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To: LindyBill who wrote (101572)2/22/2005 4:25:24 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793964
 
Anything the terrorists tell Reuters is treated as gospel. But what we tell them is subject to all sorts of doubts.

Command Post - Alleged Syrian Spook Confesses on Iraqi TV
From Reuters via the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :
abc.net.au

Iraq's US-backed interim government is stepping up its propaganda war with insurgents by broadcasting videotaped interviews with suspects who appear to confess to killings, rape and theft on the orders of guerrillas.

The offensive was launched in recent weeks on state-run Iraqiya television, which broadcast lengthy interrogations of Iraqis it said had carried out terrorist acts under the direction of "Abdullah", described as a criminal with close ties to Syria.

There is no obvious way to verify the authenticity of the confessions.
[...]
A state-run local television station in northern Iraq showed a video of what it said was a Syrian intelligence agent whom it accused of planting roadside bombs and attacking US troops.
Nineveh Television in the town of Mosul said the man was a Syrian guerrilla working for Syrian intelligence.

The Reuters report's wording, full of caveats and warnings about being unable to veify etc are in striking contrast to the way it reports other events.
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