A significant but underreported news story
You've got to wonder why this story wasn't more widely reported.
Last month Italian authorities arrested three Algerians who were members of the al Qaida -linked terror group GSPC.The three were plotting attacks on ships, railway stations and stadiums in the United States in a bid to outdo the casualties caused on 9/11, said Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu.
The arrests made front page news in newspapers in Italy, Britain and France. But apparently the only U.S. newspaper to mention them was the Philadelphia Inquirer, in a short AP dispatch on page A-6. The AP did not mention that the principal targets of the plotters were in the U.S.
The incuriosity of our news media about the plotters and their plots is curious, especially in light of the mysterious death of Joel Hinrichs, 21, a Muslim convert who, wearing a suicide vest, blew himself up Oct. 1 on a park bench outside the stadium in Norman where the university of Oklahoma football team was playing Kansas State. When Hinrichs' apartment was searched after his death, the FBI found a plane ticket to Algeria.
Perhaps the Algerian plotters went unmentioned because describing how they were caught -- the Italian authorities were listening in on their telephone conversations -- would interfere with a current journalistic meme.
Read the whole thing, but expect to get pissed off.
Comments
no Barry, you didn't read about it in the US because the story didn't exist and the Italians knew it. There was and never is Al Qaeda in the US, it is only a plot by the Bush and Bin Laden family to buttress their oil portfolios. The plot you heard about was just CIA 'disinformation'. when are you going to wake up?
Posted by: ortho | January 23, 2006 07:58 PM