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The Mahdi Army of Muqtada Al-Sadr has surrendered and laid down their arms. TIME Magazine calls this a victory for Al-Sadr: Al-Sadr Wins Another Round.
LGF, Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, Mahdi Army, TIME Magazine, Media Bias
I wrote yesterday that it wasn’t confirmed, and today the military announced that it was indeed a false alarm: US says Qaeda chief in Iraq not captured. BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military denied on Friday that Al-Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, who carries a US bounty ...
Not completely confirmed but looking good: Leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq Arrested in Mosul. BAGHDAD — The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the arrest of al-Masri, ...
Nice. This is running as filler material on Iraq’s Al-Rafidein TV, showing a procession of US presidents—yes, even Jimmy Carter—portrayed as smiling murderers, ending on an image of the Presidential Seal with a death’s head splashed in blood. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Masters of the White House - ...
CBS reporter Richard Butler, kidnapped by terrorists and held for two months before being freed by Iraqi troops, says it was better than being taken into custody by Americans. Butler said he felt it was better to be kidnapped in Iraq then taken into custody by Americans in Afghanistan. ...
LGF, Iraq, CBS News, richard butler, Anti-America, Kidnapping, Useful Idiot, Media Bias
Media Matters shill Eric Boehlert is at it again, with another bilious rant about “warbloggers:” Michelle Malkin and the warbloggers get everything wrong — again. I wouldn’t even bother with Boehlert’s nonsense, except that his description of our coverage of AP photographer Bilal Hussein’s release under an Iraqi amnesty law ...
LGF, Associated Press, Bilal Hussein, Al Qaeda, Amnesty, Iraq, Media Matters, boehlert
The “narrative” from this day on will be that Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was set free because he was cleared of the charges against him. But it isn’t so: AP’s Terror Operative Freed but Not Cleared. As I wrote last week: Amnesty, of course, does not necessarily equal ...
LGF, Associated Press, Bilal Hussein, Al Qaeda, Amnesty, Iraq
The Associated Press story about the release of photographer Bilal Hussein, strangely, does not explain that Hussein was released because of a new Iraqi amnesty law—not because the charges were found to be without merit: AP photographer freed by US military after 2 years. This is how they summarize the ...
LGF, Associated Press, Bilal Hussein, Al Qaeda, Amnesty, Iraq
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein has been freed, under a new amnesty deal with the Iraqi government. On Monday afternoon, American military officials announced that they would release Bilal Hussein, a photographer for the Associated Press who has been in custody for two years on allegations of aiding insurgents. ...
LGF, Iraq, Bilal Hussein, Associated Press, richard butler, Journalism
A New York Times article on young Iraqis who are sick to death of their medieval Islamic clerics has a classic Fark.com caption: After five years of seeing it close-up, the view of young Iraqis toward radical Islam is pretty much the same as the average poster on Little ...
AP photographer Bilal Hussein has received amnesty from the Iraqi government, under a new law. I was unable to find any details about this “new law,” but apparently it covers Hussein. BAGHDAD (AP) - An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ...
LGF, Bilal Hussein, Iraq, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, Associated Press, Media Bias
Primetime Politics has video clips from today’s Senate hearing with General Petraeus: The Petraeus Hearings.
Photos and video from the rally for General Petraeus held this morning in Washington DC by Vets for Freedom, at This Ain’t Hell: Vets for Freedom Rally for troops.
An interesting development in Iraq, where Muqtada al-Sadr may be looking for a way to throw in the towel: Al-Sadr calls for dialogue in Iraq. BAGHDAD - Aides to Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for dialogue to resolve a violent standoff with the Iraqi government, saying that the radical Shiite ...
Michael Yon’s latest report highlights a classic example of jihadi hypocrisy: Holy Brothel.
Sgt. Matt Maupin, kidnapped by terrorists and missing in Iraq for nearly four years, has been found: Maupin’s remains found in Iraq. Sgt. Matt Maupin is dead, the parents of the missing Clermont County soldier said today. Maupin’s remain were found in Iraq, nearly four years after he was ...
Here’s an expert on Islamic law, appearing on Iraqi television, explaining that under sharia there are very good reasons to allow grown men to marry pre-teen girls, and “stupid” infidels have no right to complain about Mohammed marrying an eight-year old, because we allow our young girls to fornicate. (Courtesy ...
LGF, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Iraq, Mohammed, Child Abuse
The former head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations has been charged with working as a spy for the Saddam Hussein government. An Iraqi-American from Michigan who worked for a Southfield charity has been accused of working as a spy for the Iraqi government ...
LGF, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Radical Islam, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Espionage
Mike at the Monkey Tennis Centre follows up on the BBC story that blatantly lied about a speech by President Bush, and their subsequent attempts to cover up and “disappear” any evidence of their perfidy: BBC erases all traces of Bush speech lies; so what have we learned?
LGF, BBC, Media Bias, Islam, Propaganda, BDS, President Bush, Iraq
The blatantly anti-war wire services are salivating and drooling over yet another “grim milestone” today (searching Google News for the phrase turns up 1,233 results), as military deaths in Iraq reached 4,000—and the most disgustingly ghoulish example is this Associated Press Flash movie, which begins with: “During the terrorist attacks ...
This time it’s our old friends in the International Solidarity Movement, the left-wing pro-terrorist group that spawned Rachel Corrie: Iraq war protesters disrupt Chicago Mass. CHICAGO - Six Iraq war protesters disrupted an Easter Mass on Sunday, shouting and squirting fake blood on themselves and parishioners in a packed ...
To cover up their bias, the BBC have quietly changed that dishonest headline we noted yesterday. The original headline was “Bush speech hails Iraq ‘victory’”. Now it reads: Bush says Iraq invasion was right.
LGF, BBC, Media Bias, Islam, Propaganda, BDS, President Bush, Iraq
We’ve seen time and again that the major Western news media are not above staging news, faking photographs and documents, ignoring important stories that don’t fit their agenda, and filing “articles” that are so biased they shouldn’t be accepted as opinion pieces. But there’s at least one news service that ...
LGF, BBC, Media Bias, Islam, Propaganda, BDS, President Bush, Iraq
An article that will make you sick and angry: Severed fingers of 5 hostages delivered to U.S. officials in Iraq. BAGHDAD _U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five severed fingers belonging to four Americans and an Austrian who were taken hostage more than a year ago in Iraq , ...
More great reporting from Iraq by Michael J. Totten: In the Villages of Al Anbar.