Bush League
League of Extraordinary Bloggers meet with Chimpy.
Here’s N.Z. Here’s Argghhh!!!, who was a guest blogger here, which makes you the reader one blog degree of separation from worshipful greatness. The day Blackfive met the President of the United States here. Ardolino, vidlinked in from Fallujah. Schippert of Threatswatch here. Mrs Greyhawk of Mudville. CJ Grisham, maybe still shellshocked, hadn’t posted on it yet. Roggio, also vidding it in, has everything forwarded to this somewhat obtuse site. Damn, now I’m thinking when that White House intern emailed a few weeks ago and said “you want to be on our propaganda circular list?” or something like that, I shouldn’t have ignored him.
Mohammed at ITM, writing on the pending Iraqi invasion of Washington, has yet to post on his own foray into the White House.
And here, for your Saturday morning edification, is just one example of what makes blogs a great and necessary addition to the world’s news gathering apparatus and an even greater and more necessary addition to the world’s political discussion. Omar at Iraq the Model, with Abu Dsheer, a Massacre and a Moment of Unity:
A story of the savagery of al-Qaeda and the compassion of Iraqis took place two days ago in one of the southern suburbs of Baghdad.
The story began when the people of Hor Rijab, a village inhabited by mostly Sunni farmers, made up their mind that enough is enough and formed a “battalion” of local fighters to confront al-Qaeda hardly two weeks ago.
Al-Qaeda was definitely not happy with this rebellion and on Tuesday morning attacked the village, Radio Sawa has the details: [Arabic]Locals fleeing the area said the attack started at 10 in the morning and the shooting didn’t stop until after 5 in the evening. Al-Qaeda militants who are mostly Afghans and non-Iraqi Arabs killed dozens of the locals; some were beheaded and their heads were put on top of their chests; among them were women and children.
One woman who was fleeing the fighting added:
The people of Hor Rijab turned against al-Qaeda but since there was no support for them al-Qaeda returned back, broke into the homes and slaughtered men, women and children. And the Americans did nothing…
So, the terrorists of al-Qaeda attacked the Sunni families in this poor village and no one was there for the rescue; not the government and not the MNF. The rescue came from was thought to be a very unlikely source; the Shia families in the neighboring district of Abu Dsheer:
The rest here. I hope the White House, while hosting Mohammed, read what Omar was writing.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:03 am on Saturday, September 15, 2007
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September 15th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Did they wear their gray, pin-striped jammies, or the stars-and-planets model?
Further proof, though none is needed, that the living fossils of the mainstrream media (sorry, Jules—I actually think the future of print belongs to the tabloids) now have to share the earth with their blogging cousins. Blogs advocate—but who believes that the NYT and CBS don’t advocate too?
Bloodthirsty Liberal
September 17th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Jules;
If you have any decent sources, could you please check the Hor Rijab story? I see Omar’s summary, and the El Naar site, both feeding off the Radio Sawa story. But that’s it. Surely there would be more. I suspect a fake report; what’s Sawa’s reputation like? Are they reliable?