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Wednesday, August 14, 2002 DebkajournalismJoseph McNulty in North Carolina questions the Debka report of warplanes buzzing Baghdad (below, "War?"), and he's right -- not everything on that site is reliable. Sometimes their unnamed "sources" are on the money, sometimes they're from Mars. But it surprised me to find nothing -- not a thing -- about this report in the blogosphere, let alone in the usual newspapers. McNulty's e-mail is the kind of discussion I was looking for. So here it is:I doubt that I am the first to tell you this, but DEBKA is of uncertain reliability. According the DEBKA, there were 6,000 Chinese troops in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban last winter, setting the stage for a China/USA crisis. DEBKA is interesting, and its analysis of the machinations of the Palestinians is often (I believe) close to the truth. But I don't know about this report you mention. If American and British war planes were massively buzzing Baghdad last weekend, don't you think we would have heard about it from al-Jeezera or some other source? Wouldn't the antiwar elements, like The New York Times, have loved to report this story? Wouldn't the Iraqis have made some noise about it to argue that the USA was violating Iraqi airspace outside the "no fly" zones in a provocative manner? I read DEBKA, but I don't take it as gospel without confirmation from other sources. After all, we don't even know who DEBKA really is. It may be a disinformation site for the Israelis. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 2:35 AM | |
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