No News is News
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James Joyner | Tuesday, June 15, 2004 |
Smash ponders why the media are making a fuss over a “new” memo from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden when it appears to be identical to one widely disseminated back in February.
His commenters posit that it has to do with the collective IQ of the journalists in question. I’m guessing it has to do with all those terrorist names sounding alike. It gets hard to keep them apart. And, really, these memos all say the same thing anyway:
We must kill the _______ [Americans, Zionists, Infidels, Jews, other Muslims who think slightly differently than us]!Blah blah blah. Until God chooses us as martyrs.
[Choose one] Praised be Allah/If Allah wills.
So how does one tell a new one from an old one?
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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