US Is Controlling What We Hear From Iraq (Especially US Deaths)

[TeeYiYi]

US Is Controlling What We Hear From Iraq (Especially US Deaths)
Jan 06, 2004

I learned yesterday that one of the main sites which posts the writings of independent journalists and activists in Iraq, electronicIraq.net, has been banned from at least one of the US military bases in Iraq.

Celebrate free speech, read a banned website!

Like other repressive dictatorships and regimes, the US military has now followed suit in Iraq by attempting to select what its personnel should and should not read.
It is happening at home in the US as well. For example, the only news I see about Iraq on major American news outlets yesterday is about the one US soldier killed when his helicopter was downed. Iraqis who observed the chopper being hit by a rocket reported watching it being broken in two pieces and falling to the ground in flames. Thus, the other soldier, while reported as being injured, more than likely must have been very seriously injured. Again, no specific reporting on that either.

However, this could have something to do with the fact that a Reuters news team filming at the scene was fired upon by the Americans, then detained by military personnel near the crash site.

More: http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=90113&list=/home.php&

TYY

[54anickel]

1. Thanks for posting. I bookmarked both sites.

Very disturbing, but what DUers have been saying for a long time.

[wunnerfulrobin]

2. Actually saw this story on (drumroll......) Fox News!!

And they even reported the pilot was a female, too.
As for restrictions, thats normal for the military. They also restrict military members from going to certain places in town (here at home. We civilians, of course, arent included.

[leftchick]

3. This is worse than I thought....

<Over near the crater was a partially used I.V. bag and a piece of paper with instructions on how to perform CPR, written in English of course. Three Iraqi boys at the scene tell us that at 11:45am yesterday, the 2 Humvee Patrol was hit by the bomb. One Humvee was tossed off the other side of the road and burned, and the other was partially destroyed. They too, reported 5 US deaths, and 2 wounded.

One of the journalists in our group called CPIC from the scene, and they confirmed that a US patrol was hit by an IED yesterday here, but only 2 dead and 3 wounded.
More men arrived at the scene and agreed with the 5 dead, 2 wounded casualty count, and told us they were working in the nearby fields and saw the aftermath of the strike. They told us more soldiers arrived shortly after the attack and promptly detained 15 men from nearby homes.
While interviewing the men at the scene a huge explosion is heard in the distance. One of the men slaps his hands together, as if dusting them off, and says, "America finished!" >

From the end.....

<He invites us to his home and we sit sharing tea in the setting sun. His 3 year old boy, Halaf Ziad Halaf, walks up to us and with a worried look on his face says,"I have seen the Americans here with their tanks. They want to attack us."

Halaf's uncle leans over to me and says,

"The Americans are creating the terrorists here by hurting people and causing their relatives to fight against them. Even this little boy will grow up hating the Americans because of their policy here.">

.....This is a lose lose situation for everyone. Bring our soldiers home NOW! :grr:

[TeeYiYi]

4. kick

TYY:kick:

[Dhalgren]

5. This needs to be seen and read.

Kick