[R-G] Palast: Bush?s Fake Sheik Whacked (Anthony Fenton)

[Anthony Fenton]

This Palast article was the first I had heard about filmmaker  
Rowley's affiliation with him. Rowley, of course, was featured  
independently on Democracy Now! on September 11th:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1424208

and, follwing Abu Risha's death, on September 14, 2007:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/14/1421252

His film featuring Sheikh Abu Risha was originally aired on Al  
Jazeera, a 2 part series:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naJQc6vFlFY

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQ6twcWevY


On Sep 19, 2007, at 6:07 PM, CeJ wrote:

> Oh, great. Just what we need. Iraq war coverage (such as it is) goes
> Gonzo. Palast didn't even research the piece, so why didn't he let his
> colleague author it? Palast is like so many others. He hates Bush and
> his followers, but he also intentionally misinforms us about the Iraq
> Resistance. Just as P. Cockburn, and that Aussie Zionist, Michael Ware
> of CNN (was Time).  I would bet his actual backers are Israeli Labour.
> Just a hunch.
> Sure that sheik looked pretty fake. About as fake as most of these
> 'war correspondents'.
>
> Sitting in my living room watching CNN (amongst all its usual parade
> of absurdities) I could tell that. But using Soprano descriptions for
> the 'capi of Anbar' is really lame.
>
> CJ
> Japan
>
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