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2007-09-17 Iraq

Michael Yon: Hunting Al-Qaida, Part 2 of 3

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Posted by Mike 2007-09-17 15:43|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 When Officer Bradley says STOP, you stop.

Posted by eLarson 2007-09-17 16:26|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-09-17 16:26|| Front Page Top

#2 as per usual...good read!

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-09-17 16:50|| 2007-09-17 16:50|| Front Page Top

#3 The problem here is that this was apparently friendly fire. The unfortunate friendlies were probably unused to being friendlies, being as they were recent side-switchers, but still this is not a good thing.

Posted by buwaya 2007-09-17 18:17|| 2007-09-17 18:17|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd like to think that every time Yon posts one of these awesomely vivid dispatches the owner of every MSM outlet in the country calls his editor-in-chief in and says something like:

"Again! The SOB has done it again! You wanna tell me why we've got 50 people on the staff with journalism degrees from Columbia, and this guy is whipping our butts six days a week and twice on Sunday? All he's got is a camera and a laptop, for gosh sakes!"

I doubt very much that's happening, but that's what I'd like to think.

Posted by Matt 2007-09-17 18:31|| 2007-09-17 18:31|| Front Page Top

#5 That's because:

a) All fifty Columbia journo-school grads are safely away from Iraq.

b) The one journalist/editor they do have in-country is a freelancer working for four other wire services as well and has a distinct fondness for the Green Zone. Likely Western European with a background that precludes objectivity.

c) The stringers the one in-country journalist/editor has hired are either folk he (or the services he works for) worked with when Saddam was in power, or were suggested to him, or hired because they or their groups were amenable to the journalist/editor.

Posted by Pappy 2007-09-17 21:01|| 2007-09-17 21:01|| Front Page Top

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