If you're looking for ball scores, the NY Times and my local liberal/leftist newspaper, The Raleigh News & Observer, are good places to visit.
But if you want information about what’s happening in Iraq, consider Strategypage.com. Here, for example, is its Mar. 24 post:
Back on March 7th Muhammed Hilah Hammad al Ubaydi, better known as Abu Ayman, was arrested by Iraqi and Coalition security forces. He was the principal terrorist leader in the southern part of Baghdad Province and northern Babil.If you visit Strategypage regularly and also read and listen to MSM Iraq reports, you may soon find yourself asking: “Why does most of what I learn at Strategypage.com turn out to be true, while so much of what MSM says turns out to not be so?
When Saddam was in power, Abu Ayman was a senior aide to the Chief of Staff of Intelligence. The leadership of the Sunni Arab terrorism against the post-Saddam government has been men like Abu Ayman.
Several hundred of these guys, all former commanders in Saddam’s force of professional terrorists, have been running a bloody, clever, although unsuccessful, campaign against the new government. In particular, the Sunni Arabs have worked the Arab and Western media effectively.
Careful observers will note that a disproportionate number of the Iraqis interviewed by the Western media are Sunni Arabs. The clueless Western journalists often let their subjects admit that they, or someone in their family worked for Saddam military or secret police.
Naturally, these interviewees are not happy with the new government and all those American troops.
That's what the foreign journalists want to hear, and fellows like Abu Ayman, who were in charge of playing the foreign media when Saddam was in charge, are still there to help arrange those interviews.
Click here and you’re at Strategypage.com
Hat Tip: Instapundit.com
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