Taliban using human shields again

[Kuciwalker]

However it should be noted that Islamic media does not report on this for reasons exactly like the ones that resulted in western media seldom reporting on abuses from western forces. I'm thinking of the secret prisons, renditions, spec ops and the like. For example, in the nineties Clinton continued to bomb Iraqi facilities on a regular basis, but American media rarely covered it at all.

How were those 'abuses'?

edit: I'm completely unfamiliar with these events; I just don't see why the USAF bombing the Iraqi Army would have been abuse...

[Felch]

You are full of it. It was on the news whenever it happened. Provide some source for not only it being "regular" but also it being not reported.

I am curious as to how you are going to quibble and quatify "regular," primarily because I am sure it will be hilarious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Watch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northern_Watch

Come on, even I knew about this.

[Patroklos]

Yes, I have heard of both, which in itself discounts the idea that these were somehow not reported. Neither of those constitutes "regular" bombings.

[Felch]

Traianvs said that they were "rarely" covered. He never said they were a secret or anything.

Southern Watch was a regular and sustained bombing campaign in support of the cease fire terms. Every time Iraq broke the rules, they were punished. Denying that is dishonest.

[Patroklos]

Traianvs said that they were "rarely" covered. He never said they were a secret or anything.

That would be because the rarely, not regularly, occured. Which means they were reported exactly how they should have been.

You can pretend all you want, but to say bombing Iraq at inconsistant times 2-3 times a year (usually not even that) and only after their provovation constitutes "regularly" is pure farce.

[Felch]

That would be because the rarely, not regularly, occured. Which means they were reported exactly how they should have been.

You can pretend all you want, but to say bombing Iraq at inconsistant times 2-3 times a year (usually not even that) and only after their provovation constitutes "regularly" is pure farce.

They were regular armed patrols that occasionally resulted in (provoked) bombings. After Desert Fox the provocations became more frequent, to the point where I remember them occurring every week or so for a while. At first they were big news, but eventually got buried somewhere between stories about which celebrities were bonking. Traianvs erred in the time frame, but was mostly correct. Care to pick any more nits?

[Traianvs]

The replies are detracting attention from the main point Oerdin was making, being the coverage in islamic media.

How were those 'abuses'?

edit: I'm completely unfamiliar with these events; I just don't see why the USAF bombing the Iraqi Army would have been abuse...

If the Taliban use human shields during an American attack on their positions, the tactic will not likely be covered by media favouring islamic warriors, just like Americans using secret prisons (Morocco, Egypt, Poland, etc) won't likely be covered by Fox or other media channels favouring their patriot heroes.

For example the secret prison near Szymany in Poland has come in the press recently, but the big influential channels prefer not to headline it. As always information is available but you simply have to search to get it. The same thing applies, albeit to a lesser degree, to arabic media coverage.

I think that was more relevant to the point, rather than defining what regularly means.