Hocking more KALOOGIANs - UPDATE!

[Coexist]

I was just making Special Election phone calls for MoveOn - and a Busby supporter shared this tidbit - I am going to check it out to see if it is true -but I have to post it!

She said that Kaloogian, after the mess, posted a DIFFERENT green zone photo on his website.

Well apparently, that photo is of the Baghdad Police Station - which has been destroyed! by a bomb.

Now, she said, his website is down. I am going to check on this now.

[Coexist]

1. His site IS down.

http://www.kaloogianforcongress.com/

[Coexist]

3. Could this be the police station that was destroyed?

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1775627

If it is, peaceful Green Zone my ass.

[SoCalDem]

13. My friend spent 18 months IN the Green Zone, and he said they slept

in helmets & flak jackets..they had ROCKET ATTACKS landing INSIDE the green zone and snipers firing into it EVERY DAY..

so it's not even idyllic inside the "safe areas".

[CoffeeCat]

28. You bring out a very interesting point about the Green Zone...

I have always wondered how it is, that the Green Zone is still standing. I think it's a miracle. It's major, sprawling target, sitting in the middle of a war zone.

Maybe I don't know enough about the physical barricades that surround it or the security around it---but it's amazing that it still exists--or that it hasn't incurred a major attack.

SoCalDem, you mention that your friend said that there are rocket attacks and sniper fire inside of it every day. That's interesting. I've never heard that. I've never heard of a report about a US soldier dying inside the Green Zone. I wonder if it's happened, but they cover it up?

I worry about the Green Zone. I know they've evaded a major attack--but they've got to know that they're sitting ducks. I can't imagine that the Green Zone will escape a major, devastating attack. With the insurgency and civil war exacerbating--it seems inevitable.

One more reason for getting our troops out NOW!

[mzmolly]

30. Wouldn't that be ironic as hell?

SECURITY INCIDENTS in Baghdad: (apparently after "Kook-loogian" returned home?)

Gunmen line up 14 employees working at an electronics trading company in Baghdad Wednesday morning and shoot them all, killing eight and wounding six, police said.

Gunmen kill three staffers of Muqtada al-Sadr in drive-by shooting in west Baghdad.

Gunmen attack highway police patrol in west Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding four others, including a civilian.

In south Baghdad, sniper kills a policeman on patrol in Dora neighborhood.

A general director in Iraq's Central Bank wounded when gunmen attacked him while he was driving.

One Iraqi army soldier killed and another two wounded when their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb near Abu Ghraib prison.

Australian resident shot dead in Iraq. University of Baghdad Professor Kays Juma, 72, was killed when nervous security guards fired on his car last Saturday as he drove near a convoy of four-wheel drives carrying private contractors.

What on earth do those jumpy security guards have to be "nervous" about. SHEESH!

Courtesy of "Today in Iraq"

http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com/

[BurtWorm]

33. No. That one's in Iskariyah, 30 km south of Baghdad.

The one in question was hit in December.

[LSK]

4. his site was hard to bring up yesterday

Its probably being hammered with traffic.

[Coexist]

5. click on the link - it is not slow, it says this:

"We Appologize for the inconvienece, but an error has occured on the page you were trying to access. Be assured that the error has been posted and will be dealt with as soon as possible."

[0007]

27. Confirmed!

[Imalittleteapot]

6. Must be updating site with

new lies.

[stop the bleeding]

2. this gets better and better

thanks for the update

[mikeytherat]

7. Check dailykos.com - they've got the scoop!

Here's a photo comparison as Hooligan's website is, er, MIA right now!

http://aapics.nfshost.com/

mikey_the_rat

[rucky]

8. ...

ROFLMAO

[jsamuel]

9. I guess Kaloogian thinks if you can't say something nice about the Iraq Wa

r than you shouldn't say anything at all...

:shrug:

[Brotherjohn]

10. This guy found the exact site (from TalkingPointsMemo):

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2006/3/29/23428/8027

It's great work. Note that he identifies the police station , which IS one that was bombed (in April, I think). Note the large walls surrounding the "safe and secure" area from which the picture was taken (Al Rashid Hotel in the Green Zone).

As someone points out on this guy's site, we should get bloggers to find Osama.

[Coexist]

12. awesome work! n/t

[Hissyspit]

16. The photo is from last April? Didn't he say he had pictures from

his RECENT trip? I'm confused on this.

[Brotherjohn]

21. No, the photo's not from April. The bombing occurred then.

TPM, or someone else somewhere (Kos, maybe) showed that the photo was from July 13 2005. He did go in July 2005.

Now, the Police Station appears undamaged in the July picture, but I'd say it's a bit far off to conclude the picture was taken pre-bombing. The building wasn't destroyed (and in fact, the blue and white paint looks intact in the pictures while it's burning).

Which doesn't let Kaloogian off the hook. I mean, is THAT the best you can do to show how "safe" Baghdad is? A view of a police station that was bombed 3 months prior, from a hotel balcony in the Green Zone?

I'd love it if someone could take his picture and superimpose arrows marking the sites of explosions or attacks in the 6 months before and after it was taken.

[Hissyspit]

23. Thanks, Bro. Yeah, I saw from the DKos link that the station was

not completely destroyed. But his photo apparently was taken from DEEP inside the Green Zone. How dare he speak of how safe Baghdad is. It's three years into this shit and Baghdad is MUCH worse.

[rocktivity]

17. If the station was bombed PRIOR to Kaloogian's visit

You're right--he blew it again!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Hissyspit]

18. That's what I was saying. It's another lie, if that's the case.

The photo is of a police station bombed last April, so the photo is OLD and not one taken during his recent trip, and therefore, means nothing with regards to how safe he found Baghdad on his trip.

[SoCalDem]

29. Kaloogian was there in July 2005

(unless he went again) which I doubt

[BurtWorm]

35. Do we have actual evidence that HE was there?

Just asking.

[SoCalDem]

36. I posted pics of him yesterday with military people

and a snippet of an interview he gave to various media (where he claimed to be in 3 different places at the same time)..

He's probably NOT loving all the attention he's gettikng so close to the election:)

[BurtWorm]

38. Weren't those military people in Florida?

Or were some of them conclusively in Baghdad?

He seems to use the vague credit-stealing "we" formation when talking about the trip. He says, for example, that "we" received a Mark Twain award, when it was someone in the group that did.

[BurtWorm]

34. No. It was bombed in December 2005.

Kaloogian claims he was in Baghdad in July.

[warrens]

39. So Kaja GooGoo is using someone else's picture?

If he was there last fall and the police station blew up in April...he must be lying.

This guy is a total fraud. They never got out of the Green Zone and they don't know shit.

[seabeyond]

40. but the whole point of the pictures was baghdad is safe and quiet

using a picture of green zone is as much a lie as using Istanbul. regardless of the safe greenzone police station not being so safe since blown up after visit

[kpete]

11. This story is ALL over San Diego

Air America - KLSD

Union Tribune

I LOVE It -

GO Busby!!!

[Nickster]

14. Looks like the front page is back online. None of the links on the page

point to anything. So no photo links, etc.

[Imalittleteapot]

15. Site back up but the only thing you can do

is read the front page and CONTRIBUTE. :applause:

[phoebe]

19. why not just call him a hooligan??

n/t

[E-Z-B]

20. Booyah!

[warrens]

22. That's priceless

I bet they saw a LOT of Iraq. Green Zone, the police station, the airport...

[E-Z-B]

24. "Kaloogian" = "Look Again", indeed

[Coexist]

25. Ha!

[mdmc]

26. k/r for your post and work with moveon

:patriot:

[MyNameGoesHere]

31. Whois info changed today

and status is registar-lock. Looks like it coming down.

[Call Me Wesley]

32. I'm not surprised at all.

Blame the webmaster ... or the client for not checking the content of his own site.

[Call Me Wesley]

37. Site's back up.

And funny enough, a picture which was 'taken in Baghdad' before now shows the caption 'On his way to Baghdad.'

[E-Z-B]

41. You mean the original picture, or a new one?

Sorry, I don't feel like going to his website.

[Call Me Wesley]

42. This picture

was shown as being taken in Baghdad on his old site.

[kpete]

43. More Exclusive Baghdad Photos

Because no horse is worth beating unless it's totally dead, here are some more exclusive photos from our last trip to Baghdad:

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002505.html

and

http://aapics.nfshost.com/

[kpete]

44. and a teaser

Kaloogian fires back! You see, we're America haters and he loves the troops. All because we exposed his little propaganda ploy. TPM Muckracker has Kaloogian's Move America Forward PAC's IRS form 990, for those who want to dig around it a bit. And Josh laughs at Kaloogian's website troubles.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/30/135659/589

[Call Me Wesley]

45. You know what's really funny,

when he tries to make it look like there were thousands of real pics from Baghdad but just one from Istanbul. Unfortunately, this one was his main picture showing Baghdad (the one showing Istanbul, in fact).

[kpete]

46. and this will look even BETTER soon...

[Call Me Wesley]

47. I'd blame Istanbul.

:)

[Coexist]

48. Woot! Maybe enough to prevent a runoff??

[E-Z-B]

49. Did this even get mentioned on the MSM yet?