Absent in US MSM - The situation in Iraq

[keopeli]

Iraq violence kills at least 18
BBC News

Last Updated: Saturday, 12 February, 2005, 11:23 GMT

At least 17 people have been killed by a car bomb and a senior judge has been shot dead in further violence in Iraq.
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Earlier, gunmen killed a prominent Iraqi judge on his way to work in the southern city of Basra. The incidents come at the end of a violent week in Iraq in which scores of Iraqis have died.

The BBC's Jon Leyne, in Baghdad, says the violence is well up to the level seen in Iraq before the election two weeks ago - before the final election results have even been produced.

[Wright Patman]

1. It's doesn't fit the script

In fairness to CBS, though, I did hear about this on the radio at the top of the hour when I woke up and it was the top story.

[dbt]

5. CBS is still under Reconstruction, isn't it?

The Radio division will probably be brought into Compliance in a little while. The TV arm is getting most of the attention now. All will be well soon.

:freak:
dbt

[leftchick]

2. Al Jazeera has a decent round-up of events daily...2 US Soldiers died

US soldiers die

Two US soldiers were killed in separate incidents while on patrols in Iraq, the US military announced early on Saturday.

A marine serving with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was killed on Friday while on a security operation in al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, said a military statement.

A soldier assigned to the same force was killed in a "non-hostile vehicle accident" in Babil province to the south of the capital.

The military said both incidents were being investigated, but no other details were given.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9E9E451F-CC64-4DA0-AE1E-E055CDD0A795.htm

[UL_Approved]

3. More junk from the shrub

Now we don't even acknowledge the Iraq war, let alone Afghanistan.

The news lately is going solid fluff. Pretty soon, we won't see anything but lame product reviews on nightly news shows. They are running out of murder cases even.

This Friday night, I saw a Dateline Court TV murder case from Great Falls, MT. I've know about the murder for years, being from Montana, but the case was weak, and the guy they brought to trial wasn't even convicted.

I don't want to be seen as not caring about the case, but this speaks to how desperate the MSM is to dodge hard news. Montana is considered to be THE backwater in news, and when they come out here looking, either something really serious has happened, or they are out of filler to stem the tide of important topics.

[leftchick]

4. http://juancole.com/...31 Killed Friday, 17 early Saturday

Saturday, February 12, 2005
31 Killed Friday, 17 early Saturday

On Saturday, guerrillas set off a car bomb in the mixed Sunni-Shiite city of Musayyib. The bomb killed 17 and wounded 16, including 3 policement.


The explosion at the Shiite mosque was at Balad Ruz, northeast of Baghdad. The bomb was in a vegetable truck. In East Baghdad, guerrillas opened fire at a bakery. Altoghether the two incidents killed about 23 persons.

Guerrillas blew up car bombs or engaged in shootouts in Salahuddin province (where they injured three US soldiers), "west of Baghdad", where they killed a US solder, and in Talafar, Mosul and Husaybah along the Syrian border.

posted by Juan @ 2/12/2005 06:42:00 AM

Friday, February 11, 2005
Over 50 Dead in Iraq Carnage as Rumsfeld Visits

Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post reports carnage in Iraq on Thursday. A huge car bomb ripped through Liberation Square in Baghdad, killing four. A US convoy had just passed through.

Guerrillas at Salman Pak attacked a police station, killing between 6 and 14 Iraqi policemen and wounding over 20. At one point fighting was so heavy that reinforcements could not get to the area and bodies were left in the road. In the aftermath, 20 cars were burning. Salman Pak has been a constant area of guerrilla action, especially against Shiites moving between Baghdad and the shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala to its south.

The bodies of 20 missing truck drivers were discovered dumped in the road, Thursday.

[Rockholm]

6. Iraq? What's going on in Iraq?

[Ilsa]

7. Haven't you heard? They had an election

and everything is fine now. :puke: