Reply #11: Normally, I wouldn't recommend the Telegraph [View All]

[daleo]

It was formerly owned by Conrad Black and has Richard Perle of PNAC fame on the Board of Directors. But this was a surprisingly good, objective story - perhaps because the reporter had promised to be fair and objective, reporting only what he saw. Breaking that promise wouldn't be healthy.

Here are a couple of representative paragraphs:

"The mujahideen, many of them grandfathers, shopkeepers, young men and even boys, were at first deeply suspicious of me, a Briton in their midst. They had tailed my car in three battered Japanese saloons, each full of armed and masked men, gunbelts over their shoulders."

"We do not hate the Americans and British, we hate the ideas they have brought here. We will now fight every person who tries to bring those ideas, including the Iraqi Governing Council.
"We do not want their capitalism, we do not want communism. We have our own ideas about how we want our country to be run in a Muslim way. We support the Shia leader Muqtada Sadr, not because of his ideas; they are not good or bad. We are supporting him with money, weapons and men because he is against the Americans."