This kind of crap always makes me wonder what the fuck is up with the censoring, reediting, rewriting, Zionist-controlled MSM.
Over the 18 months or so I've been blogging, this has happened all too frequently to be considered a mistake or accident.
It is CENSORSHIP at ALL LEVELS!
AmeriKa's MSM is nothing more than a lying, agenda-pushing piece of shit these days, readers!
"Shiite Militias Cling to Swaths of Basra and Stage Raids"
".... For the third straight day, the American military was reported to be conducting airstrikes in support of Iraqi troops in Basra. Iraqi police officials reported that an American bombing run had killed eight civilians.
The American military did not immediately acknowledge the report....
In Baghdad, the American military was also drawn deeper into the violence generated by the Basra assault. The military issued a statement saying that American soldiers had killed nine Iraqis that it called terrorists in firefights around Sadr City....
Clashes between militias and Iraqi government security forces continued elsewhere. There was intense fighting for a second day north of Basra in Dhi Qar Province and its capital, Nasiriya, where officials said the toll on Saturday was 28 killed and 59 wounded. There were running battles on a main bridge in Nasiriya, an Iraqi police officer said, and gunmen controlled the town of Shatra, about 20 miles north.
There also appeared to be a major operation under way around Baquba, north of Baghdad, where government tanks blocked streets in at least three neighborhoods as troops sought out members of the Mahdi Army.
The Turkish military said Saturday that it had killed 15 Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Thursday using long-range land weapons, Reuters reported....
Oh, yeah, HOW COME THAT DOESN'T GET the attention of the Jew press, huh?
Gets a fucking sentence in the story and reports!
Ali Hussam, 48, a teacher: “.... this democracy that was brought to us by the invader, it made us kill each other.”
It's called 'liberation" and a return to "normalcy!"
And here is the Globe's version of the same story.
Now why did they edit out the Turkey excerpt, readers?
"Militias control parts of Basra"Is that an Iraqi woman crying in the photo, readers?
Yup, Iraq is returning to normalcy!
I posted more from this piece than the Times' excerpt I gave you.
WHY ARE THE ARTICLES DIFFERENT on each website, folks?
Do a comparison if you want to; I gave you the links.
What is up with that, readers?
"by James Glanz and Michael Kamber, New York Times News Service | March 30, 2008
BAGHDAD - Shi'ite militiamen in Basra openly controlled wide swaths of the city yesterday and staged increasingly bold raids on Iraqi government forces sent in five days ago to wrest control from the gunmen, witnesses said, as Iraqi political leaders grew increasingly critical of the stalled assault.
Witnesses in Basra said that members of the most powerful militia in the city, the Mahdi Army, were setting up checkpoints and controlling traffic in many places ringing the central district controlled by some of the 30,000 Iraqi Army and police forces involved in the assault.
Militia fighters were regularly attacking the government forces, then quickly retreating. US jets again struck extremist targets near Basra yesterday in an effort to bolster the Iraqi offensive.
Moqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American Shi'ite cleric who founded the Mahdi Army, yesterday ordered his followers to defy government orders to surrender their weapons, the Associated Press reported. He said his militia would turn in its guns only to a government that can "get the occupier out of Iraq."
That's not in the Times' web version!
Why, readers?
Senior members of several Iraqi political parties said the Basra operation, ordered by Prime Minister Nouri al- Maliki, had been poorly planned.
Then the U.S. must have been behind it!
The growing discontent adds a new level of complication to the US-led effort to demonstrate that the Iraqi government had made strides toward being able to operate a functioning country and keep the peace without thousands of US troops.
Translation: "We lied about the surge" -- AmeriKa's MSM
Maliki has personally staked his reputation on the success of the Basra assault, fulfilling a longstanding American desire for him to boldly take on rogue Shi'ite groups. But at the same time, as criticism of the assault has risen, it has also brought into question yet another American benchmark of progress in Iraq: political reconciliation.
Yeah, did you know that NOT ONE BENCHMARK has been met by the surge, and yet it was STILL a SUCCESS!
But the FAILURE of the SURGE and its alleged GOALS -- remember those? -- are simply being BROUGHT INTO QUESTION now!
And they won't be mentioned as failures until AFTER Puke-tray-us and crock-of-shit Crocker testify before Congress, I'll bet you.
That's why Iraq is in the headlines NOW!
Prepping you for the glowing April report of Puke-tray-us, and then how much you wanna bet the MSM then goes back to forgetting Iraq -- like they forget so many things.
It is ALL AN AGENDA-PUSH, readers, and NOT NEWS!!!!
That's what the lying AmeriKan MSM has been since BEFORE the invasion of Iraq!
So why would they suddenly tell the truth now?
Security has suffered as well.
Oh, say it ain't so, Joe!
Since the Basra assault began Tuesday, violence has spread to Sh'iite districts of Baghdad and other places in Iraq....
For the third consecutive day, the US military conducted air strikes in support of Iraqi troops in Basra. Iraqi police officials reported that a US bombing run killed eight civilians. There was no acknowledgment by US officials....
In Baghdad, the US military was also drawn deeper into the violence generated by the Basra assault, as the military issued a statement saying that US soldiers had killed nine suspected Iraqi terrorists in firefights around Sadr City....
Iraqi QUICKSAND!!!! For Americans who want the occupation ended -- some 70% strong of them -- this whole thing has spent the last year going in reverse, hasn't it?
First the ESCALATION, and NOW THIS!!!!
Maliki's forces might have lost ground in the battle for public opinion when, in a well-publicized event in Sadr City, 40 men who said they were Iraqi police officers surrendered their weapons to Sadr officials, who symbolically gave the officers olive branches and Korans....
"These weapons are for defending the country but not for fighting your brothers," said Sheik Salman al-Fraji, head of the Sadr office there....
Although a citywide curfew remained in effect in Baghdad, the booms of rockets or mortars were heard in the morning. It was not immediately clear who had fired them or where they landed, although the fortified Green Zone, the nerve center of American and Iraqi governmental operations, has been a frequent target since the Basra operation began.
Clashes between militias and Iraqi government security forces continued elsewhere in the country. There was intense fighting for a second consecutive day north of Basra in Dhi Qar Province and its capital, Nasiriyah, where officials said the toll yesterday was 28 killed and 59 wounded. There were running battles on a main bridge in the center of Nasiriyah, an Iraqi police officer said, and gunmen controlled the town of Shatra, about 20 miles north.
There also appeared to be a major operation underway around Baqubah, north of Baghdad, where government tanks blocked streets in at least three neighborhoods as troops sought members of the Mahdi Army.
In Basra, mortar shells rained down in the late afternoon on the area of the Presidential Palace and the Shatt Al Arab hotel, where the assault has its operations center. Groups of 10 to 12 militia members set up checkpoints as close as 50 yards to government positions throughout the northern and western parts of the city, carrying out raids on remaining areas in the city center still controlled by government forces.
"Is this the gift that Maliki promised Basra?" said Walid Nabeel, 25, a medical student. He conceded that security had been far from ideal before the assault, but said, "Now we have hundreds of killed and injured."
.... Ali Hussam, 48, a teacher: ".... this new government and this democracy that was brought to us by the invader, it made us kill each other."
No, no, you got it all wrong!
You've been LIBERATED into George W. Bush's NORMALCY!!!!
So what's with the lying Zionist media, readers?
What's with the rewrites and reedits?
