Warning over Jazeera bombing report 20 minutes ago

Of course the U.S. did attack and kill Al JAzeera reporters. It shot down one on top of a roof from the hotel in Iraq where journalists stay. The army tried to claim they were taking sniper fire from the hotel, and was returning fire and "accidentally" killed the journalist.

Independent reporters from ABC, and elsewhere all reported there was no firing from the area. The filmed footage at the time of the incident also confirms there was no sniper fire.

The U.S. also did bomb the Al Jazeera offices in Afghanistan.

The U.S. attacked and bombed the Al Jazeera offices in both AFghanistan and Iraq.

This doesn't conclusively prove the U.S. plotted to bomb them, but it is more than just un-named sources and fanciful daydreams.

Read it yourself if you would like.

www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/08/sprj.irq.media.hit/

 

the u.s. has also bombed a chinese embassy due to poor recon.

 

Exactly. You can imply anything you want from those incidents FB, but it's all just speculation just like this article.

BTW, that CNN link isn't working for me.

 

personally i think we should invade it and then torture those terrorists.

 

if its just speculation as you been saying, why is the British government going through all the trouble of trying to censor the publishing of "speculation"

And how would you explain this article?

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/11/23/build/world/98-blair-memo.inc

Has someone really been charged with leaking a secret british gov't memo? Or is it just speculation again..

 

Bush should've ordered Fox news to acquire Jazeera. Problem solved, come again, would you like fries with that?

 

It seems that a large number of respectable (as well as not-so-respecable) news sources are now reporting this story.

List includes:

• The Times of London, hardly a scandal sheet given to making up stories claims to have been warned
• The Guardian
• The Daily Mirror
• The Evening Standard
• The Associated Press
• CNN
• The BBC
  
  and of course
  
  
• Al Jazerra - who is taking a suprisingly tentative tone

Apparently the BBC & AP both are reporting that some of their sources report that the comment may have been made in jest durring private discussions.

It is (rightly) also pointed out by these sources that Al Jazerra is a Quatar-based newspaper. US CENTCOM works out of Quatar and there is hardly a more friendly government to the US in the Middle East than that emirate. Any more than a moment's reflection should indicate how extremely counterproductive this would have been.

In this way in could be like the notorious Bush one finger salute video - a harmless jest, but ill considered given the presence of recording devices.

 

Typical reactions from apologists:

- denial
- dismissing the source
- disparaging the victims
- attacking the poster/thread starter
- Hey it's part of War On Terror

 

what else can you expect?

 

And you can ignore all of the evidence you want.

These things are not speculation.

1.U.S. bombed Al Jazeera hq in Afghanistan.

2.U.S. bombed Al JAzeera hq in Iraq killing one reporter as he was doing a story.

3. U.S. claimed they were reacting to sniper fire.

4. The U.S. story was discredited as independent sources, and actual footage shows there was no such snire fire

5. In summary the U.S. bombed Al JAzeera hq in two seperate nations. They were the only news agency to be bombed twice by the U.S. They presented a flawed or dishonest rationale as an excuse for one of the bombings.

So whether these new reports are 100% true, we don't know. But they would fit in with the actions by the U.S.

I'm ready to proclaim them 100% guilty yet, but I'm not naive enough to just dismiss it, based on the facts that we do have.

 

Maybe the Emperor has no clothes?!

 

You liberals want to believe this story sooooo bad. You guys truly are a sad, desperate, pathetic lot.

 

Yet another baseless charge without proof. You have made many charges like that have failed to provide any evidence to back up your accusations.

Not one time have you ever provided any evidence to support your "claims".

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=104553

 

Why would George Bush do that?

 

Do y'all seriously believe the US military would deliberately target a news agency in Qatar? When there's no other fighting in the region?

Why are you so willing to accept the report as plausible (not 100% guilty, of course, but certainly more likely than not), and dismiss all the rumblings about it possibly have been said in jest. If at all.

Did Ronald Regan really outlaw the soviet union?


(the Giggling cartoon was pretty good though...).

 

Simple. The liberals want to paint the country and more importantly the Bush administration is as bad a light as possible because they voted for the loser in the election, John Kerry. They are pursuing the classic "I told you so" approach. It's a childish, amateurish approach, but one they pursue nevertheless in order to not be seen as a loser for supporting a losing candidate and political party.

 

I owned over 10 liberals in that thread. It was an amazing performance to say the least.

 

The only reason it could possibly be true is because the U.S. alredy bombed Al Jazeera hq twice, killed one reporter, had their version of that kiling discredited.

The stories are being reported fairly widely, and they mention documents which would be damning.

I've said before I'm not 100% convincde

 

Whether you did or didn't is off topic and still provides no proof to your accusations. Either put or shut up with those accusations.