TagsTagsDavid Paulin looks at the Jill Carroll hostage story from a different angle—the mainstream media’s collective role in her kidnapping and the murder of her translator, due to the use (and misuse) of freelance reporters: A black eye for the mainstream media’s use of freelancers. Carroll freelanced for The Christian ...
I’m happy to report that Jill Carroll has repudiated the anti-American statements she made in that video released by the Iraqi mujahideen: Jill Carroll’s Statement. During my last night of captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video. They told me they [sic] would be released if I ...
The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that Jill Carroll was threatened before her release, and that her video interview with the mujahideen in which she made anti-American statements was coerced. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Jill Carroll’s kidnappers reportedly warned her before her release that she might be killed if she cooperated with ...
Another excellent column that cuts right through the left’s cloud of unknowing, by Victor Davis Hanson: When Cynicism Meets Fanaticism. Opponents of the war in Iraq, both original critics and the mea culpa recent converts, have made eight assumptions. The first six are wrong, the last two still unsettled. 1. Saddam was ...
Howard Kurtz sums up the Questions About Carroll’s Captivity, and even he thinks her statements about how well she was treated are “rather odd.” Carroll is a 28-year-old freelancer who went to Baghdad on her own, became a stringer for the Christian Science Monitor and clearly was bent on understanding Iraqi ...
Jeff Harrell has the wonderful story of Captain Jon Powers, formerly of the 2/3 of the 1st Armored Division (the “Gunners”), who returned from Iraq and started a program called War Kids Relief. I had the opportunity to talk with Captain Jon Powers tonight. He came to Edelman’s D.C. office with ...
War Kids Relief, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, Iraq, Charity
A video has appeared on the internet, apparently showing ex-hostage Jill Carroll in an interview conducted by her kidnappers before they released her. (Hat tip: jimo.) “Did you think the American army or the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) would save you at any time,” a muffled male voice asked Ms Carroll ...
Here’s a great post with lots of links on the freeing of American journalist Jill Carroll, at The Jawa Report. UPDATE at 3/30/06 8:52:14 am: She says the terrorists treated her well. Her interpreter, murdered during the kidnapping, was not available for comment.
The Iraq War might have turned out very differently if Saddam had been able to deploy his dreaded camels of mass destruction. (Hat tip: Soph.) Earlier this month the Pentagon published on its website original documents in Arabic, hoping to find someone who could translate them. The official, hand-written documents detailed outlined ...
Here’s today’s story of utter depravity: Insurgent doctor killed dozens of wounded soldiers. And notice: Western media has morally neutered themselves so thoroughly that not even a doctor who murders wounded patients is called a “terrorist.” When policemen, soldiers and officials in Kirkuk who were injured in insurgent attacks arrived in the ...
Great column from Christopher Hitchens on the international dysfunctional community: My Ideal War. As for the “terror” connection, Hayes in a series of unrebutted articles has laid out a tranche of suggestive and incriminating connections, based on a mere fraction of the declassified documents, showing Iraqi Baathist involvement with jihadist and ...
The Telegraph reports that Iran has been holding secret meetings with Iraqi extremists, preparing to wage a proxy war against the West: Iran’s secret talks with Iraqi militants spark fears of proxy war. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Iran held secret talks with Shia militant leaders from Iraq and Lebanon only days ...
So I’m all like, watching the Iraq War protests today, and what do I see? American flag with a peace symbol in place of the stars? Check. Aging Marin County hippies who think CODEPINK is groovy? Check. Angry chicks dressed in bed sheets? Check. It all seems so familiar. So tedious. What keeps these moonbats interested, march ...
Here’s a disturbing report at Healing Iraq: Sistani: “Gays Should Be Killed in Worst Way Possible.” His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, the supreme religious authority for Shi’ite Msulims in Iraq and worldwide, decrees that gays and lesbians should be killed in the worst manner possible, according to this news article ...
The trove of documents discovered in Iraq has been released to the public, and we’re now starting to see the results; Michelle Malkin has some early translations that are already making clear Saddam Hussein’s connections to terrorists—including Osama bin Laden.
A massive assault is now underway against terrorist strongholds in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq: Largest Iraq Air Assault Since ‘03 Begins. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces, joined by Iraqi troops, on Thursday launched the largest airborne assault since the U.S.-led invasion, targeting insurgent strongholds north of ...
Stephen Hayes reports that the documents captured in post-war Afghanistan and Iraq will finally be released. The Bush administration has decided to release most of the documents captured in post-war Afghanistan and Iraq. The details of the document release are still being worked out, according to officials with knowledge of the ...
American “peace activist” Tom Fox was apparently tortured before his death. BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American aid worker taken hostage with three other peace activists was apparently tortured before he was shot in the head and chest and his body dumped near a railroad line in Baghdad, Iraqi police said Saturday. Tom ...
Tom Fox, Radical Islam, Terrorism, Iraq, Hostage, Peace Activist
I missed this report from Michael Yon when he published it a couple of weeks ago, but it’s never too late to show a side of the Iraq War our media don’t seem to care about: Wheelchairs For Iraqi Children.