“Coalition Forces” Murder a New York Times Reporter

Our British allies in the Neocon War to Bring American National Greatness to the Middle East executed a New York Times reporter Mafia style last week, and the U.S. puppet media has barely made a peep over it. As reported on page 1 of today’s Washington Post:

“On Monday, an Iraqi reporter working for the New York Times was found shot dead on the outskirts of Basra with his hands bound . . . . The reporter, Fakher Haider, had been handcuffed and taken away from his home Sunday by four masked men who said they wanted to interrogate him.” The “four masked men” turned out to be British soldiers.

The wimpy, spineless, cowardly, regimist executive editor of the Times, Bill Keller, issued a lame statement saying “Rakher was an invaluable part of our coverage for more than two years . . . his devotion to the story and his integrity were much admired . . .”

Have a Washington politician propose tax cuts and the Times will explode with hatred, bile, indignation, and fury in its editorial pages and in its “news” coverage; but let “our” soldiers execute one of its own employees for doing his job and it will remain all but silent.

For reporting the truth about what is going on in Iraq (as opposed to Fox News Channel coverage) this man was executed by our “allies.” Worse yet, the murderers, who had been arrested by Iraqi police, were freed yesterday by “British armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships” which “burst through the walls of an Iraqi jail” as “half-dozen armored vehicles . . . smashed into the jail,” killing a number of civilians, as usual.

“The provincial governor, Mohammed Walli, told news agencies that the British assault was ‘barbaric, savage and irresponsible.'”

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6:30 am on September 20, 2005