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Source: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/26165.htm
Arab Media Report Victory Over U.S.
(New York Post)Amir Taheri - The group that beheaded Paul Johnson calls itself "The Fallujah Brigade," after the Iraqi city which was the scene of a brief insurgency a few weeks ago. The Arab media, especially the satellite TV channels, presented the Fallujah insurgency as "one of the greatest battles the Arabs have ever waged against the Crusaders," as an editorial in the daily Al-Arab claimed. The Arab media claimed that the U.S. had deployed "all its military might" to conquer Fallujah and had failed. The "heroes of Fallujah" fought like lions and succeeded in winning "a spectacular victory," thus "saving Arab honor." More than a dozen Arab poets have already committed odes and sonnets to commemorate Fallujah as "the Arab Stalingrad." The satellite channels that peddled those lies are all owned by Arab governments (including the Saudi one) or individuals related to the ruling families. What really happened in Fallujah? According to the UAE Red Crescent, "The number of those who died did not exceed 270, almost all fighters, not civilians. The resistance was made up of former [Iraqi army] officers with a small number of [non-Iraqi] Arabs representing Salafist [radical Islamist] groups." Paul Johnson was killed by the sheiks who finance Arab television, and who continue to finance the terror organizations.