Breaking: Foxnews Rita Cosby sources of new threats.

[ConservativeMan55]

Rita Cosby is reporting that Aiman Al Zawahiri has threatened the US. He apparently thinks we are mistreating the people at Gitmo.

[celtic gal]

Rita's confidential sources say that sometime after midnight it will be Sunday!

LOLOLOLOL sooooo true.

glad to know I am in good company as regards ol Rita.

Did you see her skydiving event?

Anyone know if ol Rita is married? Jerry is getting married a week from tomorrow he said..wonder who the next Mrs. rivers is going to be???Wonder if Rita's sources know?

[TexKat]

TV: Qaeda's Zawahri Issues New Threats Against U.S. - Reuters

Sat August 2, 2003 10:24 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - An audio tape purportedly by top al Qaeda official Ayman al-Zawahri warned the United States on Sunday it would pay a high price if it harmed any of the detainees it is holding at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. "America has announced it will start putting on trial in front of military tribunals the Muslim detainees at Guantanamo and might sentence them to death..." said the voice on the tape, which was broadcast by the Dubai-based Arabic television Al Arabiya.

"I swear in the name of God that the crusader America will pay a dear price for any harm it inflicts on any of the Muslim detainees...."

Al Arabiya identified the voice as Zawahri's. It gave no details.

"We tell America only one thing: what you have suffered until now is only the initial skirmishes. The real battle has not started yet..." the voice said.

It was the first such audio tape said to be by Zawahri since May 2 when another one sent to an Arabic television also made threats against the United States.

Considered to be bin Laden's right-hand man, Egyptian eye doctor Zawahri founded a militant group that tried to topple the Egyptian government in the 1990s.

Bin Laden's al Qaeda is blamed for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

The United States is holding more than 600 people from 42 nations as prisoners at the special camp at the Guantanamo Bay naval base. The prisoners include nationals from Britain, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan but the U.S. military has not given a precise breakdown.

[JulieRNR21]

Despite her 'tupperware looks' Rita is quite gutsy...she did a free fall from 30,000 feet with the Air Force a few days ago....saw a video of her jump on FOX.

[Maigrey]

I wonder if he's bumping elbows with my cousin who's in a MP unit there. (more like chewing the same chow.)

I read as much Mark Steyn as possible. I love his humor and his sharp whit.

I'm still amazed at how the men and women over there are doing such with so little. It's a testiment to the American Spirit and determination.

[jlogajan]

wonder who the next Mrs. rivers is going to be???

Or as they say, the next ex-Mrs. Rivera.

[Paul Atreides]

Though I didn't see that, it is what I mean about her. She just doesn't look the type who would have so many sources on so many subjects.

[jlogajan]

Despite her 'tupperware looks' Rita is quite gutsy

I think she's kinda cute.

[celtic gal]

Not only do I wish ol Rita would get off the Kobe case, I wish they all would. What makes these people think we are just agog waiting to hear the next tidbit? I would just rather hear that the jury is in and the verdict is....

[TexKat]

wonder who the next Mrs. rivers is going to be???

Marsha Clark, naaaaah, shes too old.

I'm still tryng to figure out when he got divorced. I remember when he was trying to make amends because he got caught, was that right after the O.J. trial or during the Clinton trial? Anyway I know he and Marsha got to be big buds during that time.

[STARWISE]

Reuters ... the most reliable news source in the world /sarcasm!!

Reuters' Lynch article brings grief to reporter

By Robert Stacy McCain
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
LINK

A West Virginia newspaper reporter yesterday accused Reuters, the British news service, of putting her byline on a story about the homecoming of Pfc. Jessica Lynch that she didn't write.

The reporter became an object of scorn by talk-radio hosts when the Reuters dispatch appeared, and she wrote a column yesterday for her newspaper explaining that the story was not hers. The controversy is particularly acute in the West Virginia hills, where Pfc. Lynch, from the tiny town of Palestine, is a very special heroine.

Deanna Wrenn of the Charleston Daily Mail filed her story last week, at the request of Reuters, about plans for the homecoming of Pfc. Lynch, whose capture and rescue made her the most famous American soldier in the Iraq war, but when it appeared on the Reuters wire, she hardly recognized it.

Ms. Wrenn wrote about her experience with big-city journalism yesterday:

"This is from a story that Reuters news service ran this week with my byline:

" 'Jessica Lynch, the wounded Army private whose ordeal in Iraq was hyped into a media fiction of U.S. heroism, was set for an emotional homecoming on Tuesday. ... Media critics say the TV cameras will not show the return of an injured soldier so much as a reality-TV drama co-produced by the U.S. government propaganda and credulous reporters.'

"Got problems with that?

"I do, especially since I didn't write it.

"Here's what I sent last week to Reuters, a British news agency that compiles news reports from all over the world:

'ELIZABETH [W. Va.] — In this small county seat with just 995 residents, the girl everyone calls Jessi is a true heroine — even if reports vary about Pfc. Jessica Lynch and her ordeal in Iraq.' "

Ms. Wrenn wrote that Reuters used only a single quote from her original article.

"Apparently, when Reuters asked me last week if they could use my byline, they weren't talking about the story I wrote for them last week. They were talking about a story I never wrote."

"I'm not sure what reporter or editor actually wrote the story that has my byline attached. ... I would like to make it abundantly clear that somebody at Reuters wrote the story, not me."

Radio talk-show hosts and their listeners directed their anger over the Reuters article toward Ms. Wrenn.

"When I got to work Wednesday, e-mail messages were flooding my inbox calling me everything but Peter Arnett," she wrote, referring to the former TV reporter who was fired after giving an interview to Iraqi state TV. She declined yesterday to say anything beyond what she wrote for her newspaper.

"I just wanted to make the point to the people [in Pfc. Lynch´s hometown] about the story," Ms. Wrenn said.

Reuters defended its coverage yesterday after Ms. Wrenn's account appeared on the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal Web site.

"We always reserve the right to temper a story with copy from both sides of an issue to better service our global readership," Reuters said. "The advance story focused on the media controversy that has ensued since the rescue first took place.

... We feel strongly that our coverage of Private Lynch's return presents both sides of the issue fairly."

Reuters also said that "the controversy surrounding Private Jessica Lynch's capture and rescue is a story of global importance."

"The overnight advance story we carried was based on copy sent to us by Ms. Wrenn, who was working as a free-lancer for us at the time, and was supplemented by additional copy and editing from others Reuters staffers."

That's not how it looked from West Virginia.

"Apparently, when Reuters asked me last week if they could use my byline," Ms. Wrenn wrote, "they weren't talking about the story I wrote for them last week. They were talking about a story I never wrote. By the way, I asked Reuters to remove my byline. They didn't."

Wire services, like newspapers, routinely edit dispatches filed by stringers, often extensively. Newspapers similarly edit dispatches filed by wire services, usually to include additional information or context. But care is taken not to change the meaning of the original dispatches.

Reuters' coverage of the war has been criticized as biased against the coalition effort in Iraq, and particularly against President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain.

"I may not be a member of the world's largest multimedia news agency," Ms. Wrenn wrote. "But I learned at West Virginia University how to report fairly, which is what I thought I was doing for Reuters last week."

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This is getting too hugh for me .. gotta get in the shower .. it's series.

[celtic gal]

Yep I see the boring repetitive nothing news.. I too have emailed them and I don't think anyone listens. They will when viewership drops off except for a few shows.

[xrp]

"We tell America only one thing: what you have suffered until now is only the initial skirmishes. The real battle has not started yet..." the voice said.

Don't worry buddy...if push comes to shove, we will start targetting your civilians, too.

[STARWISE]

and ExUUUUUUUUUUUUberant!!

[conservababeJen]

I wanna know how Rita talks out of her nose the way she does

[STARWISE]

Jeees .. you'd think Sadaam, OBL and Ayman have hooked up to share a recording studio. OK .. back in the shower.

[Husker24]

blah blah blah

[Destro]

FOXnews means well but it is a Tabloid origin news division. With the exception of that excellent reporter who came over from ABCnews--Gibbson I think his name is -- Foxnews is really concerned with titillation news.

[clintonh8r]

The perceptive Mizz Cosby seems to have missed the opportunity to ask: Why is this coming from Ayman and not our boy Bin Laden his ownself? Could it be he's taking a dirt nap, an eternal slumber, the big sleep, expired, departed, late, not of this orb? Rita, get away from the bon bons and get on the story!

[JulieRNR21]

One thing I remember every time I see her is how she blew it when the USSC made their rulings on the Bush VS Gore recount case.....she gave it a quick look & pronounced it a win for Gore....fortunately for America....she was wrong!

[prairiebreeze]

Howdy TexKat and thanks for the article. Ahhh, Zawahri is tanked up about the military tribunals starting up. 'Splains it.

Prairie