Right Wing Group "Accuracy in Media" Advocates Bombing Journalists

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Bombing Terror Television
By Cliff Kincaid | August 4, 2006

In the Middle East conflict, the role of the media has been critical. The Israelis arrested some Al-Jazeera employees, on suspicions of aiding Hezbollah, and others were reportedly shot at. But the Israelis were far less kind to Hezbollah, bombing its television building on July 13. Then, on July 22, an Israeli air strike crippled a transmission tower in northern Lebanon that served as a relay station for the Hezbollah channel, Al-Manar.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies issued a release referring to Al-Manar as "a legitimate communications target in Israel's response to an act of war."

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In a release, Stuart Levey, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, declared, "Any entity maintained by a terrorist group-whether masquerading as a charity, a business, or a media outlet-is as culpable as the terrorist group itself."

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The question is whether such a designation could also be applied to Al-Jazeera. The channel is notorious for its habit of airing al-Qaeda videos and it got exclusive access to the main architects of 9/11 for a story on the network. Our DVD on "Terror Television" shows captured terrorists saying they came to Iraq to kill Americans because of the words and images on Al-Jazeera. What's more, one of its correspondents was sentenced to seven years in prison for being an agent of al Qaeda and another is in prison at Guantanamo Bay. Its first managing director, captured on film singing the praises of Uday Hussein, had functioned as an agent of the Saddam Hussein regime. The channel is still banned from Iraq.

More: http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/4763_0_2_0_C/

[Monkeyman]

1. Rove at work

[JHB]

5. Oh, AIM has been saying this sh*t since kkkarl was just...

...a wee little dirty trickster studying at the foot of Lee Atwater (except for the part where Atwater was on his deathbed staring Death in the face and renounced what he'd done -- they all seem to miss that part).

[marmar]

2. What assholes!

This is what passes as a "think tank" in right-wing world? What troglodytes. Evolution has not been kind to certain members of our species.

[Eric J in MN]

3. The problem isn't that Cliff Kincaid think bombing Al Jazeera

...is acceptable, but that George W. Bush does.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16397937&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=exclusive--bush-plot-to-bomb-his-arab-ally-name_page.html

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4. Good point, but it is important that they are directly saying it as well..

Yes, it is even worse that Bush is actually doing it, far worse in fact.

But Bush did it secretly, and denied that he was actually bombing journalists intentionally.

Now we have AIM, which is a very influential Republican group actually advocating this type of action. This makes Bush's denials much less credible. That is why this is important. Cliff Kincaid is not a nobody in the right-wing world, he is the type of person this administration really listens to.

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6. He also wrote that we bombed the wrong side in Kosovo.

He would have had us join Milosevic in killing Muslims.
http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/2393_0_2_0_C/
Snip>Europe, which would rather appease than confront the Muslim grab for political power, had a problem. Their "solution" was to have Clinton accommodate the Europeans by using U.S. and NATO military power to intervene on behalf of the Muslims in Kosovo.<snip
Snip>But don't expect the media to blame Clinton for it, even though in this case in the war against global Islamic terrorism, Clinton had the U.S. intervene on the wrong side.<snip

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7. My god this guy is genocidal

He is suggesting we go to war with them merely on the basis that they are Islamic.

I can't support what Clinton did in Bosnia, I am opposed to aggression of that nature but actually saying we should have supported Milosevic is just plain crazy.