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	Another Atrocity Story That Doesn't Check Out
		The world is learning a long-overdue lesson: That atrocity stories are fabricated primarily for political and monetary gain, to function as "false flares", to divert attention from an inconvenient revelation, to deflect guilt onto an innocent bystander - or even to cause or to justify wars.
		It later turned out that the much-publicized "eyewitness" was the daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, that she had not even been in Kuwait at the time the atrocity was said to have been committed, and that her story was entirely concocted.
		Atrocity propaganda is one of the hallmarks of modern warfare, due mostly to the development of the mass media.
	www.rense.com /general53/atro.htm (4886 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Atrocity story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The term atrocity story coined by the American sociologists David G. Bromley and Anson D. Shupe refers to the symbolic presentation of action or events (real or imaginary) in such a context that they are made flagrantly to violate the (presumably) shared premises upon which a given set of social relationships should be conducted.
		Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and Benjamin Zablocki and Amitrani and di Marzio published papers concluding that the testimony of former members was at least as reliable as the statements of cults.
		The term "atrocity story" is controversial as it relates to the opposing views amongst scholars about the credibility of the accounts of former members.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Atrocity_story.html (342 words)

	How they got the Korean War atrocity story - Salon
		If doing this reporting, listening to these stories, was an emotional experience for Mendoza and her fellow reporters, it was wrenching for the men she spoke with.
		She's pleased that AP could uncover this story and that the Internet exists to present the evidence, to allow an individual reader to look at the documents she culled and look at the faces of the people who lived this horror.
		But such stories were quickly supplanted by more gung-ho dispatches about the military and the headway it was making in the conflict, as the McCarthy hearings began to question anyone who questioned our engagement with the Red Menace.
	dir.salon.com /story/media/feature/1999/09/30/ap_korea/?pn=2 (1010 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Remaining 'objective' in the face of human suffering
		The first reaction of reporters, she said, is to frame the story against a backdrop of ancient ethnic tensions, civil war, or ongoing disputes between two groups.
		Particularly difficult, she said, are stories like that in Sudan, where years of conflict have made human tragedy and atrocity a routine occurrence.
		The reporter may have little understanding of the regional culture or the historical underpinnings of the situation, putting her at the mercy of official sources, which can be reflected in the early coverage of a crisis.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/02.19/03-atrocity.html (772 words)

	Salon Media \| How they got the Korean War atrocity story
		The story of the bridge near No Gun Ri, where hundreds of civilians were killed over a three-day period in July 1950, has elements of both those photos: Innocent women and children victimized by war and soldiers returning home.
		The story was the fruit of a year's work by an AP special-assignment team: Martha Mendoza, Sang Hun Choe, Charles Hanley and investigative researcher Randy Herschaft.
		She's pleased that AP could uncover this story and that the Internet exists to present the evidence, to allow an individual reader to look at the documents she culled and look at the faces of the people who lived this horror.
	archive.salon.com /media/feature/1999/09/30/ap_korea/print.html (1525 words)

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		Newsweek, you may recall, held off on publishing the Monica Lewinsky story three years ago, thus allowing Mike Isikoff to be scooped on the tawdry tale that led to Bill Clinton's impeachment.
		The New York Times reports this morning that Vistica brought the story to the Times Magazine and did another year of reporting before writing the story to be published Sunday.
		Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker said this morning that he decided not to run the story in 1999 because Kerrey would not cooperate -- but that Kerrey's decision not to seek the presidency was a major factor in holding off.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001act/Newsweek_Spiked_the_Kerrey_Atrocity_Story (618 words)

	TFF FEATURES - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		If history is any guide, then many of the atrocity stories from Kosovo that have dominated the media since the end of the war will turn out to be false.
		Some of the stories may indeed be genuine, but many will vanish under investigation, or the scrutiny of time.
		While the war was on and British journalists had little access to Kosovo, atrocity stories were limited to accusations of "ethnic cleansing".
	www.transnational.org /features/propagandawars.html (1284 words)

	Media Matters - Fox News' Hume: AP "has been vindicated" on Iraq atrocity story
		A spokesman says Hussein, who has been quoted in dozens of AP stories and is often critical of the U.S., is someone they've talked to for years, but she would not respond to critics' demands to prove his existence.
		Captain Jamil Hussein was one of the sources for an AP story last November about the burning and shooting of six people during a Shiite militia attack at a Sunni mosque.
		I believe this story falls under ".....correcting conservative misinformation” The fact that Hume corroborated the AP’s assertion that the source did exist is irrelevant.
	mediamatters.org /items/200701050004 (2164 words)

	The Big Carnival
		Hiring him to research and write a piece on Vietnam War atrocities was comparable to hiring a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan to pen a major news article on affirmative action and race relations.
		Turse found the old atrocity stories among files in a “once-secret archive,” while researching his doctoral dissertation at the National Archives in College Park, Md., “The War Crimes Files” related.
		Wrote Turse: “Atrocities are...a long-held Marine Corps tradition, as evidenced by the commission of atrocities by U.S. Marines during the Philippines Insurrection, the “Banana War” interventions in Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in the Pacific theater during World War II and in later conflicts.”
	bigcarnival.blogspot.com /2006/08/who-is-nick-turse-author-of-l.html (3096 words)

	World-Information.Org
		Atrocity stories are nothing else than lies; the two words "atrocity stories" simply pretend to be more diplomatic.
		The most important thing about atrocity stories is to follow the line of possibility.
		Most successful might it be if a rumor is spread on purpose, some time before the atrocity story is launched, because as soon as something seems to be familiar, it is easier to believe it.
	world-information.org /wio/infostructure/100437611661/100438658524 (146 words)

	national journal: War-lies and Atrocity Propaganda
		Atrocity propaganda was used in abundance during WWI that the propaganda's credibility was effected and the aims very often could not be achieved.
		Famous atrocity propaganda lies were: German soldiers had, on detailed instruction by their emperor, Wilhelm II, hacked off the hands of Belgium children and then raped them.
		The entire atrocity story was fabricated in New York, by the publicity professionals of Hill and Knowlton.
	globalfire.tv /nj/03en/politics/war-lies.htm (1559 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Threads Unravel in Iraqi's Tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An Iraqi woman who was granted refugee status in the United States after telling The Washington Post and U.S. officials that she had been imprisoned, tortured and sexually assaulted in Iraq during the 1990s appears to have made false claims about her past, according to a fresh examination of her statements.
		In a separate interview this week in Baghdad, a priest who knew Hanna and spoke on condition he not be identified by name said she had conned people out of money on the promise of getting them visas.
		This week, some of her relatives in Iraq who had earlier corroborated parts of her story again told a Post correspondent that her husband was dead.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A22249-2005Jan19?language=printer (1334 words)

	TFF FEATURES - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Other UNHCR officials later told stories of women being tied to the walls of their houses and burned, 24 bodies buried in Kosovo Polje.
		Eye-witnesses to multiple atrocities are very rare and the simple - and not at all simple - truth is that it can often be hard to establish the veracity of the information.
		The story being seen at home is different from the one that appeared to be happening on the ground.
	www.transnational.org /features/atrocityevidence.html (2768 words)

	The Atrocity Exhibition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Atrocity Exhibition is an experimental novel by British writer J.
		The Atrocity Exibition is deliberately confusing: the book is split up into fragments, almost (but not quite) in the style of William Burroughs, a writer Ballard admired.
		The theme of the story describes how the mass media-landscape inadvertently invades and splinters the private mind of the individual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Atrocity_Exhibition (679 words)

	www.myspace.com/atrocitypeacepunks
		atrocity was part of the san francisco bay area's early 1980s "peace punk" scene, whose most notable bands were crucifix and trial.
		one of atrocity's two girl singers, sarah, was the younger sister of matt from crucifix, and john, from trial, so we were the youngest in a small peace punk lineage.
		atrocity had already developed a small following; the first show i played was at san francisco's "the on broadway", where we opened for the dead kennedys and the uk subhumans.
	www.myspace.com /atrocitypeacepunks (678 words)

	My Favorite Atrocity Story -Justin Raimondo
		We are in for an atrocity storytelling marathon, a morality play in which the Serbs are he villains, the Kosovars are the victims, and anything that deviates from this script is simply edited out of the text.
		SACRILEGE Atrocity stories are all written in an overwrought, melodramatic style: the idea is not so much to state facts as to construct a narrative, complete with a plot, characters major and minor, and those signature touches that add color and enthrall the critics.
		This is the real story behind the headlines, the function of atrocity stories in this war: to dehumanize and justify the annihilation of the Serbian nation.
	www.shmoo.com /mail/cypherpunks/jun99/msg00366.html (1243 words)

	Mackubin Thomas Owens on John Kerry, 1971 on National Review Online
		At this event, individuals purporting to be Vietnam veterans told horrible stories of atrocities: burning villages, using prisoners for target practice, and gang-raping women as a matter of course.
		Atrocities did occur in Vietnam, as they have in all wars; the most notorious was the 1968 My Lai massacre, in which hundreds of civilians were killed.
		As noted earlier, many of the stories were wildly implausible to anyone who had been in Vietnam, but credulous journalists, most of whom had no military experience, uncritically passed their reports along to the public.
	www.nationalreview.com /flashback/owens200404230859.asp (3303 words)

	The Center for Public Integrity
		But the story lacked the human element; it was an unverified report, there were no pictures for television and no interviews with mothers grieving over dead babies.
		John R Macarthur's study of propaganda in the war says that the babies atrocity was a definitive moment in the campaign to prepare the American public for the need to go to war.
		The story was a fabrication and a myth, and Nayirah, the teenage Kuwaiti girl, coached and rehearsed by Hill and Knowlton for her appearance before the Congressional Committee, was in fact the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States.
	www.publicintegrity.org /report.aspx?aid=625&sid=100 (1077 words)

	Atrocities Portrayed in the Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When the war broke, out stories of German brutality toward the civilian population of Belgium and France spread quickly, repeated by word of mouth and by the newsmedia.
		At other times the atrocity story would be based on fact with a bit extra thrown in for good measure.
		Such atrocity stories as shown here are typical of the first year of the war.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Atrocity/Atrocity_00.htm (450 words)

	Atrocity story Ethics
		The term atrocity story coined by the AmericansociologistsDavid G. Bromleyand Anson D. Shuperefers to the symbolic presentation of action or events (real or imaginary) in such a context that they are made flagrantly to violate the (presumably) shared premises upon which a given set of social relationships should be conducted.
		Benjamin Beit-Hallahmiand Benjamin Zablockiand Amitrani and di Marzio published papers concluding that the testimony of former members was at least as reliable as the statements of cults.
		Shupe, A.D. and D.G. Bromley 1981 Apostatesand Atrocities Stories: Some parameters in the Dynamics of Deprogramming In: B.R. Wilson (ed.) The Social Impact of New Religious Movements Barrytown NY Rose of Sharon Press 179-215
	www.lumrix.com /medical/ethics/atrocity_story.html (400 words)

	CJR - The Lucasville Follies
		As proof of his story, Hayes trotted out in front of the camera a woman who said that she was the friend of an inmate and that she had gotten the figure of 172 from prison guards.
		While the coverage was breeding general hysteria outside the prison, the inmates had become convinced that the stories were being planted by the prison administration to lay the political groundwork for an armed attack.
		When it came to knocking down the atrocity stories, state officials faced the difficult task of having to prove a negative, of demonstrating convincingly that the bodies didn't exist.
	archives.cjr.org /year/94/3/lucasville.asp (4688 words)

	Michelle Malkin: Burning Six update: The AP responds (to USA Today); update: and now, a new AP account
		Military officials also say they cannot confirm that the incident took place and have asked AP to retract or correct the story, which was repeated by media around the world and cited as a grim example of Shiites taking revenge for a deadly bombing that killed more than 200 people a day before.
		The attempt to question the existence of the known police officer who spoke to the AP is frankly ludicrous and hints at a certain level of desperation to dispute or suppress the facts of the incident in question.
		The police captain cited in our story has long been known to the AP reporters and has been interviewed in his office and by telephone on several occasions during the past two years.
	michellemalkin.com /archives/006439.htm (2111 words)

	Mackubin Thomas Owens on John Kerry on National Review Online
		Here, individuals purporting to be Vietnam veterans told horrible stories of atrocities in Vietnam: using prisoners for target practice, throwing them out of helicopters, cutting off the ears of dead Viet Cong soldiers, burning villages, and gang-raping women as a matter of course.
		Many of the war stories recounted by these individuals were wildly implausible to any one who had been in Vietnam, but credulous journalists, most of whom had no military experience, uncritically passed their reports along to the public.
		I had always agreed with the observation of the late Harry Summers, a well-known military commentator who served as an infantryman in Korean and Vietnam, that the story teller's distance from the battle zone was directly proportional to the gruesomeness of his atrocity story.
	www.nationalreview.com /owens/owens200401270825.asp (2128 words)

	M-AUDIO - Atrocity
		ATROCITY, however, chose to remain true to their artistic inclinations without ever discrediting their roots: Always exciting and always unpredictable.
		ATROCITY became a household name to the fans of Electro and Darkwave with this hit.
		In 1997, ATROCITY decided to explore new musical ground: The intention of Werk 80 was to mutate the pop classics of the 80s into ATROCITY songs.
	www.m-audio.com /artists/en_us/Atrocity.html (1850 words)

	The case of Robert Kerrey: how the US media covered up Vietnam War atrocity story
		We just didn't want to do it to the guy when he wasn't running for president.” Thomas said the editors were also concerned that they might be accused of driving Kerrey out of the presidential contest if they made their investigation public.
		Hackworth gives two reasons for not running the story in 1992: conflicting recall of the events by participants, and the inability of the eyewitness to explain why he did not try to stop the massacre or report it later to superiors and waited so long to contact the media.
		The Clinton “draft-dodger” story became an overnight media sensation—although the general public shrugged it off and Clinton won both the nomination and the presidency.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/may2001/kerr-m18.shtml (843 words)

	ZGram - May 23, 2004 - Next time you hear an atrocity story..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		May 23, 2004 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: The world is learning a long-overdue lesson: That atrocity stories are fabricated primarily for political and monetary gain, to function as "false flares", to divert attention from an inconvenient revelation, to deflect guilt onto an innocent bystander - or even to cause or to justify wars.
		I have been trying to make friends with a few people there, but they all shy away from me. [Š] I need to break into mainstream with Ernst's story in the worst way, but everything moves like molasses." Here is my friend's reply: "Probably 5, but unwilling to admit to more than 1.
		Print it out and give it to your friends if they want to argue the "six million gassed Jews" with you because they are stuck on their favorite atrocity story like a fly on a fly paper strip: [START] How it functions...
	zgrams.zundelsite.org /pipermail/zgrams/2004-May/000852.html (4982 words)

	Instapundit.com -
		The story doesn't ring true to me, I have to say, and if it weren't coming via Zeyad or some other reliable source I'd be inclined to dismiss it.
		Regarding the location of the dam that the victims were allegedly pushed from, I did note that the map you linked to showed a dam very close to Samarra (3km?), though this was not the same dam that the accuser cited (Tharthar).
		I doubt very much the story of such a gross breakdown in discipline, but that is not what I want to address.
	www.instapundit.com /archives/013429.php (2267 words)

	Atrocity: Album Reviews, Biography - MOG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An atrocity (from the Latin atrox, "atrocious", from Latin ater ="matte fl") is a term used to describe crimes or excesses ranging from an act committed against a single person to one committed against a population or ethnic group.
		In general use, an atrocity or massacre designates a politically or ethnically motivated killing of civilians.
		An atrocity can be a single specific event, or a series of events...
	mog.com /music/Atrocity (118 words)

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