What is IraqSlogger?

23 thoughts on “What is IraqSlogger?”

1. Hmmmmm – in other words, they are an “ethical” organization dedicated to profiting by providing helpful information to war profiteers. In other words, they are “ethical” war profiteers.

2. Hmmmmm – in other words, they are an “ethical” organization dedicated to profiting by providing helpful information to war profiteers. In other words, they are “ethical” war profiteers.

3. It looks like they are catering to mercenaries. Sort of the “Soldier of Fortune” of blogs.

4. Speaking of other blogs, anybody know what happened to billmon?

5. This is not on topic, but I guess a lot of people didn’t read about the anti-Shiite action declaration by 38 Saudi clerics earlier this week, or the current meeting in Istanbul including Sunni politicians, at least one armed resistance group, and clerics from Saudi and Pakistan, a meeting denounced by a Baghdad spokesman as a provocation. The Sunni groups are feeling besieged, and it isn’t likely the “reconciliation” meeting in a couple of days time will offer them anything significant. It is frightening to follow the effects of US policy at this stage. May I recommend paying attention?

6. Badger, I read about it all read.
   It’s been frightening all along – they are playing a game of “let’s you and him fight” And fight they will.
   As to the current topic, I read somewhere that Jordan invited M. Malkin to go to Baghdad with him to investigate a report that six Sunnis were set on fire and killed. Malkin says it isn’t true, AP guys offered a lot of evidence.

7. Salam Helena
   I believe you want to promote justice in the world so I’d like to help you with finding an interior viewpoint of muslims espesialy Shi’as and Iranians if you’d like.

8. Vakilian
   I’d like to help you with finding an interior viewpoint of muslims espesialy Shi’as and Iranians if you’d like.
   Do you really believe to help in “justice”?
   Look not far just across the boarders and see what “Iranians” doing the injustices.
   Enough these jocks and go learn how take your justices inside Iran.

9. Shirin,
   they are “ethical” war profiteers.
   They are, guided by (insult deleted here) Nir Rosen

10. Hi,
    I read the comments re: Praedict and I would like to offer the following insights. I a not a journalist, have no interest in intrigue and am easily the most “open source” conflict author and filmmaker that I know of.
    Praedict was founded because the media machine is broken. A topic as important as Iraq suffers from under and over coverage. Readers are both manipulated and confused. So I and Eason wanted to fix it.
    Eason and I know the media, intel and communications business very well. He was on the inside, I was on the outside.
    So spend some time on the site and tell me your opinions. Yes we are going to charge for our collective insights and our team in Baghdad if people want to learn how to fix things. No we won’t be crawling around playing spy. In fact much of our product will be constantly made available to the entire world for free.
    Specialized studies like mining or safety will be the property of the client and they may use them as they see fit.
    Intelligence is actually a compliment not an insult in my world 🙂 I encourage your blog readers to think about they would like to receive their information on Iraq. I bet they would want it fast, clear, open minded and wide ranging…well now that service exists at http://www.iraqslogger.com
    enjoy…and we look forward to your feedback and ideas for improvements.
    RYP

11. the most “open source” conflict author and filmmaker that I know of.
    What else we don’t know?
    Look you and other guys like those who kill the person and went to his funeral crying and walling with their eyes dropping about him.
    I wounder where are those Orange Suites which I never seen them just in US movies and I doubted any Arab/Islamic state have them as a dress for their Prisoners “Because they don’t need them” those Beheading that use to be showing weekly on the TV and News media with BIG ” اللــه اكــبر ” who killed those many Iraqi Journalists and western Journalists who spoke about the truth of the war crime and the truth what the occupation doing in Iraq and Iraqi.
    Wounder why those shows finished and no longer posted, its looks there is no need for them now, its time for single sided Journalists or the “most “open source” conflict author and filmmaker” they telling us the “Truth From The Heart of The Events”

12. BTW, use to be there is commentator his name Brian and he have his blog called Alive in Baghdad: first-hand accounts, this gay doing sane as what you plane what to do follow his steps and get rewarded, why not all its Iraq fault

13. The Iraqi Red Crescent, the country’s biggest humanitarian organisation, has accused United States troops of attacking its offices and vehicles.
    The organisation’s vice-president said attacks by US-led forces were the biggest problem it faced.
    The Red Crescent, which has a staff of 1,000 and 200,000 volunteers, is the only Iraqi aid group working across the country’s 18 provinces.
    The US military said it was checking the allegations.
    Jamal al-Karbouli, Vice-President of the Iraqi Red Crescent, said the latest incident occurred last week in the central city of Falluja.
    “We had our offices attacked by American forces. They detained the volunteers and staff for more than two hours,” Mr Karbouli said.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6184263.stm

14. Salah, I happen to like Nir Rosen very much, and appreciate his coverage in Iraq a lot. In fact, I would go as far as to say that he is one of the very few journalists who have shown both physical and moral courage in Iraq, and done a very good job of exposing a lot of the reality there. So what if he is a Jew, and even so what if he is an Israeli. I have known quite a few Israelis in my day who were better friends to the Arabs, and especially the Palestinians than a lot of others.
    Really, dear brother, we should evaluate people by their deeds.

15. Dear RYPP,
    Iraqslogger shows promise of being an important information source about the situation in Iraq. Time will tell about that. However, that does not obviate the fact that any individual or organization that makes a profit by supplying information and/or advice and/or encouragement to war profiteers is itself a war profiteer, and war profiteering is neither moral nor ethical. Therefore, I can respect neither you nor your enterprise, despite the fact that one of the services you provide may turn out to be valuable.

16. So what if he is a Jew, and even so what if he is an Israeli. I have known quite a few Israelis in my day who were better friends to the Arabs, and especially the Palestinians than a lot of others.
    Shirin, I think you mistakenly reading me, I don’t have any thing with Jews or Israelis, you know me, but while I read some of his reports it’s remind me with Thomas Friedman of mixing Honey with Poison. Personally I think he don’t have love to Iraqi from his writing but he is like others got noticeable of the disaster of Iraq and Iraqis

17. For the record, along with Hussein, the AP based its Burned Alive reporting on an account from Imad al-Hashimi, a Sunni elder who told Al-Arabiya television about the killings. (He later recanted his story after being visited by a representative of the defense minister.) The AP also spoke to three independent eyewitnesses (two shopkeepers and a physician) and confirmed the story with hospital and morgue workers. Nonetheless, CENTCOM raised doubts about Hussein, so warbloggers, hearing a reassuring narrative they loved, pronounced the AP guilty of manufacturing news and quickly referred to Hussein as a “fake policeman” and to the Burned Alive story as a “fairy tale.”

    http://mediamatters.org/columns/200612120001
    This is the reality if Iraqis speaks they killed or threatened but for US journalists or freelance journalist he is “telling the truth” why should we believe in him? What make him different from the rest of those following the US rules of reporting news carefully? Where is then the truth in what he writes…?
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18. Just wounder why Nir Rosen, RYPP having no problems with The U.S. military in Iraq!

    The U.S. military in Iraq has imprisoned Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein since April 12, 2006, accusing him of being a security threat but never filing charges or permitting a public hearing. “We want the rule of law to prevail,” says AP President and CEO Tom Curley. “He either needs to be charged or released. Indefinite detention is not acceptable.” Military officials say that Hussein was being held for “imperative reasons of security” under United Nations resolutions. A Pentagon spokesman reiterated that stance Sept. 18. Hussein is a 35-year-old Iraqi citizen and a native of Fallujah. AP executives said an internal review of his work did not find anything to indicate inappropriate contact with insurgents, and any evidence against him should be brought to the Iraqi criminal justice system. Hussein began working for the AP in September 2004. He photographed events in Fallujah and Ramadi until he was detained.

    According to the 2006 Press Freedom Index compiled by another journalists’-rights group, Reporters Without Borders, the United States’ treatment of journalists placed it at 53rd on its press freedom list, tied with Botswana, Croatia and Tonga. China, Cuba and Eritrea ranked 163, 165 and 166 on the list, making them the countries with third, fifth and sixth most repressive records in the area of free expression. When the RSF began producing its list five years ago, the US rank was at 17.

19. I know for a fact that Nir Rosen has BIG problems with the US military being in Iraq. I know it because of many things he has written, and I know it because he has said so.

20. Helena,
    I don’t know if you have seen this, regarding Iraqsloggers. It comes as a link from Jesus’ General site.
    Regards,
    Mike

21. Oh yah, no they did not stop helping Iraqis, let’s kidnap them “Torture them”!!!!
    See my above post for Red Crescent Aid in Bagdad
    “Gunmen kidnap dozens at a Baghdad Red Crescent office and a car bomb wounds 4 civilians south of Baghdad.
    Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government is struggling to contain soaring sectarian tension and daily violence.
    U.N. officials estimate the killings at more than 100 people a day.
    Hayley Platt reports.”
    http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=792a288d8ada3ea2d48e10540556e9ce3b66de0b&WTmodLoc=Home-R6-Video-6

22. “The United States established the Central Criminal Court of Iraq three years ago, envisioning it as a pillar of a new democracy. But like the faltering effort to create effective Iraqi security forces, the system for detaining, charging and trying suspects has instead become another weak link in the rule of law in Iraq, according to an examination of the justice system by The New York Times.
    The stakes are rising. The court has begun sentencing American-held detainees to death by hanging, 14 this year.
    Almost every aspect of the judicial system is lacking, poorly serving not just detainees but also Iraqi citizens and troops trying to maintain order.
    Soldiers who have little if any training in gathering evidence or sorting the guilty from the innocent are left to decide whom to detain. The military conducts reviews to decide whom to release, yet neither Iraqi detainees nor defense lawyers are allowed to attend, according to military documents and interviews.”
    http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/17/africa/web.1217justice.php
    This sort of hidden news most of you “those in Iraq” not care or not allawed to see closely for 4yeras now.
    This the new institutions, the new transition of justices just showing US failed in every single aspect to resorted and maintain Iraq State or Iraq justice system.
    It just shows no matter and care of Iraqi the only focused the Ministry of Oil and pass those bills of privatisations and foreign investments of oil and industrial asset to big US business.
    So when you discussing the Institutions and justice system in Iraq it’s not Iraq problem to hold and developed the system it’s you “US” who brought “cowboys” stupid bullied consultants to set the system back but they paid millions of dollars for their stupidity and bulling

23. CNN’s Lara Logan Disputes Reporting Bias

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