It would be easier just to fake the byline and list the author as "Ju Hurdet Heer".
The military coverage sounds more like a move review than reality. US soldiers are not trained to fire indiscriminately. This only happens in a movie.
Note also that one *failed* bomber was shot and killed with precision, but any civilians were sprayed with random gunfire. So which is real and which is based on movie-military action?
This commmentator is an idiot. He says so himself: "This commentator is an idiot. He says so himself: 'This commmentator is an idiot. He says so himself: "This commentator is an idiot. He says so himself: 'This commentator is an idiot. He says so himself: "This commentator is an idiot. He says so himself: . . .
Running the name through Google, that's the only article attributed to that individual. Still, it's too bad that Wuzzie John's not around to photoshop Noor interviewing Noor.
Instalanche!
"A fire brigade vehicle arriving at speed at the scene then suffered brake failure and rammed into the U.S. vehicles. Troops inside then opened fire, wounding a number of bystanders."
Hmmm, brake failure? So during or immediately following a fire fight a truck rammed a U.S. Vehicle. The troops then opened fire. Now that sounds like indiscriminate and reckless abuse of military force if I ever heard it.
Pretty shoddy work.
You can see the fight with the Editor, who suggests a problem with the author citing himself: "NO WAY! This is MY story! It's my first by-line and I'm TAKING it!"
Uh, what exactly brought Sherzai to be in a position to witness a vehicle-bourn suicide attach on a (moving?) Coalition convoy? Was he embedded? Dumb luck? Or, was there a tip off that something might occur at those coordinates at that time? Further, Sherzai states that there were "other reporters at the scene" who also happened to by "lucky"? If the attack were on an outpost, checkpoint or other fixed target, I might be less skeptical. However, unless the reporter/witness was part of the convoy itself, I question the happenstance of the whole affair.
BTW, hasn't there been at least one VBIED attack that used emergency equipment as the attacking vehicle?
Call me skeptical to the MAX!
That is just beautiful!
MSM hits bottom- digs.
If you amateur pundits had done your research, you'd know that this was written by three people, not one.
If this story is proven to be bogus, will he claim he misquoted himself?
Or herself, perhaps. Every 'Noor' I've ever met is female.
You know, technically I don't see a problem with a reporter writing a story about something he witnessed himself. I don't know if good newspaper style allows one to use "I" in such a story: "I saw three armed men come running out of the bank and leave in a brown car", or whether one would have to use the third person, "This reporter actually witnessed the robbery ..."
However, not acknowledging in the text itself that the reporter is being quoted as a witness... that's a lot more problematic.
But hey, he got to double the length of his article for free that way! "A fire brigade vehicle arriving at speed ..." then a paragraph later, "I saw the fire brigade vehicle rushing to the area at top speed".
Do you think maybe he's being paid by the word?
"If you amateur pundits had done your research, you'd know that this was written by three people, not one."
Yes, I saw two others mentioned at the end, but who has the byline?
*que typical leftie response*
So what if he quoted himself in his story, Bob Dole always referred to himself in the third person.
*close typical leftie response*
'nuther great post JWF!
I googled just the name 'Sherzai' hoping it would give some tribal/country context.
There is a Sherzai tribe described in Wikipedia as a Baloch tribe settled in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. There is a Gul Agha Sherzai who is currently govenor of some provence in Afghanistan and who was apparently a real bad actor during the Taliban days.
I know of a few Sherzais while I was in Afghanistan. Razik was brother of the the former of Governor Kandahar and is a General in the Afghan Air Force Reserve, but also businesman with many contacts with the US and CF in Kandahar. I met a few Noors and they were all female. Usually CF and US will issue statements and are honest, bust sometimes slow due to fact gatherings from AARs.
Noor has filed a follow up report that Reuters posted 23 hours ago. http://uk.reuters.com/article/
to...L21059120070927
Though it still includes Noor's own witness statements it also includes statements from the US military that contradict his report. It would have been nice of Noor had stated that due to his/her own panic ("I ran away to save my own life.") that he/she could have been mistaken.
Here is the truth after t was all sorted out
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 27, 2007
RELEASE # 117
Double Suicide Attack Averted by ANSF
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (27 September) –Two failed suicide attacks resulted in the death of four attackers and one non-combatant around 7 a.m. today in the Bati Kowt District of Nangarhar Province.
A suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device that was reportedly targeting Afghan National Police detonated along Highway one killing the bombers, the driver and two passengers of the vehicle, as well as a non-combatant who was in the area when the vehicle exploded.
While securing the site of the S-VBIED attack, ANP were attacked by an insurgent dressed in an ANP uniform wearing a suicide vest. The attacker was engaged and killed by ANP and ISAF forces on site.
During recovery activities at the blast site which began around 9:26 a.m, a crowd began converging on the road near the site when a truck which was initially assessed as an additional VBIED was identified heading toward the crowd. Out of safety concerns for the individuals in the crowd and the ANSF and ISAF elements on scene and in accordance with ISAF escalation of force procedures an ISAF service member fired two well-aimed warning shots away from the crowd into a nearby canal to disperse them.
The truck which turned out to be a responding fire-and-rescue vehicle had break failure which caused the driver to lose control and crash into other vehicles already on scene. Four Afghan investigators were injured in the vehicle accident and were evacuated to local medical facilities by ANP who were on the scene.
The incident is currently under investigation.
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