In an exclusive report Monday, Fox News Channel reported that a planned attack on the capital compound of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi had to be curtailed because of journalists nearby. According to Fox, British sources confirmed that British missiles were ready to fire, but news crews from CNN, Reuters and other organizations were too close to the target.
The group of correspondents and cameramen had been brought to the area by officials of Qaddafi’s Ministry of Information to showcase damage from an earlier attack. This act, Fox reported, amounted to Qaddafi’s forces using journalists as “human shields” to protect themselves from another potential attack.
That claim is “outrageous and absolutely hypocritical,” CNN’s Nic Robertson responded Monday evening. Robertson claimed Fox News refused to send a reporter on the trip, calling it a propaganda exercise. Instead, Robertson said Fox sent a non-editorial, non-technical staffer on the trip to Qaddafi’s compound.
“When you come to somewhere like Libya, you would expect lies and deceit from the dictatorship here,” Robertson said. “You don’t expect it from the other journalists.“ If someone wanted to keep us their as ”human shields,” Robertson added, they would have kept reporters at the compound longer.
An angry Robertson went on to accuse Fox News of failing to fully investigate matters on the ground, claiming they “didn’t even leave the hotel.”
Read More at the Blaze: by Meredith Jessup, the Blaze
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The attacks on Libya are acts of evil, and are not what was proposed to the American public, and precisely why Germany was wanting no part of this evil act of war against that nation. We are not protecting rebels in the East, we are conducting a full scale war against Libya. If this war is so just, then why doesn't Congress declare a war, and stop acting like the wimps most of them are. And if the women in the State Department think war is fun, then let them and their stupid daughters fight the battles. Nothing ends wars faster than when women have to participate in the action, and suffer the losses as happens with men.
You know, it appears to me that CNN and all the rest got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Never for one second do I believe that they didn't know that they were to be used as a shield. I do not believe that we should be in this war. Especially without Congress' approval. Is this more signs of obama as dictator? People, hold on to your seats, the ride is going to get real scarey!!!
Just saw headlines on msn somehting about three journalists released in Libya.
More later.
CNN Lets Face The Problem Of Being Number #1 With Fox News, Yikeess, Qaddafi Would Use His Own Mother For Cover As Human Shields. God Bless America And Sarah Palin POTUS.
Nic Robertson is a hot-steaming, lame-stream media, piece of caca …