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Cheerleading for the Terrorists by brian on 09-May-2008

Soccer Dad points out that AFP is using particularly glowing language to describe Hezbullah's latest conquest in Beirut:

Shiite gunmen guard pro-government detainees in west Beirut on May 9, 2008. Hezbollah fighters, their guns blazing, seized control of west Beirut after three days of street battles with pro-government foes pushed Lebanon dangerously close to all-out civil war. The sectarian fighting had eased by early afternoon and the army and police moved across areas now in the hands of Iranian-backed Shiite opposition forces who routed Sunni militants loyal to the Western-backed government. AFP PHOTO/HASSAN IBRAHIM (Photo credit should read HASSAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images)


"Pro-government" foes conquered Beirut with "their guns blazing?"

Does that mean that Agence France-Presse is against the lawfully-elected Lebanese government?

  Lebanon

Comments:

#1 Donkeyrock 09-May-2008
Pro-government is the loser here, so it should be:

Hizbollah conquered "pro-government" foes in Beirut with "their guns blazing"
#2 Soccer Dad 11-May-2008
Jeffrey Goldberg (h/t Instapundit) It's been a tough year already for Hezbollah's apologists; the assassination of Imad Mugniyah, the terrorist many of Hezbollah's friends denied existed until Hezbollah gave him what amounted to a state funeral, hurt the cause of those on the left, in particular, who wanted to whitewash Hezbollah's violent, anti-democratic program. And that's not to mention the news that Hezbollah has been caught re-arming in defiance of Resolution 1701. The apologists are still hard at work, I was astonished the other day by the AFP reports. A blindfolded pro-government detainee begs Hezbollah gunmen for mercy in west...
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