Baghdad in State of Emergency and MSM isn't reporting it

Paranoid Pessimist

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Sat Jun-24-06 05:33 PM
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Baghdad in State of Emergency and MSM isn't reporting it

"Iraq's government clamped a state of emergency on Baghdad and ordered everyone off the streets Friday after U.S. and Iraqi forces battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and rifles near the heavily fortified Green Zone.

The military also announced the deaths of five more U.S. troops in a particularly violent week for American forces that included the discovery of the brutalized bodies of two soldiers. Twelve U.S. service members have died or were found dead this week."

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060624/NEWS07/606240339/1009

"Mainstream Media Lets White House Determine What is News, Virtually Ignores Offically-Declared "State of Emergency" in Iraq as Various Resistance Groups Battle Our GIs Around the Green Zone

The mainstream media is -- as usual -- letting the Bush Administration lead it around by its nose.

You'd have to look hard in any mainstream paper, or on any mainstream news program, to know that an official State of Emergency has been declared in Iraq. What does that mean? "

http://buzzflash.com/analysis/06/06/ana06049.html

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GrumpyGreg

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Sat Jun-24-06 05:35 PM
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1. How do you know your sources are right? There is so much

information out there now I don't know what to believe anymore.

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physioex

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Sat Jun-24-06 07:50 PM
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5. Just saw the CBS News Piece.....

There are increasing attacks in the areas around the green zone.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/24/iraq/main1749315.shtml

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Greyhound

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Sat Jun-24-06 07:51 PM
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6. It is from the wire (AP). n/t

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elehhhhna

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Sat Jun-24-06 05:56 PM
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2. When they bust into the Greenzone, it's all over.

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Chipper Chat

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Sat Jun-24-06 06:06 PM
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3. CBS News just did a report on it .

They showed a map where attacks have been ringing the green zone. It's only a matter of time. How will fundies cover it up from Fox?

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eleny

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Sat Jun-24-06 06:19 PM
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4. How can we even evacuate the GZ without it being a bloodbath?

Edited on Sat Jun-24-06 06:28 PM by eleny

I've been looking at Baghdad via Google Earth. The GZ is so far away from the airport.

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Sat Jun-24-06 08:37 PM
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7. Um . . School . . Got . . Painted . . .

DON'T PANIC!!!

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