Comments (7)

lower tiberius wrote on October 5, 2007 4:33 PM:

I'm sure the AP is already aware but until they begin to make the news consuming public in this country aware that they are well aware of the fact this administration is Nazi to the extreme and then some, they will continue to have to acknowledge it by ricochet. The guy that worked for them until vying successfully for a spot at a major newspaper publication (read: sorry joke) who kept critisizing and implying wrong doing with not only John Edwards real estate transactions but again with another Dem (think it was Reid) was a neoconvict political operative plain and simple. AP sells it's craft and therefore rates no sympathy until they get it together and help the rest of us smoke these rodents out. That takes honest reporting. At this point I doubt if they got a shred or two of credibility left. The other plainly don't and aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

ARG in Chicago wrote on October 5, 2007 4:47 PM:

Initial reports said "...military spokesman, Lt. Colonel Scott Bleichwehl, explained that the troops were enforcing an Iraqi law prohibiting the photographing or videotaping the aftermath of acts of violence."

Set aside the question of whether the U.S. military should be enforcing Iraqi law.

Can anyone independently verify that such a law even exists? When was it passed? What (exactly) does it say (okay, translated into English, please). The Iraqi parliament is not exactly known for passing a lot of laws, are they? (I know they didn't pass this law in August, because they took that month off.) Or could it be some kind of executive order by al-Maliki? (Would that be constitutional in Iraq?)

Surely we don't have to rely on the U.S. military to give us news about what laws have or haven't been enacted in Iraq.

Why hasn't the AP followed up on their own story? This seems to me like kind-of a bombshell. In their original article, it was buried 3/4 of the way down. "Oh yeah, and by the way, the U.S. military took our video tape."

And...?

This is very fishy, and it smells a little bit like Uncle Dickie has his hands in it. I am skeptical about the existance of any supposed law. I think they're making it up as they go along.

-- ARG

CD_in_Chitown wrote on October 5, 2007 4:56 PM:

Oh there will be a law, and it'll be datestamped two days before the incident with the alleged tape, .,.. what tape? lol...

sally wrote on October 5, 2007 5:30 PM:

SOMEONE RESEARCH THIS SUPPOSED IRAQI LAW PROHIBITING PHOTOS AND VIDEOS AT BOMB SITES!!!!! THE PRESS RESEARCHS LITTLE AND JUST MIMICS GOVERNMENT SPOKESMEN. SHAME, SHAME , SHAME ON OUR SUPPOSED FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. I AM DISGUSTED WITH IT ALL.

SPENCER wrote on October 5, 2007 6:44 PM:

does anybody speak Arabic? It's supposed to be in English, but I think that the bulk of it is in Arabic
here's their link, but I think it hasn't been updated in a year:
http://na-iraqi.com/index.php?lang=english
this site isn't user-friendly at all.

SPENCER wrote on October 5, 2007 6:53 PM:

I just sent an email to the webmaster of the Iraq National Assembly site; I hope he speaks English.

APEC not OPEC wrote on October 6, 2007 5:34 PM:

Iraq: No More Photos Of Bombings

May 16, 2007

By Daryl Lang

In another impediment to the news coverage of the Iraq war, an Iraqi government official says photographers and videographers will be banned from the scenes of bombings.

Iraqi police enforced the new rule Tuesday, firing shots into the air to disperse journalists who gathered after a bomb went off in Baghdad's Tayaran Square, according to the Associated Press.