{"id":908,"date":"2005-05-29T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=908"},"modified":"2005-05-29T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2005-05-29T15:45:03","slug":"over-600-iraqis-have-been-killed-in-just-over-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"“Over 600 Iraqis have been killed in just over a month. “"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pulitzer prize winning war reporter Sidney Schanberg, now writing a media column for The Village Voice<\/em>, and James Rainey, whose article “Unseen Pictures, Untold Stories<\/em><\/a>” (noticed by Joe here<\/a>) was in the May 1st edition of the Los Angeles Times<\/em>, appeared May 24th on Democracy NOW! with Aaron Glantz, reporter for Free Speech Radio News, Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship<\/a>, and authour of the new book How America Lost Iraq<\/em><\/a>. They were on the show to discuss “How The U.S. Press Has Sanitized The War in Iraq<\/a>,” the topic of Schanberg’s, “Not a Pretty Picture<\/em><\/a>,” an article I cited<\/a> when giving the opinion that Operation Matador’s success seemed to be the absence of images surfacing, at least so far, of the kind featured by Schanberg.<\/p>\n

Schanberg speaking to Amy Goodman:<\/p>\n

Well, first of all, Jim is right about the danger in Iraq. It probably is ? it clearly is much more serious than in Vietnam because of the nature of that and this insurgency. But the truth is that you don’t come across these pictures unless you are actually at the scene, but the larger truth is that there are pictures because other people take them, and if the editors wanted them, people — journalists in Iraq and in the region would be trying to find pictures from local sources, someone with their own camera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Glantz, on past and present working conditions: <\/p>\n

Well, I think there is the coordinated campaign at this time by the U.S. military and to some extent the new Iraqi government to prevent these stories from getting out. Al Jazeera, after broadcasting from the hospital in Fallujah in the May 2004 siege, was kicked out of the country and is still banned from Iraq. And if you watch Al Jazeera today, they will regularly read an announcement urging people to call and complain about the fact that they’re banned from Iraq. An Al Arabiya reporter, who went to Fallujah and was working on a documentary on Fallujah, was arrested by the Iraqi police a few weeks ago and held on bogus charges, and he was released, interestingly, when he gave over his tapes. A CBS News stringer covering the insurgency in Mosul was shot by the U.S. military, and after the military took him to the hospital, they didn’t release him. They found in his camera that he had been filming the resistance, and so they incarcerated him. So, there is something going on on the ground in Iraq to make sure that these images that were broadcast nationally and across the Arab world during the 2004 siege of Fallujah, that radicalized the population so much, that even as we have these mass sweeps, as you were saying today in West Baghdad, with more than 400 Iraqis arrested by the U.S. military, to make sure that people even on the ground in Iraq do not see those images.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Images and stories like these<\/a>. (via<\/em> buermann<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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