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| The Al’Jazeera Effect |
| 2004-04-21 |
EFL, read the whole thing:While telling half of the story is bad enough, there is substantial evidence that outlets like Al Jazeera are in fact acting in concert with terrorists to generate overtly false and misleading news reports. Colonel William Rabena, who commands the 2d Battalion, 3d Field Artillery Regiment Gunners in the Adhamiya region of Baghdad, related a scam coordinated between anti-Coalition elements and Al Jazeera in his area of operation. A gunman would go to the mosque, where Al Jazeera, as luck would have it, would be setting up. The man would open fire in order to draw fire from the Coalition. After he was inevitably taken down by the Coalition, a bystander would rush over to check his condition, and in the melee secret away the firearm. Al Jazeera then would swoop in for the story: Coalition guns down unarmed man in front of mosque! And as in Falluja, they would have the pictures to prove it. |
| Posted by:Robert Crawford |
| #21 I find Al-Jazeera informative unlike Fox News for example.Fox news fair and balanced? HA! |
| Posted by: Antiwar 2004-04-21 7:20:31 PM |
| #20 arabs are liars, and cowards. You'd think the whole world would know this by now. I think it's time for an "accidental" cruise missile strike on aljazeera headquarters....BOOM....OOPS! |
| Posted by: Halfass Pete 2004-04-21 11:57:56 PM |
| #19 Most excellent post, AC. The best part is how vividly all of this points up the utter stagnation and moral decay that the Islamic Middle East embraces like a spring lamb. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-21 9:53:32 PM |
| #18 Antiwar, here's a slogan I heard last night for the channel: "FOX News, the truth. We report -- you don't like it, TOUGH SH*T." - Luke Thomas |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-04-21 9:35:09 PM |
| #17 whatEver |
| Posted by: AntiPasto 2004-04-21 8:51:49 PM |
| #16 Antiwar just bored me into pacifism. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-04-21 7:50:34 PM |
| #15 AC - pretty damn good analogy.... do we also have to beat/subjugate our women to secure any pretense of manhood/superiority? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-04-21 7:33:34 PM |
| #14 Antiwar, does the feebleness of your authoritarian pronouncements really never cross your mind? How you claim to find something is not a substitute for facts or rational exposition. Sorry, but that's how it is. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-21 7:32:35 PM |
| #13 It's easy to see how the intense humiliation of failing to destroy tiny Israel after all these decades would wear on the collective Arab psyche and cause all kinds of psychotic symptoms. Imagine for a minute that Harry Truman had sworn to annihilate, say, Costa Rica back in 1948, that the destuction of the evil Costa Ricans had been the sole object of our policy ever since, that we had the support of most of the world's media and other elites in this noble endevour, that our people were united as one by anti-Costa Rican religious hysteria and so dedicated in their hatred of all things Costa Rican that suicide attacks were a viable tactic, that we had crushed all internal dissent against the war and killed or imprisoned all Costa Rican sympathizers, and that we had revived methods of warfare not seen since the Dark Ages. Imagine that we had done all this and had still failed utterly, with the CRs consistently routing our armies and, indeed, with diplomatic pressure from Costa Rica's allies being the only thing that keeps THEM from destroying US. Under this intolerable shame and degradation, a culture of avoiding all responsibility and self-examination would be the only way of avoiding complete despair. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-21 7:28:27 PM |
| #12 Al Jizz... always playing in my local shop. Cheap beers , bad politics. Will steal beer before firebombing... await the call. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-04-21 7:26:09 PM |
| #11 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Antiwar TROLL 2004-04-21 7:20:31 PM |
| #10 Fry their circuitry E-bomb |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-21 7:06:00 PM |
| #9 Fry their circuitry.....I mean are they going to delcare another holy war # 782? |
| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-04-21 6:55:33 PM |
| #8 But we'll take the credit for it. |
| Posted by: Osama bin Eaten 2004-04-21 6:36:30 PM |
| #7 That's a concise summary of almost all Arab reporting. But it leaves out their explanation of 9/11: "The Americans deserved it and the Jews did it." |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-04-21 6:34:55 PM |
| #6 .. namely,if the victims are Americans or Jews they deserved it the victims aren't Americans or Jews than the Americans or Jews caused it. That's a concise summary of almost all Arab reporting. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-21 5:04:38 PM |
| #5 If all the casualties that Aljazeera is recording are men of fighting age, any cries of targeting civilians are just so much banana oil. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-21 5:02:21 PM |
| #4 Al Jaz may also be an accomplice in the hotel bombing in Baghdad (the hotel was only a block from Al J's office which might have been used for surveillance. The more general problem is that virtually every media outlet in the Islamic world (and much of Europe for that matter) has a world view that is blatently pro terrorism; namely,if the victims are Americans or Jews they deserved it the victims aren't Americans or Jews than the Americans or Jews caused it. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-04-21 4:37:11 PM |
| #3 jam their satelite channels or take out the whole damn thing - never know when space debris will hit something.... |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2004-04-21 4:20:53 PM |
| #2 I have a better idea for a story: Coalition Guns Down Al-Jazeera Scam Artists! That'll stop the presses in more ways than one... |
| Posted by: Just John 2004-04-21 2:53:15 PM |
| #1 Like I said several times. We need a video of this happening. Any guesses the 'bystander' is Al-jitzz itself? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-04-21 2:48:03 PM |