AAN Promises Important Iraq Story Tomorrow

[Robbien]

By E&P Staff

Published: April 19, 2004 2:10 PM EST

NEW YORK In an unusual move for the organization, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) will release what it promises will be a bombshell article related to the Iraq conflict at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday. It will be made available free of charge for publication on all AAN-member Web sites, as well as for print, and more than 60 members papers have expressed interest in using it, according to Executive Director Richard Karpel.

The 3,000-word story, embargoed until Tuesday but obtained by E&P today, is based on a "closely held" memo purportedly written by a U.S. government official detailed to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). It was provided to writer Jason Vest by "a Western intelligence official." The memo offers a candid assessment of Iraq's bleak future -- as a country trapped in corruption and dysfunction -- and portrays a CPA cut off from the Iraqi people after a "year's worth of serious errors."

The article is titled, "Fables of Reconstruction," with a subhed, "A Coalition memo reveals that even true believers see the seeds of civil war in the occupation of Iraq."

Karpel commented, "We have no question that the memo is authentic."

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000491093

[BostonTeaParty04]

1. Oh, I just love it when people give the FEDS 24 hours to plan

and get their ducks in a row....

Just release the damned story tomorrow and be quiet about it till it happens! Ugh.

[pennylane100]

2. It keeps getting better and better.

The dam will break soon.

[Barrett808]

3. I like the nod to REM - Fables of the Reconstruction

One of my favorite REM albums.

[Moderator]

4. locking

Feel free to post a link to the article when it's published.