Similarly creative editing showed through the Times’ reporting in late October 2004 on a videotaped speech by Osama bin Laden. Almost six paragraphs of the story made it onto page one, but the Times saw to it that the key point bin Laden made at the beginning of his presentation was relegated to paragraphs 23 to 25 at the very bottom of page nine.
Buried there was bin Laden’s assertion that the idea for 9/11 first germinated after “we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the American-Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon.”
Wading through the drivel in the FCM’s Times and Washington Post on Friday morning, I am hardly surprised that they missed Cheney’s slip about U.S. policy toward Israel being one of the terrorists’ “true sources of resentment.”(Bulatlat.com)
Ray McGovern was an Army officer and CIA analyst for almost 30 year. He now serves on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He is a contributor to Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair (Verso). He can be reached at: rrmcgovern@aol.com
A shorter version of this article appeared at Consortiumnews.com.
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I think this ariticle has more to do with what you want to say more than anyone else. Don't you find it strange that the Arab's with all the oil, land and money they have choose to fund terrorist (Billions) instead of cutting out land and building homes for the Palestinians to live? If they really cared they would not let them suffer the way they do. Check your history and see if you can find the name Palestinians anywhere until after Israel regained control of Palistine in 48. When the land was bare and dry and would not grow grass, no one wanted it because they saw it as worthless. When Israel returned to the land as God said they would, God blessed the land once again and the desert became a paridise and began once again to yield it's fruits. The Arab's don't want peace with Israel they want to see it's destruction and they have help now in our new president. We help Israel, God blesses us. We don't were crused/lose. End of story. God said (I will bless them that bless you "Isreal" and cruse them that cruse you. And God warned "woe unto them that part my land or devide it". This is a bad move on our part and we will live to regret it. Now you might not be a Christian but you have enjoyed the good life along with everyone else in this country which God gave to this country because it has helped Isreal in pass year as God keeps His Word. Sorry to say this about to come to an end if things continue the way they are going. We have only one friend in the world and that is Israel believe it or not. No one can defeat Isreal without Gods help, not even the go old USA. My suggestion to all of you is, start praying that some common sense emerge from our leaders before it's to late. God help us.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY, OF THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION, HAS LOST HIS MIND. PERSONALLY, I FEEL THAT CHENEY IS TRYING TO SHOW WHAT THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION DID THE RIGHT THING. HE SAID WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS DOING, THREATENS OUR COUNTRY. WHY DOESN'T CHENEY WAKE UP TO REALITY. HE IS FRIGHTTING PEOPLE IN AMERICA, FOR NO REASON AT ALL.