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BuffaloJack
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 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:00 am Post subject: Oct. 12, 2000 - USS Cole - Five Years Ago Today |
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http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/mmalkin/2005/mm_1012p.shtml
| Quote: | Nothing To See Here - Move Along
By Michelle Malkin
October 12, 2005
Oct. 12 marks the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen American sailors were murdered in the attack. They were casualties of a war with radical Islamic terror that America hadn't yet declared and which the mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge today.
Too many of us were blind in 2000 -- unable or unwilling or simply too uninterested to connect such blood-stained dots as al Qaeda's 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings, the 1998 African embassy bombings, and the attack on the Cole. After Sept. 11, 2001, all of our eyes should have been pried wide open to the evils of Muslim extremism that exist among us in both organized and freelance form.
The watchdogs in the national press, however, insist on clouding our vision.
Since 9/11, I've reported on the media's reluctance to highlight the convicted Washington, D.C.-area snipers' Islamist proclivities and journalists' refusal to call Egyptian gunman Hesham Hadayet's acts of murder at the Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002, "terrorism."
Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes noted how quickly the media sought to whitewash the bloody bus-hijacking by Croatian illegal alien Damir Igric a month after 9/11. Although the incident "echoed similar attacks by Palestinians on Israeli buses," Pipes observed, the "media attributed the violence to post-traumatic stress syndrome."
National Guardsman Ryan Anderson (a.k.a. Amir Talhah), a Muslim convert who allegedly attempted to pass sensitive military information to al Qaeda over the Internet, rated barely a blip on the media radar screen.
Similarly, press accounts have downplayed the disruption of terrorist cells on American soil: The Lackawanna Six were just nice Muslim boys led astray. The Virginia Jihad Network was just a group of weekend paintball enthusiasts. Those indicted imams in Lodi, Calif., are just misunderstood "moderates." Terror suspects deported on immigration charges are just victims of discrimination.
Now, many of my readers wonder why the MSM won't touch the strange and troubling story of the University of Oklahoma bomber, Joel Henry Hinrichs III. On Oct. 1, Hinrichs died on a park bench outside the school's packed football stadium when a homemade bomb in his possession exploded. The Justice Department has sealed a search warrant in the case. The university's president, David Boren, is pooh-poohing local media and Internet blog reports of possible jihadist influences on Hinrichs. The dead bomber was, we are being told, simply a depressed and troubled young man with "no known ties" to terrorism.
Never mind that, according to local news reporters, the bomb-making material found in Hinrichs' apartment was triacetone triperoxide -- the explosive chemical of choice of shoe bomber Richard Reid and the London 7/7 subway bombers.
Never mind the local police department's confirmation that Hinrichs had attempted to buy ammonium nitrate a few days before his death.
Never mind the concerns of Oklahoma University student journalist Rachael Kahne, who told me this week in a call for the media's help:
"I've been working on this story since the night it happened, and have been stonewalled at every turn. . . . Minutes after the explosion, police busted into a student's apartment and arrested four Muslim students who were there for a small gathering (the president of the Muslim Student Association assures me this was in no way a "party"). Among those arrested [and later released] was Fazal Cheema, Joel Henry Hinrichs' Pakistani roommate. I was baffled when I heard this. I didn't know how police would be able to identify who Hinrichs was, where he lived, who his roommate was, and then find where his roommate was in a matter of minutes. Something isn't adding up, and I've been wracking my brain for the past week trying to figure out what happened here. OU isn't saying anything more than the typical PR spin, and the FBI won't talk."
Nothing to see here. Move along. Islam is a peaceful religion. Stop asking so many damned questions.
Such is the attitude of the national media, which seems to believe that 'tis better to live in ignorance and indulge in hindsight later than to offend the gods of political correctness.
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Michelle Malkin is author of "Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores" (Regnery). Michelle Malkin's e-mail address is malkin@comcast.net.
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GM Strong
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A part of the Clinton legacy. The perpetrators were going to be found and brought to justice how many times?? He never did.
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I B Squidly
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TiVo'd the History Channel's take on it. They put it that Clinton would have hurt himself with a strong response during the presidential campaign ( huh?). The Bush people weren't interested. Richard Clark is portrayed as the frustrated hero crying warnings in the wilderness.
The damage was severe taking out Main 1, the mess decks and cutting communications. The crew did a fine job treating the wounded (I didn't see any more than two HM3s) fighting the initial flooding, and subsequent bulkhead failures on the 4th day. Luckily there was no fire as with the Stark or Sheffield with their missle hits.
I was surprised at the lack of security. Only one Fireman on fueling detail notices the approaching launch. He didn't report it and if he had it would have been a relay through the Oil King to the Rover, a slow process. When we tied up in questionable locations (Karachi, Mombasa, Subic on election day) we had fire hoses flaked out and 50 cals in the ready lockers for repel boarder action. Coast Guarders or Seals in small boats screened the berth. In addition to doubling the Roving Patrol we had all top side watches manned and the Big Eyes scouring the vicinity. Any lighters/boats scheduled to approach had established recognitions. I don't understand why no precautions were taken.
Explosives packed open launches became a recognized threat during the Tanker War in the 80's. My old tin can didn't rate R2D2s so hanging at Gonzo before going into the Gulf my signal gang was trained and equipped with shoulder fired Stingers and firing stands (WeapO wanted quad 60s mounted as well, but I didn't want to clean them). The Navy didn't trust the targetting radars, 5 inchers or 50s to stop them.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject: Excellent Commentary also on Malkin |
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http://michellemalkin.com/
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