Iraq Reviews > Steven Vincent Is Murdered
[Pros and Cons] Steven Vincent, independent journalist and author of In the Red Zone has been mudered in Iraq. K-Lo has more at NRO. Steve’s blog is here.
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[The Meatriarchy] Author/Blogger Killed In Iraq: BTW: Vincent supported the war in Iraq so don’t expect to see the outcry from his colleagues over his murder that accompanied the accidental shooting of an anti-American Italian journalist who tried to run a US roadblock
[TMHs Bacon Bits] Steven Vincent: Blogger, Journalist, Murdered: Don’t forget our other blogging free lance journalists in Iraq, Michael Yon and MOAB who, embedded or not, surely need our prayers for their safety and gratitude for reporting as it is on the ground. I remember recently that Michael, all the way up in Mosul, had reported rumors that a Journalist was going to be killed.
[Digital Dissent] Freelance Journalist Murdered in Iraq: Vincent reported from within the heart of Iraq, translating local problems into language Americans could understand, and more than once pointed out how the administration and military officials routinely made mistakes in allowing the rise of Shi'ite theocrats. His final published op-ed, which appeared in Sunday's New York Times, directly tackled the massive number of ayatollah-aligned police officers in Basra, most of which directly ally themselves with Muqtada al-Sadr.
[Michelle Malkin] STEVEN VINCENT, R.I.P.: The article critices the failure of British forces to clamp down on what Vincent described as a city that was "increasingly coming under the control of Shi'ite religious groups, from the relatively mainstream .to the bellicose followers of the rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr."
[The G-Gnome Rides Out] Walking the Earth: As I hinted at after 'Jason's' comment, he could not possibly have known of the circumstances under which I severed my very limited connection with that website, or the steps I had taken to disassociate myself from its operator's actions. On this occasion, 'Jason' deserves the limited benefit of the doubt that his actions were careless and not malicious, but the fact that he should have so easily thrown this blog and that website together without checking this one's content suggests a level of carelessness which borders on the staggering.
[Media.nationalreview.com] Media Blog on National Review Online: Media Blog Stephen Spruiell Reporting . Press Patterns ... Vincent: On Again, Off Again 08/02 8:23 am ...
[Spencepublishing.typepad.com] In the Red Zone: MEET THE NEW BOSS: Formed in 1982 by his brother Mohammad Bakr al-Hakim, SCIRI originally was an Iranian-based group of Iraqi Shia dedicated to overthrowing Saddam. Abdul Hakim directed SCIRI's military wing, the Badr Brigade, which boasted from 5,000 to 10,000 men trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards--but whose fighting capabilities proved overrated against Saddam's troops in 1991.
[Freerepublic.com] There Is a CONNECTION (Connection -- Iraq, Saddam, Al Qaeda ...: and 'Pak[istans] intel[ligence service] is in bed with' Bin Ladin and would warn him that the United States was getting ready for a bombing campaign: 'Armed with that knowledge, old wily Usama will likely boogie to Baghdad.' Though told also by Bruce Riedel of the NSC staff that Saddam Hussein wanted Bin Ladin in Baghdad,Berger conditionally authorized a single U-2 flight.Allen meanwhile had found other ways of getting the information he wanted.
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