Sunday, August 20, 2023

A mini-film festival in Baghdad, look who's meeting with Nouri, and a French soldier killed in 'training mission'

Advertising screens are now banned in Baghdad.  Why?  Mallika Soni (HINUDSTAN TIMES) explains:

Authorities in Iraq's capital Baghdad ordered the shutdown of LED advertisement screens installed across the city after a hacker showed a pornographic film on one of them, security forces said. The suspect has been arrested, officials said. “A person managed to hack into an advertising screen in Uqba bin Nafia Square” which is a major intersection at the centre of the city, AFP reported. The hacker "showed a pornographic film for several minutes before we cut the power cable," the report added quoting an official.




Sofia Geraghty (BANDT) adds:


The “immoral scenes” led to the authorities turning off all advertising screens in the capital while they reviewed their security measures. 

The interior minister also announced that a suspect had been arrested, but didn’t give details. 

Screens that usually show adverts for household goods and political candidates were also reportedly switched off on Sunday morning. 

Conservative Iraq announced in 2022 that it was banning p*rn websites, although many still remain available. 

The government has targeted many social media content makers in recent years, accusing them of sharing “indecent content”. 


In other news, look who US Ambassador to Iraq Alina L Romanowski met with last week.





Yes, former prime minister and forever thug Nouri al-Maliki.  


He's also still powerful.  A fact that the US media seemed woefully unaware of in 2021 and in 2022.  It's 2023 now and she's meeting with the thug.  Would seem to indicate that the US media might need to pay a little more attention to Nouri -- but then, so would the defeat of Moqtada al-Sadr.


In other news, THE KHAAMA PRESS NEWS AGENCY reports:


A French soldier has been killed in a tragic road accident in Iraq while actively engaged in a training mission for the Iraqi armed forces, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday.

Sergeant Baptiste Gauchot “was very seriously wounded when his vehicle went off the road,” France’s armed forces ministry said, as AFP cited.

After receiving immediate medical attention at Arbil Hospital, the soldier, unfortunately, succumbed to his injuries despite undergoing emergency surgery. Meanwhile, the ministry said another soldier accompanying him during the incident is currently undergoing treatment at a military hospital in Baghdad.


Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Raging Trump" went up Saturday night and Kat's "Kat's Korner: Joni (live) at Newport" went up earlier today.  The following sites updated:





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