New York Times Rewrites Fallujah History

[rodeodance]

http://www.fair.org/activism/nyt-fallujah.html


New York Times Rewrites Fallujah History

November 16, 2004

In three recent reports about the military invasion of the Iraqi city of
Fallujah, the New York Times has misreported the facts about the April
2004 invasion of the city and the toll it took on Iraqi civilians.

[reprehensor]

1. BUMP

Missed that one!

[kimchi]

2. 2 football fields with hundreds of freshly dug graves...

I remember the figure 251 was put out to conteract the 600; but I sure as hell don't remember football fields full of graves.

(another snip)
"Other journalistic investigations depict the reality of widespread civilian death in Fallujah: An Associated Press tally of the dead in Iraq (4/30/04) discovered that in Fallujah "two football fields were turned into cemeteries, with hundreds of freshly dug graves, marked with wooden planks scrawled with names -- some with names of women, some marked specifically as children. At one of the fields, an AP reporter was told by volunteer gravediggers on April 11 that more than 300 people had been buried there." A Reuters report (4/13/04) quoted researchers from Human Rights Watch calling for an investigation based on reports they received from residents fleeing the violence in Fallujah."

[otohara]

3. Kick

[ooglymoogly]

4. where is the "move along nothing to see here" post

its real appropriate here