October 06, 2006
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 — Videos showing insurgent attacks against American troops in Iraq, long available in Baghdad shops and on Jihadist Web sites, have steadily migrated in recent months to popular Internet video-sharing sites, including YouTube and Google Video.Of course, it wouldn't be the Gray Lady without a strong whiff of sympathy being shown for the cyber jihadis:Many of the videos, showing sniper attacks against Americans and roadside bombs exploding under American military vehicles, have been posted not by insurgents or their official supporters but apparently by Internet users in the United States and other countries, who have passed along videos found elsewhere.
At a time when the Bush administration has restricted photographs of the coffins of military personnel returning to the United States and the Pentagon keeps close tabs on videotapes of combat operations taken by the news media, the videos give average Americans a level of access to combat scenes rarely available before, if ever.And the Times completely blows the coverage of videos being removed from YouTube, failing to note that most of the censorship is falling on the heads of those who have been countering the Islamist propaganda:
Their availability has also produced some backlash. In recent weeks, YouTube has removed dozens of the videos from its archives and suspended the accounts of some users who have posted them, a reaction, it said, to complaints from other users.The reporter doesn't mention, and probably doesn't know, that the "other users" are the cyber jihadis themselves, and most of the videos being removed are pro-American.
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"other users" are the cyber jihadis themselves, and most of the videos
being removed are pro-American.
Exactly.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at October 06, 2006 09:13 AM (8e/V4)
Posted by: n.a. palm at October 06, 2006 09:40 AM (ITYPH)
The NYT is the Mouth piece of the terrorist, why are we surprised!!! I don't buy their rag EVER. That's the best way to hurt them. Them and Air America are in deep financial trouble....woooohhooooo Big Surprise. The American people are smarter than they think.
Posted by: Patrick Scarry at October 06, 2006 10:22 AM (SZy+Y)
Posted by: Big White Infidel at October 06, 2006 11:56 AM (koWs9)
Let's all enlist today and show them we're not afraid to put our asses on the line for what we believe in: Freedom! I hear it's really a lot easier to enlist nowadays, since this anti-American propoganda has scared a lot of Americans out of fighting.
PS. I thought AAR was supposed to be out of business already, does anyone know why it is taking so long? Ditto for the NYT and the Nation magazine.
Posted by: Rhyleh at October 06, 2006 01:28 PM (Q+ifs)
What we're talking about here are videos produced for propaganda purposes by al Qaeda, Hizballah, Hamas.
I know you're new here, put try to keep up.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at October 06, 2006 05:05 PM (vBK4C)
Posted by: Rhyleh at October 06, 2006 05:26 PM (Q+ifs)
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at October 06, 2006 06:00 PM (vBK4C)
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Cause of course you're a jihadist if you consider Iraqis human beings.
Posted by: Rhyleh at October 06, 2006 07:31 PM (Q+ifs)
If you considered Iraqis human beings you would support their liberation from Saddam. Even brown people deserve liberty. Closet racist.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at October 06, 2006 08:14 PM (vBK4C)
But if you're going after me for inconsistency, I imagine you must support the overthrow of the regimes in Saudi Arabia and China too, right? I do, but your heroes in the Bush administration don't. Are they racists? Or is that their committment to freedom only coincides where there's profit to be had?
Also, do you care to explain how killing people liberates them?
Posted by: Rhyleh at October 06, 2006 10:05 PM (Q+ifs)
Posted by: jesusland joe at October 06, 2006 11:12 PM (rUyw4)
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at October 07, 2006 12:28 AM (8e/V4)
No such thing. That would require ideological consistency, principled support of liberation from tyranny, non-partisan advocacy of free speech...
You know - concepts inconceivable to our resident trolls here.
Posted by: Good Lt at October 07, 2006 08:30 AM (lvyez)
effective at it if you don't use those "idiotic" "scare quotes", you
stupid lefturd moron.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 07, 2006 09:15 AM (v3I+x)
Posted by: Last gasp Larry at October 10, 2006 12:02 PM (Dd86v)
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