[lit-ideas] Re: Iraq: more mistakes

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 21:12:53 -0700 (PDT)

Whether or not it was a mosque was hardly the main
point of the article. I'm getting tired of people
picking on one-liners.

O.K.


--- Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Omar: WASHINGTON - Last week's attack by US-led
> Iraqi
> paramilitary forces on a building that Shi'ite
> leaders
> claim was a mosque...
> 
> Note the "claim [it] was a mosque." This is a 
> classic example of the Propaganda War going on in 
> Iraq. Apparently a "mosque" is whatever people say 
> it is. Most accounts discuss a successful raid on 
> an insurgent hideout, the capture of weapons...but 
> before the troops even returned to base, the Iraq 
> radio was describing "an attack on a mosque."
> 
> A mosque? Huh? What mosque?
> 
> See how cleverly the various Islamic factions play 
> the Propaganda War. People who don't bother 
> comparing accounts immediately think, "More 
> mistakes." And the uncritical buy into this 
> bullbleap because it reinforces their 
> anti-American or anti-Bush views.
> 
> Here's a different account of the same incident.
> 
> ___________________
>
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1602415.htm
> 
> US accuses Shiites of mosque assault
> 'misinformation'
> 
> US commanders in Iraq have accused powerful Shiite 
> groups of moving the corpses of gunmen killed in 
> battle to encourage accusations that US-led troops 
> massacred unarmed worshippers in a mosque.
> 
> "After the fact, someone went in and made the 
> scene look different from what it was. There's 
> been huge misinformation," Lieutenant General 
> Peter Chiarelli, the second-ranking US commander 
> in Iraq, said.
> 
> He rejects the accusations of a massacre that 
> prompted the Shiite-led Government to demand US 
> forces cede control of security but declined to 
> spell out which group he believed moved the bodies.
> 
> Government-run television has shown footage of 
> bodies lying without weapons in what Shiite 
> ministers say is a mosque compound run by radical 
> cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
> 
> The security minister accuses Iraqi and US troops 
> of killing 37 unarmed men.
> 
> Giving the first US military briefing on Sunday's 
> events in Baghdad, Lt Gen Chiarelli says the raid 
> by about 50 Iraqi special forces troops backed by 
> some 25 US "advisers" had been the fruit of long 
> intelligence work.
> 
> He says they arrived to raid the site at nightfall 
> and were immediately fired on from a number of 
> buildings around the compound.
> 
> The troops "cleared the compound", he says, 
> killing or capturing those inside.
> 
> All the dead were killed by Iraqi fire, Lt Gen 
> Chiarelli says.
> 
> He does not know the religious affiliation of 16 
> "insurgents" who were killed and he insists the 
> compound was not a mosque but an office complex.
> 
> Neighbours and aides to Mr Sadr call it a mosque 
> and say it was once offices for Saddam Hussein's 
> Baath party.
> 
> Major General JD Thurman, whose division controls 
> Baghdad, said: "If it was a mosque, why are they 
> using it as a place to hold hostages".
> 
> He added that weapons, including 34 assault rifles 
> and rocket-propelled grenades were also found.
> 
>
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