Who Surrendered in Basra, Anyway?

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:41:00 +0000

Radical Shiite cleric Moktada Sadr's troops vanished from Basra under fire from the Iraqi army - but the Times and the rest of the media declare Prime Minister Maliki the big loser.

Clay Waters

With hisslanted reporting on fighting between the Iraqi army and militias following the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr in Basra, Baghdad bureau chief James Glanz is making us miss his predecessor John Burns.

Reporter Lectures Maliki for Criticizing Hillary, Buries Good News from Iraq

admin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:31:00 +0000

James Glanz: "But Mr. Maliki appeared to reach a new level of stridency with his reply to Senator Clinton, of New York, and Senator Levin, of Michigan."

Clay Waters

Baghdad-based James Glanz buried some good news out of Iraq on Monday in favor of lecturing Iraq's prime minister Maliki for criticizing Democratic senators Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin.

The headline encapsulated the thrust of Glanz's piece: "Iraqi Prime Minister Says 2 U.S. Senators Need to 'Start Making Sense Again.'"