Michael YonMichael Yon’s latest, Al-Qaeda on the Run: Feasting on the Moveable Beast, is full of information that I’d bet a bundle you’ll never see printed in the LA Times.

The focus on al Qaeda makes sense here, where local officials have gone on record acknowledging that most of the perhaps one thousand al Qaeda fighters in Baqubah were young men and boys who called the city home. This may clash with the perception in US and other media that only a small percentage of the enemy in Iraq is al Qaeda, which in turn leads to false conclusions that the massive offensive campaign underway across Iraq is a lot of shock and awe aimed at a straw enemy. But as more Sunni tribal leaders renounce former ties with al Qaeda, it’s becoming clearer just how heavily AQ relied on local talent, and how disruptive they have been here in fomenting the civil war.

Pretty heady stuff, this. As far as our local kitty-box liner, a search on their website for “Michael Yon” nets you the following:

LATIMES.COM ARTICLES
No matches found on search for: michael yon
Try broadening your search criteria.

Of course, our esteemed waste of ink and paper isn’t silent on the Iraq War, not at all.

NEWS ANALYSIS
Key goals in Iraq elusive

THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ: BAGHDAD’S FRUSTRATION; U.S. RAIDS
Iraqis chafe at U.S. deadline pressure

Administration foiled by own Iraq goals

GOP senators seek middle ground on Iraq

‘Spectacular attacks’ in Iraq expected

Court-martial urged in Haditha case

&

Pentagon criticized for Iraq armor contracts

And that’s just today!

Not a single mention anywhere online about the effectiveness of Operation Arrowhead Ripper — and as Yon reports in his initial post of the battle for Baqubah, “Alexandra Zavis from Los Angeles Times is down in the heat of the battle bringing home information.” The LAT has its own embedded reporter and they aren’t telling the story! That’s outright, damaging-to-the-troops anti-war bias taken to the max!

Hey LA Times — try broadening your editorial and journalistic criteria!

Pathetic!

[Update -- to be fair, I did find an article by the LAT embed, Alexandra Zavis, from June 26. Why they haven't followed up with further info about the routing of al Qaeda is a mystery -- or, maybe it isn't. That would make Bush's "surge" look like it just might be working -- can't have that now, can we LAT?]

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