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AP: Qatari diplomat was on his way to visit jailed Al Qaeda agent
Hot Air ^ | April 8, 2010 | allahpundit

Posted on 04/08/2010 2:41:42 PM PDT by penelopesire

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To: stylin19a

No, Canada Free Press is reporting the same thing as every other news outlet. The conflicting stuff was reported yesterday, when garbled information about the incident was just beginning to trickle out. Go to the CFP link and scroll down to the next article.


41 posted on 04/08/2010 6:47:51 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: UCANSEE2
Maybe he was smoking crack.

Drinking alcohol, more likely.

42 posted on 04/08/2010 6:49:51 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: penelopesire
There are also multiple spellings of his name that the media is spreading around to confuse anyone digging into the info. I am curious how or why that is happening.

I think you need to check the fit on your tin foil hat.

His name is Arabic, spelled in Arabic letters, which don't correspond directly to our alphabet. There are multiple ways of transcribing the same Arabic name into our alphabet.

43 posted on 04/08/2010 6:52:38 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: penelopesire

Definitely a dry run.


44 posted on 04/08/2010 7:00:01 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: GovernmentShrinker

It should have been spelled the way it was spelled on the Qatar embassy web site,his own facebook page and his diplomat filings. Why is that so hard for the media to do?

Nowhere in any of his records was it spelled as Mohammed al Modadi. His name according to all of his records in this country and on his own website was Mohammed al-Madadi.


45 posted on 04/08/2010 7:03:38 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire

If all those sources have it identical, I suspect the MOdadi version is derived from early media reports where it was mispelled by a reporter who didn’t have time to check multiple sources. The mispelling may have been based on oral reports, and the Arabic pronunciation may sound more like Modadi than Madadi. At any rate, inconsistent spelling by reporters is hardly indicative of a conspiracy to make it hard to find info about him.


46 posted on 04/08/2010 7:18:40 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

i couldn’t find it. the next article is a reuters article.


47 posted on 04/08/2010 7:29:21 PM PDT by stylin19a (Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
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To: stylin19a

It’s a Reuters article being carried by Canada Free Press, which has apparently (wisely) ceased its efforts at independent reporting on the matter.


48 posted on 04/08/2010 8:52:48 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: penelopesire
الأحمر هو إيجابي ، الأسود هو سلبي ، وتأكد له المكسرات هي الرطب
49 posted on 04/09/2010 5:49:37 AM PDT by cyberaxe (....Uuuummpphhhh.....)
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