January 15, 2002

Required Reading... ...if you want

Required Reading...

...if you want to feel ill. I mean Charles Johnson's eviscerating commentary on James Bennet's disgraceful apologia (masquerading as a straight news item) on behalf of terrorist Raed al-Karmi in today's New York Times. Un-bloody-believable. Says Johnson:

I don’t know what’s going on at the New York Times; this is a disgracefully slanted, shamefully dishonest article about a person who, if he were American, would be properly called a serial killer.

To appreciate fully the aptness of this assessment, you really have to read this story (which Johnson also points to) detailing al-Karmi's activities, including this charming anecdote:
in an interview with the newspaper Azman Haifa, he boasted he was the first to shoot Tel Aviv restaurateurs Motti Dayan and Etgar Zeitouny, who were murdered outside Tulkarm last January.

"They were allowed to complete their meal, and as they left we abducted them. We drove them outside the city and ordered them out of the car and [to] empty their pockets and pray. As they emptied their pockets, we shot them. I was the first to shoot them," he said.


There follows a handy reference of his murderous actions, in convenient list-form. Like I said, unbelievable.

Posted by Dr. Frank at January 15, 2002 03:29 PM | TrackBack