“The news media is the spoiled brat of the United States”
IF you know about the torture manual used by al-Qaida, then you did not learn about it by reading the Washington Post, the New York Times or sadly, this newspaper. Neither the Associated Press nor Reuters picked up on the story.
Fox News was the only major outlet with the story. Sir Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers in Australia republished the Fox report.
The handbook was posted at the Smoking Gun Web site. It showed — with drawings — how al-Qaida uses drills, irons, vises and other devices to mutilate their captives.
This is true torture, the same kind employed by Saddam Hussein’s henchmen at Abu Ghraib.
The handbook helped explain why a few days later, U.S. forces liberated 42 victims of al-Qaida torture from a location in Iraq.
But while they ignored the handbook story, the New York Times and Washington Post did not hesitate to publish a press handout from the United Nations condemning Guantanamo Bay. Why? Because the jihadis we captured are not given lawyers quickly enough.
Will someone tell me the name of Daniel Pearl’s lawyer?