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| Three NBC Journalists Released |
| 2004-05-28 |
| EFL Iraqi gunmen released three veteran NBC journalists and an Iraqi freelancer Friday, three days after the group was captured in Fallujah, NBC said in a statement. "One off the record source said that once the ’insurgents’ (wink, wink) realized they had atually captured some of their best source of PR, they quickly released the men." The statement said local Iraqi leaders helped mediate with "armed Iraqis," who let the reporters go "after their identities as working journalists became clear." Afterwords the "journalists" and the "armed Iraqis" all snacked on tea and biscuts and recalled the good time they shared |
| Posted by:Dragon Fly |
| #4 Akhmed! Akhmed! Release them. NBC. They are on our side! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-28 12:12:21 PM |
| #3 Iraqi gunmen released three veteran NBC journalists and an Iraqi freelancer Friday, three days after the group was captured in Fallujah, NBC said in a statement. So are we supposed to feel some sort of relief at this? Given the location in which these "journalists" were taken captive, I seriously doubt that their intention was to show how the daily lives of typical Iraqis have improved over the past year, and it would come as no surprise if their original intent was to continue the drumbeat of gloom and doom that seems to permeate Iraq news coverage. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-28 11:42:59 AM |
| #2 It is a symbiotic relationship: Journalists hate guns and want to disarm everyone, especially their political opponents (conservtatives) so insurgents can kill them. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-05-28 9:31:44 AM |
| #1 journalists and insurgents - why do they hate us? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-28 9:29:20 AM |