More Juvenal* Headlines

posted by The Vidiot @ 7:27 PM Permalink

Bump and update: So not only does the Washington Post print a completely inaccurate headline from the AP, the New York Times prints their own!

Deal and Guilty Plea in Terrorism

Wrong! The whole point of his plea was it had to have nothing to do with terrorism! Look, the government arrested an ice cream vendor on the word of an admitted liar. Then they convicted his son when it was the FBI's paid informant who kept urging him to attend

In recorded phone calls from the younger Hayat in Pakistan, the informant urged him to attend a terrorist camp, though defense lawyers claimed there was no evidence he ever went to such a camp.

Yet another great day in the WOT.

* Juvenal - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? translation -"Who watches the watchers?"


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Calif. Man Pleads Guilty in Terror Case

Wow! What a headline from the AP! Sounds impressive doesn't it? Until you read the article and find out he pled guilty to an unrelated charge of a 2003 customs violation. This article by the LA Times is much closer to the truth:

Lodi Man Is Released in Plea Bargain

Federal prosecutors Wednesday agreed to drop terrorism-related charges against Lodi ice cream truck driver Umer Hayat in exchange for a guilty plea in a 2003 customs case.

My favorite part of the government's case?

The four-year investigation of Lodi's large Muslim community began in late 2001 after a Bend, Ore., convenience store clerk and former Lodi resident told FBI agents that he had seen known Al Qaeda terrorists worshiping in the Lodi mosque in 1999 and 2000.

The FBI quickly determined that the sightings were false but hired the store clerk, Pakistani Naseem Khan, as an undercover paid informant and sent him into the Lodi community, where he secretly recorded hundreds of hours of conversations with fellow Muslims. No evidence surfaced of any Al Qaeda connections.

The FBI hired Apu from the Kwik-E-Mart even after they knew he was a liar!? Sheesh, sounds like the FBI did a remake of Clerks!