Reply #18: Well, it appears....

[DeSwiss]

....that its mostly the foreign news services that are publishing this story. It was the Financial Times that first published the story on Oct. 17th. Although one article states that AP also had the story, I couldn't find anything at AP in a search. It seems that only UPI and the Dow Jones Newswires in the US have an online article. So apparently the MSM's don't want to carry the water for the FT. Not this water anyway.

The most confusing statement of all comes from Tom Casey, a US State Department spokesman, who told reporters that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said that some form of amnesty is potentially part of this national reconciliation process.

"We've been supportive of prime minister Maliki's efforts to build on national reconciliation," Casey said. "We've also made clear, and you've heard us say this before, that as that process moves forward there shouldn't be any distinction made between those people who are responsible for attacks on US or coalition forces and those who've made attacks on Iraqis."

Huh? That sounds like just about amnesty for everybody to me. That's not what earlier reports from the WH said. It USED to say that there was to be no amnesty for those who killed American troops. But that was before they realized that their asses were about to be handed to them on Nov. 7th......

The Financial Times (UK)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/798743a2-5e0b-11db-82d4-0000779e2340.html

The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20635122-401,00.html?from=public_rss

Agence France-Presse
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061018/pl_afp/usiraqpoliticsamnesty_061018203103

Times Online (UK)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2417143,00.html

Dow Jones Newswires
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20061018%5cACQDJON200610181019DOWJONESDJONLINE000698.htm&

UPI
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061018-095035-2414r