US troops kill two Iraqis

[Aidoneus]

US troops kill two Iraqis
Saturday 28 February 2004

Iraq has been witness to more violence with US occupation soldiers gunning down two Iraqis in the town of al- Qaem.

Aljazeera's correspondent reported that the soldiers opened random fire on civilians returning from a mosque after Friday prayers when their vehicle was hit by an explosive device.

Besides the two deaths, three others were wounded in the firing.

Elsewhere in Iraq, two US soldiers were lightly wounded in a bomb blast in Tikrit on Friday morning. Another was seriously hurt after his convoy came under attack in Khallis, 45km northwest of Baghdad.

Three occupation soldiers were also wounded on Thursday night south of Tikirt when a grenade was fired at their vehicle.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D4A06E55-5C64-43E9-AD73-DCA46E147EA2.htm

[Resistance]

1. Y'know ....

you could take this article, substitute "US" with "Israel" and "Iraqis" with "Palestinians" and you'd get nearly identical reports as you get over in the Occupied Territories.

[Renew Deal]

I would not call Al Jazeera a good source.

[Resistance]

3. why not?

[Renew Deal]

4. They have a major anti-american bias.

[Resistance]

5. LOL

you're serious aren't you?

:crazy:

[Renew Deal]

6. I am

Are you?

[cprise]

8. Repeat the mantra

Maybe someone will believe it.

Racial/cultural bias and hysteria is OK for western media, but not if it comes from an Arab news outlet. So we hear the robotic reply "Al Jazeera is not a good source." And ABC and CNN are? I think they repeated the 9/11 attack videos every day for something like 15 months, laden with innuendo, victimhood, lies, incite-ful bigoted assumptions. But everytime they announce something we agree with, they get a pass.

With 10s of thousands of deaths in the M.E. piling up at the hands Americans, you have the nerve to accuse Al Jazeera of being merely "Anti-American"? Is that as nuanced an evaluation as we get with Arab biases?

[Renew Deal]

15. So you acknowledge they are a bad source?

Remember, this is a place that plays al-queda video's at their request. Sure, we get bad news from here too. But that doesn't change the fact that Al-Jazeera has an anti-american bias.

[cprise]

21. Yep, and the Boston Globe had a bias

...against the last serial killer to hit the area.

[reprobate]

19. So what? Most of the world now has an anti-american bias.

And with good reason, I think. The whole world loves a lover, but everyone hates the bully.

[Aidoneus]

7. yeah, yeah..

[NeoConsSuck]

12. I trust Al Jazeera

a hell of a lot more than:

NY Times
CNN
FOX
MSNBC

and our current administration.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. So far al Jazeera's reporting

of casualties in Iraq has been accurate and lately at least a day ahead of these reports showing up in the US press.

Just because Bu$hCo spreads the mantra that al Jazeera is not a good source because of their point of view doesn't mean you should believe it without checking it out for yourself. I have found al Jazeera to be a very reliable source and their opinion pieces are usually pretty good to.

[Renew Deal]

16. They are only reliable

because they tell you want you want to hear.

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. I have no desire to hear

about more US casualties. But if you want to know anything about what is going on in Iraq right now, since the US Press ignores as much of it as possible, al Jazeera is one of the few place left to find out what is going on there.

They prove their reliability, when the same story is reported in the US press a day or two later. I am basing my opinion on fact, not prejudice.

[Renew Deal]

2. I would not call Al Jazeera a good source.

[mike1963]

9. I suppose you are right. Let's all stay with Fair and Balanced...

:eyes:

[cprise]

10. Here is an article from another "anti-American" source:

Pentagon to Offer Direct News Service

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AP) - The U.S. military will launch its own news service in Iraq and Afghanistan to send military video, text and photos directly to the Internet or news outlets.

The $6.3 million project, expected to begin operating in April, is one of the largest military public affairs projects in recent memory, and is intended to allow small media outlets in the United States and elsewhere to bypass what the Pentagon views as an increasingly combative press corps.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3798912,00.html


Have to make sure that state propaganda keeps flowing in an election year.

[Voltaire99]

11. Pro-Amurrican news for pro-Amurrican Amurricans!

Not like them Back Alley Jazeeras or whatever. ;-)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

20. You're right. That's why we tried to blow the hell out of them

during the invasion. Effing evildoers!

'Sides, they aren't WASP controlled, so they can't be trusted.



You'd rather trust the people who brought us the Jessica Lynch story?

[lebkuchen]

14. The way the * sees it, it's up to the Iraqi people to win the hearts/minds

of the US troops.

Stay tuned. Things are bound to get "interesting."

[Mari333]

17. bring the troops home now.

not one more dead soldier or dead civilian. not one more.
http://www.bringthemhomenow.com
http://www.occupationwatch.org

I dont want it to get "interesting". I want it to end, now. I dont want my stepson to come home in a body bag.
"This war is a fraud". Sen Ted Kennedy

[DoYouEverWonder]

22. Well the story finally made it to the US press

so I guess it must be true. al Jazeera wins again.

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