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AP runs to the Washington Post
MichelleMalkin.com ^ | September 25 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 09/25/2006 4:58:51 PM PDT by gridlock

What do you do when you are a global news organization under fire for suppressing five-month-old news of the capture of one of your employees by American troops in a Ramadi apartment with an alleged al Qaeda leader and a weapons cache?

You run to a sympathetic news organization to help you whitewash the story and smear the U.S. military. Naturally.

On Saturday, the Washington Post op-ed page published a shameless CYA screed by Associated (with terrorists) Press president and chief executive Tom Curley on the Bilal Hussein case. The inanity begins with the very first paragraph of the piece titled "In Iraq, a Journalist in Limbo:"

Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi photographer who helped the Associated Press win a Pulitzer Prize last year, is now in his sixth month in a U.S. Army prison in Iraq. He doesn't understand why he's there, and neither do his AP colleagues.

Oh, sweet merciful crap.

Curley and his A(wt)P colleagues just can't understand why the military would want to hold a security detainee who was discovered by American troops in a Ramadi apartment with an alleged al Qaeda leader and a weapons cache, and who tested positive for explosives. Not that it will get through their very thick skulls, but let's repeat:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ap; associatedwithterror; bilalhussein; iraq
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Michelle Malkin has been all over this story. Now AP is finally admitting that one of their stringers has been picked up in a safe house with a bunch of high-level terrorists. They are now asking that he be released by our military and tried in an Iraqi court.

You suppose that after he is convicted and sentenced to death by an Iraqi court they will still think this is such a great idea? I think the Iraqis are getting pretty tired of this stuff.

1 posted on 09/25/2006 4:58:52 PM PDT by gridlock
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To: gridlock
I think the Iraqis are getting pretty tired of this stuff.

I certainly hope so.
2 posted on 09/25/2006 5:00:54 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: gridlock

I'm sure glad the cuties are on our side.

Michelle does it again...


3 posted on 09/25/2006 5:08:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
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To: gridlock
Oh, sweet merciful crap.

Well said.

4 posted on 09/25/2006 5:09:10 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Those who do not know Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. They are the witless." –Khomeni)
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To: pinz-n-needlez; onyx; ohioWfan; Texasforever; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; mrs tiggywinkle; Dog; ...

ping


5 posted on 09/25/2006 5:10:13 PM PDT by Mo1 (Hey McCain and Graham .... our soldiers signed up to dodge bullets not lawsuits)
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To: gridlock

It is no surprise that news people are working with terrorists. I have suspicions that some American journalists are working with them also.


6 posted on 09/25/2006 5:15:17 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: gridlock
He doesn't understand why he's there, and neither do his AP colleagues.

The above is probably the truth, hard as it is to believe. These folks really just don't get it.
7 posted on 09/25/2006 5:24:46 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: sgtbono2002

Eason Jordan was certainly working with the terrorists in Iraq. CNN wanted it that way so they could keep their bureau open.


8 posted on 09/25/2006 5:33:20 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: sgtbono2002
I have suspicions that some American journalists are working with them also.

It doesn't matter to me if the journalist it question is an American or a local. They should all be held by AP to the same standard. Unfortunately, AP seems all too ready to look the other way, as long as they get results.

9 posted on 09/25/2006 5:37:58 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: gridlock

Tom Curley became president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on June 1, 2003.

Curley was previously president and publisher of USA Today, the nation's largest-selling daily newspaper. Since 1998 he was also senior vice president of the newspaper's owner, Gannett Co., Inc., publisher of 100 daily newspapers in the United States.

Curley was the original news staffer on the project that led to the creation of USA Today.

11 posted on 09/25/2006 5:41:56 PM PDT by kcvl
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Why is it that these folks can't figure out which side they are on? On the one side you have the US military, that is trying to save that country and drag it back from chaos, and on the other side you have idiots who hack off heads for fun and shoot at children because they are watching a soccer game on TV without the Mullah's permission. And AP is standing in the middle, not able to figure out who is in the right.


12 posted on 09/25/2006 5:46:49 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: gridlock

Hussein, 35, is a native of Fallujah who began work for the AP in September 2004. He photographed events in Fallujah and Ramadi until he was detained on April 12 of this year.

Photos by AP photographer Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi citizen.

AP executives said the news cooperative's review of Hussein's work did not find anything to indicate inappropriate contact with insurgents, and any evidence against him should be brought to the Iraqi criminal justice system.

13 posted on 09/25/2006 5:47:52 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Mo1
Unadulterated bull.

Almost as good as "sweet merciful crap". But not quite.

Bump!

14 posted on 09/25/2006 6:55:53 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (No religion demands so much of it's members and so little of itself, than islam.)
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To: Mo1

Many thanks for the ping!


15 posted on 09/25/2006 8:01:53 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: sgtbono2002
"It is no surprise that news people are working with terrorists. I have suspicions that some American journalists are working with them also."

I have no doubt. Makes one wonder why they were getting all upset about the US monitoring (legally, I might add) overseas communications.

16 posted on 09/25/2006 8:03:50 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: kcvl

17 posted on 09/25/2006 8:15:02 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: sgtbono2002

Heck I think some Dems are working with them!


18 posted on 09/25/2006 8:19:20 PM PDT by phillyfanatic
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To: sgtbono2002
"American journalist"

Scott Pelley of NBC spent time with A-Q terrorists shortly after the 2003 invasion and wrote a book about his experiences. Naturally he thinks he didn't do anything wrong. I personally feel Pelley should be prosecuted and thrown in prison for collaborating with the enemy.

19 posted on 09/26/2006 4:09:30 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: kcvl; DoughtyOne
Curley was previously president and publisher of USA Today

That explains quite a lot, actually. USA (leftist) Toady is positioned in hotel rooms and airports across the country. The sweet merciful crap that newspaper publishes (think DeWayne Wickham) is absorbed by not-so-young skulls full of mush.

USA Toady is a large part of why our populace is so dumbed down and the polls are as they are.

20 posted on 09/26/2006 4:19:40 AM PDT by sauropod ("Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow." - Ben Franklin)
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