[lit-ideas] Re: Who actually did invent the suicide bomber?
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:03:14 -0500
Omar: *More lies. (This is from The New York
Times, a well-known radical Islamist propaganda
outlet.)
Hey, dude. It was the NYT that broke the story
about the Muslim lying for PR purposes. Must be a
case of the New York Times lying to itself.
Certainly the propaganda war is real too.
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Cited as Symbol of Abu Ghraib, Man Admits He Is
Not in Photo
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: March 18, 2006
In the summer of 2004, a group of former detainees
of Abu Ghraib prison filed a lawsuit claiming that
they had been the victims of the abuse captured in
photographs that incited outrage around the world.
<snip>
One, Ali Shalal Qaissi, soon emerged as their
chief representative, appearing in publications
and on television in several countries to detail
his suffering. His prominence made sense, because
he claimed to be the man in the photograph that
had become the international icon of the Abu
Ghraib scandal: standing on a cardboard box,
hooded, with wires attached to his outstretched
arms. He had even emblazoned the silhouette of
that image on business cards.
The trouble was, the man in the photograph was not
Mr. Qaissi.
<snip>
Mr. Qaissi had energetically filled the void,
traveling abroad with slide shows to argue that
abuse in Iraq continued, as head of a group he
called the Association of Victims of American
Occupation Prisons.
<snip>
The New York Times profiled him last Saturday in a
front-page article; in it, Mr. Qaissi insisted he
had never sought the fame of his iconic status.
Mr. Qaissi had been interviewed on a number of
earlier occasions, including by PBS's "Now,"
Vanity Fair, Der Spiegel and in the Italian news
media as the man on the box.
This week, after the online magazine Salon raised
questions about the identity of the man in the
photograph, Mr. Qaissi and his lawyers insisted he
was telling the truth.
http://www10.nytimes.com/2006/03/18/international/middleeast/18ghraib.html?_r=5&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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