Thursday, January 12, 2006
Missing Headline Alert
All units, all units. Be on the lookout for a headline reported missing from today's U.S. media.
According to South African news outlet News24, Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisan has announced the following:
Three Algerians arrested in an anti-terrorist operation in Salerno are suspected of being linked to a planned new series of attacks in the United States. The attacks would have targeted ships, stadiums, or railway stations, with the intent of causing more destruction than the attacks of September 11th, said Pisanu.
Voice of America is also reporting the following detail:
It is clear from the above reports that the terror cell was broken up as a result of electronic surveillance. The interception may well have saved thousands of Italian and American lives.
A search on the ringleader's name, Yamine Bouhrama, on Google News reveals that not a single mainstream US media outlet has covered the story, although it was front page news in the London Times and in Italy.
Google news searches on the terms "Pisanu" and "plot" yielded similar results.
The Associated Press ran a story - picked up in a very few papers, that failed to mention that the plot was foiled thanks to phone intercepts, and also failed to mention details concerning the intention to sink a "ship like the Titanic," and take as many as 10,000 lives.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2005/dec/23/122304648.html
A search on the New York Times' website for mentions of Pisanu yielded nothing on the story whatsoever.
Splash, out
Jason
According to South African news outlet News24, Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisan has announced the following:
Three Algerians arrested in an anti-terrorist operation in Salerno are suspected of being linked to a planned new series of attacks in the United States. The attacks would have targeted ships, stadiums, or railway stations, with the intent of causing more destruction than the attacks of September 11th, said Pisanu.
Voice of America is also reporting the following detail:
Police wiretaps picked up a conversation following the July terror bombings in London in which Mr Bouhrama and an unidentified person talked about finding a ship like the Titanic, packing it with explosives and killing 10,000 people in Italy.
In a separate conversation after July terror attack in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Mr Bouhrama was recorded as saying that soon there'll be an even bigger celebration.
It is clear from the above reports that the terror cell was broken up as a result of electronic surveillance. The interception may well have saved thousands of Italian and American lives.
A search on the ringleader's name, Yamine Bouhrama, on Google News reveals that not a single mainstream US media outlet has covered the story, although it was front page news in the London Times and in Italy.
Google news searches on the terms "Pisanu" and "plot" yielded similar results.
The Associated Press ran a story - picked up in a very few papers, that failed to mention that the plot was foiled thanks to phone intercepts, and also failed to mention details concerning the intention to sink a "ship like the Titanic," and take as many as 10,000 lives.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2005/dec/23/122304648.html
A search on the New York Times' website for mentions of Pisanu yielded nothing on the story whatsoever.
Splash, out
Jason
Comments:
It would be great if you included links to the articles you excerpt/post.
No link to the News24 article...
No link to the VOA article...
You've pulled a Google!
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No link to the News24 article...
No link to the VOA article...
You've pulled a Google!
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