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2007-01-06 Iraq

AP staffer found shot in the head in Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The wages of treason are
Death!
Death!
Death!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-06 00:05|| 2007-01-06 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 unfortunately, Ahmed was the independent corroborator for all of Jamil's info. Now we'll never know...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-06 00:17|| 2007-01-06 00:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Red-on-red is always a bitch...but it does beg the question of just why we can't defeat these assholes if they're schtoopid enough to keep wasting their PR staff.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-01-06 00:22|| 2007-01-06 00:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Since the danger is unprecedented and they obviously can't protect their staff from Iraqi police officials named Jebril Hussein, I think the AP should admit defeat, cut their losses and pull out their troops. They are obviously in a QUAGMIRE!

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-06 00:33|| 2007-01-06 00:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Since the danger is unprecedented and they obviously can't protect their staff from Iraqi police officials named Jebril Hussein, I think the AP should admit defeat, cut their losses and pull out their troops. They are obviously in a QUAGMIRE!

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-06 00:34|| 2007-01-06 00:34|| Front Page Top

#6 I swear, if this phone does one more double post, It's getting BFH'ed.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-06 00:35|| 2007-01-06 00:35|| Front Page Top

#7 damn your using a cell phone Mike? am i ever olde fashion. :-(

Posted by RD 2007-01-06 02:00|| 2007-01-06 02:00|| Front Page Top

#8 're

Posted by RD 2007-01-06 02:00|| 2007-01-06 02:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Is there any speculation that this might be our forces or perhaps a contractor outfit sending a message to AP?

not Channeling Eason Jordan - just saying...

Posted by Robjack">Robjack 2007-01-06 02:30|| 2007-01-06 02:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Robjack, we should be so lucky. A nice mercenary army would be refreshing right about now.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-06 04:00|| 2007-01-06 04:00|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 Is there any speculation that this might be our forces or perhaps a contractor outfit sending a message to AP?

You might be amazed to learn what it takes to arm a contractor in Iraq right now. I suspect the USEMBASSY and MNC-I would feel more at ease providing the Iraq National Police a Chem/Bio capability than arming US contractors.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-01-06 05:28|| 2007-01-06 05:28|| Front Page Top

#12 a head injury to an AP correspondent might not be debilitating. I suspect he'll be able to continue reporting during his "stability" in one fashion or another

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-06 09:12|| 2007-01-06 09:12|| Front Page Top

#13 To quote the immortal Super Chicken "You knew the job was damgerous when you took it Fred."

Posted by steve 2007-01-06 09:18|| 2007-01-06 09:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Be sure there'll be outrage[tm] at AP along with long columns about the life of their ~~Horst Wessel~~ stringer. Eclipsing the amount of coverage of thousands of lives of Iraqi police and soldiers dying for months to establish a democratic Iraq. Or other pro-democracy Iraqi reporters murdered by the 'insurgents' for the past couple years. Media Martyr[tm] and his story at 10.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-01-06 10:32|| 2007-01-06 10:32|| Front Page Top

#15 I suspect this dude was capped by either the Iraqi secret police or even by our own SOCOM. First of all, it was a straight, execution style hit. Professional and no gratuitous violence. That is a typical way to dispatch a lower level but annoying fifth columnist of the propaganda type.

It is the typical Phoenix Program stuff, and it works damn well in suppressing traitors, infiltrators and saboteurs.

Say goodnight, Gracie.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-06 10:55|| 2007-01-06 10:55|| Front Page Top

#16 My best guess is that he had an uncontrollable psychic experience, somehow created a tulpa doppelganger, who then proceeded to shot him/himself in the head as a manifestation of an hidden self-hatred. I believe that if you think about it, it's the only logical explanation.
Rare, but it happens.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-06 12:07|| 2007-01-06 12:07|| Front Page Top

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