"U.S. Authorities Say..." All the News That's Fit to Slant By ROBERT FISK

[BrklynLiberal]

"U.S. Authorities Say..."

All the News That's Fit to Slant

By ROBERT FISK

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Now quite apart from the fact that many Iraqis -- along with myself -- have grave doubts about whether Zarqawi exists, and that al-Qaida's Zarqawi, if he does exist, does not merit the title of "insurgency mastermind," the words that caught my eye were "U.S. authorities say." And as I read through the report, I note how the Times sources this extraordinary tale. I thought U.S. reporters no longer trusted the U.S. administration, not after the mythical WMD and the equally mythical connections between Saddam and the international crimes against humanity of 9/11. Of course, I was wrong.

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Now let's praise the AP. On an equally bright summer's morning in Australia a few days ago, I open the Sydney Morning Herald. It tells me, on page 6, that the news agency, using the Freedom of Information Act, has forced U.S. authorities to turn over 5,000 pages of transcripts of hearings at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. One of them records the trial of since-released British prisoner Feroz Abbasi, in which Abbasi vainly pleads with his judge, a U.S. air force colonel, to reveal the evidence against him, something he says he has a right to hear under international law.

And here is what the U.S. colonel replied: "Mr. Abbasi, your conduct is unacceptable and this is your absolute final warning. I do not care about international law. I do not want to hear the words international law. We are not concerned about international law."

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more........

http://www.counterpunch.com/fisk03232006.html

[laststeamtrain]

1. Another great piece by Mr. Fisk...

I love this:

"I do truly treasure this story. It proves my point that the Los Angeles Times -- along with the big East Coast dailies -- should all be called U.S. OFFICIALS SAY."

It often seems so...

[reprehensor]

2. Fisk is among the few.

I need to buy his new book.

[IndianaGreen]

3. He is the most knowledgeable reporter on the Middle East

and he has lived in Beirut for years.

[reprehensor]

5. TRUE FACTS.

I'm down with the Fisk, y'all.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. kick

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Zarqawi Wowie,must be the shit Bushco is smokin', Afghani dope

"insurgency mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi has eluded capture, U.S. authorities say, because his network has a much better intelligence-gathering operation than they do."

Maybe the reason for "Zarqawi's" stunning almost unearthlyish success, is that "Zarqawi's" intelligence-gathering operation doesn't focus on the peaceniks, whale watchers, tree huggers and Quakers, like Bush's "flawed intelligence" apparatus does. Bushco's mega-straw man and Osama run wild and free while our tax dollars are spent spying on terrorists like Mr. Green at ABC news. ABC, stands for already been chewed I think and that is exactly what that news is Drudge dredged up with the help of the NSA who was supposed to be in hot pursuit of master Terra-ist Zarqawi Wowie! If Murikka's "mastermind" in chief, ain't made you sick by now, you are indeed, numb from the neck up!

Zarqawi has about 34234567897865434 number two men "according to US authorities" and that is probably the very reason, that Mr. Zarqawi "has a much better intelligence-gathering operation than they do." So far Bush's spies have only turned up about a thousand of those number two men, "according to US authorities" but that is the "GOOD NEWS!"


America is getting the best news NOW, about Iraq, that money can buy, thanks to the DoD's domestic propaganda blitz and their rear strangle takedown of the truth in our "main stream media." WE, are up to our ears in a POLITICAL war and Karl, the chief(MOTHER)of all "US authorities" is calling most of the tunes we all march to.

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All the News That's Fit to Slant

By ROBERT FISK

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"Welshofer, it was reported in court, had stuffed Iraqi Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush headfirst into a sleeping bag and sat on his chest, an action that -- not surprising -- caused the general to expire. The military jury ordered a reprimand for Welshofer, a forfeiture of $6,000 of his salary and confinement to barracks for 60 days. But what caught my eye was the sympathetic detail.

Welshofer's wife's Barbara, the AP told us, "testified that she was worried about providing for their three children if her husband was sentenced to prison. " 'I love him more for fighting this,' she said, tears welling up in her eyes. 'He's always said that you need to do the right thing, and sometimes the right thing is the hardest thing to do.' "

But the real scandal about these reports is we're not told anything about the general's family. Didn't he have a wife? I imagine the tears were "welling up in her eyes" when she was told her husband had been done to death. Didn't the general have children? Or parents? Or any loved ones who "fought back tears" when told of this vile deed? Not in the AP report he didn't. Mowhoush comes across as an object, a dehumanized creature that wouldn't let the Americans "break the back" of the insurgency after being stuffed headfirst into a sleeping bag." More...

http://www.counterpunch.com/fisk03232006.html

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A hell of a way to run a "WAR" and a hell of a way to run this country. Mr Fisks's comment about the total deterioration of our leader's respect for international law, or the law in America is the real story here, IMHO... "Alas, those words -- which symbolize the very end of the American dream -- are buried in the story." Well...you get what you pay for and folks and it looks like, we are paying for nothing but a pack of lies, thanks to the DoD's war on the the truth! I'm glad Rummy didn't write the damned Bible!

Why do I get this weird feeling, that we are always watching this made for TV serial type drama, like that old soap operaish show, DALLAS, and that JR has morphed into GW and in the process has REALLY turned bad? Kind of a sinking feeling, not, "according to US authorities"????

[Hubert Flottz]

7. K & R...

[ThomCat]

8. The behavior of that US Colonel

is absolutely Unamerican. That man should not be represting the US, and he certainly does not represent Justice.

I hope Feroz Abbasi sues the US for hundreds of millions and wins just to make a big enough statement to get the attention of all the damned sheep in this country who support that Colonel's crap.