Iraqi Official Says New York Times Lied In “Report” Of Alleged Sadr City Desertions
Sounds like they were relying on sources as good as those for the pathetic and self-destructive John McCain smear.
Iraq’s equivalent of the AP, Voices of Iraq:
Baghdad, Apr 18, (VOI) – An Iraqi security official on Friday dismissed a report by the New York Times newspaper on the withdrawal of an Iraqi army unit from its post in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad.
“The New York Times report on the withdrawal of an Iraqi army unit from its post in Sadr City is groundless. No desertions in Sadr City were reported save a case of three soldiers during a combat mission,” Maj. General Qassem Atta, the spokesman for the Fardh al-Qanoon (law imposing) security plan, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).
A New York Times report had read that an Iraqi military unit of 50 soldiers left its post in Sadr City, adding that the efforts of Cap. Logan Faith, the commander of the 25th Infantry Regiment in the U.S. army, did not succeed to dissuade the Iraqi unit commander from his decision to give up fighting although that unity did not lose any of its soldiers during combat operations.
The U.S. paper allegedly quoted the Iraqi officer as saying that he has given orders to his unit to stop operations due to lack of reinforcements, zero communication with the U.S. forces and poor armament compared to Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militiamen.
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Don’t forget that the NY Times is where Hillary gets her intel.
https://pat-dollard.com/2008/04/hillary-gets-her-iraq-information-from-where/
April 18th, 2008 at 3:56 amThe media is where the enemy has decided to fight this war.
It seems Iraq has finally caught on.
The people of this Nation need to woke up to the obvious.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:20 amshould have known. MSM is getting harder and harder to believe anymore. Now they are just flat out lying about stuff. It started out subtle enough, with taking things out of context by only playing tiny clips of a statement to make the persons words go one way or another but now they are just flat out fabricating
April 18th, 2008 at 5:30 amCharges of espionage and treason apply here people! Why are there no arrests of those responsible?
There is one thing in protecting sources, but when it comes down to fertilizer like this, heads should roll…
April 18th, 2008 at 5:55 amI love it! Just like a house of cards, who’s (Which MSM Outlet)going to be the next to fall?
April 18th, 2008 at 7:09 amYup, seems we were recently discussing in the Time magazine cover thread this whole concept of so-called “professionalism” of the media, specifically Time magazine
as I had said, Time needs to stop referring to themselves as professionals - their track record proves them to be much less than that 
apparently their accountants aren’t much better 
April 18th, 2008 at 7:21 amAnother report shot down from the Nazi news media NYT
April 18th, 2008 at 9:34 amConsider the source. The NY Slimes is a just a large piece of shitpaper in the greater scheme of reporting the news.
Only a complete moron trusts the Slimes anymore.
We at Dollard Nation know full well that the Slimes and the rest of the National BS Media uses stringers (read insurgents) to gather their news stories from the GWOT?
So why trust them? I don’t.
And they wonder why they’re losing money and subscribers.
April 18th, 2008 at 11:25 amdon’t forget that most of the info that our elected officials in D.C. comes fm the slimes,,, how many times have we heard them say “according to an article this morning in the new york times”…when i read the article the other day and got to the meat of the “dessertion” i thought of chesty puller and the retreat out of the ‘chosin reservoir’… and how the headlines was soooooooooooooooooooooooo misleading to the average reader..
April 19th, 2008 at 7:42 am