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April 1, 2008
Times Reporter Qais Mizher Was Officer Under Saddam
Not all of Saddam's old thugs are employed as terrorists now. Some have taken up other pernicious activities. Writes New York Times reporter Qais Mizher:
Calling on my experience as a captain in the Iraqi Army before the 2003 invasion…
In case the significance of the Times employing Saddam's officers as reporters didn't slap you in the face, Richard Miniter amplifies:
Officers had to be selected and regularly vetted for loyalty and effectiveness. So Saddam decided that he could trust our intrepid correspondent and so did the New York Times. Makes you wonder: Would the Times have hired former Nazi officers to cover the three-year insurgency against the American presence in Germany in the late 1940s? Even if they spoke the language, knew the countryside well and said they “never really believed” in that evil ideology?
NewsBusters asks, why not? After all, the Gray Lady gave us Walter Duranty, who deliberately covered up the genocide inflicted by Stalin in the Ukraine.
The Times must figure that if the bad guys don't hang together, they're liable to hang separately — just like Mizher's old boss.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 1, 2008 8:00 PM
Comments
Mizher just moved from one terrorist support organization to another.
The NY Slimes probably offered better living conditions and more 14-year old virgins than Al Qaida.
"Reporting" is the same.
Posted by: Jimbo at April 1, 2008 8:35 PM
