Insurgents kill pro-U.S. Iraqi journalist

[sabra]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060614-123500-3245r

Insurgents kill pro-U.S. Iraqi journalist

FALLUJAH, Iraq, June 14 (UPI) -- Iraqi insurgents in a car gunned down an Iraqi journalist who they had warned against publishing alleged pro-U.S. coalition in his newspaper.

Fallujah police Lt. Mohammed Ali said the shooting occurred Tuesday night, and targeted Ibrahim Seneid, an editor at the al-Bashara newspaper.

Ali said pamphlets had been distributed around the city last week, accusing Seneid of using the newspaper to publish U.S. propaganda, and demanded either the newspaper stop, or shut down, CBS News reported.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. That leadership ought to plan on never leaving the "green zone"

[Roland99]

2. In Fallujah? But, but, but, the US wiped them all out in Nov. 2004

:eyes:

[saigon68]

3. Another Quisling enabler bites dust

[hughee99]

5. Kind of harsh, don't you think? n/t

[saigon68]

7. Nope

I thought of that when I posted it. (your opinion)

And then it occurred to me it' s a Crotch Kicking, Eyebrow Biting Civil War. That the Chimp, through his oil handlers and Corporate Enablers has started.

Look at what the French Resistance did to the Vichy puppets.

No this Puppet apologist got exactly "WHAT HE DESERVED"

[hughee99]

10. Wow... n/t

[Stella_Artois]

13. I see

So you are an advocate of murder, as long as the victim is pro Iraqi government.

Of course, if it was the Iraqi puppet government murdering a pro insurgency reporter you'd be terribly upset, because that would be wrong.

I'm certain you have a plausible excuse for your blatent double standards. Hell, you may have even convinced yourself. I can't wait to read it.

[ECH1969]

8. You clearly aren't a democrat

In a democracy a reporter is allowed to have any bias whatsoever and be free of getting a bullet in the head.

Of course you support the people who kill others that have opinions different then their own.

[EFerrari]

9. The problem is, the US occupation is not a matter of differing

opinions. It's murderous.

We're so beyond "opinions different than their own" here. :(

[saigon68]

12. I'm not a Joementum democrat like a lot of the apologists here

[Xenotime]

15. Agreed. These people have freedom of the press and

should not be killed.

[Teaser]

4. Has Today's Good News From Iraq Thread

been posted yet?

[saigon68]

11. Yes 24 pencils were given out at a school in the Green Zone

[UpInArms]

6. I wonder if The Lincoln Group will compensate his family?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lincoln_Group#Planting_Fake_News_in_Iraq

In November 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Lincoln Group was helping the Pentagon covertly place pro-United States stories in Iraqi news outlets. "Dozens" of pieces written by U.S. military "information operations" troops were placed during 2005, according to the LA Times. "The operation is designed to mask any connection with the U.S. military," the LA Times reported. The Lincoln Group "helps translate and place the stories. The Lincoln Group's Iraqi staff, or its subcontractors, sometimes pose as freelance reporters or advertising executives when they deliver the stories to Baghdad media outlets." <17>

The LA Times piece continued, "Military officials familiar with the effort in Iraq said much of it was being directed by the 'Information Operations Task Force' in Baghdad, part of the multinational corps headquarters commanded by Army Lt. Gen. John R. Vines. ... As part of a psychological operations campaign that has intensified over the last year, the task force also had purchased an Iraqi newspaper and taken control of a radio station, and was using them to channel pro-American messages to the Iraqi public. Neither is identified as a military mouthpiece" <18>

In response to the story Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said "this article raises some questions as to whether or not some of the practices that are described in there are consistent with the principles of this department ... And that's what we're going to take a look at."

Voice of America noted that while the official communications principles state information will be "timely and accurate," they "do not include any prohibition against paying to place stories in the media."

"Pentagon documents indicate the Lincoln Group ... received a $100 million contract to help produce favorable articles, translate the articles into Arabic, get them placed in Iraqi newspapers and not reveal the Pentagon's role," according to MSNBC's December 1, 2005, Hardball. Additionally, the Chicago Tribune reported that "Lincolns' PR workers in Iraq included three Republican operatives who helped run the Bush campaign in Illinois and had no apparent experience in Iraq."

[Kailassa]

14. ... and the Americans kill the rest. n/t