TagsTagsAt least four of the civilian contractors killed in Iraq when their helicopter crashed were shot in the back of the head. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four of the five Americans killed when a U.S. security company’s helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in central Baghdad were shot execution style in ...
Did you hear something? Was that a pin dropping, or was it mainstream media and left-wing blogs completely ignoring the debunking of Jamil Hussein and the Associated Press? Jamilgate: Eerie silence from E&P about Hot Air’s Hurriya mosques report. Editor and Publisher’s Greg Mitchell and his friends in the loony left blogosphere ...
Associated Press, Middle East, Media Bias, Propaganda, Iraq, Jamil Hussein
ABC News is reporting new details about an Al Qaeda plot to attack inside the United States, discovered in Iraq about 6 months ago but only now being revealed: Details Emerge About Possible Terror Threat. Sources tell ABC News that the plot may have involved moving between 10 and 20 suspects ...
Al Qaeda, Threat, Terrorism, Islam, Ayman al-Zawahri, Iraq, Foreign Students, Saudi Arabia
The Associated Press’s credibility lies on the ground in tatters this morning, because none of their claims about “Jamil Hussein’s” reports check out: Destroyed - Not. The bottom line: the only facts that weren’t fabricated were greatly exaggerated. AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll indignantly attacked those who had questioned the global news ...
Associated Press, Iraq, Media Bias, Propaganda, Hurriyah, Jamil Hussein, Kathleen Carroll
At this point I’m afraid to hope that we might actually be on the brink of crushing Muqtada al-Sadr and his nasty gang of thugs, but this is possibly good news: Mahdi Army expressing siege mentality. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mahdi Army fighters said Thursday they were under siege in their Sadr ...
Here’s Michelle Malkin’s first report following her return from Iraq: Back from Baghdad. UPDATE at 1/17/07 11:25:49 am: More from Bryan Preston at Hot Air: Assessing Iraq. And video here: Hot Air TV in Baghdad.
The Iraqi government has sided with the Iranians arrested yesterday by US troops, and one Iranian has already been freed.
A possible first move against the Iranian jihadi support network in Iraq: US forces storm Iranian consulate. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) US forces have stormed an Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized six members of staff. The troops raided the building at about 0300 (0001GMT), taking away ...
Agence France Presse explicitly calls US Marines terrorists in a report on Haditha: US Marines build sand walls in latest Iraq tactic. Scores of American soldiers have been killed around Haditha in the four years since the US invasion. The area has been terrorised by Al-Qaeda fighters who reportedly roam large, ...
Bryan Preston and Michelle Malkin are in Iraq, and here’s Bryan’s first dispatch: On Patrol in Baghdad.
In advance of President Bush’s speech, Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki has (very) belatedly told the Shi’ite militias to disarm or face an all-out assault. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq’s prime minister has told Shiite militiamen to surrender their arms or face an all-out assault by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces, senior Iraqi officials said ...
The cover of the January 6 issue of Egyptian mainstream weekly Roz al-Yousef featured a photograph of the execution of Saddam Hussein—with George W. Bush’s head superimposed on Saddam’s body, and titled “Bush’s Execution.” If Saddam Was Executed for the Murder of 148 Iraqi Citizens, How Many Times Must Bush Be ...
A Saddam loyalist (the owner of Al-Zawraa TV) and a Shi’ite journalist nearly have a knock-down drag-out fight on Al Jazeera (JihadTV), when the Saddam toady tries to say a prayer in honor of the mass murderer. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]
There’s been a rash of mainstream media stories expressing sorrow at the passing of Saddam Hussein, but this one in the Daily Mail takes the prize: Daughter denied final call to Saddam. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The pictures of his execution by balaclava-clad figures - and the taunts that accompanied it ...
The Associated Press’s Kathleen Carroll is suddenly concerned about the well-being of Jamil Hussein: AP’s Editor Criticizes Those Who Questioned Iraq Source. NEW YORK Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll on Friday criticized those who questioned the existence of an AP Iraq source, who was proven this week to be real, ...
Associated Press, Middle East, Media Bias, Propaganda, Iraq, Jamil Hussein
Greg Sargent at the “progressive” Talking Points Cafe admits he has spent way too much time on a relatively insignificant story, but it paid off. He’s proved the “wingnuts” were wrong about that picture of John Kerry eating breakfast by himself: New Proof That The Wingnut ‘Lonely Kerry’ Story Is ...
Here’s an interesting bit of news for those still tempted to believe the global jihad is being perpetrated by a tiny minority of poverty-stricken misunderstanders of Islam. Five Al Qaeda freakazoids were killed today in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, and among them was a Yemeni prince. (Hat tip: AJStrata.) Iraqi National – WNA ...
The Associated Press says the Iraqi Interior Ministry has confirmed the existence of police Capt. Jamil Hussein—and the Iraqis are planning to arrest him for talking to the AP: Iraq threatens arrest of police officer. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police ...
Associated Press, Middle East, Media Bias, Propaganda, Iraq, Jamil Hussein
The person who used his cellphone camera to film Saddam Hussein’s execution has been arrested. The person believed to have recorded Saddam Hussein’s execution on a cell phone camera was arrested Wednesday, an adviser to Iraq’s prime minister said. The adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking on condition of anonymity ...
Michelle Malkin is going to Iraq to try to get to the bottom of the AP’s probably nonexistent source Jamil Hussein (and other issues related to media malfeasance). After years of deriding and mocking people like Michelle as “armchair warriors,” the angry lefties are now deriding and mocking her for getting ...
Associated Press, Middle East, Media Bias, Propaganda, Iraq, Jamil Hussein
Former CNN head Eason Jordan calls out the Associated Press: The AP’s Jamil Hussein Scandal. If an Iraqi police captain by the name of Jamil Hussein exists, there is no convincing evidence of it - and that means the Associated Press has a journalistic scandal on its hands that will fester ...
Associated Press, Middle East, Media Bias, Propaganda, Iraq, Jamil Hussein
A poignant obituary for a mass-murdering tyrant, based on the recollections of Saddam’s military nurse, brought to you by (who else?) the Associated Press: Military nurse recalls softer Saddam. Get out your hankies. ST. LOUIS - A military nurse who cared for Saddam Hussein in jail said the deposed dictator saved bread ...
A young boy holds a toy gun as a Palestinian man, right, speaks behind a portrait of late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein at a memorial in the Dahaysha Refugee Camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem,Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006. Hundreds of Palestinians flocked to the streets of the West ...
The wires services’ Arab propagandists are working overtime to let us know that the Palestinian death cult society is distraught about the execution of the monster Saddam Hussein. Palestinians pray inside a mosque in front of a mock coffin during a rally to protest former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s execution in ...