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2008-05-24 Iraq

AP Lies About Sistani Fatwa to fan Anti-US forces in Iraq

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-24 08:55|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Lets see, the original fatwa story was:

A) Anonymous source

b) reported stringers

c) converted into an article by reports that never met or saw the source

d) biased as hell editorial staff allowed the shaky story to run wihtout confirmation

4 for 4 on the BS Meter.

AP becoming a propaganda mouthpiece due to its reporters' bias (they beleive anything anti-US), and cowardcie (They refuse to get out there like Michal Yon or Totten, replying on "stringers" instead), topped by editorial bias and basic jounalistic malpractice.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-05-24 10:32|| 2008-05-24 10:32|| Front Page Top

#2 "AP Lies" is a general, truthful, all-purpose headline for anything involving the A~~sshole~~P~~ropagandists~~.

Use it at will and save bandwidth!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-05-24 10:43|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-05-24 10:43|| Front Page Top

#3
Ministry of Progressive Anti-American Propaganda (the AP)
strikes again

h/t Logo: Doug Ross Journal

Posted by RD">RD 2008-05-24 15:11|| 2008-05-24 15:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Check Out yesterdays Thread: APs first crack at presenting their Phony Fatwa story for the gullible to swallow

The Lies
"BAGHDAD - Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric has been quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops is permissible a potentially significant shift by a key supporter of the Washington-backed government in Baghdad.

The edicts, or fatwas, by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani suggest he seeks to sharpen his long-held opposition to American troops and counter the populist appeal of his main rivals, firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia."

Lies cont. more at link...

Posted by RD">RD 2008-05-24 15:40|| 2008-05-24 15:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Shitliner, eh? Somebody called it right.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-24 16:20|| 2008-05-24 16:20|| Front Page Top

#6 long-held opposition to American troops

Right. I'm sure that he wishes the American troops weren't necessary, just as I do. But there was no other way to restore order short of annihilating the place.

Now you know what this "truth" looks like after you wrap it around a telephone pole a few times.

Posted by gorb 2008-05-24 21:46|| 2008-05-24 21:46|| Front Page Top

#7 given the general ignorance among americans on BOTH sides of the debate about Fatwas, sharia,etc, and APs complete reliance on unreliable local sources combined with cultural ignorance, its hardly surprising they get things like this wrong.

Maliki WAS concerned enough to seek an audience. Could be Sistani himself was floating a trial balloon, and Maliki ran and reassured Sistani on whatever bugs him, so he withdrew it.

Cause you know the main audience for the info war is still not the US (important though the info war here is) its in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Lebanon and ........

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-24 23:31|| 2008-05-24 23:31|| Front Page Top

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