Lies, Damned Lies, and Al Jazeera

Love this post from See-Dubya, over at Michelle Malkin’s site:

Tim Sumner, at the invaluable 911 Families for America site, notes the release of an Al-Jazeera cameraman from Gitmo. Sami al-Haj was arrested on suspicion of producing videos for Al Qaeda and running money for the al-Haramain foundation.

He’s back at work for Al-Jazeera now, in a special “human rights” reporter job. And it sounds like he’s getting off to a fine start:

The aircrew who brought him to Khartoum on a military transport said he was relaxed, standing up, walking around during the entire flight. When they landed at Khartoum, he looked out the window, saw all the media, and immediately collapsed in a chair. “I can’t walk,” said the former cameraman for Al-Jazeera, demanding an ambulance. He can be seen being carried off the plane on a stretcher, wincing as if in pain. In another video shot the same day, he’s seen reuniting with his family, walking, standing, smiling, miraculously healed. Gordon reports that the man who said he engaged in a 16 mos hunger strike “left Guantanamo four pounds lighter than when he arrived.”

Many supporting images at the 911 Families link.

Haditha massacre: lie.

Systemic Abu Ghraib-like abuse: lie.

Rampant waterboarding: lie.

Guantanamo torture chambers: lie.

I don’t know why Sami and the other Al Qaeda stooges bother with the act. Don’t they know that our own media will run with lurid stories of American malfeasance, without regard to—what’s the word—evidence? Shambolic events like these just cramp their style. They can make up the news just fine without help from amateurs like this, thank you very much.

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