Did a preview of the web, and the main War Dailies absolutely stunk!
Looked at 'em at the counter, but said no. Why fork over $2 for nothing.
Here is what they give you on so many hot spots around the world and at home.
Iraq: "Coalition forces also raided suspected Al Qaeda in Iraq hide-outs in western Baghdad, Samarra, Mosul, and Tikrit yesterday, arresting 30 suspected militants... Mortars landed on a northern neighborhood of the capital yesterday at 9:15 p.m. local time, killing four Iraqis.... an Interior Ministry source reported that 17 bullet-riddled male bodies were found during the day dumped around Baghdad (Boston Globe August 13)."
New York Times has no Iraqi dead ('cause of the surge, that's why)!!
Interesting how the papers HIDE OUR SLAUGHTER of INNOCENT MUSLIMS, huh, reader?), and the web calls up this:
"The incident began when a small truck refused U.S. orders to stop... Troops opened fire and an aircraft also attacked the truck. As many as five people the Army described as likely terrorists were killed... Troops seized a computer hard-drive, documents and photographs from the truck as well... the U.S. military says many confiscated weapons have Iranian origins."
[Talk about COOKING UP MORE LIES for MORE WARS?! There yaaaa go!
You want devastation? Take a look, then read it!
Guess that's why they HAVE to HIDE "Bush's 'LIBERATION!' "]
Afghanistan/Pakistan (they cover the meeting of the leaders, but?):
"While the peace delegates met, the violence continued. Three American soldiers and their civilian interpreter were killed by a roadside bomb in Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the United States military said in a statement. A British soldier was killed and several others were wounded in an attack in southern Afghanistan on Saturday (New York Times August 13)."
[No Taliban or Afghanis killed? No attacks on U.S. and NATO bases?
Question, reader: Why must I go to Israel to get the AP report?
Whatever, AmeriKan MSM!]
"Afghanistan clash kills nine Taliban, five police" by the Associated Press Aug. 13, 2007
Afghan security forces clashed with Taliban operatives in southern Afghanistan, leaving nine fighters dead.... Afghan police and army soldiers battled the fighters Sunday in Kandahar province's Shohrawak district.... The joint Afghan forces thwarted a planned ambush... and the ensuing clash left the nine dead."
Israel/Palestine (no violence, just Hamas slamming shit):
"After arrests of Fatah revelers at a wedding on Friday in Gaza by Hamas, and then protests against the arrests on Saturday, news emerged over the weekend of another episode that has embarrassed Hamas.
Reports in the independent and pro-Fatah Palestinian news media said that a Palestinian was arrested in the West Bank several days ago by Palestinian intelligence officials on suspicion of belonging to the armed wing of Hamas. Rumors spread that he had died in custody as a result of torture, leading Hamas leaders, including Mr. Haniya, to accuse Fatah of cruelty.
But on Saturday, the detainee, Mouid Bani Odeh, appeared alive and well on pro-Fatah Palestinian television, and several Palestinian reporters were invited to meet him in jail. Mr. Bani Odeh told them that he had not been tortured, that he was a member of Hamas and that he had also been seduced by a woman who was an Israeli agent who then blackmailed him into working for the Israeli security services.
Hamas officials and family members said they did not believe the prisoner’s story, maintaining that he had been tortured and was speaking under coercion (New York Times August 13)."
[Yeah, the ONLY COERCED CONFESSIONS that are TRUE are ones that come from ISRAELI or AMERIKAN TORTURE!!!
So why do I need to go to China to get my report on Israeli murder?]
"Israel detains 20 Palestinians in West Bank" -- RAMALLAH, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli army forces detained 20 Palestinians on Monday after raiding their homes all-over the West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. Palestinian witnesses said that the Israeli army forces stormed several towns and villages in the West Bank, raided houses and arrested at least 20 Palestinians.
Israeli Radio also reported that the Israeli forces stormed the cities of Jenin, Qalqilia, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron, and arrested 20 Palestinians wanted by Israeli security forces. The radio quoted Israeli army sources as saying that the Palestinian gunmen opened fire at an Israeli army patrol near a Jenin refugee camp in northern West Bank.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian State Information Services (SIS) published a report, saying that Israel had shot dead 32 Palestinians and wounded 113 others in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during July."
[Oh, that Zionist-controlled AmeriKan MSM!]
Lebanon (totally missing from my papers since it's U.S.-sponsored terrorists):
"Islamist hints at attacks by militants outside northern Lebanon refugee camp" by the Associated Press August 12, 2007
BEIRUT, Lebanon: The leader of a Syrian Islamist group claimed in an audio tape aired Sunday that some al-Qaida-inspired militants have left a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon and hinted they will soon launch attacks.
Abu Jandal al-Dimashqi, the self-declared leader of Tawhid and Jihad in Syria, also mourned the death of Abu Hureira, the deputy leader of Fatah Islam, whose followers inside Nahr el-Bared camp have been battling the Lebanese army since May 20.
al-Dimashqi in an audio tape posted on an Islamic Web site:
"The martyrdom of our brother Abu Hureira has fanned the flames. Let the government of traitor Saniora know that some of Fatah Islam's heroes have left the camp and are now among you. Wait for a black day."
The authenticity of the audio tape could not be verified, but it was posted on a Web site commonly used by Islamic militants. A senior army officer told The Associated Press that the military took the statement "seriously" and was analyzing it.... The army has refused to halt its offensive until the militants completely surrender, but the gunmen have vowed to fight to the death.
The Associated Press learned Saturday that U.S. President George W. Bush's administration has blacklisted Fatah Islam as a "foreign terrorist organization." The designation imposes financial and travel restrictions on the group and its members... the designation is not yet public.
[Interesting.
The "Al-CIA-Duhs" ESCAPE JUST BEFORE Bush sends down this order.
That's curious and strange.
Then DEBKA comes out with more bullshit at the same time (with blogger's commentary, not mine)]
"Their latest whopper sent NYC officials into a frenzy trying to stop fictional terrorists from launching a radioactive bomb in Manhattan.
Nevertheless undeterred, it took Debka only 24 hours to spin another tall tale about Syria and Iran.
Iran Plots Syrian President’s Ouster
August 12, 2007, 9:54 AM (GMT+02:00)
Buoyed up by the triumphs of Hizballah’s war offensive against Israel in 2006 and Hamas’ takeover of Gaza, the clerical rulers of Tehran have invested so heavily in their expanding power structure across the region that a fiasco could push their regime and military prop, the fierce Revolutionary Guards, into a perilous slide at home. To play it safe, DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s Iran sources reveal they have hatched a plan to replace the vacillating figure in Damascus with a puppet at their beck and call, modeled on Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.
Thus far, Assad has not strayed too far from the guidelines he and his Iranian allies laid down together, but Tehran can never be sure when he might swerve from the straight and narrow to make his peace with the Americans. The can only guarantee Syria stays in their pockets by installing a pro-Iran loyalist in the presidential palace in Damascus.
Sources close to Persian Gulf rulers believe that if Tehran opts for this course, its chosen instrument for throwing up a military ruler would be the Syrian armed forces, on the assumption that a general has the best chance of unifying the country and its ethnic and religious minorities around the new regime. The Iranians have therefore doubled and tripled their efforts to build up influence in the Syrian army.
An overt manifestation of their success is the prevalence of Syrian army men sporting beards in the style of Revolutionary Guardsmen.
But two additional Iranian steps have been more discreet.
1. Three-week, five-star vacations in Iran are being handed out to hundreds of graduates of every Syrian officers’ course and their families. While the families visit tourist sites, the graduates undergo indoctrination at special RGs seminaries.
2. Last April, RG instructors began handpicking outstanding Syrian officers at these courses and forming them into secret cells for planting in military units on their return home. They are trained to seize centers of government, military installations and public buildings.
It is not known if Assad knows what is going on in his armed forces, or how deeply collaboration with Iranian intelligence for implanting these cells has penetrated the high Syrian command.
Such information would be of paramount bearing on the Syrian ruler’s decision on whether or not to stage a flare-up with Israel, now projected for November or early next winter. An American intelligence estimate, passed to Israel last week, predicts that Syria will then plans to ignite clashes by low-intensity military operations to test Israel’s responses.
The Syrian leadership is divided on this issue:
The anti-war faction. This camp consists of the veteran class of Syrian army generals, traditionally the most American-oriented of the armed forces. Its leaders, defense minister Gen. Hassan Turkemany, chief of staff Gen. Habib Ali, and the presidential military and intelligence adviser Gen. Muhammed Nasif, all urge abstaining from hostile action against Israel.
The pro-war faction. This camp is headed by the Gen. Assaf Shawqat, head of Syrian military intelligence and the president’s brother-in-law. Around him is a band of ambitious young Syrian generals and colonels who have not yet made their name. They network closely with the high command of Iran’s armed forces and Revolutionary Guards.
Their argument for war is that the Assad regime is wobbling so badly that it would take the extreme measure of a war with Israel to unite the country behind the national leadership. These young Turks have convinced Asad that Israel is determined to avoid the kind of large-scale ground operation which went awry in the 2006 Lebanon War and will therefore focus on aerial bombardments of military bases and certain infrastructure targets such as bridges, power plants and water works. They estimate that even then, Israel will confine itself to a limited air offensive, because its policy-makers and military leaders alike will be leery of provoking reprisal from Syrian medium range ground-to-ground C and D Scud missiles against the central and southern populations.
By mid-July, the war faction appeared to be winning the upper hand with President Assad, against the veteran generals.
At the same time, neither camp can know for sure exactly where aggressive action against Israel may lead. A Syrian military defeat in a battle for the Golan and heavy Israeli bombardments deep inside Syria could generate conditions for a military coup d’etat against Assad by generals held up as popular heroes for fighting Israel.
At the same time, Assad’s failure to repulse heavy Israeli military pressure would open the door to Iranian military intervention and a tailor-made opportunity for ousting the regime in Damascus.
Let me get this straight -
israelis expect us to believe that a ruling faction in Syria - a country about the size of North Dakota WITHOUT nuclear weapons - is desperate to "take on the israelis" armed as they are with over 200 nuclear warheads.
Not only that but they want us to believe that the Iranians, the majority of whom are Shia, plan to work alongside their Sunni brothers in Syria (notwithstanding their alleged hatred for eachother) to overthrow the Syrian government and launch a pre-emptive strike against israel.
Of course, that's our cue to step in and bomb the hell out of them both - in order to protect israel.
What a joke.
israelis desperately need new script writers - their whoppers are becoming old and dry."
And how about Somalia (not in paper. No reporters killed I guessed):
"Roadside Bomb Blast Kills Three in Mogadishu" by Shabelle Media Network 13 August 2007
At least three civilians have been killed and dozen more have been wounded after a roadside bomb exploded at a minibus carrying a number of passengers near kilometer 4 intersection in Mogadishu on Monday.... the bomb was remotely detonated... a large number of government troops arrived and sealed off the scene searching homes in the area for insurgents and explosives.... the number of the wounded is still unknown. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack."
[Set with the Amurka's MSM press, reader?]
