Is this true: Heavy US Losses, Including 18 Decapitated GIs...from Rense

[elehhhhna]

Is rense.com reliable?

More Heavy US Losses, Including 18 Decapitated GIs
Mujahideen Strike Heavy In Ramadi And Basra
By Omar Al-Faris
JUS
1-13-5

Mujahideen continued to target American occupiers and Iraqi collaborators throughout Iraq on Tuesday. Fierce fighting took place in Ramadi with large number of American casualties reported. Basra was also hot with reports of a rocket attack that took the life of some British soldiers. In the mean time, Americans also discovered 18 bodies of their comrades that had been beheaded in Fallujah,

Fallujah remains under media lockdown as little information is being received. We will update readers as soon as more information becomes available.

http://www.rense.com/

[karlrschneider]

1. Totally unreliable.

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[elehhhhna]

4. thank you.

[w4rma]

2. I doubt this is true, unless they were not American GIs, but mercs (nt)

[DulceDecorum]

13. Whew!

For a moment there I was worried that actual humans had perished.
Mercenaries don't count.
Fire away!!

[w4rma]

16. They don't matter to our media/government who has not been keeping track

of merc casualties. (And who probably have not set up a system to keep track of them, either, thus giving plausable deniability.)

[Lex]

3. If I am remembering correctly

nothing from rense.com has ever been true, or if it has, it was by accident.

[indigobusiness]

11. That sounds like something you'd see on FR about DU

Here is a list of the mirrored stories on Rense.com. These are mostly lies, or truth by accident?


Baghdad Election Center Director Killed
New Disease Linked To Hudson River PCBs
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What Bush Said About Iraq's Alleged WMD - The Quotes
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HBCC UFO Recently Reported Sightings
More Dissent In Pentagon Ranks Over Iraq War
Troops - Suicide Or Prison Better Than Returning To Iraq
Pair Arrested For Telling Lawyer Jokes

Mike Chertoff's Dirty Little Secrets
Jetliner Impact With Mystery Orb Over Texas?
6.5 Quake Hits Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Increasing US Media Concern About Global Weather Chaos
In Good Conscience - Abu Ghraib US Soldier Talks
Republicans Ax Veterans' Strongest Supporter
Bush's Reelection Ignites Religious Right
Gods & Generals - And Memories
US Hires 2 Ex-KGB Chiefs To Create Internal Passport
Homeland Security By The Colors
1000 Days Of Hell

Patriot Act Bars US Woman From Driver's License
Post-Quake Water Depths Dramatically-Altered
Year Round Grass Grows In Antarctic For First Time
Mujahideen - US Refuses Prisoner Swap, Sacrificing 18 GIs
More Heavy US Losses, Including 18 Decapitated GIs
Kaufman County, Texas Brilliant Object Caught On Film
Mothers Whose Sons Died In Iraq

[Lex]

21. Whatever. Obviously no one trusts the site.

.
Just look at the responses in this thread.

And don't try to indirectly call me a freeper, mmmkay?

[indigobusiness]

22. I wasn't indirectly calling you a freeper.

The comment was apt. And mobs don't mean anything, except to to mobbers. The site mirrors info from all sorts of sources; to paint it with a broad brush is unfair, and anything but liberal. That's my point.

[progressiveBadger]

5. Funny ass Tom Hanks picture on the front page though. n/t

[Lex]

6. LOL!

That's true!

[housewolf]

7. Here's the source...

Here's the source for that story, I don't know whether it's a reputable source or not.

http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=101258&list=/home.php

I found it by pasting "Mujahideen Strike Heavy In Ramadi And Basra" into the search bar of Google News, it only came up with the single match.

More come up when I search for the author but they are all from the same website, so I would be skeptical.

Rense is an "iffy" source, in my opinion, - he posts articles from all over on his website. Some of them are good and some are not. i do not know if he vets the articles or authors before he posts them. I always try to research anything I see there to see if I can find where it came from.

[McKenzie]

8. don't trust that site

there is a nasty, anti-semitic flavour to a lot of the stuff that gets posted there...NWO stuff, Zionist conspiracies and other implausible guff.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

9. Original story comes from jihadunspun.com

Which is an Islamic extremist's equivalent to NewsMax.

I wouldn't trust this farther than I could spit.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[NewJeffCT]

10. several months back, they had us losing 30+ in one day

It's not reliable.

[pretzel4gore]

20. fox and cnn are worse...

much worse.....because millions depend on them....

[cliss]

12. How do we know it's not true?

We know from experience that we can't trust the news sources. Also we know that any troops who die en route to the hospital in Germany, or on the way home are not counted as casualties.

The number of 1,334 (?) may be much higher if we include all casualties. I just read on the LBN that the combined losses (of the dead & injured) are now at 10% of the entire active combat soldiers.

So they deliberately try to keep the numbers as low as possible. But what if it's higher. The military "geniuses" realize that it's a numbers game. We don't know all the military families, so we can't keep track of the true totals.

Just like we don't trust the web site mentioned above, we should not trust the "news" on casualties.

[indigobusiness]

15. Exactly. Its purpose is to disseminate controversial info

Much of which would be swept under the rug, if possible, for its embarrassing truth. Often the info is posted without editorial comment, or sanctioning.

[indigobusiness]

14. Rense.com disclaimer

The materials comprising the Rense.com news service (the "Website") are provided by Rense.com as a service to its readers on an "as-is, as-available" basis for informational purposes only. Rense.com assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions in these materials. Rense.com makes no commitment to update the information contained herein. Further, Rense.com cannot edit, control, review for truth or accuracy, or screen for defamation or obscenity any content provided to the Website by a third party through postings, uploaded files, or any other form of communication, nor can the Rense.com ensure prompt removal of defamatory, obscene, inappropriate or unlawful content after transmission. Any such third party postings, files or other communications do not necessarily represent the opinions, beliefs, or positions of the Rense.com, its owner, employees or sponsors.

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http://www.rense.com/disclaimer.htm

[Tacos al Carbon]

17. Rense

Purveyors of bizarre conspiracy theories, outright lies and heaps of anti-Semitic filth. There is hardly a less reliable or less loathesome source.

[Minstrel Boy]

18. Rense is just as reliable as the sources it picks up.

Rense is not a primary source; it's a portal.

Looks like this one is from "Jihad Unspun," which I don't trust. (I suspect it's COINTELPRO.)

[Vidar]

19. No, less than Drudge even.

[rachelbirds]

23. It's about as reliable as the

National Enquirer!

[Tinoire]

24. Funny. The other day I was googling Kephra's name & found

a bunch of Will Pitt's stuff there that Kephra had done the research on.

Go figure :shrug:

Rense is no less reliable than any other site out there. It's a portal leaving it totally up to the reader to decide how much they trust the original source.

No worse than CNN or the New York Times.

To answer your original question... IMO, the truth on this story is probably lying in a half-way house somewhere between what JihadUnpsun reported and what the American media reported.

I can't verify what Jihad Unspun says but I sure as hell know they didn't throw any damn flowers at us.