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2004-09-13 Iraq-Jordan
(TimeSeries Picture) Apache Strike Kills Arab Journalist and Resistance Supporters
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Posted by CobraCommander 2004-09-13 12:05|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Oh well. That's what happens when reporters get too chummy with the Bad Guys.

Jack.
Posted by Jack Deth  2004-09-13 12:39:55 PM||   2004-09-13 12:39:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Last words:

OWWWWWW INFIDEL Bas...{GASP}
Posted by BigEd 2004-09-13 12:44:03 PM||   2004-09-13 12:44:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope this is a new policy whereby we attack any car-swarms. I also understand that someone there had the black/yellow flag of Zarqawi's group.
Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-09-13 12:45:51 PM||   2004-09-13 12:45:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Might as well. Consider it OPSEC. Destroy the rest of the vehicles (M1s, Bradleys, etc.), and if someone gets in the way during their celebration, oh well.
Posted by nada 2004-09-13 12:50:09 PM||   2004-09-13 12:50:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Fearless and stupid--a bad combination.
Posted by Dar  2004-09-13 12:53:18 PM||   2004-09-13 12:53:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 How's it go? Oh, yeah... boo fuckin hoo hoo.
Posted by tu3031 2004-09-13 12:54:50 PM||   2004-09-13 12:54:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 " . . . as he was reporting live from Baghdad on deadly clashes between US forces and insurgents."

Obviously, he knew the risks, and so does any other journalist over there. If they say otherwise, they're just trying to get a story published, or are trying for political brownie points from their readers or editors by featuring an "enemy"--in this case, US forces.

OTOH, if they actually believe they're immune from danger in a war zone, they really like pretending. Go figure.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-09-13 12:56:36 PM||   2004-09-13 12:56:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 What's interesting about this guy's demise is that it rated such a tiny movement on the world's pity meter. Before 911 and Belsan, we would have been, SHOCKED! SHOCKED!

But now we just ponder about the wisdom of filming a car swarm in a war zone where an actual battle is going on. And we ponder the role of reporters who shill for the enemy. Are they combatants, or no?

Right now I'm feeling pity for the 911 victims, the Belsan people, Sudan, etc., etc., etc. Bottom line is that my pity meter so overworked, that I'm not feeling as much here as I once might have felt.
Posted by Anonymous6417 2004-09-13 1:10:38 PM||   2004-09-13 1:10:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Why doesn't anyone ask, over and over again, "What were the Arab channels doing, waiting at the scene of an ambush *before* it happened, so they could report on it, *live*?"
Ask the producer, "Is it the policy of your station to support and encourage violent acts of war, just so you can get good propaganda footage?"
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-09-13 1:54:37 PM||   2004-09-13 1:54:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Well dont ever piss off the guy in the Apachie specially if your people have just attacked his buddies in the Bradley. You wannah celebrate on some one's dead body you deserve a Hell fire up your ass camera or no camera. ( Bo Hooo Hoo )
Posted by Fawad 2004-09-13 2:01:13 PM||   2004-09-13 2:01:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#11  "...as he was reporting live from Baghdad on deadly clashes between US forces and insurgents."

How the heck was he there so fast? Was it innocent boys throwing rocks at the Bradley? was it innoncent teenagers planting a jihad flag in the gun barrel?
Posted by anymouse  2004-09-13 2:20:30 PM||   2004-09-13 2:20:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 So much for the Holy Islamic Tradition of filmed car swarms, complete with body dragging and ululating.
No more Mr. nice guy, Islamosavages.
Either get civilised or get dead.
In the meantime I'll pray for you to get civilised, cause I'm loving that way.
Posted by TS(vice girl) 2004-09-13 4:28:54 PM||   2004-09-13 4:28:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 So when is the video coming out? Or are the arab newzies censoring that one?
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-13 4:32:58 PM||   2004-09-13 4:32:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Stupidity is expecting for combatants to hold fire during a photo-op.
Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-13 4:56:41 PM||   2004-09-13 4:56:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Drudge has a link, although it appears to be swamped at the moment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40063000/rm/_40063230_iraq22_hawley12_vi.ram
Posted by Anonymous5970 2004-09-13 5:31:08 PM||   2004-09-13 5:31:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 there is no link at drudge
Posted by feeling bitchy 2004-09-13 5:34:28 PM||   2004-09-13 5:34:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 My only comment to this tragedy is : "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Posted by Anonymous5089 2004-09-13 5:45:00 PM||   2004-09-13 5:45:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 becouse idiot and stupid american actions like this 911 and belsan gonna be repeated
Posted by Anonymous6438 2004-09-13 7:13:24 PM||   2004-09-13 7:13:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 The beautiful thing about this is that we don't have to do it everytime to maximize payoff, just when necessary. Sorta like a pinball machine, irregular payoffs work best with primates and I assume allenists meet that standard.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-13 7:33:23 PM||   2004-09-13 7:33:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Not certain about serfs tho, I'll ask The Mossad.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-13 7:33:56 PM||   2004-09-13 7:33:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Careful amond6483 you rug score is skowing
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-13 7:35:35 PM||   2004-09-13 7:35:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Palestinian journalist? Sounds about as reliable and unbiased as Dan Rather.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-09-13 7:38:32 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-09-13 7:38:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Yeah - thats Dan Rather placing the planting the John Kerry flag of propoganda on the flaming Bradley of truth. Look up Dan its headed your way.
Posted by JP 2004-09-13 10:27:04 PM||   2004-09-13 10:27:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 becouse idiot and stupid american actions like this 911 and belsan gonna be repeated

No, anon, because of terror-loving media and their idiot slaves actions like this one are going to be repeated, the more the better.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-13 10:29:27 PM||   2004-09-13 10:29:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 It's stupid enough to approach a burning vehicle even without Apaches hovering over it.
Posted by True German Ally 2004-09-13 10:31:53 PM||   2004-09-13 10:31:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 didnt they have a zoom lens, woulda been smart to have one, the Paleo should have known not to get close to a car swarm
Posted by SCpatriot 2004-09-13 10:32:50 PM||   2004-09-13 10:32:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 ... goddammit I love being non-Christian. Makes embracing the schadenfraude all the much easier. :D
Posted by Edward Yee  2004-09-13 10:54:01 PM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]  2004-09-13 10:54:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Now me, I would have reported from Jersey. Nobody knows the difference.
Posted by Jayson Blair 2004-09-13 11:17:57 PM||   2004-09-13 11:17:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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