18, October 2006 Response to Nicholas Kristof,
18,
October RE: Sami al-Hajj
Nicholas
Kristof deserves much credit for exposing the appalling injustice meted out to
fellow journalist, Sami al-Hajj – a cameraman for Al-Jazeera. This case is a
glaring example of the abuse of the new interrogation law gifted by a feckless
Congress to the President allowing interrogators to torture detainees with
complete impunity. Al-Jazeera has been a constant thorn on the side of the Bush
administration for exposing the searing, visual images of the mayhem that is
the reality of Iraq and Afghanistan. Their headquarters was the target of a US
missile attack in the early stages of the war in Iraq. They continue to be a
constant embarrassment to the Bush administration which cannot tolerate
‘un-imbedded’ truthful reporting free from spin and propaganda. It is outrageous that Sami al-Hajj should be
savagely brutalized in an effort to force him to malign his employer.
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