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By now you're no doubt aware a helicopter crash in Iraq yesterday claimed the lives of 12 US servicemembers. On hearing the news I considered a post predicting the media response.
Watch the media hype this one, I would have said, as one of "the bloodiest days for the US since whenever". I refrained - because in spite of past experience I didn't really think the press would stoop to that level.
Today...
Hosni Mubarak came to power and maintained it well understanding the power of mass communications--in his case radio.
Don't let anybody fool you that Egypt doesn't understand or accidentally minimizes the importance of their actions in supporting the Nilesat uplink.
Via comments below:
Two items of commentary by Dave Kilcullen at the Small Wars Journal Blog that may be of interest here:I agree.A Framework for Thinking About Iraq Strategy (12 January) and Don't Confuse the "Surge" with the Strategy (19 January).
(Thanks to Dave Dilegge)
Coming to you live and in color, with lots of help from Egypt and Syria.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 20 — The video starts with a young American soldier patrolling an Iraqi street. His head is obscured by leaves, so a red target is digitally inserted to draw the viewer’s eye. A split second later, the soldier collapses, shot. Martial music kicks in, a jihadi answer to John Philip Sousa. The time and place of the attack scrolls at the bottom of the screen.Such tapes, along with images of victims of Shiite militias and unflattering coverage of Shiite leaders, are beaming across Iraq and much of the Middle East 24 hours a day, broadcast by a banned Iraqi satellite television station that has become a major information center for the Sunni insurgency — and the focus of a cat-and-mouse hunt that has exasperated and infuriated American and Iraqi forces.
Making the situation even more galling for the authorities, American and Iraqi officials say that money stolen from the United States probably helps pay for the station.
Where does Syria fit in? Easy, it's the current stomping ground of the channel's founder.
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