Here's how an ex-iraqi sees the msm coverage of fallujah.
iraqipundit
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Cunning, Resolute, and Tenacious?
America's agenda-setting press has been quite impressed by the thugs who have been targeting, kidnapping, and murdering defenseless Iraqi civilians. A front-page headline out of Iraq in Friday's New York Times, for example, reads, "Showing Their Resolve, Rebels Mount Attacks in Northern and Central Iraq."
Got that? These murderers have been demonstrating "resolve." Indeed, throughout the battle of Fallujah and in the battles that have followed, American journalists have discovered many impressive attributes in these criminals. According to a week of major-press stories, the "insurgents" are a cunning and courageous band who have been putting up a tenacious struggle.
Here's an alternative headline the Times' staff might have considered: "Showing Their Resolve, Rebels Terrorize Families, Target Children, Disembowel Women, Behead the Elderly."
That's the true nature of the "resolve" these "rebels" have shown. And besides, who anointed these monsters as the defenders of Iraq's sovereign honor? "Rebels" may fit neatly enough in a headline, but these blood-drenched thugs have been waging their war against Iraqi civilians, not on their behalf. Of course, the Iraqi civilians that really interest the U.S. press are generally those who have been killed or injured by U.S. forces.
Anyway, the Times of London has given us a reality check, a glimpse of Fallujah under the rule of these cunning and resolute heroes: "Mutilated bodies dumped on Fallujah's bombed out streets today painted a harrowing picture of eight months of rebel rule." The paper notes that Islamist thugs warned "women that they must cover up from head to toe outdoors, or face execution by the armed militants who controlled the streets."
These brave and stalwart knights were as good as their word. "Two female bodies found yesterday suggest such threats were far from idle. An Arab woman, in a violet nightdress, lay in a post-mortem embrace with a male corpse in the middle of the street. Both bodies had died from bullets to the head."Just six metres away on the same street lay the decomposing corpse of a blonde-haired white woman, too disfigured for swift identification but presumed to be the body of one of the many foreign hostages kidnapped . . . "
If the major press has missed the fact that the Anbar has been ruled by psychotics, many citizens of Fallujah have not. The Times of London quotes one of them:
"A man in his sixties, half-naked and his underwear stained with blood from shrapnel wounds from a US munition, cursed the insurgents as he greeted the advancing marines on Saturday night. "I wish the Americans had come here the very first day and not waited eight months," he said, trembling."
posted by IraqiPundit at 3:13 PM