Posted on 05/26/2010 2:48:17 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009
Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born imam linked to the Fort Hood shooting spree in Texas in November, the botched Christmas Day airliner bombing, and the failed Times Square bombing early this month, credited the Washington Post with tipping him off and allowing him to elude a U.S. airstrike in Yemen in December.
Most of the attention given to al-Awlaki’s lengthy interview in an al-Qaida video released Sunday has focused on his call to kill civilian Americans. But far more provocative is his revelation of how the U.S. media can inadvertently assist and protect al-Qaida terrorists.
“I had posted an article of mine in support of what Nidal Hasan did,” al-Awlaki said in Arabic, referring to the Army major now charged with 13 murder counts in the Fort Hood massacre. “And so, they shut down my website.”
Al-Awlaki added, “Then I read in the Washington Post that they were monitoring my communications. So I was forced to stop these communications. I left that region, and then the American air strikes took place.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thefoxnation.com ...
Want to find sedition??? Look to yourselves ...
A Nov. 16, 2009 Washington Post article on al-Awlaki written by Sudarsan Raghavan of the Post’s Foreign Service — with a dateline of Sanaa, Yemen and featuring contributions from Post staff writer Spencer S. Hsu in Washington — included the revelation from anonymous federal law enforcement officials that the terrorist cleric was under surveillance.
“U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted e-mails from Hasan” to al-Awlaki, the Post story revealed, “but the FBI concluded that they posed no serious danger and that an investigation was unnecessary,” the law enforcement officials told the paper.
Yeah, but at least he didn’t participate in a Tea Party rally or something like that...
(If you don't know what it is, think about it for a minute)
... how the U.S. media can inadvertently assist and protect al-Qaida terrorists.
"Inadvertently"? Either we have the dumbest, most ignorant people possible as editors or it is very intentional.
“Loose Lips Sink Ships”
I don’t believe for a second that it was inadvertent.
Another in a long line of sedicious acts by “American” media.
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