Did you catch it? I sure did but let me quote the article for you just to make sure:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The former electricity minister - a dual U.S.-Iraqi citizen who was jailed for corruption - escaped police custody with the help of security agents he once hired to protect him, an anti-corruption official said Monday.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, a car bomb killed five people and wounded at least 19 in the southern Sunni area of Sadiya, near a vegetable market. Though no one immediately claimed responsibility, sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites has fueled much of the recent violence in Baghdad.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced the deaths of two more American troops, raising to 59 the number of U.S. personnel killed in December. A Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died Saturday, and a soldier with the U.S. Army's 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died Friday, it said.
At least 2,947 members of the U.S. military have died since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Former Electricity Minister Ayham al-Samaraie broke out of a Baghdad detention facility Sunday with the help of a group of private security experts, said Faris Kareem, deputy head of Iraq's Public Integrity Commission, an anti-corruption panel. It was al-Samaraie's second escape since he was convicted in October. (Emphase mine)
Now it didn't take me long to form an opinion as to why, it’s simply because the AP is biased against Iraq and all news coming out of Iraq. For them their style sheet obviously states that any story out of Iraq must have the following items added to it regardless to the topic, and they are:
1. Recent bombing report
2. Current death count of American Troops
3. Finish the article with a recap of all other violent acts in the country.
Now you tell me, could that article have been written and not include those talking points and still have been an informative article on the current events of Iraq? You bet it could, but without those points added the AP could not drive public opinion that Iraq is falling deeper and deeper into Civil War.
Paragraphs 2 - 4 have no bearing on the topic being reported, namely the escape of Former Electricity Minister Ayham al-Samaraie, so why are they even in the article? Did the AP reporter sitting safely in the Green Zone put it them there or did an editor here in New York?
Come on AP, its a war-zone we know people are going to die and get hurt, but can you at least stop attempting to use your influence to condition the US and world populace into believing that every story out of Iraq is bad news? In several posts today on this blog alone there are good news stories that are available out of Iraq. Why should it be us, the bloggers, who are posting these stories and not you?
In a story out of Iraq when 12 of the 21 paragraphs have nothing to do with the topic, what are we to think? We are now forced to ask the question; whose side are you on? You surely aren't being impartial and you surely aren't being friendly to the US, so does that mean you are being friendly to the enemy?
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