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January 19, 2006

On 'The Peoples' (Conditional) Right to Know'

Topics: War on Terror

In another item of interest at RCC this morning, Jack Kelly calls our attention to a story that made front page news in newspapers in Italy, Britain and France, but only a whisper here in the U.S. (apparently the only U.S. newspaper to mention it was the Philadelphia Inquirer, in a short AP dispatch on page A-6): Italian authorities arrested three Algerians who were members of the al Qaida -linked terror group GSPC - they were plotting attacks on ships, railway stations and stadiums in the United States in a bid to outdo the casualties caused on 9/11.

The AP failed to mention the little matter of the principal target of the plotters being the U.S. - something that most Americans would be very interested in knowing about.

The incuriosity of our news media about the plotters and their plots is curious, especially in light of the mysterious death of Joel Hinrichs, 21, a Muslim convert who, wearing a suicide vest, blew himself up Oct. 1 on a park bench outside the stadium in Norman where the university of Oklahoma football team was playing Kansas State. When Hinrichs' apartment was searched after his death, the FBI found a plane ticket to Algeria.

Perhaps the Algerian plotters went unmentioned because describing how they were caught -- the Italian authorities were listening in on their telephone conversations -- would interfere with a current journalistic meme.

It just couldn't be that the U.S. media literally buried the story of a plot that could have killed more Americans than the 9/11attack - because it doesn't fit the left-wing media's agenda to make as much hay as possible over the NSA surveillance program, could it?

Perhaps you should read more...

Posted by Richard at January 19, 2006 10:53 AM

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