Earlier today our friend Murat posted in comments:Guys, it was nice talking to you but I am going to leave this board.
For a while I appreciated Fred for being openminded, and still I thank you Fred for your site, but now you start censoring and taking away the news stories you don't like, that's a pitty and not representative for an open society.
To all, take care. While I do very occasinally delete stories, they aren't deleted because I don't like them. I think I've left enough cage-rattlers up to demonstrate that! I will delete pure opinion pieces that aren't tied to a news story, and I will usually delete the more recent entry of a duplicate, or combine the two into one. And I'll also delete outright trolls like Meki or Syuhada.
The Murat entry that I deleted this morning was the third run of the killings in Mosul. As far as I could tell, the people were still dead, the U.S. had either slaughtered them for the fun or it or had fired on a killed people who were firing at them, and there hadn't been anything added to the story. If I missed some new information, I'm sorry about that, but please check the previous day (or even two) so a story's not rehashed. Rantburg should give you today's news, not the same stuff over and over.
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