Questionable news event: Al-Qaida leader killed?
From the Minnesota Monitor:
Facing a mountain of bad news, the Bush administration needed some good news heading into this weekend. Its “AIDS czar” abruptly resigned after admitting he used an escort service that’s facing federal prostitution charges. Two batches of new documents were released in the widening U.S. attorneys purge case. Condi Rice indicated she’d refuse to comply with a House subpoena to discuss Iraq War intelligence, and the President earned a career-low 28 percent approval rating in a new poll.
The administration got its good news: One of Al-Qaida’s top leaders was captured. But when Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, who is believed to have planned the July 7, 2005, subway attacks in London, was captured — sometime last fall — raises questions about whether the timing of the story’s release was guided by newsworthiness or an effort to combat an unflattering news cycle.
An Unflattering News Cycle! It makes my head spin…No wonder we’re in the toilet!
What an understatement - They did not even mention that the “Aids Czar” that resigned this week was also Condi Rice’s deputy, and the 2nd State Department official to resign this week!
What makes such reporting completely suspect is another report that Abu Ayuub Al-asri, head of Al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed. Some (including the Iraqi government) expressed doubt.
Within a few days, the US propaganda machine was backpedaling, claiming that the the reports were due to confusion after the killing of a lesser Al-Qaida figure…
Would our media ever be effected by the administration for political reasons?