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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 09:31 AM
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Real Iraq stories as opposed to the "Celebrity Worship TV Culture Club"
We get "white children/tourist" tsunami stories, Scott Peterson, OJ, and the "cult of celebrity", as shown on the mainstream news.

Here are some real accounts of the action in Iraq instead:

http://dahrjamailiraq.com./weblog/

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Fallujah:

"“Americans did not have interpreters with them, so they entered houses and killed people because they didn’t speak English! They entered the house where I was with 26 people and shot people because they didn’t obey their orders, even just because the people couldn’t understand a word of English. Ninety-five percent of the people killed in the houses that I saw were killed because they couldn’t speak English.”

His eyes were tearing up, so he lit another cigarette and continued talking.

“Soldiers thought the people were rejecting their orders, so they shot them. But the people just couldn’t understand them!”

He managed to keep filming battles and scenes from inside the city, some of which he later managed to sell to Reuters, who showed a few clips of his footage. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., he explained, would not show any of the tapes he submitted to them. He had managed to smuggle most of his tapes out of the city before his gear was taken from him."

http://www.sfbayview.com/122904/theseiege122904.shtml
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