9 terror suspects and connection to Lashkar and CAIR still downplayed in US Media
Despite pressure from terror watchdogs, the US media continues to downplay the role of US designated terrorist group Lashkar e Taiba’s connections to the events in Mumbai.
The US media has also refused to provide any details on any of the eight terrorists arrested by commando’s who stormed a Jewish center where the gunmen were holding people hostage. Three of the terrorists are said to be members of the group Lashkar e Taiba.
The reasons cited for making the information about the terrorists available to the general public range from emboldening the terrorists capability by discussing their heightened capabilities in the press, to diffusing tensions between India and Pakistan, and warding off any retaliatory actions.
What’s missing though is details on the terrorist groups operations here in the United States and their well documented connections with Al Qaeda, and the charity group CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations).
While some international media are minimizing the terrorist groups international reach, some papers such as London’s Daily Mail, report that several of the eight terrorists may have at one time resided in England.
Lashkar e Taiba has been portrayed in the media as a homegrown domestic terrorist group in India, made up of Pakistani’s who are want to see an independent Karachi, and are protesting sectarian fighting there between Muslims and Hindu’s.
Several of the terrorists who planned and carried out attacks on 911, were trained at a now infamous terrorist training camp hosted by the same terrorist group. Experts say that some of the main funding sources for the group come from Saudi Arabia.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/17882/
In my opinion the media’s continued apathy in demanding accountability in order to keep from upsetting our Saudi and wealthy Middle Eastern allies, and always going out of our way to smooth ruffled feathers, has only allowed the situation to imbed itself further.
It also signals the strength of the opportunism masquerading as political correctness festering in intellectual circles such as left wing think tanks, and college universities, who are always there to offer protection to terrorists and nations who support rogue groups whenever they are criticized.
Anytime conservative journalists like myself complain about the US liberal media, liberal spinsters immediately whip out the old reliable goat getting strategies, such as talking about how the Bush Administration endorses torture. They never state that no one has been tortured since 2001, and that there were only 3 suspects who were water boarded (the terrorists who masterminded 911).
Sorry folks, but in my mind, this is the equivalent of Entertainment Tonight running a one hour special on how someone really evil like Scott Peterson has recently decided to file a suit claiming they were neglected by prison doctors when they caught the flu.
For some reason liberals and liberal journalists seem to favor the treatment of terrorists over trying to catch them . They write in depth articles and have long conversations about how badly terrorists are treated in Guantanamo, while our own US prison system needs overhauling. By refusing to even mention CAIR whose huge donor network is thriving in communities across the nation, we are doing ourselves a great disservice.

