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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:17 PM
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Hocking more KALOOGIANs - UPDATE!
I was just making Special Election phone calls for MoveOn - and a Busby supporter shared this tidbit - I am going to check it out to see if it is true -but I have to post it!

She said that Kaloogian, after the mess, posted a DIFFERENT green zone photo on his website.

Well apparently, that photo is of the Baghdad Police Station - which has been destroyed! by a bomb.

Now, she said, his website is down. I am going to check on this now.

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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:17 PM
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1. His site IS down.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:18 PM
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3. Could this be the police station that was destroyed?
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:27 PM
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13. My friend spent 18 months IN the Green Zone, and he said they slept
in helmets & flak jackets..they had ROCKET ATTACKS landing INSIDE the green zone and snipers firing into it EVERY DAY..

so it's not even idyllic inside the "safe areas".
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:10 PM
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28. You bring out a very interesting point about the Green Zone...
I have always wondered how it is, that the Green Zone is still standing. I think it's a miracle. It's major, sprawling target, sitting in the middle of a war zone.

Maybe I don't know enough about the physical barricades that surround it or the security around it---but it's amazing that it still exists--or that it hasn't incurred a major attack.

SoCalDem, you mention that your friend said that there are rocket attacks and sniper fire inside of it every day. That's interesting. I've never heard that. I've never heard of a report about a US soldier dying inside the Green Zone. I wonder if it's happened, but they cover it up?

I worry about the Green Zone. I know they've evaded a major attack--but they've got to know that they're sitting ducks. I can't imagine that the Green Zone will escape a major, devastating attack. With the insurgency and civil war exacerbating--it seems inevitable.

One more reason for getting our troops out NOW!
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:19 PM
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30. Wouldn't that be ironic as hell?
Edited on Thu Mar-30-06 01:20 PM by mzmolly
SECURITY INCIDENTS in Baghdad: (apparently after "Kook-loogian" returned home?)

Gunmen line up 14 employees working at an electronics trading company in Baghdad Wednesday morning and shoot them all, killing eight and wounding six, police said.

Gunmen kill three staffers of Muqtada al-Sadr in drive-by shooting in west Baghdad.

Gunmen attack highway police patrol in west Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding four others, including a civilian.

In south Baghdad, sniper kills a policeman on patrol in Dora neighborhood.

A general director in Iraq's Central Bank wounded when gunmen attacked him while he was driving.

One Iraqi army soldier killed and another two wounded when their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb near Abu Ghraib prison.

Australian resident shot dead in Iraq. University of Baghdad Professor Kays Juma, 72, was killed when nervous security guards fired on his car last Saturday as he drove near a convoy of four-wheel drives carrying private contractors.

What on earth do those jumpy security guards have to be "nervous" about. SHEESH!

Courtesy of "Today in Iraq"

http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com/
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:24 PM
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33. No. That one's in Iskariyah, 30 km south of Baghdad.
The one in question was hit in December.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:19 PM
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4. his site was hard to bring up yesterday
Its probably being hammered with traffic.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:20 PM
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5. click on the link - it is not slow, it says this:
"We Appologize for the inconvienece, but an error has occured on the page you were trying to access. Be assured that the error has been posted and will be dealt with as soon as possible."

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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:04 PM
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27. Confirmed!
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Imalittleteapot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:20 PM
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6. Must be updating site with
new lies.
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:18 PM
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2. this gets better and better
thanks for the update
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:24 PM
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7. Check dailykos.com - they've got the scoop!
Here's a photo comparison as Hooligan's website is, er, MIA right now!

http://aapics.nfshost.com/

mikey_the_rat
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:25 PM
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8. ...
ROFLMAO
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jsamuel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:25 PM
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9. I guess Kaloogian thinks if you can't say something nice about the Iraq Wa
r than you shouldn't say anything at all...

:shrug:
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Brotherjohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:26 PM
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10. This guy found the exact site (from TalkingPointsMemo):
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2006/3/29/23428/8027

It's great work. Note that he identifies the police station , which IS one that was bombed (in April, I think). Note the large walls surrounding the "safe and secure" area from which the picture was taken (Al Rashid Hotel in the Green Zone).

As someone points out on this guy's site, we should get bloggers to find Osama.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:27 PM
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12. awesome work! n/t
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:33 PM
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16. The photo is from last April? Didn't he say he had pictures from
his RECENT trip? I'm confused on this.
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Brotherjohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:46 PM
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21. No, the photo's not from April. The bombing occurred then.
Edited on Thu Mar-30-06 12:47 PM by Brotherjohn
TPM, or someone else somewhere (Kos, maybe) showed that the photo was from July 13 2005. He did go in July 2005.

Now, the Police Station appears undamaged in the July picture, but I'd say it's a bit far off to conclude the picture was taken pre-bombing. The building wasn't destroyed (and in fact, the blue and white paint looks intact in the pictures while it's burning).

Which doesn't let Kaloogian off the hook. I mean, is THAT the best you can do to show how "safe" Baghdad is? A view of a police station that was bombed 3 months prior, from a hotel balcony in the Green Zone?

I'd love it if someone could take his picture and superimpose arrows marking the sites of explosions or attacks in the 6 months before and after it was taken.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:50 PM
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23. Thanks, Bro. Yeah, I saw from the DKos link that the station was
not completely destroyed. But his photo apparently was taken from DEEP inside the Green Zone. How dare he speak of how safe Baghdad is. It's three years into this shit and Baghdad is MUCH worse.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:33 PM
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17. If the station was bombed PRIOR to Kaloogian's visit
Edited on Thu Mar-30-06 12:37 PM by rocknation
You're right--he blew it again!

:headbang:
rocknation
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:35 PM
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18. That's what I was saying. It's another lie, if that's the case.
The photo is of a police station bombed last April, so the photo is OLD and not one taken during his recent trip, and therefore, means nothing with regards to how safe he found Baghdad on his trip.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:13 PM
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29. Kaloogian was there in July 2005
(unless he went again) which I doubt
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:26 PM
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35. Do we have actual evidence that HE was there?
Edited on Thu Mar-30-06 01:26 PM by BurtWorm
Just asking.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:34 PM
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36. I posted pics of him yesterday with military people
and a snippet of an interview he gave to various media (where he claimed to be in 3 different places at the same time)..

He's probably NOT loving all the attention he's gettikng so close to the election:)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:37 PM
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38. Weren't those military people in Florida?
Or were some of them conclusively in Baghdad?

He seems to use the vague credit-stealing "we" formation when talking about the trip. He says, for example, that "we" received a Mark Twain award, when it was someone in the group that did.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:26 PM
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34. No. It was bombed in December 2005.
Kaloogian claims he was in Baghdad in July.
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:40 PM
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39. So Kaja GooGoo is using someone else's picture?
If he was there last fall and the police station blew up in April...he must be lying.

This guy is a total fraud. They never got out of the Green Zone and they don't know shit.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:40 PM
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40. but the whole point of the pictures was baghdad is safe and quiet
using a picture of green zone is as much a lie as using Istanbul. regardless of the safe greenzone police station not being so safe since blown up after visit
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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:26 PM
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11. This story is ALL over San Diego
Air America - KLSD

Union Tribune

I LOVE It -

GO Busby!!!
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Nickster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:28 PM
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14. Looks like the front page is back online. None of the links on the page
point to anything. So no photo links, etc.
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Imalittleteapot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:30 PM
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15. Site back up but the only thing you can do
is read the front page and CONTRIBUTE. :applause:
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phoebe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:36 PM
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19. why not just call him a hooligan??
n/t
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E-Z-B Donating Member (438 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:43 PM
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20. Booyah!
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:46 PM
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22. That's priceless
I bet they saw a LOT of Iraq. Green Zone, the police station, the airport...
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E-Z-B Donating Member (438 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 12:56 PM
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24. "Kaloogian" = "Look Again", indeed
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:00 PM
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25. Ha!
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:02 PM
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26. k/r for your post and work with moveon
:patriot:
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MyNameGoesHere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:24 PM
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31. Whois info changed today
and status is registar-lock. Looks like it coming down.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:24 PM
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32. I'm not surprised at all.
Blame the webmaster ... or the client for not checking the content of his own site.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:35 PM
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37. Site's back up.
And funny enough, a picture which was 'taken in Baghdad' before now shows the caption 'On his way to Baghdad.'

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E-Z-B Donating Member (438 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:50 PM
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41. You mean the original picture, or a new one?
Sorry, I don't feel like going to his website.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 01:58 PM
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42. This picture
was shown as being taken in Baghdad on his old site.
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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:06 PM
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43. More Exclusive Baghdad Photos
Edited on Thu Mar-30-06 02:10 PM by kpete
Because no horse is worth beating unless it's totally dead, here are some more exclusive photos from our last trip to Baghdad:

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002505.html

and

http://aapics.nfshost.com/
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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:08 PM
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44. and a teaser
Kaloogian fires back! You see, we're America haters and he loves the troops. All because we exposed his little propaganda ploy. TPM Muckracker has Kaloogian's Move America Forward PAC's IRS form 990, for those who want to dig around it a bit. And Josh laughs at Kaloogian's website troubles.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/30/135659/589
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:12 PM
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45. You know what's really funny,
when he tries to make it look like there were thousands of real pics from Baghdad but just one from Istanbul. Unfortunately, this one was his main picture showing Baghdad (the one showing Istanbul, in fact).
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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:15 PM
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46. and this will look even BETTER soon...
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 02:19 PM
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47. I'd blame Istanbul.
:)
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-30-06 05:12 PM
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48. Woot! Maybe enough to prevent a runoff??
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E-Z-B Donating Member (438 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 08:57 AM
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49. Did this even get mentioned on the MSM yet?
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