Today's Independent (06/[July]/04) has a front page story titled “A video nasty: Terror chief shows off his deadly work” and is about yet another “foreign-led” group of “militants” purportedly headed by the one-legged Jordanian and 'right-hand man' of Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
...The tape we are told, is
That the Independent led with this story is no doubt to 'balance' the one by Robert Fisk on July 4 that the paper also carried on its front page (So this is what they call the new, 'free' Iraq).
There is also the issue of whether this Zarqawi fellow actually exists or is simply an invention of US Psyops, given the reports on his death last year in northern Iraq or his losing a leg in Afghanistan before that...the article shifts the focus of the resistance from the Iraqis to these elusive foreigners, where the US and the UK want the focus to belong.
William Bowles article
...The tape we are told, is
“complete with graphics and professional-quality editing and camera-work [and is] the first significant raising of the stakes by militants since the return of partial sovereignty to Iraq by the US last week.”Why a professionally edited videotape raises the stakes is not explained, nor does the piece unpack how a country can achieve “partial sovereignty” (sovereign: supreme, unmitigated), though it is in keeping with the rest of piece insofar as it presents assumptions as facts, so I suppose a country can be partially sovereign or supreme, especially after it's been ‘liberated’ by bombing it back into the stone age.
That the Independent led with this story is no doubt to 'balance' the one by Robert Fisk on July 4 that the paper also carried on its front page (So this is what they call the new, 'free' Iraq).
There is also the issue of whether this Zarqawi fellow actually exists or is simply an invention of US Psyops, given the reports on his death last year in northern Iraq or his losing a leg in Afghanistan before that...the article shifts the focus of the resistance from the Iraqis to these elusive foreigners, where the US and the UK want the focus to belong.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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