Via Jalan-Jalan… I travelled to a new-blog-for-me “The Arab Street Files“. Blogkeeper Arab Street Bum’s opinion on the Nick Berg beheading can be found here.
Via Arab Street I found Kathryn Cramer who’s posted several links to this morning’s stories regarding Iraqi police raiding the compound of the Iraqi National Congress and the nearby home of Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi. The fallout from this should be interesting.
Via Kathryn Cramer I found yet another new-to-me blog called Bill’s Blog. While everything posted there is compelling this post in particular captured my attention. It concerns the Human Rights Report I mentioned in a previous post and includes a link to what William describes as a “truly wonderful documentary” that is “a must-see for anyone who wants to understand why only one side of the debate is presented in the US media.” It’s called Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land and you can watch a segment by following the link.
tex links to articles in this post reporting on civilian deaths in Gaza and Iraq.
Joe at American Leftist asks the best questions and in this post he outdoes himself. I’d like to add one more on the subject of Nick Berg‘s hostage captivity. Why was it kept a secret? To the best of my knowledge all prior kidnappings were reported on immediately and followed with great interest by the press.
Finally, Vigilant TV has posted part two of the ongoing analysis of the Berg decapitation film. It’s been up for a few days now but I haven’t had a chance to link to it until today.
Articles of note:
Fred Kaplan’s piece is a must read and includes this:
The second news story that heaves more burdens on the president comes from an NBC News broadcast by Jim Miklaszewski on March 2. Apparently, Bush had three opportunities, long before the war, to destroy a terrorist camp in northern Iraq run by Abu Musab Zarqawi, the al-Qaida associate who recently cut off the head of Nicholas Berg. But the White House decided not to carry out the attack because, as the story puts it:
[T]he administration feared [that] destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
Iraq militants claim al-Zarqawi is dead published by MSNBC on March 4, 2004.