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2008-04-07 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2008-04-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 heh. This is written by the Christian Science Monitor. When I first read it, I assumed it to be written by a foreign paper and that the computer had translated it. The sentences don't flow together and the quotes are just hanging out there all by themselves.

Posted by Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-04-07 04:52|| 2008-04-07 04:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Two artillery shells hit nearby, probably fired from the US tanks.

Unless the reporter's mistaking mobile artillery pieces for tanks, I call bullshit.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-04-07 05:49|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2008-04-07 05:49|| Front Page Top

#3 By Awadh al-Taiee

Who in the WW2 generation doesn't remember picking up the morning paper and reading tear jerking dispatches from guys name Gunter?

Posted by ed 2008-04-07 06:14|| 2008-04-07 06:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't think the Govt. ever agreed to any ceasefire. That was Mookie. So I really don't think they're worried about breaking it.

Game on!

Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Shavirt5970 2008-04-07 08:17|| 2008-04-07 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Deeper into Sadr City, it was militia territory. Young militants were everywhere. They carried sniper rifles, machine guns, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. They were on street corners and rooftops ready to fend off any advance by US and Iraqi forces. "Watch the [US] airplanes they are killing civilians and civilians are everywhere," shouted a fighter dressed in military fatigues.

Well, Ahwad, think maybe this might have something to do with your "young militants" being everywhere and hiding behind them?
This is Hideki Yamashita live from Iwo Jima. Back to you Katie...

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-07 09:16|| 2008-04-07 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 This seems like it was a much longer article with both narrative buildup and then narrative detail but the editor cut it way back and left most of the former and little of the latter.

Posted by mhw 2008-04-07 11:01|| 2008-04-07 11:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Civilians should be smart enough to flee this kind of fighting even if it means life in a refugee camp. If they don't flee they're either not civilians or else they're making themselves eligible for Darwin awards.

Posted by Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305) 2008-04-07 12:01|| 2008-04-07 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Civilians should be smart enough to flee this kind of fighting...

Anyone that runs, is a VC. Anyone that doesn't run, is a well disciplined VC! - Full Metal Jacket

Posted by Mad Eye Short3739 2008-04-07 12:06|| 2008-04-07 12:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Assault strains cease-fire? Gawd, that's funny stuff. I actually choked on my coffee. Didn't the Christian Science Monitor used to be, like, a newspaper and stuff?

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-07 12:33|| 2008-04-07 12:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Movie War - this is the one the press seems to think is going on. Not the one we are fighting.

Easy, ya just don't lead them so much.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-07 13:59|| 2008-04-07 13:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Set it on "rubbleize", boys.

Posted by Chief Running Gag">Chief Running Gag 2008-04-07 14:22|| 2008-04-07 14:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Per Video. Wasn't John Kerry in the Navy? He should be in a boat not a helicopter.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-04-07 15:15|| 2008-04-07 15:15|| Front Page Top

#13 REUTERS [paraph] > VIDEO: SADR WILL DISBAND MEHDI ARMY IF CLERICS ORDER IT.

But whatzabout the MAHDI ARMY, which may explain TOPIX > MAHDI ARMY MILITANTS PROMISE TO CONTINUE FIGHTING???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-07 19:27|| 2008-04-07 19:27|| Front Page Top

#14 When I first read it, I assumed it to be written by a foreign paper and that the computer had translated it.

Probably because it was written by a stringer:

Awadh al-Taiee - Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

And there's this tidbit from 2005: "Awadh al-Taie is a trainee journalist with IWPR in Baghdad ...The Institute for War & Peace Reporting is a London-based independent non-profit organisation supporting regional media and democratic change."

Its list of supporters is here.

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-07 19:32|| 2008-04-07 19:32|| Front Page Top

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