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July 15, 2005
What we Don't Hear
Is it just me? Am I the only one who does not see this type of reporting on the TV or in the newspapers?
July 14, 2005: A senior aide to Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, Abu Abd al Aziz, was captured. Interestingly, no details of the capture were released. Al Aziz is second in command of al Qaeda forces in Baghdad, and a key organizer of terrorist attacks. For many Iraqi police, shutting down al Qaeda has become something of an obsession. Iraqi television and radio cover this battle with the terrorists intensely. The deaths of Iraqi civilians and security troops are given front page coverage, as are the operations against the terrorists. Much to the dismay of Iraqi Sunni Arabs, the media keeps pointing out that nearly all the Iraqi supporters of the al Qaeda terrorists are Sunni Arabs. The leaders of the Iraqi Sunni Arab community are working hard to prove their loyalty, before popular opinion against Iraqi Sunni Arabs gets out of control, and widespread attacks on Sunni Arabs begins.
Iraqi police obsessed with shutting down Al Qaeda? I thought they all turned and ran. Television and radio covering the battle? "Deaths of Iraqi civilians and security troops ... given front page coverage, as are the operations against the terrorists"? I didn't even know they had newspapers, radio or TV over there (joke...).
I swear I have not seen this stuff in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Fox News, CNN, or any of the other places I look.
Now maybe it's been there and I've missed it. But I doubt it.
I got the above from the daily briefing over at StrategyPage. Without it, Belmont Club, Chrenkoff, and three of four other sites I wouldn't know what was going on at all in Iraq.
Just thought I'd share that with you. Now have a good evening.
Posted by Tom at July 15, 2005 9:44 PM
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