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1300 dead

The bombing and bloodshed that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war have propelled anti-American firebrand Muqtada al-Sadr to the forefront of Iraqi politics. The young Shiite cleric who twice defied America in 2004 now has emerged as a major threat to U.S. plans for Iraq.
But the outbreak of Shiite-Sunni violence presented al-Sadr with an opportunity that he was quick to exploit.

Robert Reid/AP 26.Feb.06

Al-Sadr, in the eyes of a lot of Americans who might read Reid's version, would be some one who doesn't like them, who wants to hurt them, is anti- them. And he's a firebrand, which to most people reading Reid's version means he's on fire or something, dangerous, a troublemaker. It's important that innocent Americans never be allowed to see people like Al-Sadr as being formed by the events they're in the midst of - he's a bad person, and that's all you need to know. Trust us.
Reid would appear to be the closest thing in Iraq to an official US government journalist, a mouthpiece for the creators of all this bloody evil, a dependable amplifier of the party line.
A cursory search of the 'net archives has his name all over every story of significance in on or about Iraq for at least the last 4 years.
Always echoing and elaborating the official story.
Confirming the lies.
"The bombing and bloodshed that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war".
The body count's still got the US out in front, and when it comes to bombs it's hands-down USA all the way.
Robert H. Reid is not Giuliana Sgrena. Nor is he Florence Aubenas.