One doesn't report the violence, while the other doesn't report the political squabbling.
Guess they have their reasons. Put 'em together, and you get a decent report.
Now open up for your retinal scan.
And you thought some Arab was going to be the Anti-Christ, huh?
"Iraq's Shi'ite leader slams Sunni vice president; Clash highlights a bitter rift in government" by Hamza Hendawi/Associated Press November 21, 2007
BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister lashed out at the country's Sunni Arab vice president in an interview published yesterday, drawing attention to a bitter rift between two key politicians from rival sects at a time the United States is pressing for Iraqi unity.
A US military helicopter, meanwhile, crashed near Salman Pak southeast of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and wounding 12, the military said. It said initial reports indicated the crash was not a result of hostile fire. The military did not give the type of helicopter or the nationalities of the victims.
The outburst by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, printed in a newspaper read throughout the Arab world, occurred as American officials are urging the Iraqis to take advantage of a downturn in violence to resolve their differences before next year's planned drawdown of US forces.
In the interview, published by Al-Hayat, a London-based, Arabic-language daily, Maliki, a Shi'ite, said Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi was to blame for a backlog of legislation adopted by parliament but not yet ratified by the three-man presidential council of which the Sunni is a member.
Maliki also said Hashemi's Iraq Accordance Front, the largest Sunni bloc in parliament, was not representative of the country's Sunni Arab community.
The prime minister said he had given up trying to persuade five members of Hashemi's bloc to return to Cabinet posts they abandoned last August in a dispute with Maliki.
Maliki said that he planned to name other Sunnis from Anbar Province and the cities of Tikrit and Mosul to those Cabinet posts and that "we are in the final selection stage."
For months, Hashemi has been a sharp and outspoken critic of Maliki, accusing him of pursuing pro-Shi'ite sectarian policies and restricting decision-making inside a small circle of top aides from his Dawa party.
However, Maliki's attack on Hashemi and his criticism of the Accordance Front suggested that the rift between the two sides was widening, rather than closing.
"It's a campaign to discredit good intentions," said Lubnah al-Hashemi, the vice president's daughter and his press secretary.
"But we refuse to be drawn into a war of words through the media," she said.
She said the vice president has refused to sign off on some legislation because he wanted "certain things" added in the public interest. She did not elaborate.
The vice president's office e-mailed The Associated Press a list of 13 draft laws he had rejected. Most were relatively minor. One exception was a bill allowing investors to build and run oil refineries. The vice president said the legislation could lead to a monopoly over an essential commodity.
Hashemi's ally in the Accordance Front, Adnan al-Dulaimi, said their bloc never claimed it spoke for all Sunni Arabs.
"I wonder why Maliki included us in the government and gave us several ministerial posts if we were not representing the Sunnis," Dulaimi said.
The US military says overall attacks have fallen 55 percent since nearly 30,000 additional American troops arrived in Iraq by June, and that parts of the country are experiencing their lowest levels of violence in more than two years.
But US officials and many Iraqis fear those gains cannot last unless Iraqis themselves work out their differences and move toward genuine national reconciliation.
"This really is again the time when they need to take advantage of the window they've been given," US Embassy spokesman Philip Reeker said Monday of the Iraqi leadership.
During the Al-Hayat interview, however, Maliki rejected charges that he is not doing enough for national reconciliation. He said the percentage of Sunni Arabs in the army and police generally equaled or exceeded their proportion of the national population - 20 percent.
The prime minister also headed toward a showdown with his main Shi'ite backer, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, over the thorny issue of carving up Iraq into self-rule regions similar to that set up by Iraq's Kurds in three northern provinces in 1991.
The council, Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite party, has been strongly advocating the creation of a federal region in Iraq's mainly Shi'ite south, encompassing half of Iraq's 18 provinces.
Maliki, who did not mention the Supreme Council by name, warned that a federal system that granted sweeping powers to different regions could lead to more strife and the eventual breakup of the country. "I have stated my view candidly on this issue and that is . . . the federalism that's wanted by some . . .could leave us without a state, with division, strife, and dispute," he said."
And CUI BONO from that, readers?
AIPAC/Clean Break/PNAC
"U.S. and Iranian Officials Plan Talks on Iraqi Security" by ALISSA J. RUBIN
BAGHDAD, Nov. 20 — On a day of scattered violence across Iraq, two American soldiers died and 12 were wounded on Tuesday when their helicopter crashed near Salman Pak, southeast of Baghdad, a military spokesman said.
Initial reports indicated that the aircraft had mechanical failure and had not been brought down by insurgent fire, the spokesman, Maj. Brad Leighton, said. The military destroyed the helicopter to ensure that it did not fall into enemy hands.
In other violence, two mortar shells struck near Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s office in the Green Zone, and six unidentified bodies were found in Baghdad.
Five civilians were killed in the capital and 13 were wounded. Several of the deaths and injuries occurred when a car bomb exploded in the Hai Saddam neighborhood, in the western part of the city.
The bombing occurred in an area that had recently become more stable. Hai Saddam was once a majority Sunni Arab area. But in the past year the Mahdi Army, a Shiite militia affiliated with the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr, began to encroach on the neighborhood, and many Sunnis fled.
In retaliation for the Mahdi efforts to dominate the area, Sunnis from nearby areas kidnapped young Shiite men from Hai Saddam and killed them, leaving their bodies in the road.
The Iraqi Army halted the Mahdi advance over the past several months and, thanks to its continued presence here, Shiites and Sunnis now live side by side.
Like they weren't before the U.S. invaded!
Fais al-Ghazi, 40, a Shiite day laborer, as he carried home a plastic bag full of lamb bones for his wife to use in a soup:
“It is very good here now between Sunni and Shia. This is just something done by someone trying to sow fitna.”
Fitna is the Arabic word for civil strife. In the days before the daily sectarian killings in Baghdad, Sunnis and Shiites often accused third parties of trying to create a sectarian war and swore that the effort would never succeed.
Pretty darn close, Muslims!
Not as dumb as the Zionist-controlled press said you were!
Now, the same accusations resurface when people see violence close to home that could damage the fragile peace they have negotiated in the past few months.
Tuesday’s bombing occurred at 6:45 a.m., when a car stopped near a minibus behind some apartment buildings. The car exploded, killing the driver and two other adults and injuring three schoolgirls in the bus. While several of the wounded were Shiites, at least one of the most gravely wounded was a young Sunni man, according to witnesses and the police.
The police said they believed that the bomber had been kidnapped and that his car was loaded with explosives by insurgents while he was beaten and interrogated. The kidnappers released him and gave him back his car, the police said, and as he drove home the bomb exploded.
Sgt. Dhiah Khalaf: “A similar attack happened two days ago. They don’t always know where it will explode, but if the person whose car they rig is Shiite, they think he will drive home through Shiite neighborhoods.”
In the central province of Salahuddin on Tuesday, the police said the bodies of four young men who had been executed were found. Three of them were floating in the Tigris River.
Near Samarra, American soldiers fought extremist Sunni gunmen, who were suppressed after air support was called in.
After the battle, American ground forces discovered a detention center where members of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a homegrown Sunni extremist group that American intelligence agencies believe is foreign-led, had shot two men who were bound in shackles, according to an American military statement.
The fight resulted in the deaths of five Iraqi insurgents, three of them were wearing suicide vests, the statement said."
Those last two paragraphs part of the scripted propaganda stream!
I'm tired of lies upon lis from my War Dailies, readers!
Because it's "Al-CIA-Duh!"
