September 7, 2004
BOMBS AWAY!:
Supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr use a mortar to shell an U.S. position in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Sept. 7, 2004. U.S. forces battled al-Sadr's supporters in the Baghdad slum on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people, including one American soldier, and injuring 193. (AP Photo/Karim Rahim)
One wonders, if the mortar were pointed at the local AP Press Pool, whether the caption would read the same. So do these "journalists" just stand by and watch women get mugged in NYC, snapping photos and blandly quipping?
So do these "journalists" just stand by and watch women get mugged in NYC, snapping photos and blandly quipping?
Yes, they would. Journalistic objectivity, doncha know.
But don't we have counterbattery fire for this sort of thing? I certainly wouldn't hang out around an enemy mortar position.
Posted by: PapayaSF at September 7, 2004 7:46 PMHeck, why don't we slip a tracking device in Mr. Rahim's camera bag? He definitely hangs out with an interesting crowd...
Posted by: brian at September 7, 2004 7:52 PMJohn:
From 1972 to Gulf War 1, all young journalists wanted to be Woodwards and Bernsteins, uncovering corruption and cover-ups that had to be there even when they weren't. Since then, their models are Peter Arnett and Cristiane Amanpour and they see their task as proving their neutrality by sucking up to the enemy.
Posted by: Peter B at September 7, 2004 8:19 PMOne of my heroes, Gen William Tecumseh Sherman, said 'If we shot all the war correspondents at sundown, there'd be dispatches from Hell before breakfast.'
Posted by: Bart at September 7, 2004 10:25 PMFrom the casual way the tube was laid, I'd say they're not actually shelling "an U.S. position."
They're just lobbing one out there at maximum range, hoping to hit something, anything.
Posted by: H.D. Miller at September 7, 2004 11:14 PMDoesn't anybody care about the Law of War anymore, or is that just something our enemies, foreign and domestic, trot out to beat us with?
That Hadjji with the tube is a war criminal, a bandit, an unlawful combatant. No uniform or equivalent of a uniform, don't you know?
Posted by: Lou Gots at September 8, 2004 5:26 AMDoesn't anybody care about the Law of War anymore, or is that just something our enemies, foreign and domestic, trot out to beat us with?
That Hadjji with the tube is a war criminal, a bandit, an unlawful combatant. No uniform or equivalent of a uniform, don't you know?
Posted by: Lou Gots at September 8, 2004 5:28 AMDoesn't anybody care about the Law of War anymore
Yes but if you read the fine print it applies only to the US and their allies.
Posted by: Uncle Bill at September 8, 2004 7:41 AMH.D. - I'd say they're posing for a photographer.
Posted by: pj at September 8, 2004 8:47 AMOf course none of the brillant correspondents ever notes that these jihadis have no way of knowing where the mortar shells will land. None will ever note that these dipsticks are risking and killing civilians out of sheer ignorance and malice.
Posted by: Mikey at September 8, 2004 9:10 AM