CNN Lou Dobbs: We captured some Iranians in Iraq today and

[Skidmore]

are interrogating some of them? Did anyone else hear that report? Some were with the Iranian gov't and some were not. Some were released and others were detained to be interrogated.

[NNN0LHI]

1. He pushed real hard for invading Iraq on the lead up to that mess too n/t

[Gregorian]

2. Here's a link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2980401

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. the iraqnam govt INVITED THEM THERE for talks. And the US objected to it

by deliberately targeting them in raids. This was no fluke, no mistake, no error, no miscommunication. This was as blatant as our sending another carrier attack force into the nearby gulf. It is neoconmanism run amuck.

[flyarm]

4. IT WAS DISCUSSED THIS MORNING HERE..HERE IS A LINK AS WELL..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2980401

[Skidmore]

6. Excuse me.

But I was cleaning house this morning and missed that discussion.

[flyarm]

9. excuse me ...

i was simply answering your question...why so angry??

remember your question??

Did anyone else hear that report?

i was simply answering you...sorry, i guess i should have ignored your question..remind me not to answer you again...without getting my head chopped off!!

pssssssss...i was trying to be helpful to you by answering your question..sorry you found fault in my helping ...

fly

[Skidmore]

11. Then perhaps you should turn the caps lock off on your keyboard

when you do a thread title and quit shouting.

[flyarm]

12. ahhh

see.. i was doing as you were and rushing around cleaning up..and i was trying to be helpful...to you....

sorry i won't help again...

fly

[flyarm]

13. oh and i am not a typist...

and i hate typing..and do not know the rules of typing..i didn't know typing with caps was yelling..i see it better that way!!

fly

[BlueJac]

5. This just breaking..........

Some Mexicans were arrested today in the USA. Some were later released and others were detained to be interrogated.....




GW Bush's group is up to it again, the next war build up and fear mongering.

Freedom is on the march at the end of a rifle barrel.

[Disturbed]

7. This is more bullshit!

The Pres. of Iraq, a sovereign nation, invited Iranians for a visit. The US Occupiers had no right to detain them, much less arrest them. When will the Iraqis get weary of being a Colony of the US/UK?

[me b zola]

8. This is the first that I've heard it mentioned on tv since early Mon morning

The best I can tell, the story broke late Sunday night--Christmas Eve--when there was all but zero broadcast news being aired. The first, and until now, last time I heard about this on CNN was early Monday (Christmas) morning.

Lots of spin going on in the very few news stories that have covered it. This is a huge news story that was dumped in the middle of the largest holiday when there is almost no news being reported and a majority of internet bloggers are spending time with their families; in other words, when no one is paying attention.


Here's my thread on it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2980401

...and the LBN thread that is struggling to stay afloat:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2664619

This entire "incident", including it's timing, stink to high heaven.

My thread was meant to draw attention to what was slipped past almost everyone and direct people to the LBN thread where there are some other links and discussion on the topic.

[UTUSN]

10. Here's Lou's credibility on ANYTHING

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http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=589

Broken Record
Lou Dobbs' daily 'Broken Borders' CNN segment has focused on immigration for years.

But there's one issue Dobbs just won't take on.

By Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok

.... For more than two years now, Dobbs has served up a populist approach to immigration on nightly segments of his newscast entitled "Broken Borders." He has relentlessly covered the issue, although hardly from a traditional news perspective -- Dobbs favors clamping down on illegal immigration, and his "reporting" never fails to make that clear. He has covered the same issues, and the same anti-immigration leaders, time after time after time. In recent months, Dobbs has run countless upbeat reports on the "citizen border patrols" that have sprung up around the country since last April's Minuteman Project, a paramilitary effort to seal the Arizona border.

But there's one thing Lou Dobbs won't do. No matter what others report about the movement, Dobbs has failed to present mounting and persistent evidence of anti-Hispanic racism in anti-immigration groups and citizen border patrols. ....

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http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17104568&BRD=2290&PAG=461&dept_id=569392&rfi=6

Border Patrol chief doesn’t want Minutemen near agents (Laredo, Texas)

LAREDO MORNING TIMES ^ | 08/24/2006 | MIGUEL TIMOSHENKOV

The head of the Border Patrol said Wednesday he doesn’t want members of the Minuteman Project working near his agents when they come to the Laredo area next month. The civilian group, which reports illegal immigrants to immigration authorities, is expected to start patrolling the border in the Laredo area on Sept. 11 and continue through Nov. 7.

Acting Chief Patrol Agent Reynaldo Garza of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Laredo Sector said he can’t prevent the civilians from coming to Laredo, but said they won’t be allowed to interfere with official business. ....

Esquivel said that if U.S. citizens should have any trouble with a member of the Minuteman Project, he or she should call the sheriff’s department or other law enforcement authority.

State Rep. Richard Raymond deplored the group’s plan to come to Laredo.

“They don’t have anything to do with this community,” Raymond said. “Here, we reject the racism they practice.” ....


(Miguel Timoshenkov may be reached at [phone] or by e-mail at [e-mail])

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http://iapprovethismessiah.com/2006/08/moons-paper-and-minutemen.html

Wonkette: if the Border Patrol is short handed, why not call out the Minutemen? You know, the more-bark-than-bite nationalist “movement” that, according to the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Jerry Seper and the Washington Times largely invented out of the ether? Mind you, we’re not complaining. We’re big fans of making mountains out of molehills...

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=635

Anti-Immigration Movement

Newspapers Inflated Minuteman Numbers

, Report Finds

Moon's paper and the Minutemen

The report, "Creating the Minutemen," is based on an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) analysis of 581 articles and editorials printed in major U.S. newspapers between January 2005 and February 2006. The ACLU has been highly critical of the Minutemen, and ACLU volunteers closely monitored the group.

The first of those articles, "Volunteers Set to Monitor Border Crossings," by Jerry Seper of the hard-right Washington Times, reported that 240 volunteers had signed up. By early March, Seper was reporting that the number of volunteers had "more than tripled," came from every state, and included 16 pilots with aircraft.

During the last two weeks of March 2005, the media hype shifted into overdrive. Fifteen journalists reported the Minuteman Project had signed up "at least 1,000 volunteers." The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ran a March 23, 2005, article headlined "2,000 volunteers expected for Minuteman Project."


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BoingBoing MM-"Wetbacks" http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/15/snapshots_of_volunte.html


(direct to wetback:

Boston Globe/Vermont: http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2005/10/16/volunteers_get_cold_reception_in_vermont?mode=PF

WashPost/Hate-State: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103000822.html

Pro-MM / LoneWacko: http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/004214.html

WashPost MM-Go-Home editorial: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111200954.html

Slave flags: http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/08/minutemen-home-for-extremists_08.html

Austin councilman Go Back to MX resolution opposing MM: http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/12/17minutemen.html

Cameron Cty resolution, 09-13: http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=6&id=25892 . Brownsville Herald: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=67029_0_10_0_C

********Letters:

Other cites racism, 11-13: http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=10109&Section=Letters

Mine, 11-15: http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=10135&Section=Letters

Disgraceful country, 11-23:

Indian, 11-27: http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=10339&Section=Letters

27yrs learn English, 12-19: http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=10689&Section=Letters

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http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/08/minutemen-home-for...



Minutemen: A home for extremists
Monday, August 08, 2005

This is a recent Minutemen rally. And yes, that's a Nazi flag there, third from the right.

Well, I've been saying all along that the Minutemen's core demographic is constituted of right-wing extremists, including many outright racists.

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