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2007-05-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by ryuge 2007-05-15 00:39|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Or maybe he was abducted by aliens.

Hey - it happened to Elvis!

Posted by Pappy 2007-05-15 01:27|| 2007-05-15 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Suddenly, a new account appeared on a Persian language blog, which, if true, would mean that Asgari defected from Iran and applied for political asylum to the United States of his own free will, and utterly de-legitimize repeated attempts by the Iranian regime to suggest that he was somehow kidnapped.

Gasp!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-15 02:36|| 2007-05-15 02:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Asgaris defection is being kept top secret ... but by the United Nations

Sure! The first thing the USA would do if an Iranian general defected, would be tell the UN.

It's stuff like this that makes me not a big fan of Pajamas Media. That, and in the English language, when you create a collective noun by putting an adjective before the noun or compounding two nouns, you don't use a plural form for the first word even when it is usually used in the plural form.

Hence, It should be Pajama Media.

Posted by phil_b 2007-05-15 03:54|| 2007-05-15 03:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Have they posted his picture on milk carton's in Iran yet?

Posted by Delphi2005 2007-05-15 08:29|| 2007-05-15 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 It should be Pajama Media.

They have one pair-to-share. Hence 'Pajamas'.

Posted by Pappy 2007-05-15 09:58|| 2007-05-15 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Colonel Mustard, in the Drawing Room, with a gun!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-05-15 10:03|| 2007-05-15 10:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Its been more than two months since General Ali Reza Asgari, former deputy Defense Minister of Iran vanished into thin air in Istanbul two months ago, there have been numerous reports in the press speculating on how and why it happened.

Somebody's editor needs an editor.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-05-15 10:24|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-05-15 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 I remember some journalist went to Turkey to investigate what had happened to the general, and the Turks just ran circles around him, sending him on wild goose chases, in a comic frustration of his search.

Though they were serious, you could tell that their intelligence service had gone to such great lengths to confuse the issue that not even Sherlock Holmes would have a clue.

Ah, professionalism.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-15 12:34|| 2007-05-15 12:34|| Front Page Top

#9 It's the new "Big Lie" technique. Instead of trying to sell "One Big Lie", you flood the media with thousands of lies. There are so many versions of this story out there, you can't pick out the real one.

Posted by Steve 2007-05-15 15:21|| 2007-05-15 15:21|| Front Page Top

#10 I lost me a pair of Blue Suede Pajamas and it's got me All Shook Up.

Posted by Elvis P 2007-05-15 15:27|| 2007-05-15 15:27|| Front Page Top

#11 #9: "It's the new "Big Lie" technique. Instead of trying to sell "One Big Lie", you flood the media with thousands of lies."

Why bother, Steve? The MSM floods itself with thousands of lies every week.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-05-15 15:36|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-05-15 15:36|| Front Page Top

#12 The MSM floods itself with thousands of lies every week.

Ah, but that's just what we want you to believe.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2007-05-15 17:45|| 2007-05-15 17:45|| Front Page Top

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