Eason Jordan’s America targets journalists and Iraqi children for death — and some difficult follow-up questions for CNN
Targeting Journalists
This story becomes more appalling with each new layer peeled back. Here’s an eyewitness report of Jordan’s comments in Davos via Powerline and Hugh Hewitt. I want to dwell on a brief section:
Mr. Jordan gave us all a monologue that evolved from his personal experiences in Iraq about this idea of U.S. soldiers targeting U.S. and foreign journalists. I first challenged Mr. Jordan, and then moderator David Gergen (of Harvard’s JFK School of Government) brought Frank in as a member of the U.S. government to respond to claims that shocked all of us. I remember Gergen in particular being flabbergasted and disturbed to a very high degree by Mr. Jordan’s statements….I do want to note that the topic seemed to be an emotional one for Mr. Jordan, and I believe that he has had friends and co-workers who were journalists killed in Iraq. He seemed so moved and passionate about the subject that it only compounded the level of uncertainty and severity about what was being discussed.
Hey CNN, take a tip from CBS and issue press releases standing by your original comments, that Jordan had been misinterpreted and that he “does not believe the U.S. military is trying to kill journalists.”
Targeting Children
Meanwhile, as reported below, the Saddam Hussein regime on the one hand purchased silence from CNN about atrocities happening under their collective nose, and on the other hand purchased a parade of stories about US policy killing the children, who as we all know, are the future of us all — especially in Iraq. This from December 28, 1997, showing how the Egyptians, the Iraqis and others have the real Christmas spirit:
A 5-year-old Iraqi girl who was expected to die from a genetic disorder will get medical help in Amsterdam, thanks to an Icelandic charity. Thor Magnusson, an Icelandic peace activist, accompanied Amal Saeed and her parents to the Netherlands on Sunday, after obtaining exit visas for the family. “I cannot believe it that my daughter’s life will be saved,” said Amal’s mother, Taleea’iha Saeed.
Amal suffers from a genetic disorder and protein deficiency that have left her belly and legs grossly swollen. The sickness already has killed her two siblings. Her parents have sold their business and most other possessions to raise money to help her. CNN’s Peter Arnett brings us up to date. But Iraqi doctors told the family her case was hopeless, because they did not have the medicine or the facilities to treat her. Amal’s family contacted CNN about her condition, and CNN’s Peter Arnett did a story on her plight earlier this week. It is not clear if that report brought Amal to the attention of the Icelandic delegation that arrived in Iraq on Friday, carrying gifts, food and medicine to a children’s hospital in Baghdad.
The Saeeds — and Santa Claus — board the plane to Amsterdam.
‘The sanctions are not human’ Magnusson, founder of the Icelandic charity Peace 2000 Institute, said Amal’s illness exemplifies “what the sanctions have been doing to the people of Iraq.”
It’s not just Eason Jordan: it’s CNN itself that has the problem
Here are this morning’s follow-up questions: (1) who gave Amal Saeed’s family permission to contact CNN — knowing that contacting a western news organization could be a death sentence for an ordinary Iraqi; (2) which Iraqi officials cleared CNN’s assistance to the girl; (3) is there anyone — reporter, editor, or executive — who was not in on the CNN/Saddam Hussein scam being put over on the people of America?