CHESTER HAS MOVED!: Where are the civilian casualties?

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Where are the civilian casualties?

Has anyone read significant reports of civilian casualties? There seem to be few reports. Also, few civilians appear on any of the TV shots I see. Could be: 1. US is avoiding civilian casualties, and doing a darn fine job. 2. US is effectively controlling the media coverage to avoid images of civilian casualties -- but reports of them would still trickle out, via Al-Jazeera or elsewhere. 3. Insurgents have not been successful in using human shields. Perhaps because the remaining civilians are sympathetic to the cause in some way. Doesn't help your cause to kill your own supporters, or cause their deaths. 4. All of the above. You would think we would hear a story of a missile going astray, the wrong building being hit, etc. So far, very little of this.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great blog. You are on my favorites now ....

November 9, 2004 at 6:31 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I saw a clip on NBC News w/ Tom Brokaw of a group of about 5 women walking across a field to escape the fighting. Then on PBS (Newshour) I saw the same exact clip with the same women. It was from ITN. That is all I've seen.

November 9, 2004 at 6:37 PM  
Blogger Geochem said...

MSM says not many insurgents killed so far, they must have all left. Not that I believe anything I see on the news. If they all left then who's shooting at us?

November 9, 2004 at 7:12 PM  
Blogger lugh lampfhota said...

I don't believe there are any "civilians" left in Fallujah. Anyone who wanted to leave had ample opportunity, including illegal combatants. The media constantly portrays enemy combatants and sympathizers
as "civilians". The media can't be trusted. The BBC's "source" in Fallujah is clearly a terrorist supporter. Why we allow our enemies to use "our" media against us is puzzling. Godspeed to US forces.

November 9, 2004 at 8:21 PM  
Blogger James Kielland said...

Regarding the BBC's "Falluja correspondent", I've also seen some goofy stuff from Reuters. Reuters correspondent reported a downed US helicopter in the NE of Falluja. The story quickly disappeared.

Xinhau (China) reported someone claiming to have 35 US troops held hostage. Nothing ever became of that, either.

November 9, 2004 at 8:31 PM  

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