seven Storm Shadow missiles were ready to be fired from a British aircraft... [Archive]

Mike Mercury

03-21-2011, 2:37pm

An attack on the compound of Libya leader Muammar al-Qaddafi on Sunday had to curtailed because of journalists nearby, Fox News has learned.

British sources confirmed that seven Storm Shadow missiles were ready to be fired from a British aircraft, but the strikes had to be curtailed off due to crews from CNN, Reuters and other organizations nearby. Officials from Libya's Ministry of Information brought those journalists to the area to show them damage from the initial attack and to effectively use them as human shields.

The curtailment of this mission led to a great deal of consternation by coalition commanders, sources told Fox News, but they opted to call off the mission to avoid civilian casualties.

ref: FOX News - Top Stories - Libya Uses Journalists as Shields (http://www.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=22995&content=49743226&pageNum=-1)

Petew1971

03-21-2011, 2:39pm

CNN..getting in the way and fking shit up..surprising.. CNN sucks cack

Datawiz

03-21-2011, 3:00pm

:slap:

CertInsaneC5

03-21-2011, 3:10pm

They should have went ahead and fired. "Two birds with one stone" comes to mind in this situation. :leaving:

Blademaker

03-21-2011, 3:15pm

They should have went ahead and fired. "Two birds with one stone" comes to mind in this situation. :leaving:

:iagree: 100%

CertInsaneC5

03-21-2011, 3:58pm

What's that phrase again? Collateral Damage. :D

Deniable plausibility. "We didn't know they were there" :cheers:

jaxgator

03-21-2011, 3:59pm

They should have went ahead and fired. "Two birds with one stone" comes to mind in this situation. :leaving:

This. :yesnod:

Cybercowboy

03-21-2011, 4:56pm

And I'm sure they'll stay there as long as Khaddafi wants them to.

Z06PDQ

03-21-2011, 5:05pm

I wonder how much the colonel paid them to act as unwitting human shields? reckon they'll make as much as the alcoholic, manic depressive Beck does for one broadcast? :sleep:

LATB

03-21-2011, 5:07pm

I wonder how much the colonel paid them to act as unwitting human shields? reckon they'll make as much as the alcoholic, manic depressive Beck does for one broadcast? :sleep:

my God you are such a liberal dick.

Z06PDQ

03-21-2011, 5:19pm

my God I heart liberal dick.
that's ok with me. to each his own. :lol:

LATB

03-21-2011, 5:19pm

that's ok with me. to each his own. :lol:

lame

Cybercowboy

03-21-2011, 5:20pm

I wonder how much the colonel paid them to act as unwitting human shields? reckon they'll make as much as the alcoholic, manic depressive Beck does for one broadcast? :sleep:

Glenn Beck wouldn't act as a human shield for a murderous dictator, that's one more difference.

Petew1971

03-21-2011, 5:20pm

They should have went ahead and fired. "Two birds with one stone" comes to mind in this situation. :leaving:

:iagree:

Z06PDQ

03-21-2011, 5:21pm

lame

no. "lame" is ignoring "human shields" just to spew your hatred. :seeya:

Cybercowboy

03-21-2011, 5:23pm

no. "lame" is ignoring "human shields" just to spew your hatred. :seeya:

No, lame are western reporters allowing themselves to be used as human shields in the hope they could be used for murdering dictator propaganda delivery duty. That's lame, but it's also typical off CNN and the rest of the MSM libtards.

LATB

03-21-2011, 5:24pm

no. "lame" is ignoring "human shields" just to spew your hatred. :seeya:

show me where I did that?

oh...this is just another of your duck & dodge...make thing up...put words in others mouth... talking points?

you are still the same fool you have always been. I will pray for you.

Z06PDQ

03-21-2011, 5:24pm

Glenn Beck wouldn't act as a human shield for a murderous dictator, that's one more difference.

reporters are brave, but not stupid. "stupid" is ignoring what really happened because of blind hate & ignorance. do you really think these people would risk their lives for this bastard that the whole world hates? c'mon, man. :seeya:

Z06PDQ

03-21-2011, 5:26pm

show me where I did that?

oh...this is just another of your duck & dodge...make thing up...put words in others mouth... talking points?

you are still the same fool you have always been. I will pray for you.

did you read the article? what part of "human shield" do you not understand? :confused5:

Cybercowboy

03-21-2011, 5:26pm

reporters are brave, but not stupid. "stupid" is ignoring what really happened because of blind hate & ignorance. do you really think these people would risk their lives for this bastard that the whole world hates? c'mon, man. :seeya:

You are soooo naive, it's almost funny. Not ha-ha funny, just funny weird.

LATB

03-21-2011, 5:28pm

did you read the article? what part of "human shield" do you not understand? :confused5:

you are clueless and do not know how to have an internet debate/conversation.

you replied to my post with miss information as if I posted it...

wise up.

LATB

03-21-2011, 5:30pm

You are soooo naive, it's almost funny. Not ha-ha funny, just funny weird.

yes.

like those inside the freak tent at the traveling circus.

hey zo6...you're not from Gibsonton, Florida are ya? :rofl:

Z06PDQ

03-21-2011, 5:31pm

You are soooo naive, it's almost funny. Not ha-ha funny, just funny weird.

I'm not surprised that your MO hasn't changed,even though it's been a while since I debated a subject with you. when you get backed into a corner with facts, you name call. :sleep:

Z06PDQ

03-21-2011, 5:33pm

you are clueless and do not know how to have an internet debate/conversation.

you replied to my post with miss information as if I posted it...

wise up.

I know how to handle you. I've been doing it for years. all I have to do is point out the TRUTH. :lol:

LATB

03-21-2011, 5:34pm

I'm not surprised that your MO hasn't changed,even though it's been a while since I debated a subject with you. when you get backed into a corner with facts, you name call. :sleep:

I wonder how much the colonel paid them to act as unwitting human shields? reckon they'll make as much as the alcoholic, manic depressive Beck does for one broadcast? :sleep:

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LATB

03-21-2011, 5:35pm

I know how to handle you. I've been doing it for years. all I have to do is point out the TRUTH. :lol:

handle me? :rofl:

you are a clueless liberal...you couldn't handle me with 100 foot of rope and help.

Uncle Pervey

03-21-2011, 5:36pm

Z06PDQ

03-21-2011, 5:39pm

handle me? :rofl:

you are a clueless liberal...you couldn't handle me with 100 foot of rope and help.

so how much do you think the colonel paid them to be human shields? do you REALLY think they would put their lives on the line for a tyrant the whole world hates? step up, Larry Boy. do something besides follow the crowd. :sleep:

mrvette

03-21-2011, 5:44pm

so how much do you think the colonel paid them to be human shields? do you REALLY think they would put their lives on the line for a tyrant the whole world hates? step up, Larry Boy. do something besides follow the crowd. :sleep:

MAY BE, maybe NOT, on the money angle....but they are as a class of people, so insipid they probably went along, thinking it was cool, as they knew not where they WERE.....

which sorta describes their mental state also....not just GPS co ordinates....

:dance::dance::lol::lol::rofl::kick:

Cybercowboy

03-21-2011, 5:47pm

Brave CNN News people! :rofl: I remember back in the first Iraq invasion, ol Bernard Shaw was in Baghdad when the bombing started. He was in his hotel room hiding under the bed and his partner Peter Arnett was shooting video and giving live commentary! :rofl:

Oh, and later it came out that CNN was allowing Saddam to pass on his propaganda, which played uncommented on CNN, in order for them to maintain access to Saddam - apparently so they could get more juicy propaganda to pass on to the west.

This is the sort of deep-threaded knowledge base that I expect people commenting on western reporters acting as toadies, er, human shields, er, brave reporters to understand. Some people think that they can toss insult after insult, many to our intelligence, and escape any retribution. They think incorrectly.

BuckyThreadkiller

03-21-2011, 5:49pm

so how much do you think the colonel paid them to be human shields? do you REALLY think they would put their lives on the line for a tyrant the whole world hates? step up, Larry Boy. do something besides follow the crowd. :sleep:

I'm sure they weren't paid, but thought they were getting an exclusive from inside the compound, probably thinking that Ghaddafi had means to not get all their asses blown away.

Cybercowboy

03-21-2011, 5:50pm

so how much do you think the colonel paid them to be human shields? do you REALLY think they would put their lives on the line for a tyrant the whole world hates? step up, Larry Boy. do something besides follow the crowd. :sleep:

You don't know much of anything about how the world works, do you? He doesn't have to pay them anything. They go willingly. Liberals, which make up the bulk of the media, operate on a hierarchical victimology program. To them Khaddafi is the victim in the confrontation with the West. They will do whatever it takes to allow the victim to portray themselves as victims. It's in their DNA.

Mike Mercury

03-21-2011, 8:59pm

I wonder how much the colonel paid them to act as unwitting human shields? reckon they'll make as much as the alcoholic, manic depressive Beck does for one broadcast? :sleep:

Glern Beck has... one vote during an election. He can not introduce a bill into senate, nor can he vote in the senate. He has no power whatsoever (other than his one vote).

I don't watch his show; nor see the need to pretend he's all powerful.

Here's three that are powerful... and can do damage:

http://www.usbacklash.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/obama-reid-pelosi.jpg

MattW

03-21-2011, 11:17pm

For what it's worth, NPR had Brigadier General Scott Van der Hamm on air Monday morning as part of "Morning Edition". The General did an AWESOME job in the interview, never once resorting to overly-obscure milspeak and striking just the right notes.

Transcript here:

B-2 Bombers From Missouri Hit Libyan Targets : NPR (http://www.npr.org/2011/03/21/134726240/No-Fly-Zone-Enforcer)

LATB

03-22-2011, 6:56am

I'm not surprised that your MO hasn't changed,even though it's been a while since I debated a subject with you. when you get backed into a corner with facts, you name call. :sleep:

so how much do you think the colonel paid them to be human shields? do you REALLY think they would put their lives on the line for a tyrant the whole world hates? step up, Larry Boy. do something besides follow the crowd. :sleep:

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Joecooool

03-22-2011, 8:23am

Mike Mercury

03-22-2011, 9:50am

So there appears to be more to the story. Fox News had a reporter in the group too. What a bunch of douchebags to leave that little fact out of their bullshit story. The Fox reporter of the original story had to apologize and clarify that last night after being called out for shit reporting.

Oh, and the reporters were rushed in and out, so they were never used as human shields.

Fox viewers. Drink the Kool Aid......

CNN correspondent rejects Fox report on human shields - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/22/libya.robertson.report/index.html?hpt=T1)
the problem with that is... you're using CNN as a viable source :)

they are certainly not "the last word". Continue to be open-minded for the next "report" on this matter.

a member of the Fox team, a security guard, was given a camera and went on the trip to Gadhafi's compound.

a security guard??? sounds like CNN is the one stretching the truth. No FOX News reporter or camera crew was there; there was no FOX official presence.

Z06PDQ

03-22-2011, 10:00am

You don't know much of anything about how the world works, do you? He doesn't have to pay them anything. They go willingly. Liberals, which make up the bulk of the media, operate on a hierarchical victimology program. To them Khaddafi is the victim in the confrontation with the West. They will do whatever it takes to allow the victim to portray themselves as victims. It's in their DNA.

you must not know much about human nature. no person liberal or otherwise is stupid enough to put themselves in harm's way when the greatest army in the world is about to unleash holy hell. did you even read the article? :sleep:---------- British sources confirmed that seven Storm Shadow missiles were ready to be fired from a British aircraft, but the strikes had to be curtailed off due to crews from CNN, Reuters and other organizations nearby. Officials from Libya's Ministry of Information brought those journalists to the area to show them damage from the initial attack and to effectively use them as human shields.

Z06PDQ

03-22-2011, 10:12am

Glern Beck has... one vote during an election. He can not introduce a bill into senate, nor can he vote in the senate. He has no power whatsoever (other than his one vote).

I don't watch his show; nor see the need to pretend he's all powerful.

Here's three that are powerful... and can do damage:

http://www.usbacklash.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/obama-reid-pelosi.jpg

Beck is doing PLENTY of damage & you know it. there are lots of people that hang on his every word as if he were JC himself. the whole "rodeo clown" thing is a lie. Fox is just doing their usual "us vs. them" bullshit with this bullshit story. :sleep:

Bucwheat

03-22-2011, 10:23am

If the idiots are in the way so what,just another story to cover.

Cybercowboy

03-22-2011, 10:27am

you must not know much about human nature. no person liberal or otherwise is stupid enough to put themselves in harm's way when the greatest army in the world is about to unleash holy hell. did you even read the article? :sleep:---------- British sources confirmed that seven Storm Shadow missiles were ready to be fired from a British aircraft, but the strikes had to be curtailed off due to crews from CNN, Reuters and other organizations nearby. Officials from Libya's Ministry of Information brought those journalists to the area to show them damage from the initial attack and to effectively use them as human shields.

I guess you don't realize that what you just posted self-pwn3s your bad self. :rofl:

Mark C5

03-22-2011, 10:29am

you must not know much about human nature.

Soldiers, firefighters, policeman, reporters, fisherman and loggers, just to name a few, knowingly put themselves in harms way every day. So much for human nature.

Z06PDQ

03-22-2011, 10:36am

I guess you don't realize that what you just posted self-pwn3s your bad self. :rofl:

"human shields"---read it & weep. :seeya: now Fox has just pwned themselves by not revealing they had a reporter in the group. feckin' classic! :rofl: what do you think of your heroes, now? :D

Z06PDQ

03-22-2011, 10:39am

Soldiers, firefighters, policeman, reporters, fisherman and loggers, just to name a few, knowingly put themselves in harms way every day. So much for human nature.

not when their own army is about to blow something to hell. apples/oranges. face it. the reporters had no idea & the Libyans used them as human shields. hell, that's the TITLE OF THE ARTICLE. :yesnod: FOX News - Top Stories - Libya Uses Journalists as Shields

Scissors

03-22-2011, 10:54am

a security guard??? sounds like CNN is the one stretching the truth. No FOX News reporter or camera crew was there; there was no FOX official presence.

Fox disagrees with you.

"I have since learned that Fox did indeed go. I did not know about that earlier today. That is my mistake and I apologize for the error," Griffin said on Greta Van Sustren's show.

A civilian security guard with a camera is as much a human shield as a civilian cameraman.

ptindall

03-22-2011, 11:01am

Cybercowboy

03-22-2011, 11:29am

"human shields"---read it & weep. :seeya: now Fox has just pwned themselves by not revealing they had a reporter in the group. feckin' classic! :rofl: what do you think of your heroes, now? :D

What? If you noticed, I didn't say a word about Fox. They are part of the MSM too you know. The fact remains that the reporters willingly took the Colone'ls offer up to be little propaganda ponies and that their presence precluded an attack on his compound because they were, in effect, acting as human shields. I don't GAF about Fox, I don't watch TV news AT ALL. Ever. I read.

If anything, Fox bringing this to light, even if disingenuous, makes them better than the others who would have never told you about it.

Also the fact remains that CNN and other news outlets have ADMITTED that they acted as propaganda arms for the likes of Saddam in order to maintain access to the regime. These are facts. It's the facts that make your weak-ass ramblings useless.

Z06PDQ

03-22-2011, 11:46am

But they did, didn't they?

unwittingly.yes.

Z06PDQ

03-22-2011, 11:51am

What? If you noticed, I didn't say a word about Fox. They are part of the MSM too you know. The fact remains that the reporters willingly took the Colone'ls offer up to be little propaganda ponies and that their presence precluded an attack on his compound because they were, in effect, acting as human shields. I don't GAF about Fox, I don't watch TV news AT ALL. Ever. I read.

If anything, Fox bringing this to light, even if disingenuous, makes them better than the others who would have never told you about it.

Also the fact remains that CNN and other news outlets have ADMITTED that they acted as propaganda arms for the likes of Saddam in order to maintain access to the regime. These are facts. It's the facts that make your weak-ass ramblings useless.

you're reading the wrong shit. :rofl: Fox had to fess up or take another beating by the public. :seeya: BTW the reporters had no idea the missiles were pointed at the area. did your little news paper tell you that the US Navy has to tell the media every plan they have in advance? :lol:

Scissors

03-22-2011, 11:58am

Mark C5

03-22-2011, 12:12pm

not when their own army is about to blow something to hell. apples/oranges. face it. the reporters had no idea & the Libyans used them as human shields. hell, that's the TITLE OF THE ARTICLE. :yesnod: FOX News - Top Stories - Libya Uses Journalists as Shields

I don't see how the manner of a violent death makes much difference to the person about to experience it. Dead by a missile is just as dead as shot by a cracked up drug dealer or burned to death in an arsonists fire. Your "Human Nature" argument just doesn't hold up.

Reporters were present in Baghdad knowing the US had issued a mandate to Saddam that would result in a massive attack by their own armed forces.

As to your claim that the reporters "had no idea", how do you know this? Have you talked to them? Were you there? Did you read or hear somewhere that they had no idea an attack was about to happen?

Z06PDQ

03-22-2011, 12:43pm

I don't see how the manner of a violent death makes much difference to the person about to experience it. Dead by a missile is just as dead as shot by a cracked up drug dealer or burned to death in an arsonists fire. Your "Human Nature" argument just doesn't hold up.

Reporters were present in Baghdad knowing the US had issued a mandate to Saddam that would result in a massive attack by their own armed forces.

As to your claim that the reporters "had no idea", how do you know this? Have you talked to them? Were you there? Did you read or hear somewhere that they had no idea an attack was about to happen?

no I haven't talked to them. have you? this is my opinion & I will wager it will hold up when the facts come out. bottom line? this thread didn't go the way the OP wanted. :D

thkauffman

03-22-2011, 12:46pm

no I haven't talked to them. have you? this is my opinion & I will wager it will hold up when the facts come out. bottom line? this thread didn't go the way the OP wanted. :D

Uh, it went fine. You're the only idiot here who doesn't get it.

Just because you're the only one on the other side doesn't mean you're right, Mr. Quixote.

Mark C5

03-22-2011, 12:51pm

no I haven't talked to them. have you? this is my opinion & I will wager it will hold up when the facts come out. bottom line? this thread didn't go the way the OP wanted. :D

No I haven't talked to them. But I'm not the one stating as fact that they didn't know. And I haven't said they did.

You didn't say "In my opinion" or "I believe" or "I think". You said "the reporters had no idea". Maybe you should read your own posts occasionally.

ptindall

03-22-2011, 12:56pm

unwittingly.yes.

Well then maybe then need to get with the program. It's not hard to figure out the coalition might want to hit that place. And if you are now arguing they didn't know it would be a target, then why did you start out by asking how much money they were paid?

Z06PDQ

03-22-2011, 1:29pm

Uh, it went fine. You're the only idiot here who doesn't get it.

Just because you're the only one on the other side doesn't mean you're right, Mr. Quixote.

no, it fell on it's ass & so did you [predictably] JoeCool threw a nice little monkey wrench into it with THE TRUTH. works every time. :hurray:

thkauffman

03-22-2011, 1:38pm

no, it fell on it's ass & so did you [predictably] JoeCool threw a nice little monkey wrench into it with THE TRUTH. works every time. :hurray:

I can't believe that someone as delusional as you has managed to live past the age of 14.

Go back to your lib circle-jerk where you can tell your "truths" all you want without annoying the rest of us who can actually think.

Z06PDQ

03-22-2011, 3:15pm

I can't believe that someone as delusional as you has managed to live past the age of 14.

Go back to your lib circle-jerk where you can tell your "truths" all you want without annoying the rest of us who can actually think.

yeah...you "think" you & Fox pwned CNN when in fact those dumb bastards at Faux didn't fact check another story before they released it. that's pretty damned delusional. :dance:

Dave

03-22-2011, 9:45pm

How about this: if you don't want to risk getting killed, don't go to a war zone!

If I were the head of state of some country and was about to get my ass kicked, I'd go hang out wherever the reporters were. Safest place in the country.

Mike Mercury

03-25-2011, 9:11am

Fox disagrees with you.

no they don't.

I didn't say there was no one there; what I said was there was no "official " presence. A security guard who dreams of becoming a field reporter.... who takes it upon himself to go and take pics - is not official network participation.

That's why FOX said originally that there was no one there from FOX... because no reporters were assigned; period.

That fact is still true.

Symantics??? possibily; but the left LOVES TO SLURRRRR things and it's important to keep the full facts clear in ones mind.