Posted on 12/30/2013 10:02:03 AM PST by Starman417
The NY Times has lost all of its credibility. All of it. Not long ago they made the decision to endorse all of Barack Obama's lies and now has gone fully into the Hillary Clinton tank. David Kirkpatrick's article "A Deadly Mix in Benghazi" could be summarized thusly:
Kirkpatrick: "Mr. al Qaeda, were you involved in the Benghazi attack?" Al Qaeda: "No we were not." Kirkpatrick: "Who attacked the consulate?" Al Qaeda: "Hooligans" Kirkpatrick: "Why?" Al Qaeda: "It was that video." Kirkpatrick: "Thank you"
That's pretty much it. It's pathetic and a painfully obvious attempt to vindicate Hillary Clinton. It has been widely slammed by both Republicans and at least one Democrat- those who had access to sources to Kirkpatrick did not and chose to ignore.
Kirkpatrick writes:
Months of investigation by The New York Times, centered on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault.
Then he goes on to say
One of his allies, the leader of Benghazi’s most overtly anti-Western militia, Ansar al-Shariah, boasted a few months before the attack that his fighters could “flatten” the American Mission. Surveillance of the American compound appears to have been underway at least 12 hours before the assault started.
and here's the money line:
Mr. Abu Khattala, who denies participating in the attack,
Well, that's that. He just happened to be at the scene of the attack.
Thing is, Ansar al-Shariah does have connections to Al Qaeda.
Ansar al-Sharia: No one has disputed the participation of a local Islamist militia known as Ansar al-Sharia. The Times describes Ansar al-Sharia in Libya as a group formed in 2012 to protest the support other militias had for elections but an organization separate and distinct from al Qaeda. An August 2012 report commissioned by a Pentagon terrorism research organization found that Ansar al-Sharia “has increasingly embodied al Qaeda’s presence in Libya, as indicated by its active social-media propaganda, extremist discourse, and hatred of the West, especially the United States.” Not everyone however agreed. As The Daily Beast reported last year, Ansar al-Sharia was not a priority for U.S. intelligence collection in Libya. The Times also drew a distinction between the Benghazi branch of Ansar al-Sharia and the Dernaa branch of the group that was led by a former Guantanamo detainee Sufian Ben Qhumu. Others however see Ansar al-Sharia’s activities in Libya more coordinated with al-Qaeda’s regional affiliates. In October, Tunisia’s Prime Minister told Reuters that “there is a relation between leaders of Ansar al-Sharia, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar al-Sharia in Libya.” The Times also states, “the Republican arguments appear to conflate purely local extremist organizations like Ansar al-Shariah with al Qaeda’s international terrorist network.” On Fox News Sunday Rogers stuck to his guns. “Do they have differences of opinions with al Qaeda core? Yes,” he said. “Do they have affiliations with al Qaeda core? Definitely.”
In his whitewash efforts, Kirkpatrick also dismisses previous NY Times reports:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
She voted for the war because all the Clinton intel in the 90's said that Saddam had WMD. Bush's CIA Director, Tenet, also worked for Clinton.
All the Rats scuttle away from this truth with MSM help. Suddenly Bush is a liar when he was saying the exact same thing as the Clintons?
Well then, that's that. We're in a heap of trouble.
Why does anybody give a rats ass what the NY Times has to say about anything?
Any body with even half a brain knows that the only thing the rag is good for is kindling for the fire place.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/David_Kirkpatrick.html
David D. Kirkpatrick has been a reporter in the media group at The New York Times since June, 2000. He covers the book business, from authors to publishers to bookstores.
Before that, Kirkpatrick wrote for New York magazine as a contributing editor from 1999-2000. For three years before that he worked at the Wall Street Journal.
Kirkpatrick also worked as a research assistant to the author James B. Stewart on his book “Bloodsport,” about the Clinton administration, for most of two years. After graduating from college, he worked in the fact-checking department of The New Yorker for two years.
Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1970, Kirkpatrick earned a B.A. in history and American studies from Princeton University and graduated magna cum laude. He went on to attend the graduate program in American Studies at Yale.
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NYT’s piece: “Suliman Ali Zway and Osama Alfitori contributed reporting from Benghazi, and Mayy El Sheikh from Cairo.”
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A bit curious about these ‘A-team fixers’, whom within months catapulted from construction/materials contractors to rebel fighters, then onto foreign journalists’ “most trusting ears and eyes” award winners.
https://rorypecktrust.org/rpt-live/November-2011/Libyan-Fixers-to-Receive-2011-Martin-Adler-Prize
Friday, 11 November 2011
Written by Rory Peck Trust
Suliman Ali Zway and Osama Alfitory, known to international journalists as the ‘A Team’ worked with many of the world’s biggest news organisations to deliver accurate and ground breaking stories from Libya
The Rory Peck Trust today announced that Libyan fixers Suliman Ali Zway and Osama Alfitory will be the recipients of this year’s Martin Adler Prize. Now in its fifth year, the prize recognises the dedication and bravery of local freelancers who have played a significant role in the reporting of a major news story. Suliman and Osama will be presented with the prize at the Rory Peck Awards ceremony on Wednesday 16 November at London’s BFI Southbank, hosted by BBC’s Mishal Husain and Channel 4’s Alex Thomson.
Known by international journalists as the “A Team”, Suliman Ali Zway and Osama Alfitory, found themselves in every corner of the country during Libya’s revolution, helping journalists deliver accurate and ground breaking news. Both had made comfortable livings working in the construction business but in early February, when many young people in eastern Libya were volunteering to help visiting journalists, the two men joined the wave. Suliman worked briefly with an Italian television crew, and for reporters working for the Washington Post. Osama first worked with a New York Times Magazine reporter.
Weeks later, after many of the young Libyan volunteers had gone back to their lives, Osama and Suliman continued to assist international journalists, travelling to the front lines with Jon Lee Anderson of the New Yorker and Leila Fadel of the Washington Post, helping them uncover stories.
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‘Wherever there was news, we went’: Libya’s ‘A-Team’ fixers on getting the story out
When fighting broke out in Benghazi, Libyan construction workers Suliman Ali
Zway and Osama Alfitory began working with international journalists. Their work was recognised last night when they won the Martin Adler Prize
Posted: 17 November 2011
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This year’s winners are Suliman Ali Zway and Osama Alfitory, two Libyan fixers who worked with some of the world’s most established foreign correspondents during the country’s tumultuous revolution.
Zway and Alfitory were construction workers who quit comfortable jobs to volunteer for the Western journalists that flooded into Benghazi when the February protests turned to armed rebellion.
How it began
“It all came by chance at the beginning,” Zway tells me during a trip to London to collect his award.
“The protests were over and the fighting was just beginning. Only a few were fighting and had gone to the frontline. A lot of journalists came in and wanted to get an idea of what was happening.”
“No one really knows anything about Libya,” Alfitory says, “but suddenly all these journalists came to Benghazi to find out what was going on”.
“In the beginning I had decided to fight with the rebels, as it was our duty to protect our city. But just for a moment, until in my mind I realised that to help the journalists would be a much better cause. Back in February there were a lot of people starting to fight but not many helping journalists.”
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More than a work relationship
Zway and Alfitory are now in London to attend the Rory Peck Awards ceremony, and will stay for two weeks to “unwind after eight months of conflict”.
Their trip was part-funded by Jon Lee Anderson and organised by a group of journalists who worked with them, including Fadel.
Anderson is unequivocal about the importance of Zway’s and Alfitory’s work and the award it has won them.
“The work Suliman and Osama did for me, as they did for others in Libya, was essential,” he says.
“They were my trusted eyes and ears in an alien environment and my sounding boards for everything; together we found and reported the stories I later published. There were many reporters who did not have such fixers and they really struggled.”
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http://mije.org/richardprince/adl-flies-latino-journalists-israel
Zway and Alfitory were construction workers who quit comfortable jobs to volunteer for the Western journalists that flooded into Benghazi when the February protests turned to armed rebellion.
http://www.shabablibya.org/news/king-of-kings-the-last-days-of-muammar-qaddafi
I asked my friend Suliman Ali Zway, a construction-materials contractor who was helping me as an interpreter, to tell me what it said.
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But Qaddafi’s ban on private enterprise created many food and commodity scarcities; bananas, for instance, became a prized luxury. David Sullivan, a private investigator from San Francisco, worked for a contractor in Libya, setting up telecommunications systems around the country. “Nearly all work was done by foreigners.” he said.
Known by international journalists as the “A Team”, Suliman Ali Zway and Osama osama martin alderAlfitory, found themselves in every corner of the country during Libya’s revolution, helping journalists deliver accurate and ground breaking news. Both had made comfortable livings working in the construction business but in early February, when many young people in eastern Libya were volunteering to help visiting journalists, the two men joined the wave. Suliman worked briefly with an Italian television crew, and for reporters working for the Washington Post. Osama first worked with a New York Times Magazine reporter.
Weeks later, after many of the young Libyan volunteers had gone back to their lives, Osama and Suliman continued to assist international journalists, travelling to the front lines with Jon Lee Anderson of the New Yorker and Leila Fadel of the Washington Post, helping them uncover stories.
Separately, they worked – often voluntarily – for many of the world’s biggest international news organizations, including the BBC, the New York Times, PBS and CBS. Working together they helped to probe allegations of a death squad in Benghazi and reveal the psychological toll of the war, among other stories.
Osama and Suliman’s dedication and insight about Libya were so coveted by international journalists that they earned the nickname the “A-Team”. Both are now journalists in their own right and have penned articles on difficult subjects for a new Libyan magazine, ‘The Libyan’.
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110821/NEWS/110829983
August 21. 2011 8:05PM
Gadhafi regime apparently falls in Libya
By SULIMAN ALI ZWAY,
HANNAH ALLAM
and SHASHANK BENGALI
McClatchey Newspapers
In His Last Days, Qaddafi Wearied of Fugitive’s Life
By KAREEM FAHIM
Published: October 22, 2011
Suliman Ali Zway contributed reporting.
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the story is what matters not the truth.
the NYT is selling its reputation to liberal doners as being able to fool the serfs.
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