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Monday, January 05, 2004
WELL, UH, DON'T PANIC, I GUESS?
External link: http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=757
DEBKAfile (which I never heard of before) reports that the Italian newspaper Il Giornale (which I never heard of before) reports that an Internet Web site that DEBKA doesn't even say the name of, and which is said to be associated with al Qaeda, says that al Qaeda threatens to detonate a nuclear device in New York on February 2.
A google search finds several other news organizations and Web sites picking up this story, but none that I've ever heard of.
I'm a little troubled that the major news organizations are ignoring this story. I'll grant you it's not the most credible thing I've ever heard, but it's absurd to suggest that it isn't newsworthy. I assume that the primary reason for ignoring the story is the desire not to create a panic. But it seems to me that this desire, which essentially amounts to a desire to make it seem that the war on terrorism is perceived as successful, intentionally or not comes to yet another example of conservative, pro-Bush-administration bias in the news, possibly at the cost of people's lives.
link to this item: http://www.creamy.com/blog/2004/01/well-uh-dont-panic-i-guess.html
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