Thomas Friedman Receives $250,000 from the Iraqi President Talabani to Conduct an Interview With him Tomorrow

وكالة الاخبار العراقية تكشف عن حصول الكاتب توماس فريدمان على مبلغ 250 ألف دولار من الطالباني

2007-08-29 9:55:29 PM


US-backed Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani	New York Times pro-war journalist Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman Received $250,000 from the Iraqi President Talabani

Iraq News Agency (INA), August 29, 2007

Iraq News Agency (INA) learned today that (the US-backed Iraqi president) Jalal Talabani has given $250,000 to the New York Times journalist, Thomas Friedman, for writing an article about him

The source who told INA this news confirmed that Friedman has received the money through Qubad Talabani, who accompanied Friedman to Sulaimaniyah, in the Iraqi autonomous Kurdish region

The source added that Friedman apologized to Talabani for not being able to meet with him in Baghdad because he did not coordinate previously with the US administration and for entering Iraq through Sulaimaniyah, without prior knowledge of the Iraqi government

For these reasons, Talabani traveled to Sulaimaniyah today, in order to meet with Friedman tomorrow (August 30, 2007), Thursday

Previously, Friedman criticized journalists who conducted interviews with heads of state and praised them, and those who received money from the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussain for conducting interviews with him

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علمت وكالة الاخبار العراقية ان جلال طالباني منح الكاتب توماس فريدمان مبلغ قدره 250 الف دولار من اجل كتابة مقالا عنه

واكد مصدر مطلع ل واع ان فريدمان تسلم المبلغ عن طريق قباد طالباني الذي اصطحب فريدمان الى السليمانية واضاف المصدر

ان فريدمان اعتذر للطالباني من القدوم الى بغداد لعدم قيامه بالتنسيق مسبقا مع الادارة الامريكية وانه دخل العراق عن طريق السليمانية

من دون علم الحكومة العراقية وعلى ضوء ذلك سافر الطالباني اليوم الى السليمانية ليلتقي فريدمان غدا

وكان فريدمان قد شن في وقت سابق هجوما على بعض الكتاب واتهمهم بانهم يمجدون الرؤساء وانهم قبضوا المال من صدام حسين

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