Re: marxism-digest V1 #5636

[Juan Fajardo <fajardos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:01:17 -0600
> From: "LouPaulsen" <LouPaulsen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Terrorist operations in Iraq
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> The Washington Post is now reporting that a group of terrorists is operation
> in Iraq ready to plant car bombs and so on:
...
> "The covert teams, from the CIA's paramilitary division and the military's
> special operations group, include snipers and demolition experts schooled in
> setting house and car bombs. They have reportedly killed more than a handful
> of individuals, according to one knowledgeable source. They have been in
> operation for at least one week."


Our Brit comrades may complain about it, but gawd, am I glad to have
access to BBC broadcasts!

Not only because instead of the prominent "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
mastheads of US broacasters, the BBC sports a discrete, lower-right
screen square with the words "Iraq War", but it at least tries to keep
some journalistic independence and professionalism.

Case in point:  tonight MSNBC reported that "Coalition" forces had
bombed a house in Basra where "Saddam's 'terror squads'" were meeting.

The BBC on the other hand reported, a few minutes later, that a "Baath
party meeting in Basra" had been bombed.

So, to our British comrades, cut the ole BBC a bit of a break!


= Juan


PS: MSNBC also reported that Iraqi forces had "kidnapped" two coalition
soldiers...Gee, the last time I checked, combatants being taken by
opposing combatants in war was called "capture".





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