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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

While Old Media Obsesses over Haditha, Al Qaeda Massacre Gets the Silent Treatment

By robert108 on July 3, 2007 at 06:18 am
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(WARNING: Link contains graphic and unsettling pictures) Michael Yon reported a massacre committed by Al Qaeda that wiped out a village on the outskirts of Baqubah, Iraq just after midnight on July 1.

Matt Hurley at Weapons of Mass Discussion had this to say yesterday in reaction:

If American media fails to cover this with the same amount of gusto that they have pursued Haditha and Abu Ghraib, they will be demonstrating their preference for whom they wish to win this conflict. The press has to tell the story that evil really does exist in this world. Imagine if the story of the Holocaust was never told because the media was only interested in reporting Allied atrocities. Yes, by failing to treat this war objectively, the media does indeed enable massacres such as this one and history will judge the coverage of this war very harshly.

Robin Boyd noticed the lack of Old Media interest in a NewsBusters post yesterday. Almost 18 hours later, the fact is that Old Media has is still ignoring Yon’s dispatch:

Read the whole thing.

More evidence of pro-terrorist bias in the MSM.

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Avatar for FlyOnTheWall

There was a Reuters photagrapher with our troops in Haditha, he didn’t see anything happen at the time. 

There WAS a massacre there including, if I recall correctly, a pregnant woman bound with her hands behind her back and her throat slit.  I just don’t think our guys did things like that.  I’ll go halfway with the die hard militant pacifists though, everyone responsible needs an introduction to God.

FlyOnTheWall on July 3, 2007 at 09:16 am
Rodney Graves

FotW,

Haditha was a propaganda masterpiece by the enemy as enabled by the MSM.

<a hfref="http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20070621.aspx">How To Fool The Media</a>
By Harold Hutchison
June 21, 2007
Strategy Page

Recent developments in the Haditha case (marines accused of murdering civilians in Iraq) not only show how easily the media can get things wrong, but it also exposes how al Qaeda is taking a new approach to asymmetric warfare. In essence, the controversy over the events in Haditha was a more refined attack than the claims after the 2002 Battle of Jenin. And, despite claims from certain politicians, there was no cover-up attempted. Now, some of the charges have been dismissed, others are in doubt, and it is beginning to look like the accusations of a massacre may be untrue.

Read the whole thing.

Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

Rodney Graves on July 3, 2007 at 02:40 pm
2Hotel9

Terrorists regularly use civilians and there deaths as a tactical tool. Who the hell does not know this?

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2Hotel9 on July 3, 2007 at 08:25 pm
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