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Powell ambushed in Iraq
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Mar 19, 2004, 06:27 AM
 
... by sections of the Iraqi media. I was just watching the press conference and most of the Iraqi journos walked out in protest. Felt sorry for the guy, the only republican I have any respect for. He did recover well, though.

Must be a shît of a job, working in the bowels of the White House. With a name like Colin.
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Mar 19, 2004, 11:22 AM
 
Journalists protest deaths of colleagues

And it seems like members of the Iraqi governing council has had enough as well:

A member of the Iraqi Governing Council on Friday strongly condemned the US forces, saying the shooting was a "clear aggression".

"This is an absolutely clear aggression by the occupation forces against the media," Mohsin Abd al-Hamid told al-Arabiya.____

"We've told them before not to behave like this...They have the right to defend themselves but not to kill people like this in the street at random," he added.

"If Bush says we hate freedom, let him tell us why we didn't attack Sweden, for example. OBL 29th oct
     
   
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