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<http://crushliberalism.com/2007/09/28/when-you-can%e2%80%99t-find-a-witness -just-quote-yourself/> "When You Can't Find A Witness, Just Quote Yourself" Posted by <http://crushliberalism.wordpress.com/> crushliberalism on September 28th, 2007 More and more often, we're seeing declining standards of journalism. >From <http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/when_you_cant_find_a_witness_just_quote_yo urself/> Say Anything: Good grief. U.S. fire scatters crowd after Afghan bomb: witness By Noor Mohammad Sherzai <http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL21059120070927?> BATI KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least one U.S.soldier opened fire to scatter a crowd of civilians and police on Thursday after failed suicide bomb attacks on a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military and witnesses said. A car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy in the village of Bati Kot, 15 km (9 miles) east of Jalalabad, killed the driver, two passengers and a nearby civilian, but none of the soldiers was hurt, the U.S. military said in a statement. Afghan police securing the site in eastern Afghanistan were then attacked by an insurgent dressed in police uniform. He was killed by the police and coalition troops before he could detonate his suicide vest, the statement said. To add to the confusion, a fire brigade vehicle speeding to the scene rammed into the U.S. and Afghan vehicles. "I saw the fire brigade vehicle rushing to the area at top speed. Somehow its brakes failed and hit one police vehicle and coalition vehicles, then the Americans started firing," said Reuters correspondent Noor Mohammad Sherzai. So the premise of the article is that a witness saw at least one US soldier scatter a crowd around an Afghan suicide bombing by opening fire, and that one witness just happens to also be the author of the story. Professional. You can't tell me that in the entire crowd with Sherzai couldn't fine one single person to get a quote from aside from himself. By the way, you gotta love how they make it sound as though the troop started firing into the crowd of police and civilians to disperse them. We don't learn until the end of the article that the soldier fired shots away from the crowd in order to break them up in case there should be another bombing. Nope.no liberal media bias! Not that this should come as a surprise from al-Reuters, the <http://crushliberalism.com/glossary#a> "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" network. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
