Original Telegraph article:
While the United States has long argued that Saddam's regime was aiding Islamist groups, it has struggled until now to provide compelling evidence.
The Sun Times morphed this statement into this by changing one word:
While the United States has long argued that Saddam's regime was aiding Islamist groups, it has struggled until now to provide evidence.
The original Telegraph version is of course more accurate, since there is all kinds of evidence out there and this has been the case for years- it just implies that this is the first compelling evidence of all the evidence known so far. The Sun Times version drops the word compelling and implies that up until now there's hardly been evidence at all.
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The earlier Telegraph version :
Nassir offered to "vet, recruit and send youth to train for the jihad" at a centre in Baghdad, which he described as a "headquarters for international holy warrior network". It was not clear whether the centre was established. "We should not allow the enemy to focus on Afghanistan and Iraq, but we should attack their international criminal forces inside every base," the letters said.
Compare to thelater Sun Times:
Nassir offered to "vet, recruit and send youth to train for the jihad" at a center in Baghdad, which he described as a "headquarters for international Holy Warrior network." It was not clear whether the center was established. "We should not allow the enemy to focus on Afghanistan and Iraq, but we should attack their international criminal forces inside every base," the letters said. The authenticity of the letters, however, could not be verified.
The last sentence was added to the original- did the authors really include that or was this the work of a Sun Times editor- or should I say, editorialist who never saw the docs in question?
Then the Telegraph has this :
According to the Ugandan government and western intelligence sources, Sheikh Makulu became friendly with Osama bin Laden in the early to mid-Nineties, when the al-Qa'eda chief was living in Khartoum.
And the Sun Times writes it this way, omiting the dreaded 1990s:
According to the Ugandan government and Western intelligence sources, Sheikh Makulu became friendly with Osama bin Laden when the al-Qaida chief was living in Khartoum, Sudan.
The Telegraph has additional information on where the docs were found which the Sun Times article doesn't mention at all:
The IIS's headquarters were only loosely guarded by US special forces yesterday. The Telegraph entered the building through one of the many holes left by devastating bombing.