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2008-07-09 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2008-07-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 Police forces arrested a gunman on Tuesday after planting a bomb in southern Mosul, the chief of the Ninewa police department said.

I know English isn't the first language of many of these people in the Muddled East, but some editor somewhere should really, REALLY do his job. According to the way the sentence above reads, the police, not the gunman, planted the bomb. While that's possible, it's not very probable. We also have newspapers such as the "paper of rec~~tum~~ord, the Noo York Slimes, with sentences such as "On Saturday, two gunmen were arrested for shooting at policemen on Saturday". I am glad to be among people who at least have a halfway decent command of the English language, and don't write crap like that. No wonder "old media" is dying, and our children can't read, write, or spell. They have such "sterling" examples to follow. End Rant

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-07-09 15:20|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-09 15:20|| Front Page Top

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