Isn’t this solution kinda quaint?
When all else fails, kill the messenger.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Thursday it had formed a special unit to monitor news coverage and vowed to take legal action against journalists who failed to correct stories the ministry deemed to be incorrect.
Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, spokesman for the ministry, said the purpose of the special monitoring unit was to find “fabricated and false news that hurts and gives the Iraqis a wrong picture that the security situation is very bad, when the facts are totally different.”
He said offenders would be notified and asked to “correct these false reports on their main news programs. But if they do not change those lying, false stories, then we will seek legal action against them.”
Really, it was just a simple Friday afternoon barbecue. And it’s not a civil war, it’s a little tiff between lovers.
I wonder if they plan to sue the Iraqi bloggers sending out their SOSes and their instructions about how to deploy to ward off the death squads.
December 1st, 2006 at 7:18 am
The Bush/Cheney brand of Democracy is on the march in Iraq, complete with muzzling and intimidation of the press.
December 2nd, 2006 at 3:44 pm
In the words of X-Patriate: “More and more like a civil war.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jordT1Kuc88