Thursday, September 30, 2004
Hostage of the Media
Can we rely on the statement of a person who is not free?
Remember how the American soldiers captured by Saddam accused themselves of invading Iraq?
How they were portrayed by the Iraqi media?
That's exactly what Al Jazeera is doing with the Briton taken hostage. While CNN, and the New York times report the fact, Al Jazeera, the terrorists' spokeman, uses it as propaganda. That's known. However, look how the Spanish media report it: EFE, the Spanish news agency, remarks that Bigley calls Blair "a liar." Not even Al Jazeera (I hate to put links to the enemy's site) remarks the liar aspect of the news. Now, following EFE, other Spanish media made their day: that's what their international headlines look line, for example, La Vanguardia or El Mundo, left and right-wing media, respectively.
Now, Blair is to blame on the terrorists' actions. Very juicy angle for the news. No wonder that Spaniards accused Aznar of the massacre in Madrid of March 11. That's how media nurture them...
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Remember how the American soldiers captured by Saddam accused themselves of invading Iraq?
How they were portrayed by the Iraqi media?
That's exactly what Al Jazeera is doing with the Briton taken hostage. While CNN, and the New York times report the fact, Al Jazeera, the terrorists' spokeman, uses it as propaganda. That's known. However, look how the Spanish media report it: EFE, the Spanish news agency, remarks that Bigley calls Blair "a liar." Not even Al Jazeera (I hate to put links to the enemy's site) remarks the liar aspect of the news. Now, following EFE, other Spanish media made their day: that's what their international headlines look line, for example, La Vanguardia or El Mundo, left and right-wing media, respectively.
Now, Blair is to blame on the terrorists' actions. Very juicy angle for the news. No wonder that Spaniards accused Aznar of the massacre in Madrid of March 11. That's how media nurture them...
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WMDs
Some media have already established that Saddam's WMD were no danger. Yesterday, in the New York Times, MAHDI OBEIDI describes us in great detail Saddam's nuclear program. There is more information in the book "The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind". In particular:
The governments of Iran and North Korea, both close friends and supporters of terrorist groups (massacre of the AMIA in Argentina, massacre of Rangún in Burma, among others) will have to think again about their plans... We may see their leaders converted like Gadhafy or shaved like Saddam...
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Was Iraq a potential threat to the United States and the world? Threat is
alwaysa matter of perception, but our nuclear program could have been
reinstituted atthe snap of Saddam Hussein's fingers
The governments of Iran and North Korea, both close friends and supporters of terrorist groups (massacre of the AMIA in Argentina, massacre of Rangún in Burma, among others) will have to think again about their plans... We may see their leaders converted like Gadhafy or shaved like Saddam...
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First post. In English
This blog is a continuation of my first blog: http://jorwell.blogspot.com/, written in Catalan and Spanish. Some of the topics I'm interested in are the war on terror and the US elections. This will be the place for writing something about them and I will do it in English.
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