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2004-12-03 Iraq-Jordan
Iraqi Resistance Fighters Killed 121 US Servicemen on Tuesday
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-12-03 12:11:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Dang, I wonder why all this didn't make it to the American press. They're probably all on Bush's side.
Posted by Asedwich  2004-12-03 12:17:49 AM||   2004-12-03 12:17:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mike, I'm beginning to think all this Jihad Unspun stuff is kinda like what Mike from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress called a "funny once."

I suspect that by now roughly half the readers of this site could do a better job of writing a "Jihad Unspun" press release than "Jihad Unspun" do themselves.
Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-12-03 12:21:30 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2004-12-03 12:21:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 sniff..... I sure miss Bagdad Bob..... sniff....

I give this a one the Bagdad Bob scale. No roasting stomachs, no slaughtering themselves..... what a pretender....
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-12-03 12:22:54 AM||   2004-12-03 12:22:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Know thine enemy.

This sort of news is taken as gospel in parts of the world. Much like CNN is taken as gospel elsewhere. It's worth being aware of.

The only thing missing is the reports of U.S. soldiers converting to Islam and carrying out suicide bombings on their former colleagues. Azzam had such apocryphal stories about Russian soldiers during the second Chechen war.
Posted by gromky  2004-12-03 12:41:31 AM||   2004-12-03 12:41:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Much like CNN is taken as gospel elsewhere.

You...you...you mean it's not?!?!? But, but Judy Woodruff said so...I feel cheated.

This sort of news is taken as gospel in parts of the world.

You may, or may not know how true that is. I hear it every day. You can add the much vaunted French press as well. It's not just Al-Jiz that gets all the scoops you know.
Posted by Rafael 2004-12-03 12:57:00 AM||   2004-12-03 12:57:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 These guys should stay off the Mecca-cola!
Posted by Conanista 2004-12-03 1:24:38 AM||   2004-12-03 1:24:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Lions, tiger, and islamo-pussies!!! Oh, my!!
Posted by anymouse  2004-12-03 1:38:29 AM||   2004-12-03 1:38:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Those whacky Iraqi news services.
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-12-03 1:53:01 AM||   2004-12-03 1:53:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 In the Islamofascist hotbeds of the world; Riyadh, Islamobad, Dearborn; thousands of young heroes read these reports and take heart at the jihad's endless triumph and success. The message is clear: glory and loot await in the streets of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan. They are inspired to join in while there is still honor to be had, before all the Americans are killed. Spirits soaring, some will make the right contacts, buy their tickets, and march off singing to Iraq or Afghanistan, never to be seen again.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-03 2:36:58 AM||   2004-12-03 2:36:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 AC, never to be seen again.

Think about it for a bit... Can someone setup a travel agency that would facilitate precisely that?
Posted by Sobiesky 2004-12-03 2:54:11 AM||   2004-12-03 2:54:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Aliens invade! Film at 11.
Posted by Dragon Fly  2004-12-03 7:42:42 AM||   2004-12-03 7:42:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 What I appreciate is Mike highlighting every sentence with the word kill in it. Are we getting obsessive about something, Mikey?
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-03 7:52:18 AM||   2004-12-03 7:52:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 A.C. You forgot about the MSM (and bullshit-unspun) then turning around and blaming US for their stupidity.....
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-12-03 9:19:15 AM||   2004-12-03 9:19:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Wow, Mike, you're really pushing for the asshat award this week. I'm getting quite fond of Aris in comparison. At least he brings facts, logic, and insight to the table. And though he can harp on fine shades of meaning, I'm not convinced that you've even got the overall picture.
Posted by Tom 2004-12-03 9:32:48 AM||   2004-12-03 9:32:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 "Can someone setup a travel agency that would facilitate precisely that?" Sobiesky

We have, after a fashion. It's the US marines. Also note that these media reports keep the stream into the kill box flowing.
Posted by Dave 2004-12-03 9:32:58 AM||   2004-12-03 9:32:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 The silver lining in all of this is that CNN, BBC, Al Jazz, BSunspun, etc., though still effective, have put a stake to the heart of the myth that if you read it in print it must be true. News in the 21st century will no longer be considered "news", as we once knew it, but rather, gossip to be verified - like the Globe or Sun.
Posted by 2b 2004-12-03 9:46:51 AM||   2004-12-03 9:46:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Redrum! REDRUM! *slap* Um--sorry... Forgot my meds this morning.
Posted by Dar  2004-12-03 9:49:58 AM||   2004-12-03 9:49:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 What I appreciate is Mike highlighting every sentence with the word kill in it

Hey - it takes WORK to ignore any real standards for factuality and focus on the ARTISTIC impact of the "information" coming out of Jihad Unspun.

Because it's all about how we FEEL, not about those white Eurocentric masculine fascist concepts like .... facts.
Posted by too true 2004-12-03 9:54:18 AM||   2004-12-03 9:54:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 Thanks for posting this tripe on pg 1 Mikey. Cripes, I guess I can make up Anti-American stuff and post it on pg 1 too
Posted by Frank G  2004-12-03 10:20:29 AM||   2004-12-03 10:20:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 Okay folks -- it's not appropriate to hammer Mike on this one. I approved the article last night. I thought it was humorous to see the JU boys spin about the Heroes of Islam™, when in fact we know the truth. Don't know which editor put Baghdad Bob's puss on the article but it's appropriate. Highlighting all the claimed deaths of US personnel heightens the absurdity of the claims.

I have to say, I chuckled quite a while after reading it. Thanks, Mike.
Posted by Steve White  2004-12-03 10:47:02 AM||   2004-12-03 10:47:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 Last Saturday JUS picked up an OP/ED piece by noted Boston Globe asshat columnist Derrick Z. Jackson. Derrick must've been so proud to be officially recogized as an anti-American propogandist. Big brownie points at the Globe for that.
Posted by tu3031 2004-12-03 11:14:35 AM||   2004-12-03 11:14:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#22 Actually, Steve, I think it *is* appropriate to hammer Mike S. on this one. With one exception (his comment re: Kojo Anan today) he has yet, in all his posts, to follow up and acknowledge when what he posts doesn't fit the facts as later determined.

I'd be more sympathetic if there was any real evidence he cares about factuality .... any inserted comments noting the "reportedly" that appears in this one over and over again (weasel words) ... any skepticism about JUS that comes close to his credulity on a number of topics ...
Posted by too true 2004-12-03 4:12:14 PM||   2004-12-03 4:12:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 by these statistics, I calculate that the US has roughly a bazillion troops in Iraq (give or take), not the reported 125,000
Posted by PlanetDan  2004-12-03 6:23:09 PM||   2004-12-03 6:23:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 I don't run Rantburg, but I would think that JU is as worthy of inclusion as the North Korean offical bulletins. OK, perhaps not as hilarious, but still important to new visitors to show what people around the world are getting as "news." No wonder XX% have an unfavorable opinion of the USA.

There are a lot of reasons to hammer MS, but this isn't one of them.
Posted by jackal  2004-12-03 9:34:02 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2004-12-03 9:34:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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