http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P730"My solution is change the channel," Kimmitt said in response to a question from an Iraqi journalist. "Change the channel to a legitimate, authoritative, honest news station. The stations that are showing Americans intentionally killing women and children, are not legitimate news sources, that is propaganda and that is lies, so you want a solution, change the channel."
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As Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt, the deputy director of U.S. military operations in Iraq, was speaking by phone on al-Jazeera and insisting that American forces declared a unilateral ceasefire in Fallujah, the channel was airing live images of continued air raids by F16 fighter jets on residential neighborhoods of the town.
Kimmitt later dismissed the coverage of the channel for the crisis as a "series of lies". However, asked by al-Jazeera anchor about the live images, the U.S. commander said he was not accusing al-Jazeera of faking the images, but rather “looked at things differently”.
He said the attacks by F16 fighter jets and helicopters were meant to take out “armed insurgents firing at our troops”. The anchor reminded Kimmitt, however, that “live coverage showed children and women killed by the missiles, not armed insurgents”.
I know the antiwar.com blog is not the original source but it collected from different sources to keynote a common theme: What Kimmit said in regards to media exposure on Fallujah.
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