Posted on 08/02/2003 6:59:07 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Rita Cosby is reporting that Aiman Al Zawahiri has threatened the US. He apparently thinks we are mistreating the people at Gitmo.
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?
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.
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.
Or as they say, the next ex-Mrs. Rivera.
I think she's kinda cute.
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.
Reuters' Lynch article brings grief to reporter
By Robert Stacy McCain
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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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.
Don't worry buddy...if push comes to shove, we will start targetting your civilians, too.
Prairie
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