Fear of Clowns

Today UPI reports three nuclear warheads have been found in Iraq. The UPI story is based on a report in an Arabic language paper, al-Sabah. Al-Sabah is the Kuwaiti Royal Family's name - The Kuwaiti Royals were responsible for this false report I'm sure everybody fondly remembers, but I have no idea if this paper is related to Kuwaiti Royalty. The UPI article states al-Sabah is an "official daily" paper, this list of Iraqi papers lists it as an independant bi-weekly.

Here's a quick comparison of the al-Sabah story with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon owned UPI article:

• al-Sabah: "The official sources at the ministry of interior and the national security advisor department have refrained commenting on the news."

  UPI: "Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday."

• al-Sabah: "seizing three missiles of nuclear heads in the course of arresting Khudir al- Dori the former leader at the dissolved Baath party."

  UPI: "The three missiles were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the missiles saying they carried nuclear heads."

  (UPI contradicts itself in the same sentence it misrepresents the original source)

• al-Sabah: "The sources were quoted as saying that these nuclear missiles were found in tunnel underground at six meters length."

  UPI: "lying under six meters of concrete"

I suppose part of the contradictions result from difficulty in translation, but come on!

PS: Story dismissed.

// posted by Erik @ 7/21/2004 08:42:00 AM
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