But you know, it's bad when they misreport the war on terror's successes.
We see every day the "if it bleeds it leads" type stuff on CNNI about Iraq...never put into context, but what the heck...
But in the last two days, they have gone overboard.
First, on reporting on the election in Afghanistan, we were told "only" 50 % turned out...
Umm..fellahs, under the Taliban there were no elections at all, and for 50% to show up under threats of death is a pretty good turnout...
Second, twice they misreported about the British soldiers rescued in Basra...and I say misreported because they did not put it into context...this is about the Iranian backed Shiite militia and the fact that they have infiltrated the local police...and that imman's been causing problems since day one...yet even so, the terrible scenes involved a couple dozen people in a town of a million...
At the same time, there were over a million Shiite pilgrims who went to their holy city of Karbala...only a couple killed by "suicide" bombers...but the pilgrimage was peaceful...so did CNNI report this as wonderful, especially since such pilgrimages were forbidden by Sadam Hussein?
Nope...they stressed the car bombs, and followed it by a segment about the impending civil war between shiites and sunnis...
Guess no one at CNNI bothers to read Milblogs....
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Update 5-22-05
Or the Australian papers
LINK
....Apart from the activities of al-Sadr's supporters, military intelligence has concluded that Iran has been supporting an Iraqi terrorist group run by Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani, who is blamed for the murder of at least 11 British soldiers in the area.....
Read the whole thing...
