WAR ON IRAK: CENSORED


Mirror: THIS WAR IS NOT WORKING by Peter Arnett
I am still in shock and awe at being fired. There is enormous sensitivity within the US government to reports coming out from Baghdad.
They don't want credible news organisations reporting from here because it presents them with enormous problems.
I reported on the original bombing for NBC and we were half a mile away from those massive explosions. Now I am really shocked that I am no longer reporting this story for the US and awed by the fact that it actually happened.
That overnight my successful NBC reporting career was turned to ashes. And why?
But whatever happens I will never stop reporting on the truth of this war whether I am in Baghdad or somewhere else in the Middle East - or even back in Washington.
I was here in 1991 and the bombing is very similar to that conflict but the reality is very different.
The US and British want to come here, take over the city, upturn the government and take us through to a new era. The troops are in the country and fighting there way up here. It creates a very different atmosphere.
The Ba'ath party, currently led by Saddam Hussein, has been in power for 34 years. Tariq Aziz told me the US will have to brainwash 25 million Iraqis because these people think exactly the same as Saddam does.


Times of India: UK tabloid hires sacked NBC scribe Arnett
NEW YORK: Veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett, fired by America's NBC TV network after he said the US war plans in Iraq had failed, has been hired by a British tabloid.
The British newspaper 'Daily Mirror' said it was hiring Arnett so that he can continue to tell truth about the war.
"Fired By America For Telling The Truth," the tabloid said of Arnett in a front page headline.
Arnett, who said on Iraqi TV in an interview that US war plans have failed because of Iraqi resistance and they are trying to write another, apologised to the American people.

Soviel zu unseren ach so freien Medien in unseren ach so freien Demokratien. Man kann als Reporter alles sagen was man will. Ausser die Wahrheit. Dann verliert man seinen Job