Exposing Lies
A lot of extreme pontification has been going on in the blogosphere over the reports of all the burned mosques. Curt over at Flopping Aces has been working very, very hard to get the to the truth of the matter.
And it is NOT at all what has been reported in the media.
BAGHDAD — Contrary to recent media reporting that four mosques were burned in Hurriya, an Iraqi Army patrol investigating the area found only one mosque had been burned in the neighborhood.
Soldiers from the 6th Iraqi Army Division conducted a patrol in Hurriya Friday afternoon in response to media reports that four mosques were being burned as retaliation for the VBIED attacks in Sadr City on Thursday.
The Soldiers set up a checkpoint near the Al Muhaimen mosque at approximately 2 p.m. and found the mosque intact with no evidence of any fire at the location.
While investigating the Al Meshaheda mosque, the patrol received small arms fire from unknown insurgents. The patrol returned fire, and the insurgents broke contact and fled the area. A subsequent check of the mosque found the mosque intact with no evidence of a fire.
At approximately 3:50 p.m., a local civilian reported to the patrol that armed insurgents had set the Al-Nidaa mosque on fire by throwing a gas container into the mosque. The patrol pursued the insurgents but lost contact with them.
I have already seen some left-leaning blogs saying "denial" loud and long.
If you need lies - not bad intelligence, lies - to make your case, who exactly is denying what? The mosques that were widely reported as being destroyed are still standing. No fire damage.
How much else of what is being spouted as TRUTH™ is not quite what is is being sold as?
By Bleepless, Sunday, 26 November , 2006 @ 4:04 pm
This is very Muslim. Every overtime parking ticket gets inflated to a murder. Remember Qana, site of the famous, though non-existent, Israeli atrocity? A British reporter was snarled at by a bystander, “Do you see the dogs eating the corpses?” The reporter, a good progressive, does not quite mention explicitly that there were no loose corpses or any dogs at all.