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To: asgardshill
What does the mercenary's race have to do with the story?


What are you saying? That a black American fighting with (probably Al Queada tied terrorist) is just par for the course?


You don't find it unusual enough to be news?


Nobody is saying any thing racist here, but a black American fighting with Chechnya bandits or Islamic terrorist is going to raise a few eyebrows about his motivation. Is is money or extreme religous views?
20 posted on 10/08/2004 6:37:32 AM PDT by dagoofyfoot
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To: dagoofyfoot
What are you saying?

Only what I asked. "What is the relevance of the man's race to the discussion?"

That a black American fighting with (probably Al Queada tied terrorist) is just par for the course?

The article mentioned specifically that this was "preliminary" information. And the article specifically mentioned the man's race. In the body. My question was "Why do you feel that the man's race was important enough information to be added after the fact in parentheses to the title of the thread?"

You don't find it unusual enough to be news?

I find that adding a description of the man's race to the thread title when it wasn't there in the first place might violate the spirit if not the letter of FR policy. And I question why the original poster did it when the information was readily available in the body of the article.

Nobody is saying any thing racist here

I didn't say they were. All I want is an answer from the original poster to my question about why the man's race was added to the threadline when it wasn't there in the original article.

31 posted on 10/08/2004 6:52:11 AM PDT by asgardshill (Got a lump of coal? Tell Mary Mapes to 'shove it' - in 2 weeks you'll have a diamond.)
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