I watched news all day today and never heard about ...

[grasswire]

...the fact that three of Allawi's aides were gunned down -- killed and a fourth wounded in Baghdad and there were also five mortar attacks near his location in Mosul today.

How is that? NO MENTION of this on CNN or MSNBC. Maybe I tuned it out, but I don't think so.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. I heard it once on NPR.

Also that there was another assassination attempt on Alawi. Yep, Iraq is so much safer now.

It won't be for many, many years.

[NMDemDist2]

2. wow that's the first I've heard of it

got a link?

[grasswire]

5. link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20041021/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_allawi


MOSUL, Iraq - Mortar rounds exploded near Prime Minister Ayad Allawi on Thursday as he visited this northern Iraq (news - web sites) city, but there were no reported injuries in the attack.


In Baghdad, three employees from Allawi's office, including two women, were gunned down Thursday in a drive-by shooting in the western part of the city, according to the Interior Ministry. A fourth employee was wounded.


Five mortar rounds fell about two blocks away from Allawi and his entourage as they readied for a helicopter trip after talks with the governor and other officials in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of the capital. A small blaze and a plume of black smoke could be seen after lift-off. No injuries were immediately reported.

[TahitiNut]

11. WaPo: "Iraqi Aviation Staffers, Aides to the President Killed ..."

Iraqi Aviation Staffers, Aides to the President Killed on Way to Work
Six Women Among Dead in Two Attacks
By Jackie Spinner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 22, 2004; Page A20 <--- buried the story

BAGHDAD, Oct. 21 -- Two attacks on vehicles carrying Iraqi women to their jobs Thursday morning claimed the lives of six women and one man and severely wounded more than a dozen people, witnesses and government officials said.

Four of the women were killed when gunmen opened fire from a minivan that had pulled alongside a bus filled mostly with female employees of Iraqi Airways and the Civil Aviation Ministry on their way to work at Baghdad International Airport. One woman, a member of an airport cleaning crew, died at the scene and three others died after being rushed to a nearby hospital, according to an Iraqi Airways employee who was riding in a second bus.

"Why are they shooting at us?" said the witness, who asked that her name not be used for security reasons. "We are working for an Iraqi government company, not an American company."

In the second attack, two female secretaries and a male colleague driving to their jobs in the office of the interim president, Ghazi Yawar, were killed when gunmen fired at their car, witnesses said. Yawar's press secretary, who was also in the vehicle, was seriously wounded, according to the Interior Ministry, which confirmed witness accounts of the attack.

<snip>

[The Jacobin]

6. From a UK news source, of course . . .

Mortars fired near Iraqi PM

[xray s]

3. Rove has ordered a media blackout on all negative war stories

He hopes by November 2 no one will even know we have troops in Iraq...

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I believe that...

So little news about KIA these days.

[tom_paine]

7. Because HOW inappropriate would it be to show sad war news during a war

in the months before a pResidential Election, Yossarian?

http://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/catch22.html

</sarcasm off>

[Pirate Smile]

8. Me too. I just saw it on CNN or Headline News. I guess the

news stations have again decided Iraq isn't that important.

On CNN now they are talking about how it is so dangerous that reporters cannot cover any stories. They are prisoners in their hotels or else they will be killed or kidnapped.

I guess this situation works out for the US Government and Pentagon.

[AlCzervik]

9. noticed that myself and one more thing

i dont want to sound like a jerk but the casualty list hasnt changed in at least 4 days so either things are getting better or they are not reporting them. I hope it the 1st and not the second.

[shelley806]

10. First time I've heard of it..

This administration sucks. Free Press? First casualty of war. Plenty of time to cover ad nauseum about Theresa's remark.