Insurgents or invaders?


A question of language or deliberate disinformation?
I have a silly question.

If most of the "insurgents" come from outside Iraq, when do we stop calling them insurgents and start calling them invaders?

Seventy percent of insurgents fighting in Iraq come from Gulf countries via Syria where they are provided with forged passports, an Iraqi intelligence officer alleged in a published report Wednesday.

"They, according to their own confessions, gather in mosques in the said (Gulf) states to travel to Syria using their passports, taking with them phone numbers of individuals waiting for them there," Brig. Gen. Rashid Fleih, the assistant undersecretary for intelligence of Iraq's Interior Ministry, told Kuwait's Al-Qabas daily in an interview.

Fleih did not provide more specific details about the alleged insurgents or which countries they come from. But he said once in Syria, the alleged insurgents are transported to the al-Qaim border area. Individuals provide the men them with new passports after destroying the old ones, Fleih alleged in an interview from Baghdad.

Yes it is Fox News, but it is also an AP story.

Getting back to the question, do you think if we quit calling them insurgents and pointed out that they come from outside Iraq by way of Syria, it might change the way the news is reported?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - May 25, 2007 at 02:34 PM  Tag


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