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October 23, 2005

MSM Busy Reporting Burning Of Taliban (Dead) Bodies But Ignore Burning Of U.S. Contractor 'Alive' In Iraq

Topics: Iraq

While the mainstream media have been busy pushing the "misreporting" of the burning of dead Taliban bodies in Afghanistan, they have ignored the real story of ~~insurgents~~ an entire Iraqi Islamic terrorist community burning a U.S. contractor alive, as "Barefoot children, yelping in delight, piled straw on to the screaming man's body to stoke the flames."

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An angry mob of insurgents attacked a convoy of American contractors last month when they got lost in a town north of Baghdad, killing four and wounding two, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

The Sept. 20 attack in the mostly Sunni Arab town of Duluiyah, about 45 miles north of Baghdad, was reported for the first time on Saturday by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph and confirmed by the military on Sunday.

The convoy, which included U.S. military guards riding in Humvees, made a wrong turn into Duluiyah and insurgents opened fire with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, Maj. Richard Goldenberg, a spokesman for Task Force Liberty in north-central Iraq, told The Associated Press. ...

The Telegraph reported the contractors killed and wounded were employees of the Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, the biggest U.S. military contractor in Iraq. But Goldenberg could not confirm that.

The Telegraph reported that two of the contractors not killed in the initial attack were dragged alive from their vehicle, which had been badly shot up. They were forced to kneel in the road before being killed.

"Killing one of the men with a rifle round fired into the back of his head, they doused the other with petrol and set him alight," the paper reported. "Barefoot children, yelping in delight, piled straw on to the screaming man's body to stoke the flames."

The crowd then "dragged their corpses through the street, chanting anti-U.S. slogans," the report said.

As the media continue their "aiding and abetting the enemy" through their selective and often inaccurate coverage of the war in Iraq (and the War On Terror), they also continue to ignore the very real attrocities of Islamic terrorists and their communities (including the participation by their children).

I can't help but think about how this story exemplifies a truth about Islamic culture that our government and the MSM continue to ignore.

Hat tip - Ian at The Political Teen

Posted by Richard at October 23, 2005 2:50 PM

"MADE A WRONG TURN" into a neighborhood of insurgents? Ths was no wrong turn, this was an ambush. The terrorists probably changed the street signs, or put up "DETOUR" type signs, that caused the convoy to turn into what has to be a trap. Reading the article one must conclude the terrorists were ready and waiting for the convoy to come down that street. This was a deliberate ambush.

The main stream media is made up of hysterical, self-serving, vulgtures.

Posted by: WALT at October 23, 2005 6:26 PM

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