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Sunday, February 11, 2007 |
ThePeninsula: "The United States is trying to fabricate Iran's involvement in attacks on US troops in Iraq, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations said in a radio interview aired on Friday."
NYTimes: "The most lethal weapon directed against American troops in Iraq is an explosive-packed cylinder that United States intelligence asserts is being supplied by Iran." (signed Michael Gordon)
It would have to be 'the most lethal weapon' of course.
UnclaimedTerritory: "Over the past few weeks, The Los Angeles Times has published several detailed and well-documented articles casting serious doubt on the administration's claims that Iran is fueling the Iraqi insurgency with weapons. A couple of months ago, The Washington Post published a very well-researched article reporting that extensive searches by British military brigades in Southern Iraq - specifically in the areas where such weapons would almost certainly be transported and maintained - have turned up nothing.
But today, The New York Times does precisely the opposite - it has published a lengthy, prominent front-page article by Michael Gordon that does nothing, literally, but mindlessly recite administration claims about Iran's weapons-supplying activities without the slightest questioning, investigation, or presentation of ample counter-evidence."
AnotherDayInTheEmpire: "Recall, back in May of 2004, a superficially contrite New York Times editorial staff admitting it published questionable information about claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, information that ultimately paved the way for the slaughter of 650,000 Iraqis.
In an rather unconvincing and apparently obligatory mea culpa, the editors shifted blame for publishing this blatantly false and obvious propaganda, more accurately described as neocon spawned fairy tales, to convicted embezzler Ahmad Chalabi and 'a circle of Iraqi informants', refusing to admit they were used as a propaganda tool by the neocons, described merely as 'hard-liners within the Bush administration', not psychopathic warmongers.
Recall Gordon's absurd claim, following Colin Powell's theatrical dog and pony show held before the gathered at the United Nations in the orchestrated lead-up mass murder in Iraq, 'it will be difficult for skeptics to argue that Washington's case against Iraq is based on groundless suspicions and not intelligence information'.
Gordon is at it again. 'The Bush administration is expected to make public this weekend some of what intelligence agencies regard as an increasing body of evidence pointing to an Iranian link, including information gleaned from Iranians and Iraqis captured in recent American raids on an Iranian office in Erbil and another site in Baghdad,' the seasoned propagandist is allowed to write."
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