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Rdtf
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 Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: NYT respectfully calls Zarqawi a 'Jordanian Fighter' |
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OReilly mentioned this last night and I had to look it up - it's true. Go to Foxnews.com to hear his talking points rant.
Idiot Glanz of New York Times respectfully calls Zarqawi a 'Jordanian Fighter'!! I don't even see 'Terrorist' mentioned.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/politics/06cnd-iraq.html?oref=login
| Quote: | Kidnappers Threaten to Kill Egyptian Envoy
By JAMES GLANZ
Published: July 6, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 6 - The group claiming that it carried out the kidnapping of Egypt's top diplomat in Iraq said in an Internet posting today that a religious court had convicted him of crimes that are punishable by death.
The diplomat, Ihab al-Sharif, has been handed over to fighters to carry out the sentence, the message, posted on an extremist Islamic Web site, said.
As many as eight kidnappers grabbed Mr. Sharif, on the street late Saturday, pistol-whipped him and muscled him into the trunk of a black sedan before it sped off. On Tuesday, the militant group led by the Jordanian fighter Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said that Mr. Sharif was taken "by the hands of our mujahedeen."
In the chilling follow-up message today, the Zarqawi group said that Mr. Sharif was guilty of apostasy, or betraying Islam, because Egypt had "allied itself to the Jews and Christians," according to a translation of the statement by The Associated Press. Apostasy is punishable by death in some fundamentalist versions of Islam.
The authenticity of the message could not be verified, but the Web site is often used by groups like Mr. Zarqawi's that are linked to al Qaeda.
The threat came on a day when comparatively low levels of violence rippled across Iraq. At least three police officers were killed and 11 wounded in scattered attacks around Baghdad. In a pair of nearly simultaneous early-morning attacks, gunmen attacked police at two checkpoints, and shortly afterward, a police commando in plain clothes was shot and killed in the Risala neighborhood of northwest Baghdad.
A roadside bomb exploded in a tunnel leading to Tahrir Square in central Baghdad at about midday as an American military convoy passed nearby, an Interior Ministry official said. The American military sealed off the area and no further details were immediately available.
In a separate incident, the Interior Ministry official said, American forces mistakenly fired on a car carrying the Iraqi police officer who is head of an Iraqi major crimes unit in the Ameriya neighborhood. The police officer, Brig. Gen. Majeed Jasim Hameed, was taken to Yarmouk hospital.
A roadside bomb exploded in Hilla, south of Baghdad, this morning, but there were no casualties, a police official said. In the same city, four suicide bombers wearing explosive belts were arrested before the devices could be detonated, the official said.
Hundreds of Iraqis demonstrated today near the northern city of Kirkuk to protest the detention of a local tribal leader who was arrested during a raid by the United States military on Friday.
The tribal leader, Shiek Aref Naief Hameed al-Obaidi, was also head of a military division in Saddam Hussein's government and held the rank of major general, said Sheik Nezhan Abed Mutlak al-Salihi, who took part in the protests.
Mr. Salihi said the detained leader had not participated in terror or sabotage attacks since the fall of Mr. Hussein's government. But, he said, "We were told that he was accused of attacking U.S. bases and planting I.E.D.'s and exploding oil pipelines." In military parlance, an I.E.D. is an "improvised explosive device," or a homemade bomb. |
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George F. Thompson
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject: NYT |
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Is the writers name Glanz or Glans? Do a google search on the latter and you"ll catch my drift.
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| Kill women and children and be called a fighter? Very revealing about the writer/idiot who wrote that. Semper Fi |
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You have to remember, this is the New York Times. They would embrace the devil himself, if they thought they could make Bush and conservatives look bad.
It reminds me of some things Winston Churchill once said, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last," and "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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The coma inducers continue on.
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Maybe we should start a "pool" with the object of guessing how soon they will insert the word "freedom" between "Jordanian" and "fighter".
I'm convinced it WILL happen, sooner or later. |
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| DADESID wrote: | Maybe we should start a "pool" with the object of guessing how soon they will insert the word "freedom" between "Jordanian" and "fighter".
I'm convinced it WILL happen, sooner or later. |
I'm in for ten bucks.
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Zarqawi reminds me of William Wallace.
On the Rack Yelling, Freedom!
I am being sargasmic of course.
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Rdtf
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162048,00.html
| Quote: | Media Coverage of the London Bombings
Sunday, July 10, 2005
By Bill O'Reilly
As we promised you Thursday night, we took a hard look at the media this morning to see who was sanitizing the London terror attack or terrorism in general. And here's what we saw:
The New York Times, which called the murderous terrorist al Zarqawi a Jordanian fighter a few days ago, today ran a page one article about Al Qaeda executing an Egyptian diplomat in Iraq and referred to the terrorist group as the "insurgent group Al Qaeda." So I guess The New York Times is now a terrorist-free zone. More on that in a moment.
The Washington Post also playing this game, today described Al Qaeda in Iraq as an "insurgent group" as well.
CNN called Al Zarqawi an "Islamic militant."
But the absolute worst appeared in The Boston Globe. And op-ed written by Derrick Jackson compared the dead in London to those killed in Iraq by coalition forces.
Jackson writes, "Yet ever invoking of the innocents (in London) also reminds us of our despicable, cowardly killing of innocent Iraqi civilians."
The Boston Globe must be very proud. Even in a liberal state like Massachusetts, that kind of moral equivalency is simply unacceptable to decent people.
To be fair, some liberal editorial pages, like The Houston Chronicle wrote strong condemnations of terror. And some op-ed columnists, like Thomas Friedman, really understand what's going on.
Friedman, who writes for the aforementioned New York Times, made a brilliant point Friday. He said, "The Muslim (world) has been derelict in condemning the madness of jihadist attacks. When Salman Rushdie wrote a controversial novel involving the prophet Muhammad, he was sentenced to death by the leader of Iran. To this day, no major Muslim cleric or religious body has ever issued a fatwah condemning Usama bin Laden." Well, that's about as revealing as it gets.
Now back to this Jordanian fighter deal. The editor of The New York Times, Friedman's boss, Bill Keller, wrote me today stating that his paper isn't sanitizing terrorism. We posted the entire letter on www.billoreilly.com. But here's a sample.
"Dear Mr. O'Reilly, As a rule, I assume that those of your viewers who read The New York Times understand that often your remarks about the paper bear little relations to what we actually print. Perhaps you would prefer that every time we mention a terrorist we be required to use the word 'terrorist,' lest our readers mistake him for a member of the Rotary Club.our well informed readership does not need to be reminded in every single reference that a man who kidnaps and kills for the purpose of terrorizing a populace is a terrorist."
Well, I appreciate your letter, Mr. Keller, but I stand by my point. Zarqawi is not a Jordanian fighter. That is inaccurate. Serial killers are not fighters, sir, with all due respect.
Once again, we posted Mr. Keller's letter on billoreilly.com. Let us know what you think. And that's "The Memo."
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