THE DAILY BLADE: Heads Will Roll
The Associated Press reports that Al-Qaida sympathizers are furious with Al-Jazeera television for allegedly excerpting Usama bin Laden's most recent audio tape to take his quotes out of context, creating a false, misleading and inaccurate account of his words and intent.
In the portions of the tape aired on Monday, bin Laden criticizes mistakes by insurgents in Iraq, which resulted in the Qatar-based station being flamed by Islamofascists:
"G-d fight Al-Jazeera," railed one militant Web poster, calling the station a "collaborator with the Crusaders" for suggesting the tape showed weakness in al-Qaida and featuring discussions of how the tape reflected weaknesses and divisions among insurgents in Iraq. …
[T]he Al-Fajr Media Center, which usually posts al-Qaida video and audio tapes on the Web, accused Al-Jazeera of "counterfeiting the facts" by making the speech appear as exclusively critical of insurgents.
"Al-Jazeera directors have shamefully chosen to back the Crusaders' side, and the defenders of hypocrites and the thugs and traitors of Iraq," Al-Fajr said in a statement posted on several Islamic Web sites.
To prove that an independent journalist’s "aroused reporters’ instincts" did not result in "counterfeiting the facts," Al-Jazeera posted the entire 30-minute tape on Islamic Web sites the next day.
See this article which eloquently states why I disagree with Congress passing resolutions concerning the Armenian genocide: http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson102207.html. In short, Congress should stay out of foreign policy. This article also shows that I am not the only one who is suspicious of Nancy Pelosi's motives for pushing the Armenian genocide proposal forward.
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>If the House wants to punish Turkey for denying that its Ottoman forefathers engaged in a horrific genocide, then let congressional members likewise deny funds for our military to stay among such a genocide-denying amoral host.
The Stiletto agrees with Hanson on this point 100%. In addition, since we are in a protracted war against radical Islamists - who call us infidels and crusaders, and make no pretense that they want to kill or conquer all of Christendom (see Jim Pinkerton on this) - Turkey, which is now run by Islamists will not even be the half-hearted ally it is today. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive. Nancy Pelosi may realize more than most that it makes no difference what we do, the Turks will do what they will do.
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