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American Journalist Accused of Passing Tips to Assad Regime

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Posted on Mar 19, 2012
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Journalist Nir Rosen appears on Al-Jazeera to give a report about Syria in September 2011.

According to this story from The Telegraph, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad apparently wasn’t aware that BBC reporter Paul Wood had been filing stories from the war-torn city of Homs until American journalist Nir Rosen tipped off his administration in an attempt to gain access for his own professional purposes.

Rosen denied any wrongdoing, attributing his correspondence with Assad’s camp as being a routine part of his job.  —KA

The Telegraph:

A spokesman for the Revolutionary Council in Homs, who asked not to be named for his safety, accused Mr Rosen of “trading information about us and journalists in Homs with the regime in exchange for privileges from Bashar Assad’s regime.”

In an interview with the Telegraph, Mr Rosen said the only information he shared were links to stories already available on the internet and said that more senior Syrian security officials would have already known about the presence of Western journalists.

[...] “You deal with media people and you kiss their a—- to get the access whether it’s the Taliban, the US military or the Syrian regime,” Mr Rosen said.

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By heterochromatic, March 20, 2012 at 7:45 pm Link to this comment

Oz—-what are you talking about?

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By OzarkMichael, March 20, 2012 at 7:35 pm Link to this comment

hetero, if its a joke it isnt funny. If it isnt a joke I dont understand what it is.

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By heterochromatic, March 20, 2012 at 6:06 pm Link to this comment

he writes for Wired these days and win some kinda award today for something he
wrote about the FBI.

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By heterochromatic, March 20, 2012 at 11:53 am Link to this comment

IMax——- picture of Son…..(not the best likeness)

http://www.coralbrowne.com/images/ruling.jpg

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By IMax, March 20, 2012 at 5:41 am Link to this comment

hetero,

Who is your Son?

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By heterochromatic, March 19, 2012 at 8:09 pm Link to this comment

yeah, Pat, he IS a little better than that….when he finally was allowed to write for
the magazine, he helped break the story that led to Cheney’s flunky Scooter Libby
getting indicted.


he also sounded pretty good this weekend on tv with his buddy Ezra.

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By OzarkMichael, March 19, 2012 at 7:42 pm Link to this comment

everyone is mad? is this guy the new hero? the latest Bradley Manning type?

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By PatrickHenry, March 19, 2012 at 6:43 pm Link to this comment

tic,

Lets hope he does better than these guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTWY14eyMFg

They should have their press credentials revoked for life.

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By heterochromatic, March 19, 2012 at 6:29 pm Link to this comment

good luck manana, and wear one them little tree-shaped
thingees for the car under each nostril ...... keep
outta Arizona.

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By moonraven, March 19, 2012 at 6:11 pm Link to this comment

Relentless infantile mendacity, too.

Stench of it has prety much destroyed this site.

I am out of here for a while.

Gotta go to Gringolandia tomorrow—where the stench will be legion.

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By heterochromatic, March 19, 2012 at 6:10 pm Link to this comment

pecked to death and eating by ravens,,,,,adding
necrotic miasma to that already replete carrion-
gulper…....

shouldn’t you be off heating up potatoes?

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By heterochromatic, March 19, 2012 at 6:08 pm Link to this comment

he’s not at all loose with factual content….spent a
year as a fact-checker before being allowed to have his
name on anything printed in the magazine that employed
him after graduation….

his very careful handling of fact and detail should
give us great hope that your kid (or kids) can grow up
to be decent people.

here’s to a better tomorrow, PH.

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By moonraven, March 19, 2012 at 5:57 pm Link to this comment

The odor of menacity lingers on long after the liar has died and been eating by vultures….

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By PatrickHenry, March 19, 2012 at 5:46 pm Link to this comment

hermaphrospammatic,

If the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree, he’ll opine and opine and opine, making his own facts up as he merrily opines away into disrepute.

Kinda like his dad.

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By heterochromatic, March 19, 2012 at 2:52 pm Link to this comment

My son counts Rosen among his friends and has defended
Rosen in print…...

I wonder if he’s gonna opine about this.

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