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Rehabbing The D.C. Snipers | ||||
2007-10-21 | ||||
In its special marking the fifth anniversary of the sniper attacks, the network downplays the religious angle to the story in a reprise of its original shameless coverage. When news of the snipers' identity first broke, CNN anchors were so determined to avoid making the obvious connection to radical Islam that they called the lead sniper, a Muslim convert, by his old name. Police were looking for John Allen Muhammad, but CNN insisted on referring to him as John Allen Williams. Jailhouse sketches, including this one containing references to 'jihad,' 'holy war' and 'infidels' were entered into evidence in the 2003 trial of convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo. His attorneys said they were evidence of indoctrination by Malvo's accomplice, John Allen Muhammad. But the only drawing shown in a new one-hour special on CNN shows Malvo shedding tears. Now the network has completely scrubbed Islam from the picture, offering child abuse (boo-hoo) and spousal revenge as alternative motives for the snipers' bloody rampage. Nowhere in its one-hour special — promoted as "The Minds of the D.C. Snipers" — is Islamist brainwashing even hinted as a motivating factor behind their serial assassinations. Yet the evidence is overwhelming that they were on a jihad. In their own words, Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo traveled across the country to terrorize Washingtonians on the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
Muhammad and Malvo, now in prison in Virginia, still managed to kill 10 and wound three — including an elementary school kid shot in the back — while paralyzing the nation's capital for three full weeks. The jailhouse drawings of the younger sniper, Malvo, tell it all: • One sketch of Osama bin Laden exalts him as a "Servant of Allah." CNN maintains that Malvo, an alleged victim of negligent parents, now has remorse for his victims — even though he wrote in one notebook: "They all died and they all deserved it. We will not stop. This war will not end until you are all destroyed utterly." CNN also omitted the fact that while Muhammad and Malvo were in county jail awaiting trial, their lawyers insisted they be fed Islamic "halal" meals, such as veggie burgers, instead of ham sandwiches. They also got copies of the Quran. According to Knight Ridder and others reporting at the time, the director of a shelter where the two men stayed for a spell in Washington state tipped off the FBI that Muhammad "might be a terrorist." That incident mysteriously disappeared from an interview that CNN host Soledad O'Brien conducted with the same source for the special. The revisionism and sanitization of Islam continued with O'Brien's interview with Muhammad's ex-wife, who insisted that jihad and hatred of America had nothing to do with her husband's cold-blooded killings. Her head covered with a hijab, Mildred Muhammad claimed that she and she alone was the target of his attacks, and that the dozen-plus victims were an attempt to cover up the real target. CNN bought her story, even packaging it as an exclusive. But a simple check of local news stories at the time would have revealed that neighbors reported seeing Muhammad visit with his former wife and children at their Maryland town house before and during the shootings. One neighbor said he even jogged with him. Police even staked out her house in the hope he would visit again. By leaving out all these facts — never even mentioning that the subjects of its investigation had converted to Islam — CNN committed professional malpractice. Its "special investigation" is nothing more than a politically correct whitewashing of the truth aimed at pleasing Muslim groups like CAIR, which has argued that "there is no indication that this case is related to Islam or Muslims." | ||||
Posted by:Steve White |
#5 Wonder how long until normal people begin to distrust the authorities and begin to enforce the law frontier-style? |
Posted by: SR-71 2007-10-21 16:23 |
#4 Had they been skin head neo-nazis from Texas they'd have tasted the death drip long ago. No need to enflame the likes of Jaskson and Sharpton. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2007-10-21 15:49 |
#3 In 1998 I had the signal misfortune to work with an Afghani rectal cavity of stupendous proportions. Only later did I find out that he had the privilege to have been back East during the sniper atrocity. He had gone there to meet his family and the parents of his arranged bride from the homeland. The group was so large that no regular vehicle could acommodate all of them. What was the solution? What was the only vehicle that could convey this massive entourage? Wait for it!!! A WHITE VAN! A white van driven by a young Arabic-looking male and filled chock-full with non-English speaking Muslim occupants. This Islamic turd got pulled over and had his clock cleaned every 25 yards to and from the airport. Every single cop on patrol in the Baltimore/D.C. area had an APB for a white van and damned if a one of them was going to let a matching vehicle elude their notice. It took hours for this sack of shit and his clan to drive from the airport back to their hotel. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. As to Malvo and Muhammad, why those two shitheads weren't shanked within |
Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-21 12:58 |
#2 No surprises here. Typical fare for Turner's Communist News Network, only to be surpassed by the printed word found in the daily issue of the Atlanta Constipation. Sad to say, but President Robert Mugabe would feel right at home. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2007-10-21 09:39 |
#1 I wonder if new journalists take courses in the "whitewash"? |
Posted by: McZoid 2007-10-21 06:08 |