June 08, 2006
Lost In Translation?
Perhaps Juan Cole should call his blog Poorly Informed Comment:
[my bold]
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced Thursday morning that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed, along with 7 aides, in a gun battle with US and Iraqi troops at Baqubah.
Of course, the article Juan Cole linked to said nothing of the sort:
Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been killed in a joint U.S. and Iraqi military raid north of Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced on Thursday...
How he could get the most basic of facts wrong—that al-Zarqawi was killed in an airstrike—in such a widely reported story, is absolutely astounding.
Perhaps he's having translation issues again?
To be fair, its not entirely clear based on that one story he linked to, as to just what kind of a raid took place, whether it was a gun battle or air strike.
However, if he hasn't corrected it by now, based on all the other news stories out there confirming it was a air strike, well...
(And I just checked, he hasn't.)
Later,
Posted by: Cicero at June 8, 2006 10:23 AMAny kind of dead will do, as far as I'm concerned. I hope the maggot suffered before he died.
But why in the world are you reading Juan Cole, anyways? :-)
Posted by: Temujin at June 8, 2006 02:20 PMAnd to think that they denied this man a position at Yale!
Posted by: D. Carter at June 8, 2006 02:29 PM
