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It looks like the experts that AP are paying attention to came to the same conclusion too: https://apnews.com/e3cf702ac669dc9b3d1497a1157bd0b0 https://apnews.co
by makomk 7y ago
It looks like the experts that AP are paying attention to came to the same conclusion too: https://apnews.com/e3cf702ac669dc9b3d1497a1157bd0b0 https://apnews.com/e3cf702ac669dc9b3d1497a1157bd0b0
Also, I think on some level surely Bezos must know this report is fishy? One of the pieces of evidence is that he got a message from MbS out of the blue claiming that what he'd heard about the Saudis wasn't true, which supposedly showed evidence of non-public knowledge. Except that Bezos had been dropping hints publicly that he thought the Saudis were behind this leak of his text messages in the days before.
- eternalban 7y agoIs this the same AP that reported "thousands" of Iraqis demonstrated the other day? (There were actually a million people, according to Iraq's own government.)
- Angostura 7y agoAP reported "tens of thousand" and the government may have its own reasons for inflating a number, so I wouldn't take that as necessarily the last word in accurate counting.
- eternalban 7y agoNo AP reporting, including the pictures used, were the distortion of facts. There are pictures of this event and you can find it on the net. It was massive. Treatment in the US press reminded me of our own massive demonstrations before the Iraq war (which also never made it to the front pages of our “journals of record”.)
- Angostura 7y agoIf you would post a link to one of these pictures that unequivocally shows a crowd of around a million, that would be helpful.
- eternalban 7y agohttps://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/28/617308/Ron-Paul:-Million-Iraqis-asked-us-to-leave.-We-should-listen https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/28/617308/Ron-Paul:-M.... How about moving pictures? Would that do? https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/24/616953/Baghdad-anti-US-rally https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/24/616953/Baghdad-ant...