The media are helping terrorists
Gerard Jackson
Associated Press has admitted that it knowingly put terrorist sympathisers on its payroll in Iraq. This is not the first time that the AP has associated itself with pro-terrorists. It also hired Muhammad Daraghmeh to report on Palestinian affairs knowing that she was an agent of the PLO.
This raises a vital question: Is the AP’s treason an isolated incident or has the media in general sided with the enemy? I fear the answer is yes.
Considering the one-sided reporting from Iraq that paints terrorists as “freedom fighters”, the “resistance” or simply “insurgents” while the liberators are portrayed as being nothing but occupiers it becomes easy to conclude that the media are aligning themselves with barbarism. Now where is the evidence?
Let us take as a starting point an incident that occurred in November 2003 when two Paris Match journalists accompanied a group of terrorists that had planned to shoot down a DHL Airbus.
This pair of collaborators only excuse for cooperating with these terrorist would-be mass murderers is that they did not know that the Airbus was a civilian airliner. So according to their journalistic logic it would have been alright if they had shot down an airplane loaded with American or British troops.
Was it their hatred of America that blinded them to the fact that they were actively participating in a terrorist act? Or was it because they are using journalism to cloak their active support for terrorists?
Whatever their true motives, rather than inform Coalition forces of an impending attack these French journalists chose to collaborate with the terrorists. This is a truly shocking example of journalistic bigotry. What we need to know, however, is whether or not it is representative of the media. I’m afraid it is.
The corrupt CBS pulled a similar stroke when its David Hawkins visited Iraq and met with fully armed terrorists who planned to murder American troops. So why didn’t Hawkins alert the military? Because he doesn’t care if these thugs murder US soldiers. According to this patriot the US shouldn’t be in Iraq anyway. Because of Hawkins refusal to do the moral and patriotic thing a number of US soldiers and Iraqis might now be dead.
Fallujah is another good example of how the media are trying to undermine the war while willingly aiding and abetting the terrorists’ propaganda machine. CNN aired a so-called "special report" in which it accused the military of lying to it about the Fallujah operation.
Yet CNN Producer Arwan Damon, dishonestly announced Fallujah to be a “horror” “after US led offensive.” Her subheading read: “Long road ahead for residents of shattered city.” The real “horror,” and one she refused to report, was that Abu Musab al-Zaraqwi had turned the town into his own personal charnel house that even the New York Times reported, albeit briefly. I think we now know who the real liars are.
Najaf was another real “horror” that the media conveniently overlooked. Sadr’s short-lived theocratic tyranny left a legacy of atrocities. While Damon and her media mates were, and still are, trying to demoralize the troops and deligitimise the war, Sadr’s merry gang of sadistic thugs were entertaining themselves by rounding up anyone they thought would support the new government.
It then tortured and murdered them. After the city was freed American troops found more than 200 mutilated and decapitated bodies in the city’s chief mosque. Needless to say this atrocity also managed to elude the media.
But the same media ran endless stories on the repulsive behaviour of a handful of guards at Abu Gharib, where prisoners were abused but not tortured — and certainly not mutilated or beheaded. After this they ran endless stories on the marine who killed a wounded terrorist in the assault on Fallujah, while at the same time ignoring the vile crimes terrorists were committing.
And where they could not find a story to distort they would fake one. Recall the Boston Globe and the notorious Daily Mirror running phony photos of American troops raping Iraqi women and British soldiers abusing prisoners? So eager were these lefty papers to malign US and British troops that they did not even bother to run a check on the photos.
There are, unfortunately, always abuses in wartime but the aim of these rags was, and still is, to convey the impression allied troops are no better than the terrorists. Unlike the media the army knows how to deal with those who break the rules.
Not long ago CNN’s Eason Jordon confessed admitted that he spent 12 years covering up Saddam’s torture chambers, even though some of his own employees fell victim to this murderous sadist’s thugs. This makes CNN and Jordan complicit in some of Saddam’s crimes. But don’t expect the media to hunt them down.
CNN is now so repentant it is still doing the same thing for the sadistic Castro. Not only that, it has linked itself to Al Jazeera even though this Arab network had been expelled from Iraq for acting as a front for the terrorists.
This crowd even put PLO activists Ziad Abu Zayyad (Fatah) and Ghassan Khatib (Palestinian Communist Party) payroll as in-house analysts on Palestinian affairs. Then we have Sawsan Ghosheh, one of CNN’s Palestinian producers, who is closely linked to the PLO.
This is the same corrupt network that had the nerve to turn down a pro-Israeli ad because, as its spokesman said with a straight face: "CNN does not take international advocacy ads concerning regions in conflict.” People need no longer wonder why CNN ‘reporting’ from the Middle East is anti-Israeli and anti-American.
Agence France Presse is another so-called news agency that hires pro-terrorists to act as phony journalists. For years it had the Jew-hating Majida al-Batsh reporting on Palestinian affairs even though they knew she was a member of the PLO. Also on the payroll was Adel Zanoun, another PLO activist. AFP has a score or more these Jew-haters on its payroll.
And then there is Reuters who claims to have a “long-standing policy to avoid the use of emotive words, we do not use terms like 'terrorist' and 'freedom fighter' unless they are in a direct quote or are otherwise attributable to a third party.”
They think this piece of humbug allows them to get away with putting terrorist in scare quotes. The truth is that Reuters is lying. There is no “longstanding policy” on such matters.
After the 9/11 atrocity the anti-American — he doesn’t like Bush either — Steven Jukes, the head of global news at Reuters, decided that as a matter of policy that the agency would no longer use the word terrorists to describe people who fly jets into skyscrapers, blow up Jewish school children, behead Iraqis, etc. According to this moral giant “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
In plain English: Reuters has decided that bin Laden is not a terrorist, he’s just a “militant.” (Incidentally, after the 9/11 attack Reuters ordered its New York office in Times Square to take down the Old Glory because it didn’t want anyone to think it supported the US).
In keeping with its anti-American and anti-Israeli views Reuter’s management has handed over virtually the whole of its TV footage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to PLO film crews who then supply the service with anti-Israeli propaganda disguised as news events depicting Palestinians as victims of Israeli storm troopers.
Reuters then obligingly distributes this PLO propaganda to thousands of their subscribers who feed it to the public. I think a name change is in order for this outfit. How about the Goebbels News Service?
Then there is the BBC. Once known throughout the world as scrupulously honest it has now fallen under the control of the anti-Semitic anti-patriotic left who have turned it into a viciously pro-terrorist and anti-American network. (Just recall the disgraceful Gilligan affair).
The organisation is now so bad that Paul Adams, its own defence correspondent, accused his colleagues of distorting the truth on Iraq and of deliberately exaggerating British casualties.
Is it any wonder that the crew of HMS Ark Royal became so disgusted with BBC broadcasts on the war that they petitioned their captain to shut down the service.
The situation in Australia is just as bad. Max Uechtritz, head of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), publicly called the Australian military “lying bastards.” Needless to say, the ABC toes the lefty anti-American line on Iraq. Some of us down here now call it the Australian Brainwashing Corporation.
The ABC is not alone in its bigotry. There is also SBS — nicknamed the Socialist Broadcasting Service. Neville Roach, its anti-American chairman, publicly pleaded with “journalists . . . in every article, every editorial, every report, (to) highlight the murder and mayhem that our nation is about to release."
Yes, according to the leftwing Roach (as in cockroach — how apt) those who liberated Iraq from a monster are nothing but a bunch of murderers. (These people are genuinely sick).
Of course, not all journalists are hate filled ideological scum – and scum is what these people are. But decent journalists are becoming rare while the fanatics are growing in number. The result is that the decent ones are having their names and reputations dragged through the sewer.
In the meantime, a huge chunk of the media continues to willingly aid and abet terrorism. It would take a massive book to detail the treachery of the media. I can only pray that one will be written – and soon.
Note: PA was just a name change for the PLO.
Gerard Jackson is Brookes' economics editor
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Monday 24 January 2005