Habib, Jabou, Peter Arnett just spoke what all the reporters knew and don't
dare say it. Geraldo tried to and was asked to leave Iraq. Personally, the
U S is in no position to evict any body from Iraq. Do you see how Rummy is
laying the seed of blame to Tommy Franks instead of his own ineptitude. U S
troops are being asked to pray for George Bush as if it's not enough
they're dying for his imperial culture. This was reported by the Australian
Broadcasting corporation.
Daddy Sang


> [Original Message]
> From: Habib Ghanim <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 3/31/2003 12:23:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Fwd: NBC Fires Reporter Arnett!!
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>
>
> Jabou
>
> So much for Freedom of Press and expression. Who are they kidding ?
>
> habib
>
>   >From: Jabou Joh  >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list  >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Fwd: NBC Fires
> Reporter Arnett!! >Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:32:57 EST > >By David
> Bauder, The Associated Press > >NEW YORK (March 31) - NBC fired
> journalist Peter Arnett on Monday, saying it >was wrong for him to
> give an interview with state-run Iraqi TV in which he >said the
> American-led coalition's initial plan for the war had failed because
> >of Iraq's resistance. Arnett called the interview a ''misjudgment''
> and >apologized. > >Arnett, on NBC's ''Today'' show on Monday, said
> he was sorry for his >statement but added ''I said over the weekend
> what we all know about the >war.'' > >''I want to apologize to the
> American people for clearly making a >misjudgment,'' the New
> Zealand-born Arnett said. He said he would try to >leave Baghdad now,
> joking ''there's a small island in the South Pacific that >I've
> inhabited that I'll try to swim to.'' > >NBC defended him Sunday,
> saying he had given the interview as a professional >courtesy and
> that his remarks were analytical in nature. But by Monday >morning
> the network switched course and, after Arnett spoke with NBC News
> >President Neal Shapiro, said it would no longer work with Arnett. >
> >''It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview to
> state-controlled Iraqi >TV, especially at a time of war,'' NBC
> spokeswoman Allison Gollust said. >''And it was wrong for him to
> discuss his personal observations and opinions >in that interview.''
> > >Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for The
> Associated >Press, gained much of his prominence from covering the
> 1991 Gulf War for CNN. >One of the few American television reporters
> left in Baghdad, his reports >were frequently aired on NBC and its
> cable sisters, MSNBC and CNBC. > >Leaving a second network under a
> cloud may mark the end of his TV career. >Arnett was the on-air
> reporter of the 1998 CNN report that accused American >forces of
> using sarin nerve gas on a Laotian village in 1970 to kill U.S.
> >defectors. Two CNN employees were sacked and Arnett was reprimanded
> over the >report, which the station later retracted. Arnett left the
> network when his >contract was not renewed. > >In the Iraqi TV
> interview, broadcast Sunday by Iraq's satellite television >station
> and monitored by The Associated Press in Egypt, Arnett said his Iraqi
> >friends tell him there is a growing sense of nationalism and
> resistance to >what the United States and Britain are doing. > >He
> said the United States is reappraising the battlefield and delaying
> the >war, maybe for a week, ''and rewriting the war plan. The first
> war plan has >failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying
> to write another war >plan.'' > >''Clearly, the American war plans
> misjudged the determination of the Iraqi >forces,'' Arnett said. >
> >Arnett said it is clear that within the United States there is
> growing >opposition to the war and a growing challenge to President
> Bush about the >war's conduct. > >''Our reports about civilian
> casualties here, about the resistance of the >Iraqi forces, are going
> back to the United States,'' he said. ''It helps >those who oppose
> the war when you challenge the policy to develop their >arguments.''
> > >At a briefing Sunday in Qatar, Gen. Tommy Franks ticked off major
> >achievements of the war campaign, including the advance of troops to
> within >60 miles of Baghdad. But he found himself answering questions
> about whether >he had enough troops to do the job and denying that
> coalition forces were >stalled. > >A Republican congresswoman, Ileana
> Ros-Lehtinen, told Fox News Channel on >Sunday that Arnett's remarks
> were ''Kafkaesque'' and ''just crazy.'' > >''Let's hope that he's
> being coerced,'' Ros-Lehtinen said. > >The first Bush administration
> was unhappy with Arnett's reporting on the Gulf >War in 1991 for CNN,
> suggesting he had become a conveyor of propaganda. >ARnett was
> denounced for reporting that the allies had bombed a baby milk
> >factory in Baghdad when the military said it was a biological
> weapons plant. > >Arnett went to Iraq this year not as an NBC News
> reporter but as an employee >of the MSNBC show ''National Geographic
> Explorer.'' When other NBC reporters >left Baghdad for safety
> reasons, the network began airing his reports. NBC >said Monday he
> wouldn't be reporting for ''National Geographic Explorer,'' >either.
> > >The Iraqi TV interview was broadcast in English and translated by
> a uniformed >Iraqi anchor. NBC said Arnett gave the interview when
> asked shortly after he >attended an Iraqi government briefing. > >In
> the April 5 issue of TV Guide, Arnett said he felt he had found
> redemption >reporting on the current war. > >''I was furious with
> (CNN founder) Ted Turner and (then-CNN chairman) Tom >Johnson when
> they threw me to the wolves after I made them billions risking >my
> life to cover the first Gulf War,'' Arnett told TV Guide. > >''Now
> (Turner and Johnson) are gone, the Iraqis have thrown the CNN crew
> out >of Baghdad, and I'm still here,'' he said. ''Any satisfaction in
> that? Ha, >ha, ha, ha.'' > >He said the Iraqis allowed him to stay in
> Baghdad because they respect him >and ''see me as a fellow warrior.''
> > > AP-NY-03-31-03 0910EST >
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