NON-REPORTING BETWEEN MAY 29 AND JUNE 26, 2005
This HAS been reported before on
dKos, Booman Tribune, and EuroTrib. It has been reported from the 29th
of May when Welshman brought us the Michael
Smith article, “RAF Bombing to Goad Saddam
Into War”. It was reported by
Congressman John Conyers in dKos “Smoking
Bullet In The Smoking Gun,” It was
reported by RAWSTORY on the 29th of
May:
29, 2005
… 1) Did the RAF and the United States military
increase the rate that they … was the
justification for any such increase in the rate of
bombing in Iraq at this …
WHERE, IF EVER WAS THIS STORY
REPORTED IN THE US MAIN STREAM
MEDIA?
NEVER. OK, exactly once. Washington
Post ran a story on the 23 of June based on the
Michael Smith (UK) story in the LA Times on the
same day. We can’t call this reporting, this is
regurgitating. This story went unreported except
for Michael Smith of the UK, dKos, and
RAWSTORY.
dKos COVERAGE
A Lot Sooner Than You’ve Been Told
(Diaries, Diary)
posted by TheOrchid on 06/25/2005 19:17:57
GMT
4. DSM buried lede: It’s the Bombing
Stupid! (Diaries, Diary)
posted by kant on 06/25/2005 15:37:46
GMT
12. DON’T READ THIS !! US Hawk Admits
Iraq War Illegal
by Apian [Subscribe] [Edit Diary]
Fri Jun 24th, 2005 at 15:57:10 GMT
15. MICHAEL SMITH IN LA TIMES The
Downing Street Memos
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Thu Jun 23rd, 2005 at 13:20:55 GMT
17. IRAQ WAR MEDIA TRACKING — Thanks For
Your Help (Diaries, dKos)
posted by Apian on 06/23/2005 01:56:06
GMT
32. Lies, Damn Lies, and Government Economic
Statistics: Part II (Diaries, Diary)
posted by gjohnsit on 06/21/2005 02:53:08
GMT
35. IMPORTANT ! MEDIA TRACKING — Need
Kossacks Help
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Tue Jun 21st, 2005 at 06:11:03 GMT
43. Bush Screws Blair Again (Diaries,
Diary)
posted by jakal on 06/20/2005 12:56:45
GMT
50. Time for Blair to divorce Bush
(Diaries, Diary)
posted by taonow on 06/19/2005 03:01:22
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56. THE WORDS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
— Downing Street Hearings (Diaries,
Diary)
posted by Apian on 06/18/2005 07:11:45
GMT
58. THE “WRIGHT STUFF” — Downing Street
Hearings (Diaries, dKos)
posted by Apian on 06/17/2005 20:28:42
GMT
88. New Pre-War UK Memo; War Started
8/2002; NYT absolves Bush (Diaries,
dKos)
posted by lapin on 06/13/2005 23:19:13
GMT
109. Bush Illegally Shifted $700 Million to Begin
War on Iraq (Diaries, Diary)
posted by AHiddenSaint on 06/11/2005 04:49:40
GMT
146. WaPo Front Page: “Downing St. Memo
won’t Die” (Diaries, Diary)
posted by Al Rodgers on 06/07/2005 17:09:59
GMT
168. US troops first invaded Iraq 8-8-2002:
IraqFact Inquiry Series (Diaries,
Diary)
posted by Duke1676 on 06/04/2005 21:47:27
GMT
182. Downing Street Memo for Dummies
(Diaries, Diary)
posted by michael in chicago on 06/03/2005
01:27:22 GMT
188. DSM Letter Update: 86,000 and Counting
(Diaries, Diary)
posted by Congressman John Conyers on
06/02/2005 19:27:04 GMT
214. Pre-War Bombing (Diaries,
Diary)
posted by NoInfo on 05/31/2005 20:05:39
GMT
230. Smoking Bullet in the Smoking
Gun? (Diaries, Diary)
posted by Congressman John Conyers on
05/29/2005 16:19:14 GMT
232. New Sunday Times War
Preparation Relevations (Diaries,
Diary)
posted by Welshman on 05/29/2005 03:24:54
GMT
RAWSTORY COVERAGE “SPIKES OF
ACTIVITY”
new revelations surface in London,
congressman readies new …
Raw Story, MA – May 29, 2005
Conyers’ early draft, leaked to RAW STORY,
raises a battery … time “the US had already
begun `spikes of activity’ to put … twice as many
bombs on Iraq in the …
BLOGGERS HAVE “SMOKING
GUN”
THE BLOGGER WITH THE SMOKING
GUN:
WHY ARE WE BACK IN IRAQ?
On Thursday, Michael Smith, the reporter for The
Sunday Times who broke the Downing Street
minutes story, wrote a must-read op-ed for the
L.A. Times (“The Real News in the Downing
Street Memos”) which relates to an overlooked
part of the memos and provides some more
background on the “deep throats” who leaked the
top secret documents:
“It is now nine months since I obtained the first
of the “Downing Street memos,” thrust into my
hand by someone who asked me to meet him in
a quiet watering hole in London for what I
imagined would just be a friendly drink. At the
time, I was defense correspondent of the London
Daily Telegraph, and a staunch supporter of the
decision to oust Saddam Hussein. The source
was a friend. He’d given me a few stories before
but nothing nearly as interesting as this.”
<SNIP>
“I’m thinking in terms of spikes, Mr.
Secretary-spurts of activity followed by periods
of inactivity. We want the Iraqis to become
accustomed to military expansion, and then
apparent contraction.”
“As Phase I is completed, we could flow steadily
for the next sixty days, while continuing spikes of
activity to lend credence to our deception.
During the sixty days we would increase kinetic
strikes in the no-fly zones to weaken Iraq’s
integrated air defenses.”
On November 27th in 2002, in response to a
question asked by the Liberal Democrat foreign
affairs spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, the
Ministry of Defense released the information “on
how many occasions (a) coalition aircraft and (b)
UK aircraft patrolling the southern no-fly zone in
Iraq have (i) detected violations of the no-fly
zones, (ii) detected a direct threat to a coalition
aircraft and (iii) released ordnance in each
month since March, stating for each month the
tonnage released” (House of Commons Hansard)
included in these charts:
(i) No-fly zone (NFZ) violations are detected in
several ways. I am withholding details of
detection methods in accordance with Exemption
1 of the Code of Practice on Access to
Government Information. The number of
violations recorded, by month, in the southern No
Fly Zone, is as follows:
MSM COVERAGE OF “SPIKES OF ACTIVITY”
MAY 29-JUNE 26, 2005
THERE IS NONE
From 29th of May to June 26, 2005
UNREPORTED (none / 0)
From the Michael Smith Article on the 29th of
May, “RAF Bombing to Goad Saddam Into War,”
until today, this story has gone UNREPORTED in
the US Main Stream Media. I have been
doing Media Tracking on this story since the
29th of May.
The results are pretty dismal:
Real deal on Downing Street memos
The Argus, CA – 5 hours ago
… It quotes British Defense Secretary GeoffHoon as saying that “the US had already begun
‘spikes of activity’ to put pressure on the
regime.” This we now …
Secret air war: The real news in the Downing
Street memos
Salt Lake Tribune, UT – 10 hours ago
… It quotes British Defense Secretary GeoffHoon as saying that ”the US had already begun
‘spikes of activity’ to put pressure on the
regime.” This we now …
Truth is Iraq war began much earlier
Houston Chronicle, TX – 11 hours ago
… It quotes British Defense Secretary GeoffHoon as saying that “the US had already begun
‘spikes of activity’ to put pressure on the
regime.” This we now …
Downing Street Memo
Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA – Jun 23, 2005
… Iraqi divisions. The Defence Secretary saidthat the US had already begun “spikes of
activity” to put pressure on the regime. No …
Why the Mainstream Media Is Catching
On
Washington Post, DC – Jun 23, 2005
… it really represents two stories: an emergingalternative history of how the United States
came to attack Iraq, and a story of how the New
Media has usurped …
The Real News in the Downing Street
Memos
Los Angeles Times, CA – Jun 23, 2005
… It quotes British Defense Secretary GeoffHoon as saying that “the US had already begun
‘spikes of activity’ to put pressure on the
regime.” This we now …
WORLD VIEWS: ‘Downing St. Memo’ reporter
says US, Britain goaded …
San Francisco Chronicle, CA – Jun 21, 2005
… At that time, Smith says, US Air Force andRoyal Air Force jets “began ‘spikes of activity’
designed to goad Saddam Hussein into
retaliating and giving the …
Philadelphia Daily News, PA – Jun 20, 2005
… facts were being fixed around the policy? 2.The memo states that in early 2002, the
administration had begun “spikes of activity”.
Excerpts from Downing Street memos
Houston Chronicle, TX – Jun 19, 2005
… military action.”. “The Defence Secretary saidthat the US had already begun ‘spikes of activity’
to put pressure on the regime.”. “It …
Excerpts from the Downing Street memos
SouthCoastToday.com, MA – Jun 18, 2005
… military action.”. “The Defence Secretary saidthat the US had already begun ‘spikes of activity’
to put pressure on the regime.”. “It …
Analysis and Text of the Downing Street
Memo
SBIndependent, NY – Jun 18, 2005
… Iraqi divisions. The Defence Secretary saidthat the US had already begun “spikes of
activity” to put pressure on the regime. No …
Downing Street Memo
Contra Costa Times, CA – Jun 17, 2005
… Iraqi divisions. The Defence Secretary saidthat the US had already begun “spikes of
activity” to put pressure on the regime. No …
The ‘Downing Street memo’
San Francisco Chronicle, CA – Jun 17, 2005
… divisions. The Defence Secretary (GeoffHoon) said that the US had already begun
“spikes of activity” to put pressure on the regime.
…
The ‘Downing Street memo’
San Francisco Chronicle, CA – Jun 16, 2005
… divisions. The Defence Secretary (GeoffHoon) said that the US had already begun
“spikes of activity” to put pressure on the regime.
…
Guest Viewpoint: We need to turn up the heat
over British memo
The Register-Guard, Oregon – Jun 16, 2005
… The British defense secretary said that the UShad already begun “spikes of activity” (reported
elsewhere as multiple air strikes designed to
provoke an Iraqi …
From the 29th of May when the story broke, to
the 12th of June:
The RAF double bombing campaign of 2002 was
reported in the UK on the 29th of May.
What date, if ever, was it reported in the
US news?
by Apian on Tue Jun 14th, 2005 at 01:36:01 AM
PDT
Answer: It was never reported:
The Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun
Common Dreams, ME – Jun 3, 2005
… the Sunday Times of London has revealed
that these spikes “had become … Jeremy Scahill
is a journalist with the national radio and TV
program Democracy Now!. …
Yahoo News – Jun 1, 2005
… on new evidence showing that “The RAF and
US … defend itself from a foreign attack:
bombing Iraq’s air defenses … Press report
noted in November 2002, “Those costly .
RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into
war
Infoshop News – May 31, 2005
THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at
which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002
in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into
giving the allies an …
US and RAF bombing raids on Iraq
Questions and Observations – May 29,
2005
It’s remarkable what passes for news these
days: THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate
at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in
2002 in an attempt to …
US aircraft doubled bombing raids on Iraq in
2002 to provoke …
Raw Story, MA – May 29, 2005
… 1) Did the RAF and the United States military
increase the rate that they … was the
justification for any such increase in the rate of
bombing in Iraq at this …
HERE IT IS !!! THE ONE STORY IN THE US
MAIN STREAM MEDIA ON ILLEGAL PRE-WAR
BOMBING IRAQ. And it is, if you will note,
based on Michael Smith’s May 29 story:
Newsday, NY – Jun 18, 2005
By THOMAS WAGNER. … The AP obtained
copies of six of the memos (the other … The
Sunday Times this week reported that lawyers
told the British government that US and …
For news, we must count on RAWSTORY, from
the 29th of May to the 26th of June they are the
only ones who have been covering this
story.
WHY DOES THE MSM NOT REPORT?
ACTION PLAN
IF YOU CAN FIND ANY STORIES US MSM ON
THE RAF BOMBING STORY OR “SPIKES OF
ACTIVITY” PLEASE SEE THIS DIARY:
WAR — Thanks For Your Help
Thanks to Ron and Timbuk3 who have done the
lion’s share of work on this project
