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[beowabbit]

A kind of interesting article from the Wall Street Journal: Army Orders Troops to Seize TV Station in Northwest Iraq: A Major Balks at Directive And Gets Relieved of Duty. Evidently we don't mind local warlords filling the airwaves with self-serving propaganda, but when they start carrying Al-Jazeera we get upset.

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[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed the Guardian story a few days ago. The BBC also picked it up. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/3028585.stm)

It looks like the "rescue" was literally staged for the embedded Fox News cameraman. There were no Iraqi troops in the area, the Americans were shooting blanks, and they'd sent in a scout a few days prior to find out exactly where she was staying.

But don't expect the US news media to give this any sort of mention, let alone the saturation coverage it had during the war. Questioning the government is unpatriotic.