Case of Whidbey Island 'terrorists' is a dud, FBI says

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | May 14, 2002 | Mike Barber

[Physicist]

There were two threads yesterday where people busily deconstructed the phrase "Israeli nationals" used by Fox News in an effort to convince themselves that the men were Palestinian. That the men were terrorists was taken for granted. I thought I'd post this here in case anyone was interested in the real story.

I'm expecting all the terrormongers who shot their mouths off yesterday to come on this thread and express their contrition at having jumped to a conclusion. NOT!

[Who is George Salt?]

Could you provide links to the two threads you mentioned?

[jlogajan]

I'm expecting all the terrormongers who shot their mouths off yesterday to come on this thread and express their contrition at having jumped to a conclusion.

You are a very funny guy. ;-)

[Rebelbase]

I did'nt think terrorist. The Mossad is highly capable of "fabricating" an "incident" in the U.S. to further Irael's goals.

[Rebelbase]

Irael's = Israel's

[veronica]

Looks like the anti-Israel gang hit another dry hole. Yet another Carl Cameron 'scoop.' (LOL)

[SJackson]

Lighter residue, truck from Canada, Cigar smugglers?

[LarryLied]

Must you distort everything? My comments were directed at those who started yammering that the perps "had" to be "Israeli Arabs" and not Jews.

[veronica]

Your guy Carl Cameron keeps getting it wrong, Mr. Lied. First the bogus art student spy story, now this. Oh well...

[browardchad]

Fox is still reporting this, including the "Israeli nationals" bit, the TNT and plastic explosives bit, yada, yada, yada. They also had a "Fox News Alert" yesterday, complete with omnious music, to downgrade the possible credibility of an earlier story about the July 4 Nuclear Power Plant attack threat.

[Who is George Salt?]

"Yet another Carl Cameron 'scoop.' (LOL)"

Like THIS ONE???

[veronica]

Yes like that one. A 'scoop' that turned out to be an urban myth. I am sure this story too will spawn wingnut sites and conspiracy theories galore. Grab your tinfoil hat!

[Who is George Salt?]

Nah, I'll save my tinfoil cap for reports of a nutcase extremist cult which plans to burn a Red Heiffer and then use the ashes in some wacko purification ritual, all for the purpose of bringing on the apolcalype -- now THAT is bizarre!

[John H K]

It's really a dilemma...Fox has a serious problem with incompetence, worse than the other networks, but has far less left bias. Don't know if we'll ever get a competent, unbiased network.

You'll recall Fox botched the Supreme Court verdict on the recount worse than anyone..a couple of idiotic women prattling about how it was a victory for Gore, because they didn't understand it...FIRST to figure out that Bush one was Brian Williams on NBC.

[browardchad]

You'll recall Fox botched the Supreme Court verdict on the recount worse than anyone..a couple of idiotic women prattling about how it was a victory for Gore

One of them was Rita Cosby, who seems since to have been promoted to "exclusive interviewer" of such noble personages as Yassir Arafat and Mike Tyson. What a ditz!

[JFoxbear]

Thanks for posting this. I'm glad that no bombs went off.

Constant Vigilance is still the order of the day, in more ways than one.

[Physicist]

Could you provide links to the two threads you mentioned?

Sorry! I had intended to do that, but my job called me away just as I was hitting the post button. Thanks for the reminder.

It turns out that there were three threads (at least):

Thread 1

Thread 2

Thread 3

[veronica]

Linking to antiwar.com? Now THAT is bizarre...