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Monday, October 04, 2004

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We need a new "AP"

It's apparent that anti-terrorist activity is stepping up in the Sunni triangle. It's equally apparent that AP is going to continue their anti-US reporting. In a story pointed out by one of my readers AP continues the same sort of biased reporting that I pointed out yesterday, including repeating some of the same lines.
Insurgents exploded two car bombs at the gates of the main U.S.-Iraqi headquarters in Baghdad and near major hotels Monday, killing at least 21 people and wounding 96. In Fallujah, U.S. warplanes struck what the military called terror hideouts, killing 11, according to doctors who said women and children were among the dead.
You'll note that it's almost impossible to read of a US military strike that doesn't include the deaths of women and children. Yet the car bombers apparently almost never kill women and children. (I'm sure it pained the AP to report about the 34 children killed last week by "insurgents", but they were able to blame it on the US military anyway. It's was their handing out of candy that precipitated the incident.)

This pattern repeats itself over and over as the AP tries hard to turn people's opinions against the US.

We really do need a new media service to compete with, and hopefully replace, AP.
The military said a "precision strike" at about 1 a.m. (1000 GMT Sunday) hit a building where about 25 insurgents were moving weapons on the outskirts of Fallujah. Intelligence sources said insurgents were using the site to store weapons and conduct training, the military said in a statement, adding that precautions were taken to "ensure no innocent civilians were present" at the time of the strike.
Isn't this despicable? "Insurgents" are never placed in quotes, but precision strike is.

Could the bias be any more clear?

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