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2004-06-10 Iraq-Jordan

Interesting conflict - between news reports of Fallujah Action

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Posted by .com 2004-06-10 6:28:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Question is what are they going to do about it?

Posted by Raptor 2004-06-10 7:39:56 AM|| 2004-06-10 7:39:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, I thought the last story had a particularly noticable problem.. A "medical official" (WTF? works in the cafeteria or what?) says he had 6 dead bodies on Wednesday when they're reporting 12 DEAD and then on Thursday the story is clarified and corrected to say there are 12 WOUNDED, not DEAD - so, uh, about those 6 dead bodies Mr Medical Official Ali Lyinsackofjiveassshit Jaber (jabber, how apropos)... did you strangle some of the WOUNDED?

There's a lot more, but that made my day!

Posted by .com 2004-06-10 7:48:38 AM|| 2004-06-10 7:48:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm heartened by the fact that this wasn't automatically blamed on you Americans as everything else seemingly is. Judging by the sources you'd think that they'd drag some blind Mullah out of his pit to rant King Lear-style against the Yankee Imperialists.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-06-10 8:00:18 AM|| 2004-06-10 8:00:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sad that the Chinese report is the most accurate of the three. And completely void of opinion. Imagine that, our Free Press can't simply report the news, yet Xinhua Net can. Sad.

Posted by AllahHateMe 2004-06-10 8:35:04 AM|| 2004-06-10 8:35:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 That's because the people at Xinhua.net know the true value of un-biased coverage.

Posted by Charles 2004-06-10 8:48:07 AM|| 2004-06-10 8:48:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 great comments.

Posted by B 2004-06-10 8:50:30 AM|| 2004-06-10 8:50:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Sorry - the reports are chronological - top to bottom. There is no reference to timezone on the Xinhuanet story (it was filed first) or it would've been clearer. The Rooters story is factually the most accurate (and, reasonably, the last filed) - and it makes a lame attempt to relate the earlier mis-reporting of dead were actually wounded - which made the claim of 6 bodies rather dubious, lol!

One thing is crystal clear, though, you guys are dead right about the Xinhuanet story being far cleaner, to the point, with no apparent spin.

The Al Guardian story, filed second, on the farthest possible other hand, even gets it factually wrong in the first sentence in their wild-eyed spinning - the Fallujah Brigade is not an anti-American unit - we formed it with Latif, trained them, armed them and patrol with them. Prolly feed them and pay them, too. The AlG morons just get so sloppy in their rush to paint it black thay can't even keep the sides straight! Lol!

Posted by .com 2004-06-10 8:58:07 AM|| 2004-06-10 8:58:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 But it seems more likely the attack was prompted by splits between Islamist resistance fighters and the former Baâathists

Not to rely on Al-Guardian, but this strikes me as plausible.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-06-10 11:05:03 AM|| 2004-06-10 11:05:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Yup, can't see the Ba'athists being told to pour the single malt down the sink by a load of foreigners going down too well.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-06-10 2:05:25 PM|| 2004-06-10 2:05:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 To Howard: Cool!

Posted by Evert V. in NL 2004-06-10 2:14:10 PM|| [http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=935389&t=2] 2004-06-10 2:14:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Light touchpaper and retire to safe distance.

We may have played this right.

Says something about the UK press regarding The Guardian article.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-06-10 3:05:38 PM|| 2004-06-10 3:05:38 PM|| Front Page Top

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