Incredible reporting from IraqJuxtapose this bit with the dialogue from a panel discussion I posted a while back, where Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace point out that if you're a American reporter traveling with an enemy unit that's about to ambush American soldiers, your responsibility as a journalist is to passively observe, not to warn your ( Read more... )

Read this.

Then read this.

Now.

Ladies, and gentlemen, I would like to present to you one of the single greatest examples of pure, slackjawed, mouthbreathing, cousin-fucking idiocy I've ever witnessed.  Ever.

It's over inpjammer's journal, here. In it, some complete and utterly ignorant fuckstick, patrissimo, actually writes:

I sometimes argue that Iraq may have been better off under Saddam ( Read more... )

Since this is an older post that has pretty much dropped off my radar, and discussion seems to be ongoing, I'm bumping it.

politas writes:

Ah, so Saudia Arabia will be the US's next invasion target, then? Wonder what flimsy excuse will be put up to the UN to explain that one ( Read more... )

I can't remember being more disgusted with the state of journalism in this country than I am right now ( Read more... )

So there's this memo we found in Iraq, supposedly written by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a 'suspected' member of Al Qaeda. In it, he laments that Iraq's population is being stubbornly resistant to recruitment by extremists, and points out that our practice of recruiting Iraqis to be the Iraqi police is problematic to the extremists, because it means ( Read more... )

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I'm calling fake.

This is a big deal. The anti-terrorism rally in Baghdad went swimmingly. Zayed has the details:

The rallies today proved to be a major success. I didn't expect anything even close to this. It was probably the largest demonstration in Baghdad for months. It wasn't just against terrorism. It was against Arab media, against the interference of ( Read more... )

Choice quotes from ""The Future of Iraq and The Arabian Peninsula After The Fall of Baghdad", by Abu Muhammad, a Saudi Citizen and close pal of ObL, who was killed in a shootout with Saudi police in Riyadh last summer.

It is not the American war machine that should be of the utmost concern to Muslims. What threatens the future of Islam, in fact ( Read more... )