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[Previous entry: "The Stranger, Rachel Corrie and UNSC Resolution 242"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "A final solution?"] 04 April 2003: "Meta-fiskage"
One of my readers, Jen from Seattle (hi Jen!), wrote in asking for my take on an article, "Reports of airport assault premature", by Robert Fisk in the New Zealand Herald. The title doesn't quite say it all; Fisk gleefully concludes CENTCOM was lying, because the Iraqi Ministry of Truth, excuse me, Information, showed him and some other journos around Saddam International mid-afternoon local time on Thursday and there wasn't an American soldier to be seen. Mohammed Saeed-al Sahaf, the Information Minister, dismissed reports of coalition troops closing in on the capital as "silly". He said: "They are nowhere near Baghdad. Their allegations are a cover-up for their failure."Not a mention of the fact that Fisk bought that lie hook, line and sinker (or at least "reported" it as if he did). About the only accurate part of Fisk's article in the NZ Herald seems to have been the title, and that was probably written by the sub-editor. And even then one can ask how "premature" the reports were, given that the 3rd Inf Div seems to have reached the airport only a few hours after Fisk et al. were shown around by Iraqi Minitrue. |
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