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May 31, 2007

Nine Days After Al-Qaeda Torture Images Released, Media Silent On al-Qaeda Torture House

... Yet the top media ran more than 6,000 stories on Abu Ghraib abuses:

ALEXANDRIA, VA--The U.S. Defense Department released photos last week of an al-Qaeda torture chamber in Iraq, which showed various torture tools--blow torches, meat cleavers, hammers, drills, metal files--drawings of torture methods, and photos of actual victims found in another house in Karmah who had been burned, mutilated, and tortured in myriad ways.

To their credit, CNN and Fox News Channel ran stories on the declassified material. Yet nine days since the material was released, neither ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times nor The Washington Post has run a story with the photos of this shocking evidence of al-Qaeda's barbarism.

Concerning the top media's silence on the al-Qaeda torture chamber in Iraq, MRC President Brent Bozell issued the following statement:

"The elite media's liberal bias is abundantly clear in this case. U.S. soldiers raided several al-Qaeda safe houses in Iraq and discovered stacks of evidence about how al-Qaeda tortures its victims. The tools, the drawings, and the photos are gruesome and clearly show what type of enemy the U.S. is facing.

"Yet most of the liberal media are deliberately silent. This is the same self-righteous liberal media that ran more than 6,000 stories and countless photos of Abu Ghraib and the abuse of prisoners there by several U.S. soldiers. Where are they now? Why will they not show the American people what al-Qaeda is actually doing in Iraq right now? Whose side are they on?

"Al-Qaeda's crimes are a thousand-fold more brutal than anything done by any derelict U.S. soldier. Yet it's obvious now that the liberal media want to focus on U.S. misdeeds, and alleged misdeeds, and theoretical misdeeds instead of giving the truth to the American people."

To view the photographs and drawings declassified by the U.S. Defense Department, visit The Smoking Gun ...

Posted by Richard at May 31, 2007 12:52 PM