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To: LindyBill who wrote (101572)	2/22/2005 4:25:24 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

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. command-post.org

To: LindyBill who wrote (101572)	2/22/2005 10:52:48 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Will anyone report that the war is over when the Taliban come out of the hills and join the free Afghan people? Doubtful. The American media have all fled the success of Afghanistan and only one or two reporters remain to document Karzai's bold and effective initiative to entice lower-level Taliban to come in from the cold. Here's one AP writer who's still reporting doom and gloom in Afghanistan... hosted.ap.org UN: Afghanistan Could Become Terror Haven By STEPHEN GRAHAM Associated Press Writer (There's this) ...Afghanistan's economy is booming, growing at least 25 percent annually since then and expected to expand by at least 10 percent a year in the next decade. Some 4 million children have enrolled in school - more than ever before - and more than 3 million people forced from their homes have returned, most from Pakistan and Iran... (Followed by this) ..."Our team found the overwhelming majority of people hold a sense of pessimism and fear that reconstruction is bypassing them," said Daud Saba, one of the report's authors. The report was also critical of the U.S.-led military engagement in Afghanistan, saying it helped produce a climate of "fear, intimidation, terror and lawlessness" and neglected the longer-term threat to security posed by inequality and injustice. It also described reconstruction projects sponsored by the U.S. military as "inadequate and dangerous," echoing concern from some relief groups that they have blurred the lines between soldiers and civilians, and made aid workers into militant targets...