| Author | Message | ||
| ross koller (Ross)
Member Username: Ross Post Number: 985 Registered: 3-2002 |
great photos ! a great scene this morning on cnn where the left side of the screen was the press conference with the iraqi minister of info, telling us how the rep guards had crushed the US villains and mercenaries at the airport and were repelling the allies from the city center and had taken back basra..........meantime on the right side of the screen was live footage of exactly the opposite, along with baghdad civilians waving and smiling at gi's !!!! then a reporter asked him if he had seen what they had seen? he said it was all lies and tricks and filmed somewhere else, and invited them to accompany him to the airport in a few hours when it was cleaned up! probably so he can catch a flight out! what a joker ! | ||
| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 3604 Registered: 8-2002 |
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| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 3596 Registered: 8-2002 |
Robin, it will be, "They are protecting us from the American agressors." | ||
| Robin Overcash (Robin)
Junior Member Username: Robin Post Number: 59 Registered: 1-2003 |
Oddly enough, Iraq has booted Al-jazeera out of the country, just like they did with CNN. Wonder what their response will be... -R | ||
| Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Member Username: Jim_schad Post Number: 932 Registered: 7-2002 |
I saw on TV by some analyst that we jammed their signal and perhaps broadcast our own signal at first then decided to let them air so we could monitor their msgs for views into there current state of affairs. This particular analyst thought it would be better to take them off the air totally rather than allow them to spew propagands | ||
| MFZ (Kiyoharu)
Junior Member Username: Kiyoharu Post Number: 197 Registered: 2-2003 |
Jere, the coalition hijacked the Iraqi state TV (or was it radio?) feed on the first day of the war, but strangely has abandoned that tactic. Anyway, most of the TV transmitters were bombed by the coalition by then, so not all of Iraq can view Iraqi TV nowadays. As for Ross's assumption, I think he's correct that satellite dishes are hard to come by, especially since food and shelter comes first, entertainment probably comes around last during the years of sanctions. | ||
| ross koller (Ross)
Member Username: Ross Post Number: 979 Registered: 3-2002 |
think they could try to air drop leaflets telling what the latest situation is. | ||
| Jere Dunham (Questioner)
Member Username: Questioner Post Number: 278 Registered: 1-2003 |
Isn't there some way that the coalition could broadcast on the same frequency as Iraqi TV and override the signal put out by Iraq? I am not an electronics person so this is just a question I have (and I am full of them). I guess if the electricity is off in Baghdad it wouldn't matter anyway, would it? | ||
| ross koller (Ross)
Member Username: Ross Post Number: 977 Registered: 3-2002 |
mfz is right. iraqis don't get aljazeera since it would require cable or a dish. no cable anyway. and nobody allowed a dish for fear of rigging it to pick up other signals like cnn, bbc etc. they get iraq state tv and a couple of iranian channels that don't require any special equipment. they can get radio though so they just might get some sense of whats really happening. | ||
| Nebula Class (Nebulaclass)
Member Username: Nebulaclass Post Number: 312 Registered: 11-2002 |
Hey MFZ - You forgot to add something bad about the US in your last post. | ||
| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 3544 Registered: 8-2002 |
MFZ I was talking about the iraq government you dimwhit. | ||
| MFZ (Kiyoharu)
Junior Member Username: Kiyoharu Post Number: 187 Registered: 2-2003 |
I think normal Iraqis don't have cable, much less satellite TV, so the answer would be that they don't get Al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera is actually from Qatar. Not that anyone pays attention anyway. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Advanced Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 2736 Registered: 6-2001 |
its off topic but- Did anyone see that live news report on i think MSNBC, or one of those all news statins at like 1am? It was very moving. A reporter was in some sort of vehicle, im not surwe what kind because i walked through the lounge when it was already on. I just remember him describin live how the gunner was shot and they had to pull him back inside. I think they were trying to take an airport. IMO journalists should not be that close to battle. | ||
| Dave (Maranelloman)
Member Username: Maranelloman Post Number: 987 Registered: 1-2002 |
He will act like the French should have when the Nazis were on the outskirts of Paris with Panzers: "we need more time & more evidence..."  | ||
| ross koller (Ross)
Member Username: Ross Post Number: 970 Registered: 3-2002 |
when his press conference is given with an abrams tank as the background, what will he say? | ||
| "The Don" (Mlemus)
Advanced Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 3532 Registered: 8-2002 |
NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES April 3 � U.S. forces advanced toward the outskirts of Baghdad on Thursday, extending a sweeping drive north that left key Republican Guard units vanquished in their wake, according to U.S. officials. A Central Command spokesman said Iraqi forces appeared on the verge of collapse, although Iraq�s information minister scoffed at reports of an American push to the city gates, describing them as �silly.� |