New zombeitime overview of the scandal going online within the hour!

Sounds like you need to change addresses, there, Bubba. Anyone know if you can use a false address, or a business address on a passport?

C

Gosh, with tactics like that, how are we ever going to be able to rely on the coverage from the middle east being impartial?

/stating the obvious

Gee, no surprise here - just normal bs - move on nothing to see here folks.

grrr.

I guess State can't do anything for them. We can get refugees but not them? If they are holding them against their will, is that an act of war? I mean in a legal sense.

1 zombie

Cool!

But hopefully nothing like..er...pics..of water inflated gonads.

I hope Omar Mohammed Bakri hasn't got hold of one. I heard he wants to leave.

The Party of God has a copy of every journalist’s passport, and they’ve already hassled a number of us and threatened one.”

Then get out and let the enemies of peace,the enemies of your civilization, the enemies of humanity be destroyed...then again you get to say you mingled among the war-waging fascists of our day.

Whatever, you're the one rolling your own dice.

Man, Charles is on a roll today - and here I thought he said the site was going to be slow!

The Party of God has a copy of every journalist’s passport, and they’ve already hassled a number of us and threatened one.”

Only one? Sounds like the proverbial 'good start'...

They also have their balls - their manhood

all of your passports belonging to us.

how in the hell did they get a copy of everyone's passport? i mean, really. how does this happen?

So the Hex-bo's have taken upon themselves the function of State matters, such as immigration, visas, passports, etc?

Sounds like an up and running government to me . . .

Yeah, well, I'm sure you all remember when the poor Israeli soldiers from a few years ago got lost on the way to their assignment and ended up in Ramallah and then were beaten to death and their bodies treated in the most barbaric, despicable way. The Italian journalist who wrote about the horrors he witnessed was then threatened with death by Palestinians, and didn't the Italian press write an apology? I'm forgetting all the details, but the journalist was very freaked out and had to also apologize to the Palis and beg them not to murder him.

I have heard of these kinds of confessions by journalists -- they won't get access to the story if they don't make nice with the terrorists, but if they do make nice, they don't get to publish the real story . . . or something like that. Kind of seems senseless to me.

They need to take another ethics course. There is no way a reporter can maintain neutrality if one party has the wherewithal and the desire to harm that reporter.

Do they have a copy of them or the actual passports?

Color me shocked that terrorists would try and manipulate the news.

And even more shocked ther drive-by media would comply with them.

Reporters who know they are being held hostage by Hezbollah and yet still report. These are called willing sacrifices in the cause of jihad. They are tools and anything they report should be disregarded.

My name is Chu Con. I'm the 3 Million Dollar Man!

Where's my $3 million?

Keeping someone's passport is the exact thing that human smugglers do, and was done in Colorado in that Saudi slavery case. These reporters' integrity has been enslaved here just the same as people's bodies are enslaved using the same technique.

#16 blue_like_jazz
Hotels will often copy passport info, also local officials terrorists will surely ask to see ID;s before they allow people into their territory and take their pictures.

Why would they need reporters' passports? That seems odd. I'm sure there's no ulterior motive.

/Not.

From now on I am not going to believe any of this shit until I get the official word from Iowahawk! Now that the Zarkman has been eliminated, Iowahawk needs to take on the ayatollahs and the Hizballians, expose all of their left wing media useful idiots, and let the chips fall where they may. This is getting serious!

#25 killgore

hmmm. thanks for the info! =)

Sounds like a rescue mission is in order.

Send in Mama Moonbat!

With her Jew-hating credentials, the Hizzies should give her anything she wants. Yalla Ya Nazirallah might arrange for her to get laid by a battalion of Jihad Warriors, too.

Unless, of course, they would prefer the squeals of Komrade Kos and Armando instead.

They let the reporters keep the originals?. Sloppy.

I went over to Michael Totten because I recall that he had a similar encounter with Hizbullah, and I was right. Even in peacetime, Hizbullah took journalists passports.

There were two separate entrances, one for women, the other for journalists and VIPs. A gaggle of Hezbollah security agents manned the doors. Several sat behind a long table. This, apparently, was where I was supposed to check in.

I showed my passport and press credentials to the man who looked like he was in charge. He stuffed them in his briefcase.

“Which hotel are you staying at?” he said.

I didn’t like the idea of telling Hezbollah where they could find me. Fairly or not, they are listed by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization. But I answered his question. I didn’t tell him I planned to move into an apartment two days later.

A security agent stepped behind me as I scribbled in my notebook while I waited. He craned his neck and tried to read over my shoulder. I frowned at him and abruptly turned so he could not read what I was writing.

I hadn’t noticed, but a military band was assembling behind me. The drummer banged once on his drum like a rifle shot. I jumped in my seat. A Hezbollah security agent who looked distinctly Iranian laughed not with me but at me.

More journalists showed up and were allowed to enter the building with minimal hassle. What was their problem with me? My passport and press ID were stuffed into the briefcase and that was that. They were making me wait for no apparent reason at all.

This is standard operating procedure for the terrorist group. They do so to intimidate journalists and you can be sure that it's effective.

Mr. Allbritton felt compelled to issue a clarification: back-to-iraq.com

On several right-wing blogs, including the National Review Online, a comment I made about Hizbullah’s security measures and their “hassling” of journalists has been taken to mean that we’re all Hizbullah stooges here … or something. This is not true.

Let’s set aside that the Lebanese Internal Security also has photocopies of our passports. The reason for the hassling and the threat was that a reporter had filmed or described either a launching site or Hizbullah positions. (I’m not sure which.) To the best of my knowledge, that’s been the extent of the hassling. I’m going to get in trouble for this, but I think it’s a reasonable restriction.

tfk & others -

While I understand that comments are by and for the lizard community, I personally hope our host posts comment 3m, but that's just MHO. Failing that, I hope the lucky commenter remembers who to thank for this extraordinary venue.

And these reporters aren't bright enough to send any messages any other way? Like this guy?

POGMA

(Party of God My Ass)

Lies, Deception, and murder, how the msm has come to the very side of evil!

The msm is in full blown complicit mode with islamofascist terrorism, not only in Lebanon, but around the world, including America!

It's time for decent informed Americans to stand up, and say enough, is enough!

If reporters are afraid to report the news, they are no good as reporters and might as well leave.

What profit is access to information that you are not allowed to report so that you can keep you access?

#24 Doss

Keeping someone's passport is the exact thing that human smugglers do, and was done in Colorado in that Saudi slavery case. These reporters' integrity has been enslaved here just the same as people's bodies are enslaved using the same technique.

I think that all the media is running very scared because of Daniel Pearl. The unfortunate thing is that if they simply prefaced all "reports" from places where journalists have to turn over their passports with a simple statement that the passport of this reporter is being held by Hizballa - and ALL do it - then the problem would likely go away.

#32 lawhawk
I knew I've heard of this somewhere before but couldn't remember where. Nice find.

The Party of God has a copy of every journalist’s passport, and they’ve already hassled a number of us and threatened one.”

Islam means fear-not peace.

Hello Mudda

Hello Fadda

Life is fine

At Camp Hizb'Allah.

Caliphornian

I haven't looked at my passport for at least a year, but I'll go out on a limb and say that your passport does not contain your address. At least, not a US passport.

/somebody correct me if I'm wrong

I am a reporter. I report the truth. Journalistic integrity is my thing. However if Hezbollah threatens me, I immediately give up journalistic integrity and truth. I just publish what the terrorists want instead. Better my own skin than my principals.

-expletive-

If you don't have the balls for the job then go do feel good stories on stray puppies and the Queen's dedications of building and bridges and stop pretending you actually have something to offer your profession!

Can you imagine how the world would react if doctors around the world suddenly decided on how to treat patients based on what a terrorist group told them to do or not do?!?

Just because they threaten or harass journalists doesn't make them any less of a political party or social services organization.

/snort

" Hi! I'm from Time. Here to write what ever you tell me to write."

Jordan's king warns region is becoming explosive

Jordan's king warned Tuesday that the Middle East is becoming explosive and urged his country not to follow extremist slogans and thinking.

King Abdullah II told some 1,000 tribal and Bedouin leaders who gathered at a Dead Sea resort that Jordan is surrounded by conflict and wars, and it was their duty to keep the country unified. (AP

) [Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

Tyrants can be rid of their addition to evil with the famous .30 caliber cure. It had to be said; the fools path of appeasment and tolerance has Gotten Everyone Nothing!

A further teaching aid in the form of a very bright and very hot fireball may be used in the future, but it remains to be seen whether it will appear over a sandy and desolate terrain, or above a well-popluated Western city. Which is better, or do the oh-so-smarts have a better plan? What other solutions are available? How well has diplomacy worked?

I am fearful of the outcome ,and if some of the US'leading lights don't grow a set of onions pretty soon we'll all have our asses in the air five times a day.

Dan Patterson
Arrogant Infidel

I think if I was a reporter, I'd first go apply for a replacement for a "lost" passport before I handed the dummy passport over to these wankers.

Can't believe they would give up their passports! I wouldn't.

#44 Scoreboard and #1 Zombie...

But hopefully nothing like..er...pics..of water inflated gonads.

You mean they do that on purpose?

How?

Somebody's gonna hit three million any minute now!

Didn't the article refer to COPIES of the passports, not the actual passports themselves?

But of course Eason Jordan (ex CNN Exec) accused U.S. soldiers of deliberately targetting journalists...yea right!

This "hand over your passport" thing in the Middle east is not new. When employed in the Magic Kingdom, I had 24 hours to trade in my (and my families) passport in exchange for an Iqama which which identified me and my family as non-Muslims. With my employers permission,and for a fee, I could get an exit or exit-re-entry visa. My employer was the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They do things differently in the Middle East. We (the USA) should reciprocate, exactly.

#42 Mandy Manners:

Hello Mullah,
Hello Fatah,
Life is good,
in camp Hizballah...

Any journalist who stays in a situation like that is no longer a news reporter they are merely a shill for terrorists.

#49, Claire. Have you ever stayed at a Swiss hotel?

#39 galloping granny

I think that all the media is running very scared because of Daniel Pearl. The unfortunate thing is that if they simply prefaced all "reports" from places where journalists have to turn over their passports with a simple statement that the passport of this reporter is being held by Hizballa - and ALL do it - then the problem would likely go away.

If they did preface their reports, the MSM would only be idiots, and not useful idiots.

#39, Galloping granny. Brilliant!

An Indonesian Muslim group announced Tuesday that it had sent 20 of its members to Lebanon in order to join the Jihad against the Jewish state. The claim, made by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), was reported by the Associated Press, which warned that it had not been verified.

FPI spokesman Soleh Mahmoud said the 20 men left Indonesia five days ago and are now undergoing training in Lebanon under the supervision of Hizbullah. "They are ready to die to defend Muslims," Mahmoud said.

On Friday, before the FPI announced that it had already sent Muslim fighters to Lebanon, Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Desra Percaya said, "The government understands what they are feeling... anger, disappointment and frustration with Israeli troops acting inhumanly and brutally." He said that while the government could not stop people from joining the war in Lebanon, the seriousness of threats to do so is questionable: "If you want to do something, you want to travel, you do not need to declare it publicly, just say, 'In the name of God' and then go."

[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

Slight typo:

"The Party of God Allah has a copy of every journalist's passport, and they’ve already hassled a number of us and threatened one."

It's HizbAllah, not HizbGod.
 

Next thing you know, they'll issue GPS-tracking ankle bracers.

The writer in questions, Christopher Allbritton answers back on his blog.

On several right-wing blogs, including the National Review Online, a comment I made about Hizbullah’s security measures and their “hassling” of journalists has been taken to mean that we’re all Hizbullah stooges here … or something. This is not true.

What I wrote was this: “To the south, along the curve of the coast, Hezbollah is launching Katyushas, but I’m loathe to say too much about them. The Party of God has a copy of every journalist’s passport, and they’ve already hassled a number of us and threatened one.”

Let’s set aside that the Lebanese Internal Security also has photocopies of our passports. The reason for the hassling and the threat was that a reporter had filmed or described either a launching site or Hizbullah positions. (I’m not sure which.) To the best of my knowledge, that’s been the extent of the hassling. I’m going to get in trouble for this, but I think it’s a reasonable restriction. This is the exact same restrictions placed on journalists by the Israeli army and by the Americans in Iraq. I don’t think threatening journalists is cool at all, and it certainly doesn’t endear me to them, but that has been the extent of Hizbullah’s interference in our coverage.

For what it is worth.

Time magazine stringer Christopher Allbritton, writing on his blog while reporting from southern Lebanon, casually illustrated this latter technique: “To the south, along the curve of the coast, Hezbollah is launching Katyushas, but I’m loathe to say too much about them.

Willian Shirer you're not.

The Party of God has a copy of every journalist’s passport, and they’ve already hassled a number of us and threatened one.

"If you keep this up, you'll have to clean the pool."

The BBC chose to focus its coverage on Lebanon and put its most senior journalists there.

If they wanted unbiased and honest reporting, they would have been based in Israel, with one junior reporter in Lebanon for the sake of 'balance', instead of the other way round.

In other words, in spite of the restrictions on honesty, they've chosen to take sides with Hezbollah.

53 gymnast Absolutely,we should do some of these pocedures. There are H1B visas that allow foreigners to work in the USA. They are for a spcific time frame. Accompanying the passport, and H1B visa is a Letter of employement. IT has to be signed bythe company and have stamps and dates for the time-frame of employment. If they leave the country during the employment, for vacation, the visa has to have "M" for multiple entries on it. If it says single or "S" then they are not leaving during the emp time.
Also the letter of employment has to travel with him or her, not be "left behind at home".
So if you are a illegal alien, you just walk across the border and go back home again when you feel like it, prob on Mexicana
Airlines.
IF you are legitiametely working here, you need all these papers.

Also lots of hotels wil keep your passport.

No surprise here, though it's nice to see more evidence...

Duh and duhher.

And this story should surprise anyone? Sleep with dogs you get the fleas.

They threaten to kill the media, yet the media still defends them.

Perhaps Hajj doctored the photos poorly on purpose so that people could see he was being biased and get the hell out of there before someone did follow through with a threat. a cry for help from a useless idiot.

I followed Christopher Allbritton's blog for well over a year.
A lot of his supporters said he was a sell out cuz he didn't report the thruth the way the left "knows" it is in their reality check world.

I haven't posted on his blog in a while.
Last time I did I let a real fire under his ass

I think I posted about a link I stumbled on at LGF.

He is taking a big risk.

I hope he stays safe.

Airedale out

#43 lurking faith 8/8/2006 12:52PM PDT

I haven't looked at my passport for at least a year, but I'll go out on a limb and say that your passport does not contain your address. At least, not a US passport.

/somebody correct me if I'm wrong

You're spot on. No one's address will appear in a U.S. passport unless he/she chooses to write it in there. However, some people will do that -- especially b/c the USG encourages it with this wording

For your protection pencil in the names and addresses below. Please keep these entries up to date.
Bearer's address in the United States:
Bearer's foreign address:

/For my "protection"? No thanks.

Ya big dopes, who let 'em have them?

Hope a clue stick hits ya'll and soon.

No loss if Time doesn't report; they're not a reputable news source.

#55 fireangel

Any journalist who stays in a situation like that is no longer a news reporter they are merely a shill for terrorists.

I agree.

But these "journalists" are already on the side of Hezbollah anyway.

I think these "journalists" are starting to feel the heat of being caught. Not by Hezbollah but being caught being propagandists for them. This is just their way of covering their asses.

And we can't keep up with illegals in the US

Why would you let them get hold of your passport, even for a copy? WTF.

#56 Gymnast:

#49, Claire. Have you ever stayed at a Swiss hotel?

No, not Swiss, but plenty of German and Austrian and Italian- I think 20 years ago they wanted to keep the passport till you paid your bill, but in recent years, they take it, make a copy of it to register you with police, or whatever, and give it back an hour later. Are the Swiss different?

I'd be scared shitless that Hezbollah would use it to intimidate me, which seems to be what they're trying to do here to those reporters. Control them. Luckily, I'll never have to find out!