Baghdad Al-Jazeera Office Ordered Closed

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Dissident
we have the death penalty

It's a backward Third world country - what do you expect?

(walked right into that one)

[Verto]

We can't all be blessed to live in a penal colony.

[Alexander's Horse]

That's true - we don't hold it against you.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


It's a backward Third world country - what do you expect?

(walked right into that one)

haha! joke's on you. Because the U.S. is the most advanced country in the world with the most amenities.

[Alexander's Horse]

whilst retaining remarkably backward third world attitudes to crime and punishment

[Dis]

your country is backwards because you have no idea what real crime is.

Do murders even happen in your country. Foreigners tremble when they come to our shores. Our cities are warzones. Most cities have at least 1 murder a night.Thousands of robberies. The crime is staggering. Something Europeans and Australians cannot fathom.

[KrazyHorse]

I don't tremble and I'm living in a worse city than you ever will.

The crime rate is stupendous though.

[Dis]

It's funny when I was in the navy and they would tell us not to travel alone in foreign countries. Like they had any bad neighborhoods . I didn't see any. Even Naples, Italy wasn't bad (the old lifers say they cleaned it up quite a bit though- but that's just referring to getting rid of the prostitutes)

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Dissident
your country is backwards because you have no idea what real crime is.

Do murders even happen in your country. Foreigners tremble when they come to our shores. Our cities are warzones. Most cities have at least 1 murder a night.Thousands of robberies. The crime is staggering. Something Europeans and Australians cannot fathom.

We were a penal colony remember? You have nothing to teach us about crime and punishment.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by paiktis22
So much for freedom of press. But then again no surprise there.

Coincidently the iraqi media network (or whatssits name) is completely american controled. SO no freedom of press whatsoever. I concede that in this regard the US has managed to export its model

IMN is owned and controlled by the Iraqi Government so yes it does get its views out. There are still atleast two domestic news networks which are not government controlled and nearly a dozen from other Arab states. To my knowledge only Al Jazeera and Maqtada Sadr's news outlets have been banned and in both cases it was for inciting violence against the government or the Iraqi people.

Compared to just about every other Arab country Iraq has the least amount of government control of the media. Try to start an independent news outlet in Syria or Libya and see what I mean.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
He said he knows people personally that have died because of those idiots.

I wrote about it several months ago in my blog which I keep here at poly.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Oerdin


IMN is owned and controlled by the Iraqi Government so yes it does get its views out. There are still atleast two domestic news networks which are not government controlled and nearly a dozen from other Arab states. To my knowledge only Al Jazeera and Maqtada Sadr's news outlets have been banned and in both cases it was for inciting violence against the government or the Iraqi people.

Compared to just about every other Arab country Iraq has the least amount of government control of the media. Try to start an independent news outlet in Syria or Libya and see what I mean.

[Agathon]

They work with the insurgents; the insurgents tell Al Jazeera where and when the attacks will take place and Al Jazeera gets to cover the event first.

Embedded reporters.

[Dinner]

BTW if you follow the link in my sig to the first part of my Iraq blog you will find a post which deals extensively with which TV and news outlets are readily available here in Iraq.

[lord of the mark]

Didnt the Allawi govt just UNBAN the Sadr paper??? if theyre cracking down on free speech, why would they have done that?