Poster Child for Media Bias
Ed Morrissey doing the work the big boys just happen to forget:
Can you imagine how the media of today would cover World War II?Yesterday, the news broke that US forces had captured Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a senior al-Qaeda commander, in transit back into Iraq to take over the AQ operation there late last year. He had already racked up quite a record, having coordinated operations with the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and having masterminded two attempts to assassinate Pervez Musharraf. They forgot to mention one important point on his resumé, however:
The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans. . . .Yes, that's quite a shock. When our intelligence services and military capture terrorists, who do not wear uniforms and conduct attacks on civilians -- such as London commuters -- we do not treat them like Italian POWs in 1944. They don't qualify as POWs, but as unlawful combatants, and we are entitled to hold them and interrogate them without announcing their capture or making them available for outside visits. That makes their detention secret by definition. . . . Readers should ask themselves whether that comes from a lack of intellectual curiosity, or whether it comes from a bias that puts the circumstances of the detention of a terrorist at a higher priority than the terrorism itself.