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December 9, 2004
Kurdish Blogger: Who to blame for future murders? Kevin Sites
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesLate this afternoon I was doing my afternoon check on Middle East blogs and stopped by Kurdo's World, then clicked from his site to 'Kardox-The Kurdish View', another Kurdish blogger. There in his archives my eye(only one sees but I can honestly tell my wife that I only half-look at other women) fell upon a post that offers a much different perspective on the Marine mosque shooting than we have heard from the MSM, but I do think I recall seeing it mentioned on the blogosphere somewhere. So this isn't new information, it's just some additional material on the Sites video that should be taken into consideration when forming one's opinion either way.
Kardox posted the following comments on Nov 17 (his english isn't perfect but it's much better than most blogger's Kurdish. These are his exact words regarding the event:
The famous photographer Kevin Sites was the man behind the camera one the American solider killed a insurgent in the Mosque.
First of all let me make some things clear. If these men wore actually from the area, what wore they doing in the Mosque? Obviously they wore out of town and there to fight.
We did not see any weapons on the video footage but it was too short to tell if there wore any.
Why would two USA units attack the mosque if it did not had been used by the insurgents? Just plain bad luck?
Kevin Sites had a blog during the war but was asked to shut it down when the TV bosses told him to do so, now he works as a freelance for the NBC network. Now his website is running again and publishing images from the front.
Kevin Sites is according to some sources a active anti-war personality and always portraying terrorists as victims instead of their true nature which is EVIL by the way.
What Sites has done is absolutely the dumbest thing to do, not only his video is been shown across the Arab world and doing a good job to recruit new terrorists to Iraq. It also gives hate and mistrust against the USA in Iraq. Making the USA's job more harder and off course more dangerous.
So don't be surprised if you see videos of victims of terrorists being first injured and then shot dead in the head. There is one person you can blame for this and that is Kevin Sites!
By the way, if I was that young man I would probably do the same considering the circumstances.
Kurdox describes himself as a 30 year old businessman in Hawler (Arbil or Erbil, North Iraq). He says that he has lived in Europe for almost 15 years, but now works for a family investment company. He says that he would like to tell us a lot more but wishes to remain in one peice(my summary). He also says that he loves bloging because it gives him the satisfaction to write about his thoughts. His bio is here...
Of course this the opinion of a blogger in Iraqi Kurdistan, not a professional news analyst. For that we need to go to CBS.
However, it is interesting to know what someone a lot closer
to what's going on over there thinks about the Marine mosque event, and
to have some local insight that hasn't been filtered through the MSM -
remembering that Kevin Sites one of them, not really one of us. I
personally am inclined to believe much of what Kardox has to say,
particularly in regard to the incitement of anti-American sentiment in
the Middle East. Sites should have known enough about war and be
sufficiently street-savy to realize how things would be viewed in the
Arab world. To that extent I believe he has ccaused more damage to our
nation and it's fight against terrorism than the Jeremy Hinzman-like
traitors we have seen and blogged about lately.
For information on Hawler and Kurdistan in general, go to Kurdaway, an independent website established in March of 1998 that has a collection of contents and links to Kurdistani news, music, images videos, songs, and political opinions of Kurds(this info is on the site, I didn't originate the description).
Disclosure: The excerpt that may appear on news feeds is not Kardox' actual words but a "cleaned-up" version to correct the english. I apologize Kardox!
Posted by Hyscience at December 9, 2004 6:43 PM
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