Posted on 05/28/2005 4:56:40 PM PDT by Valin
THE headline on Thursday's front page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Blade's sister newspaper, was: "FBI told of Qur'an abuses." The headline's wording and the display's prominence gave the casual reader the impression the story - written by Neil Lewis of the New York Times - was new, and that the story was true. Neither is so.
Mr. Lewis' story was based on FBI reports of prisoner interrogations at Guantanamo Bay in 2002 and 2003. He noted in his third paragraph that "they are accounts of unsubstantiated allegations made by the prisoners under interrogation."
Mr. Lewis didn't mention that these unsubstantiated allegations had been made before. Three Muslims with British citizenship were captured in Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. After their release they held a press conference in August, 2004, in which they alleged a variety of abuses by guards, including that they "routinely tossed inmates' Qur'ans into prison toilets." The charges, for which no evidence has been found, were widely publicized at the time. Nor did Mr. Lewis mention that an al-Qaeda training manual, captured a couple of years ago by British police, instructs detainees to make false charges against their captors.
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When 250 former Swift Boat veterans claimed John Kerry exaggerated his Vietnam service, the media yawned and said the sworn statements of these men was not enough to go public with the story.
But when 12 terrorists claimed that US soldiers flushed a book down a toilet, even if it is a physical impossibility, the MSM went with the story immediately, even if it would hurt America's war effort and possibly lead to the deaths of innocents.
So it is nice to know to the MSM that the word of a terrorist is worth more then that of a score of servicemen.
Someday soon, there may be some serious conseqences that will be paid by someone over "news" that turned out to be false news.
A nuclear explosion, perhaps, could be one of those consequences.
They give more ammo the the terrorist and radicals so they can continue to spread the myth that we are at war with Islam.
(I could make the same accusation to some here)
Good article. I'm ashamed to admit that leftist rag, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is my hometown paper. They've been doing their shameless headline editorializing on the front page for years.
Don't feel bad I have the Mpls (red)Star Tribune. A paper even the NY Times considers loony left.
Couldn't possibly have said it better than you, my friend. Bump.........if sadly.
As long as it slams the Bush admin it's big news to the MSM.
Fact checking and vetting be damned. They have an agenda to serve. And the truth is just an annoyance.
Isn't the Blade a really ultra-lib paper??
"A nuclear explosion, perhaps, could be one of those consequences."
All the more reason to prosecute these treasonous, seditious SOBs.
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