Here are some of the journalists George Bush wanted to murder ---pix->>>

US President George W. Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab television
broadcaster al-Jazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror said, citing a
Downing Street memo marked 'Top Secret'. Picture shows staff working in
al-Jazeera's newsroom in Doha(AFP/File/Rabih Moghrabi)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051122/photos_wl_uk_afp/0511220739193z1glj4m_photo0

media, I can't believe you let them get away with this

How would they get away with that?

why not, no one would know the difference

Here's the LBN thread:

Bush Plot to Bomb his Arab Ally >>>
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1940762

so I heard on Morning Sedition anyway.

Dahmer or Ted Bundy. (That's my opinion anyway.) He doesn't have the testicles to do it face to face, hand to hand. But he sure gets off on bombing the shit out of people, don't he?

Ted and Jeffery did do it face to face.

More like Nixon and Cambodia

Sociopaths are like cancer, deadly but not very differentiated.

Don't you think that they look alike? I do. I always have.

And George's mother--Barbara? She's done some pretty despicable things in her day. And, remember the stories about little Georgie blowing up frogs, or something cruel like that? That's the first sign of being a sociopath--cruelty to animals. I think we've got a sociopath for a president. I really do.

And that's to say nothing of the cocaine habit George W. so very apparently has.

As I understand it, the dynamics were this: NATO decided that they didn't want the western media to have access to the battlefield in Yugoslavia during the first days which meant that there was large vacuum of war coverage. The Yugoslavian media filled that vacuum with their own propaganda. So NATO destroyed the TV station. Perhaps one option would have been to give the western media more access to the battlefield and to let a competing version of the truth offset the Yugoslavian media.

Or maybe they could have done what the corporate-backed opposition did during the Venezuelan coup. The opposition jammed the transmission of the one state-owned media station, while they broadcast lies from all the private stations. It's the same effect, but without the loss of life.

According to the documentary Control Room, the US did launch an attack on Al Jazeera's Baghdad office which killed a reporter. A reporter on the roof of their Baghdad office during one of the first bombing attacks got the order from the Control Room to turn his camera around, off himself, and point it at the city, which was under attack. Within seconds a US jet swept around and dropped a bomb on his building.

It wasn't planned.

was an accident.

Googled: Nope, not an accident. It was targeted. Apparently, we gave them a warning which they ignored.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/26/1632224

Not.

Amy Goodman may be on the alleged Democratic side in this war, but she's far too anti-military for my tastes. I simply don't buy that everyone in the military is scum, like she does.

"GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: I want to answer this fellow. Because the truth was that that -- first of all, we gave warnings to Milosevic that that was going to be struck. I personally called the CNN reporter and had it set up so that it would be leaked"

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I have never thought of her as an ignorant, closed minded absolutist.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1766

Action Alert

U.S. Media Overlook Expose on Chinese Embassy Bombing

10/22/99

(Click here for an update on this story)

A detailed investigative article in the October 17 London Observer reported that NATO deliberately bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last May, after discovering that the embassy was relaying Yugoslav military radio signals.

The report contradicted the public assurances of NATO leaders that the missile attack had been an accident. The Observer's sources included "a flight controller operating in Naples, an intelligence officer monitoring Yugoslav radio traffic from Macedonia and a senior headquarters officer in Brussels."

So far, the reaction in the mainstream U.S. media has been a deafening silence. To date, none of America's three major network evening news programs has mentioned the Observer's findings. Neither has the New York Times or USA Today, even though the story was covered by AP, Reuters and other major wires. The Washington Post relegated the story to a 90-word news brief in its "World Briefing" (10/18/99), under the headline "NATO Denies Story on Embassy Bombing."

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But I wouldn't be surprised if the London Observer were correct.

If you haven't seen it you should.

shill W's every action and policy must have no problem with any of this and all the other.

that is, if we had real journalists, a real president, and real press conferences.

what is with neocons and their "wacky" jokes about bombing journalists? Coulter and the NYtimes, Dubya and Al-Jazeera... we despise Fox News, but nobody ever makes cracks about obliterating Hannity with explosives.

god I loathe him

bombing which is always OK with wingnuts.

is funny now? Heh! Couldn't someone get in trouble for that? *sigh* Oh and I love your little firefox icon thing. I love them. :D

in Iraq were deliberate.

Dare to expose the Truth and Bush* kills it (AND you!)

Jeez, ya think???

and I don't understand why the Mirror is suspect - it's a tabloid but it's not the Enquirer - more like the NY Post.

bombing people who have done nothing. He will rot in hell forever.

Bombing civilians in an act of revenge. MURDER.

:banghead:

Why does moron* hate al-Jazeera for their good reporting?...oh sorry...

if you criticize him, he will try to kill you, or your wife.

NOT during the initial invasion but during the bombing of Fallujah! Even worse.

this is over 2 years after major combat operations had ended in Iraq, as well as in another country.

When I read this story here yesterday, I didn't believe it. When I heard it on the news today though, I had a good, bitter laugh at the absurdity of it all. How low can they go?

and not during the war, and targetting civilians, and doing it because you don't like what they have to say. THAT's terrorism.

Bush is fucking crazy!!!

something wrong with that?
:sarcasm:

Would not have been the last time, either. Verb sap!

* was AWOL, yes. Now, he is a DESERTER. AWOL=DESERTION after a year I think. Put this asshole in prison now, SAVE AMERICA.

Men & women with spouses and children who had the courage to go and witness the horror happening to the Iraqis. To tell the story to stop the killing. They are heroes.

Tariq Ayoub


Mazin Dana



Journalists Killed In Iraq: Profile

Terry Lloyd, 22 March 2003, ITV News correspondent; disappeared in southern Iraq and was declared dead a day later.

Paul Moran, 22 March 2003, freelance Australian cameraman; killed when an apparent human bomber detonated a car at a military checkpoint in north-eastern Iraq.

Gaby Rado, 30 March 2003, correspondent for Britain's Channel 4 TV; fell to his death from the roof of his hotel in the town of Sulaymania in northern Iraq.

Kaveh Golestan, 2 April 2003, Iranian freelance cameraman on an assignment for the BBC; killed after stepping on a landmine in northern Iraq.

Michael Kelly, 3 April 2003, US journalist and Washington Post columnist; killed while travelling with the US army's 3rd infantry division in Iraq.

Kamaran Abd al-Razaq Muhammad, 6 April 2003, translator working for BBC; killed in northern Iraq in a "friendly fire" incident.

David Bloom, 6 April 2003, NBC journalist; died due to illness.

Julio Anguita Parrado, 7 April 2003, New York correspondent for El Mundo daily Spanish newspaper; killed in a missile attack while accompanying the US army's 3rd infantry division south of Baghdad.

Christian Liebig, 7 April 2003, reporter of German weekly magazine, Focus; killed in a missile attack while accompanying the US army's 3rd infantry division south of Baghdad.

Tariq Ayoub, 8 April 2003, Aljazeera TV channel correspondent; killed in a US air strike at Aljazeera office in Baghdad.

Taras Protsyuk, 8 April 2003, Reuters cameraman; killed when a US tank opened fire on Palestine hotel.

Jose Couso, 8 April 2003, cameraman for Spain's Telecinco TV; killed when a US tank opened fire on Palestine hotel.

Mario Podesta, 15 April 2003, correspondent for Argentina's America TV; died in a car crash while travelling from the Jordanian border to Baghdad.

Veronica Cabrera, 15 April 2003, freelance camerawoman for Argentina's America TV; died in a car crash while travelling from the Jordanian border to Baghdad.

Elizabeth Neuffer, 9 May 2003, foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe; killed in a car accident in Iraq.

Walid Khalifa Hassan Al-Dulami, 9 May 2003, translator accompanying foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe in Iraq; killed in a car accident.

Richard Wild, 5 July 2003, British freelance cameraman; gunned down in central Baghdad.

Jeremy Little, 6 July 2003, Austrian journalist with NBC News and embedded with the US 3rd infantry division; died of post-operative complications, days after being injured in a grenade attack.

Mazin Dana, 18 August 2003, a Palestinian cameraman with Reuters; shot dead by US soldiers while filming outside Baghdad's Abu Gharaib prison.

Mark Fineman, 23 September 2003, Los Angeles Times correspondent in Baghdad; died as a result of an apparent heart attack while waiting for an interview in the office of the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC).

Ahmad Shawkat, 28 October 2003, editor of the Iraqi weekly Bilah Ittijah (Without Direction); killed by unknown gunmen in the city of Mosul.

Duraid Isa Muhammad, 27 January 2004, producer and translator for CNN; killed in an ambush carried out by unknown assailants outside Baghdad.

Ali Abdul Aziz, 18 March 2004, cameraman for Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV channel; shot dead by US troops in central Baghdad.

Ali al-Khatib, 18 March 2004, al-Arabiya TV channel journalist in Iraq; shot dead by US troops in central Baghdad.

See this post
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5435195&mesg_id=5435195

Ugh! So much for a free press!

Wow, way to get the support of the Arab populations that we're trying to "bring democracy and freedom" to.:eyes::crazy:

You win the prize!

:evilgrin:

;)

n/t