Three Iraqi journalists killed in shooting.
By on May 9th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Three Iraqi journalists killed in shooting.
“Three Iraqi journalists and their driver were killed Wednesday in a drive-by shooting near the northern city of Kirkuk, the second attack against the country’s media in less than a week. … Not including Wednesday’s attack, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has recorded 101 journalists and 38 media support workers killed and 48 journalists abducted since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.”
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I hear this sort of thing happens every day in Philadelphia.
May 9th, 2007 at 5:30 pmWhat journalists of all nationality , race and religion are being killed in mass numbers?
Now why would that be?
Rapid Response Media Teams?
Kill the real journalists and replace with RRMTs?
Our government wouldn’t lie to us would they?
May 9th, 2007 at 5:32 pmthe first thing to suffer in war is the truth -
May 9th, 2007 at 5:32 pmDeadeye Dick won’t lose any sleep over those numbers, that’s for sure
May 9th, 2007 at 5:41 pmCheney says things are getting better in Iraq.
No wonder everybody hates that lying asshole.
May 9th, 2007 at 5:42 pm“This proves we’ve turned a corner and that the insurgents are in their last throes, if you will.” – Darth Cheney
May 9th, 2007 at 5:44 pmKirkuk is the next hotspot
Violence in Iraq at first seems episodic and hard to decipher. It doesn’t take much speculation, however, to see patterns. For instance, the bombing on Wednesday morning in Irbil, Kurdistan, which killed at least 12 and wounded 40. This strike was likely the work of Sunni Arab guerrillas along with maybe some Kurdish Salafi Jihadis. They were probably replying to the deployment of several thousand Kurdish Peshmerga troops in Baghdad as part of the surge. The Peshmerga have been fighting Sunni Arab guerrillas on behalf of the Americans and the Shiite government of Nuri al-Maliki. The bombing may also be related to competition for the oil city of Kirkuk, which the Kurds intend to claim for their provincial confederacy.
May 9th, 2007 at 5:47 pmIs this what Cheney meant when he said kick out the press?
May 9th, 2007 at 6:07 pmHey we could send the whole Faux Non-News crew over there, that would be one way of getting rid of the scum.
Hating the Repukian Mafia daily
May 9th, 2007 at 6:48 pmProbably, they weren’t embedded, aka were doing their actual jobs.
May 10th, 2007 at 8:37 am