Al-Qaeda of Iraq's No.2 man is dead.
Abdullah Abu Azzam, the leading aide and the spiritual advisor to Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, was killed during a raid by U.S. and Iraqi forces in a Baghdad apartment. It's hard to find news stories on this, so here is a short, sweet, to-the-point article from the World Tribune about the raid.
I did read about this in the Philadelphia Inquirer today on page A3, under the headline: "As Iraq toll grows, U.S. touts a blow to al-Qaeda". What made the front page of my beloved hometown newspaper today? First, you see an unflattering picture of former FEMA chief Michael Brown, with a quote by Republican Congressman Christopher Shays: "I'm happy you left. Because that kind of...look in the lights like a deer tells me you weren't capable to do the job". The story, we are told, is on A2. Next, we see a picture of a couple grieving over the loss of a Pennsylvania guardsman killed in Iraq. That story, we are told, is on B5. Next, we see the headline: "Consumer confidence nose-dives". Next, there is an opinion piece by Dick Polman predicting that conservatives may assail Bush over his Supreme Court nominees. Then we see an article about the importance of evacuating pets (yes, animals) from disaster areas like New Orleans. Then we are told that rate hikes are expected from Amtrak and the Philadelphia Gas Works.
As far as I'm concerned, the Inquirer (as well as the media in general) buried the story of Azzam's death as deep as they could.
Why is the death of a major figure in the ongoing Iraq conflict less newsworthy than all of those things that managed to make the Inquirer's front page? This newspaper loves to dwell on deaths of Americans in Iraq, but the killing of one of the key figures who causes those deaths is no big deal to them. I suppose this is indicative of the way the media has treated the Iraq war in the last two-and-a-half years; they only seem to want to report the bad news. And I am not against the bad news being reported, because it is certainly important to know it. But their downplaying of major victories in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war on terror in general reflects a serious lack of patriotism on the part of the liberal media in America.
By the way, the article about the fall in consumer confidence points out that:
"The closely watched monthly Consumer Confidence Index, released yesterday by the Conference Board, an independent economic research organization, fell almost 19 points, to 86.6 from 105.5 in August."
But...
"In the Mid-Atlantic region, defined by the Conference Board as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, the index was even lower, falling from 72.4 last month to 69.7."
Why is consumer confidence so much lower here in the blue states than it is in most of the country? You figure it out.
Abdullah Abu Azzam, the leading aide and the spiritual advisor to Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, was killed during a raid by U.S. and Iraqi forces in a Baghdad apartment. It's hard to find news stories on this, so here is a short, sweet, to-the-point article from the World Tribune about the raid.
I did read about this in the Philadelphia Inquirer today on page A3, under the headline: "As Iraq toll grows, U.S. touts a blow to al-Qaeda". What made the front page of my beloved hometown newspaper today? First, you see an unflattering picture of former FEMA chief Michael Brown, with a quote by Republican Congressman Christopher Shays: "I'm happy you left. Because that kind of...look in the lights like a deer tells me you weren't capable to do the job". The story, we are told, is on A2. Next, we see a picture of a couple grieving over the loss of a Pennsylvania guardsman killed in Iraq. That story, we are told, is on B5. Next, we see the headline: "Consumer confidence nose-dives". Next, there is an opinion piece by Dick Polman predicting that conservatives may assail Bush over his Supreme Court nominees. Then we see an article about the importance of evacuating pets (yes, animals) from disaster areas like New Orleans. Then we are told that rate hikes are expected from Amtrak and the Philadelphia Gas Works.
As far as I'm concerned, the Inquirer (as well as the media in general) buried the story of Azzam's death as deep as they could.
Why is the death of a major figure in the ongoing Iraq conflict less newsworthy than all of those things that managed to make the Inquirer's front page? This newspaper loves to dwell on deaths of Americans in Iraq, but the killing of one of the key figures who causes those deaths is no big deal to them. I suppose this is indicative of the way the media has treated the Iraq war in the last two-and-a-half years; they only seem to want to report the bad news. And I am not against the bad news being reported, because it is certainly important to know it. But their downplaying of major victories in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war on terror in general reflects a serious lack of patriotism on the part of the liberal media in America.
By the way, the article about the fall in consumer confidence points out that:
"The closely watched monthly Consumer Confidence Index, released yesterday by the Conference Board, an independent economic research organization, fell almost 19 points, to 86.6 from 105.5 in August."
But...
"In the Mid-Atlantic region, defined by the Conference Board as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, the index was even lower, falling from 72.4 last month to 69.7."
Why is consumer confidence so much lower here in the blue states than it is in most of the country? You figure it out.
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