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| A note of explanation that I shouldn't have to make... |
| 2003-04-17 |
Earlier today our friend Murat posted in comments:Guys, it was nice talking to you but I am going to leave this board.While I do very occasinally delete stories, they aren't deleted because I don't like them. I think I've left enough cage-rattlers up to demonstrate that! I will delete pure opinion pieces that aren't tied to a news story, and I will usually delete the more recent entry of a duplicate, or combine the two into one. And I'll also delete outright trolls like Meki or Syuhada. The Murat entry that I deleted this morning was the third run of the killings in Mosul. As far as I could tell, the people were still dead, the U.S. had either slaughtered them for the fun or it or had fired on a killed people who were firing at them, and there hadn't been anything added to the story. If I missed some new information, I'm sorry about that, but please check the previous day (or even two) so a story's not rehashed. Rantburg should give you today's news, not the same stuff over and over. Thanks for your support. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #9 life will certainly be less colourful without our favourite troll. Now and then, when not being trollish, he had some interesting things to say. methinks this is not the end of Murat however. But if it is, change is life. |
| Posted by: anon1 2003-04-17 23:01:59 |
| #8 Frankly, Fred, I have never viewed your website as needing to be, in Murat's words, "representative for an open society". I view it as your website to edit (or censor) as you please. I continue to visit because I enjoy the content. If Murat doesn't like it, he can certainly find other websites more to his tastes. Murat's perspective will be missed, but I don't want to hear the same stuff over and over either. |
| Posted by: Tom 2003-04-17 21:35:25 |
| #7 Sounds like ol' Murat took a page right out of Tim Robbin's playbook. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-17 21:01:27 |
| #6 Good call! |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-17 19:41:29 |
| #5 You guys are incorrigable! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-04-17 19:09:25 |
| #4 Hey Frank, can't we just declare Iraq, Syria and western Turkey, "Greater Kurdistan" and call it a day? They're the only locals with the sack to run the place. Come to think of it, throw in Iran and Afghanistan too. |
| Posted by: Scott 2003-04-17 18:45:48 |
| #3 In today's news: the Mosul 7 and Generalissimo Francisco Franco are STILL dead. Of course, it wouldn't be news if they were kurds. They have the good sense to stay dead |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-17 18:37:11 |
| #2 HA! This is the smoking gun, Fred. I was just waiting for your vast right-wing conspiricy to rear it's ugly head. Murat put me up to this. Honest. |
| Posted by: Scott 2003-04-17 18:30:17 |
| #1 life will certainly be less colourful without our favourite troll. Now and then, when not being trollish, he had some interesting things to say. methinks this is not the end of Murat however. But if it is, change is life. |
| Posted by: anon1 4/17/2003 11:01:59 PM |