
We would already be victorious, Thom, the terrorists would be finished.
And the WaPo just canNOT let this alone...here we have TODAY'S version:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659567/posts
I read that and almost puked... This time Knickmeyer added a few more details that differ somewhat from the Free Arab version. But the gist of the story is still the same - American soldiers are brutalizing innocent Iraqis... I call Bravo Sierra!
"We would already be victorious."That's what i meant,and thanx for the clarification.Ann Coulter wrote a very informative book that highlightes the connection between Marxism and the msm,hollywood,intellectual and social elites,etc.If you haven't already read "Treason",I reccomend it very highly.
By TIM WHITMIRE, Associated Press Writer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Federal prosecutors charged a veteran of the Iraq war with murder and rape Monday following an investigation into the killing of an Iraqi woman and members of her family.
Steven D. Green, a 21-year-old former private first class who was discharged from the Army "due to a personality disorder," appeared in a federal magistrate's courtroom in Charlotte Monday.
The charges grew out of a military investigation involving up to five soldiers in the March rape and killing of the woman in Mahmoudiya and three of her relatives.
Prosecutors said Green and others entered the home of a family of Iraqi civilians, where he and others raped the woman before Green shot her and her relatives. According to an accompanying affidavit, photos taken by Army investigators showed a burned body of "what appears to be a woman with blankets thrown over her upper torso."
FBI agents arrested Green on Friday in Marion, N.C., where he is being held without bond pending a transfer to Louisville, Ky.
The case is being handled by federal prosecutors there because Green, who served 11 months with the 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, Ky., is no longer in the military. According to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, he was discharged "before this incident came to light. Green was discharged due to a personality disorder."
He faces a possible death sentence if convicted of murder.
The affidavit, filed by FBI special agent Gregor J. Ahlers of Louisville, said Green and three other soldiers from the 101st's 502nd Infantry Regiment were working a traffic checkpoint in Mahmoudiya on March 12 when they conspired to rape a woman who lived nearby.
According to the affidavit's account, the soldiers changed their clothes before going to the woman's residence to avoid detection. Once there, the affidavit said, Green took three members of the family into a bedroom, after which shots were heard from inside.
"Green came to the bedroom door and told everyone, 'I just killed them. All are dead,'" the affidavit said.
The affidavit is based on interviews conducted by the FBI and investigators at Fort Campbell with three unidentified soldiers assigned to Green's platoon. One of the soldiers said he witnessed another soldier and Green rape the woman.
"After the rape, (the soldier) witnessed Green shoot the woman in the head two to three times," the affidavit said.
Ahlers said in the affidavit that he also reviewed photos taken by Army investigators in Iraq of bodies found inside a burned house, including photos of an Iraqi man, woman and young girl who all appear to have died of gunshot wounds. He said he also reviewed a photo of a burned body of "what appears to be a woman with blankets thrown over her upper torso."
An official familiar with details of the investigation in Iraq has told The Associated Press that a flammable liquid was used to burn the rape victim's body in a cover-up attempt. U.S. officials have said they believed the victims were killed in sectarian violence.
On Friday, the U.S. military acknowledged that Maj. Gen. James D. Thurman, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, had ordered a criminal investigation into the alleged slaying of a family in Mahmoudiya.
Four members of the 502nd have had their weapons taken away and were confined to a U.S. base near Mahmoudiya, officials said.
The suspects belong to the same unit as two soldiers kidnapped and killed south of Baghdad last month, a military official said on condition of anonymity because the case was under way.
The military has said that one and possibly both of the slain soldiers were tortured and beheaded. The official said the mutilation of the slain soldiers stirred feelings of guilt and led at least one member of the platoon to reveal the rape-slaying on June 22.
According to the affidavit filed Monday, investigators learned of the March 12 attack during a combat stress debriefing that occurred around June 20.
Green will have a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing on July 10 in Charlotte, and will then be brought to Louisville, said Marisa Ford, chief of the criminal division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Louisville.
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Associated Press writers Brett Barrouquere in Louisville and Mark Sherman in Washington contributed to this report.
Two special correspondents in Mahmudiyah and special correspondent Bassam Sebti in Baghdad contributed to this report.
I noticed the 'rapists' were not referred to as soldiers, or as Americans. The author referred to them as attackers.
A lot has changed in the few hours since that article was written.
Green has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder and rape.
Whooops- meant to give you a link..at the bottom of the article is a link for the affidavit, detailing the charges.
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1926872.php
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