-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> GET A NEXTCARD VISA, in 30 seconds! Get rates of 2.9% Intro or 9.9% Ongoing APR* and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://click.egroups.com/1/7872/16/_/475667/_/968040864/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Today's Press Briefing September 4, 2000 Gullible Press Believed Spain's Claim of South American Cocaine Siezure The Folly of Reporting Based on "Official Sources" >From the Spanish News Agency EFE Monday, September 4, 2000 (Madrid Time Zone) SPAIN-DRUGS DESPITE REPORT OF HUGE HAUL, NO DRUGS YET FOUND ON SEIZED SHIP "Las Palmas, Spain, Sep 3 (EFE).- Spanish authorities continued searching Sunday for what they had said were at least five tons of cocaine aboard a seized freighter but acknowledged that, three days after the vessel was boarded by elite troops, no drugs have been found..." -- For full text of EFE story with Narco News analysis about why an international lie was promoted and blindly carried by US media outlets, click: http://www.narconews.com/pressbriefing.html ---------------------------- Update on our Saturday story about "Body Counts" and war coverage: As Narco News reported on Saturday, the major English-language wires were caught in a Vietnam war-style distortion of the death toll from battles in Colombia following the Clinton visit last Wednesday. Colombian authorities followed suit by artificially raising the guerrilla death toll in the key battle by the round number of 50; from 12 deaths documented by cadavers to 62 claimed by Colombian military authorities -- officials who had lost communication with the scene of the battle -- and again repeated by the unquestioning English-language wires and press. Now comes Associated Press reporter Margarita Martínez to set the record straight. (Narco News thanks our collaborators among rank-and-file AP reporters who raised a stink over the previous day's distorted body-count reports from Colombia.) Martínez writes on Sunday, September 3rd: "BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A surge of rebel violence left 35 people dead over the weekend following President Clinton's visit to Colombia, including seven police officers slain by guerrillas - some of whom were disguised as police. "In the latest attack, leftist guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, sneaked up on a police station Saturday in northern Colombia, officials said Sunday..." More text from the AP report and Narco News analysis also in our briefing room: http://www.narconews.com/pressbriefing.html developing... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
