A moment ago, I typed "Baghdad" into Google's text search box, as a quick and dirty way to check the spelling.
The third link returned pointed to a site called NasaToday.com, a sort of online newspaper of space related news, it looks like. The word "Baghdad" is not mentioned anywhere in the bit of context that Google displays under the link, nor anywhere on page being linked to. It's not even buried inside a comment within the page's HTML source.
What do you think is going on? Does that happen to you, if you Google "Baghdad?"
Maybe I should call Ted Stevens, and tell him that the Internets have a leaky tube.
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I also got the NASA hit as the third listed, but I did find Baghdad mentioned in one of the sub categories. Keep punching down the line and you'll see one listed as something like "Torture continued and was authorized and routine even after Abu Ghraib" In that piece you'll find this:
By Masood Haider NEW YORK, July 23: Torture and other abuses against detainees in US custody in Iraq were authorized and routine, even after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, according to new accounts from soldiers, a new Human Rights Watch report said on Sunday. The new report, containing first-hand accounts by US military personnel interviewed by Human Rights Watch, details detainee abuses at an off-limits facility at Baghdad airport and at other detention centres throughout Iraq. In the 53-page report, “No Blood, No Foul: Soldiers’ Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq,” soldiers describe... Click here to read more »
Thank God the pipes are still working at the internet pumping station! LOL
Right you are, TC. Thanks for the scouting report. It looks like the site is maintained by an umbrella organization, or at least a news organization that has several brand names, and the links in the side bar lead you to different sites, all of which look alike in layout.
This still makes me wonder why the NasaToday site came up third, but the torture story you mention might have been more prominently featured a short while ago.
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