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by vogre 138 days ago
Which also refer to unnamed sources and "U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency"(read CIA)
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squidbeak 138 days ago
Why lie about this when the first paragraph is explicit about its source?

> As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME

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pydry 138 days ago
The US paid for similar information from Iraq about WMDs just before it kicked off the invasion.

Meanwhile, the US is rearranging its forces in the middle east. What a coincidence.

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vogre 138 days ago
>two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health

And their names are never called.

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johanyc 138 days ago
It's pretty common practice if naming them will get the people who shared the info in trouble. Depends on whether you think Time is a trustworthy source I guess
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vogre 138 days ago
Time always was a propaganda leaflet.

Remember "bomb serbs to heel" or "sinister world of saddam"

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