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| 2004-10-21 |
| John Martinkus could have been beheaded but was safely released. In Iraq's propaganda war, some journalists are better alive than dead.AUSTRALIAN journalist John Martinkus said he was going to be killed by the Iraqi terrorists who grabbed him on Sunday — until he convinced them he was on their side. "I was not hurt and treated with respect once they established my credentials as an independent journalist who did not support the occupation," the SBS filmmaker told Reuters. An SBS producer, Mike Carey, confirmed on 3AW yesterday that Martinkus told the terrorists he sympathised with them — "as you would" to save your life. As I sure would, too. And then, added Carey, his captors got onto the internet to check him out. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #2 someday this guy will wake up and realize - wow! The reason that these murdering thugs didn't kill me was because I was promoting their cause. A person with even an ounce of good in them might ponder; ouch! what does that say about me? |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-10-21 10:52:26 AM |
| #1 I didn't even need to go to page 71 after reading this: "…once they established my credentials as an independent journalist who did not support the occupation,…" However I did and reading further on page 71 I see. …"You might consider that, the next time you read Iraq is going to hell, the terrorists there are really "the resistance", and the American "occupiers" are hated and should pull out.…" I already know whats comming now speaking of SBS who John Martinkus works for: "So frenzied has its demonisation of this war since become that SBS this year twice showed a French "documentary" – The World According to Bush – that claimed US President George W. Bush was a religious crazy, "idiot" and "political whore", who was conned into attacking Iraq by a handful of "calculating" Jews, even while secretly pocketing pay-offs from their Muslim enemies." Further along speaking of Martinkus. "… his sympathies follow the SBS line and are not, it seems, primarily with the Americans and Iraqis trying to make Iraq democratic.In fact, Martinkus has appeared recently at rallies and film evenings organised by anti-war groups and the far-Left Socialist Alliance. He also spoke at this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival, arguing Iraq was worse off for having been freed and his book, Travels in American Iraq, makes Iraq’s liberation seem an occupation instead – and one heading for civil war.…" A useful fool who will sell out his culture and the everyday Iraqi's he must think are misled because they don't want to live under a Sunni led terrorst cabal or a Sadar dominated theocracy. I hope this waste of human skin catches a peice of copper clad steel core. So he may not sell his fellow Austrialians out to the Zarqawi's of this world any longer. As for the rest of the reporters mentioned in this article, well, you can decide for yourself. I hope I never meet the last one mentioned. He will be black and blue before I part company with him. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-21 1:45:49 AM |