Tuesday, June 5, 2007

I don't like the way the news reports about Iraq

I read an article today, pretty much like every article I read about violence in the middle east. It was titled:

Female suicide bomber foiled in Baghdad

but only 4 out of 24 paragraphs mention or are even related to the woman in the title.

The juice is:

Khalaf said a woman clad in a black abaya, the traditional Islamic cloak, approached a group of police recruits in east Baghdad's Canal district about 10 a.m. Tuesday.

"She didn't obey the guards' orders to stop and they shot her and she immediately blew up," Khalaf told the AP.

A police officer witness, who asked anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to the media, said three police recruits were lightly injured.

The rest of the article rants about other violence and happenings. I guess they are afraid to post an article with only 4 paragraphs. That would then mean that it was not news worthy, so every article I read about one thing must include a summary of multiple other things in order to sound important.

Just give me the news:

Suicide bomber - car in front of police station - ten killed - 8 citizens, 2 police.

Shocking!
Next.

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