Octavia Nasr
Posted on 07/07/2010 3:14:45 PM PDT by RobinMasters
TEL AVIV – CNN's senior Middle East affairs editor is leaving the media company after it was reported she professed her "respect" for an anti-American Islamic extremist who was an ideological guide to the Hezbollah terror group and who was accused of masterminding a 1983 attack on U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Americans.
"Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah ... one of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot," CNN senior editor for Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr wrote on her personal Twitter page earlier this week.
Now Mediate.com obtained an internal CNN memo which says of Nasr: "We believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised."
In a blog post expanding on her position, Nasr wrote that it "was an error of judgment for me to write such a simplistic comment and I'm sorry because it conveyed that I supported Fadlallah's life's work. That's not the case at all."
Still, CNN promised the issue was "serious" and would "be dealt with accordingly."
Nasr's Twitter post had been slammed by the Anti Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center human rights group.
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Octavia Nasr
I think it's a spamming service that sends an alert to someone
whenever enough folks post to it, there may be a keyword trigger.
Then someone (or another automated system) will respond.
A 22 to 1 thread-to-comment ratio is not healthy.
And highly suspect.
I note twitter robs them of the ole “I was taken out of context” defense. Since twitter only holds a couple of sentences there is no surrounding context. What you write is what you mean.
I stand corrected. A more thorough review of RobinMasters’ posting history shows a 90%+ Blog Pimp.
“A 22 to 1 thread-to-comment ratio is not healthy. And highly suspect.”
It’s always the same comment from Humblegunnerism in 2008, 2009 and now in 2010.
HumbleGoun is the new Big Sis of FreeRepublic. He goes after “controversial opinion Freepers” year after year. No surprise here.
This is the new web policy of HumbleGoonie. He is not Humble and he has no Gun.
She moving into the white house media?
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Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.. #Lebanon
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“Two Major Middle East Terrorist Figures Die in their Safe Havens”
By Michael B. Kraft
July 5, 2010 10:41 PM
SNIPPET: “The deaths within days this weekend of two major figures behind major Middle East terrorist attacks and the possible death of a third last month should serve as a reminder of how long the terrorist threat has been with us — and the difficulty in taking action against terrorists when they enjoy safe havens.
In Damascus, Mohammed Oudeh, better known as Abu Daoud — the mastermind of the 1972 massacre of Israel athletes at the Munich Olympics, died Friday of kidney failure at the age of 73.
In Beirut Lebanon on Sunday morning, a liver hemorrhage claimed the life of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the Shiite spiritual leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization which conducted the 1983 bombings of the barracks of the U.S. and French peacekeeping forces and the U.S. embassy. The group was also involved in the kidnappings of dozens of American and other Western hostages in Lebanon in the 1980’s. He was 75.
Both deaths were announced separately by the families or associates.
In an unconfirmed report last month, the German press agency DPA reported that a drone missile strike in Pakistan on June 19 killed Mohammad Ali Hamadeh, a Lebanese Hezbollah member who was accused of killing of an American Navy diver, Robert Stethem during the hijacking of TWA 847 flight to Beirut 25 years ago in June, 1985. However State Department officials said they could not confirm the report when it came out and DOD did not respond to a query.
Both the Munich Olympics attacks and the Beirut bombings had wide ranging consequences although not necessarily those intended by the perpetrators.
In the Munich massacre, 11 Israeli Olympic team members were killed, either outright by the Palestinian Black September terrorists, or during a botched rescue operation by German security officials. In the bombings a decade later in Beirut, 241 U.S. marines were killed and 58 French paratroopers were killed by nearly simultaneous suicide truck bomb attacks in October, 1983. In the earlier suicide bombing American embassy attack in April, 60 persons were killed, including 17 Americans.”
So there are still limits. I think a lot of these media folks equate zero’s election and subsequent *ss kissing of the Muslim world with the acquiescence of the American people to the agenda, and they are getting a rude awakening.
So there are still limits. I think a lot of these media folks equate zero’s election and subsequent *ss kissing of the Muslim world with the acquiescence of the American people to the agenda, and they are getting a rude awakening.
If so, I would not be surprised.
If your service had been spamming longer you would have more data.
I've been doing the same since the beginning of 2001.
Which keywords did I use to make the alarm go off and cause you to make a comment?
Can you make comments while the spamming service is still posting threads?
Does making comments disrupt the flow or require a re-set afterwards?
Well, since the beginning of 2001 ? Good for you.
But if you have nothing to say and want to open a thread titled : “How Robin Masters is spamming Freerepublic”, be my guest.
I’ve told you that 2 years ago, remember ? If you are the Moderator, just remove my account if you think I’m spam (it doesn’t make sens). If not, just comment articles and let people alone.
Case closed.
I’m surprised CNN didn’t award her some kind of little statue or whatever they award themselves. Maybe congress will give her a standing ovation if the subject ever comes up.
Oh my GOD! The Beast that ate Pittsburgh!
Thanks RobinMasters.
And (brace yourselves) thank you CNN.
Beheading her live on CNN would have been more appropriate though.
She works at CNN. Her crime is not being an anti-Semite, it’s being open about it.
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