20 Soldiers Dead and the US Media are Covering for aWol*!!

[leftchick]

I woke this morning to CNN reporting on the helicopter shoot down in Iraq killing 13 at the time, now it is 15 dead. In the course of the report it was mentioned the there was an attack on a convoy in Fallujah killing 4 more soldiers and an attack in Baghdad killing 1 more. In subsequent reports those numbers disappeared to be replaced with "unknown casualties". Has anyone else seen revised numbers of dead on tv? I found this report at Aljazeera.....

<snip>In Falluja, residents said a roadside bomb had hit a convoy
of US soldiers in civilian vehicles, killing four troops. US military officials could not confirm the report.

At least one vehicle was ablaze at the scene, where crowds gathered to celebrate and shout anti-US slogans.

In a separate incident in the capital, another US soldier was killed when a convoy he was travelling in came under bomb attack, according to a military spokesman.


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/62151419-6B9F-4D5A-82FD-6BED2916FA88.htm

Given the confiscation of CNN film from reporters, an AFP reporter detained and the continued detention of two Aljazeera reporters, I believe there is a MAJOR operation to gag the media going on.

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. I read about the CNN reporter

having his film confiscated. WHO is detaining Aljazeera reporters and the AFP reporter??? The U.S.? I missed that. If so, shit is going to hit the fan here and soon. It's the same thing they did to the CIA. They tried to control them and after the Wilson leak, enough was enough. The same thing will happen with the media. They will only take "so much" and hopefully start the backlash. At least, I hope so!

[phirili]

2. CNN is a medical and weather channel; sad but true,

The fuks folks as much as we don't like, provide much better hard news coverage.

[glarius]

4. Praising everything Bush & Co. do is "hard news?'' Are you kidding?

[LittleApple81]

3. Why should they gag the media? They gag themselves. Did

you see MTP and Fox News this morning? MTP had Rumsfeld and Zell Miller (what a repuke duo; Zell is really worse than a Zell-out because Repugs are going to quote him until the cows come home); Fox News had Rumsfeld spewing his "question-answer" classics; the helicopter down was not highlighted anywhere. Then I saw the Chris Mathews show and Cokie Roberts (at one time I thought she was liberal, but boy has she changed... upset about the reality that free trade has taken jobs from the US--coming from a port town she knows that free trade has been very beneficial).
Fox news was the one that emphasized the wonderful 7+ growth in the economy the most; they had Krystol, and 2 NPR sell-outs blandly contributing to the "discussion". Arghh....

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Did you hear Carol Costello on CNN this morning?

Gen. Don Sheppard told her twice that he doubted Saddam Hussein was commanding anything (to do with the insurgency) at this point, given that he's on the lam. I guess that wasn't good enough for her, because she then tried to get the CNN reporter in Baghdad to say it was Saddam commanding things (she asked HIM twice!!). I've also noticed her palpable disdain when talking about the Dem candidates or the antiwar protesters.

Inversely, Daryn Kagan's disdain for Shrub is equally palpable. I like her!

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. I caught that one too

Another cursing at the TV moment. How many times did that guy have to tell her no?

[jenk]

19. she's cute : )

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[alcuno]

6. Alex the Twit on MSNBC, "Yes, but Richard there is good news

coming out of Iraq isn't there." 15+ soldiers are killed and she wants "happy talk."

[Eroshan]

8. What good news?

So far the Iraqis are just as far from democracy as they were pre-war. So these soldiers died for what? So a few more power lines could be put up or a sewage pipeline restored? These poor kids died being used for Haliburtons cover. What a sham and a shame.

[leftchick]

10. welcome to DU Eroshan!

love your graphic!

:toast:

[Eroshan]

13. Remercient vu, mon amie. forgive my french

I have been lurking here for years. Tired of posting on Yahoo (although I won't quit) and getting bashed by the neocon leppers.

[newyawker99]

17. Hi Eroshan!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[leftchick]

9. I caught that too alcuno...

made me want to pull my hair out! :grr:

[leftofthedial]

7. wow! this must mean we are succeeding even more in Iraq!

The Iraqi saddam supporters and foreign terrorists must be really desparate.

We need to get OUT of Iraq asap!

[leftchick]

11. omg....24 Dead?!?

<snip>In Abu Ghraib, local Iraqis said U.S. troops arrived Sunday morning and ordered people to disperse from the marketplace and remove what the Iraqis said were religious stickers from walls. Someone then tossed a grenade at the Americans, witnesses said, and the soldiers opened fire.
The U.S. command said it had no immediate information, but Iraqi witnesses said they believed three or four Americans were killed and six to seven Iraqis were wounded.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?vts=110220030725


The title of this article should be "24 Soldiers Dead in Iraq Today"

:(

[markses]

12. The 4 in Fallujah and the 3-4 at Abu Ghraib are NOT confirmed

I, for one, believe that CENTCOM does confirm all the dead - too many eyes not to. However, they are sometimes delayed.

[Rose Siding]

14. Up to 26 US dead today

add two dead, two wounded by a bomb in Mosul.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20031102/ts_afp/iraq_worldwrap_031102043920&e=5

[markses]

15. Nope. That was Saturday

Keep up.

[tom_paine]

18. Of course there is a concerted effort to gag the media

(although Corporate TV Pravda has degenerated to such a point where they do most of the gagging of themselves, themselves)

The same is true of any Totalitarian Society, which Amerika is rapidly trending towards.

When the Busheviks are finished secure their unchecked hegemonic Imperial Power, it finally will "trickle down" to our level...to the "little people", just as it did in Imperial Rome and Nazi Germany.

First, resistance at the top must be finally and totally crushed. Then the Emperor, Fuhrer, Premier, or whatever they choose to call themselves, can have a free hand in molding the society they want.

When the last capacity for resistance through the system is emilinated, we shall finally see the changes in our day-to-day lives.

It is not a day I'm looking forward to. I am thankful for this quiet twilight between the Light of Libery and Totalitarian Darkness. But history says it cann't last.

[beanball]

20. Our troops

are dying while the emperor fiddles and sings his new theme song."Just Rummy and me and mommy makes three we are so happy with our bloody$$$$$$honey".