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To: SirRealist who wrote (18828)	2/14/2002 6:07:25 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

a couple of days old but i haven't seen it here. algeria... thetimes.co.uk

To: SirRealist who wrote (18828)	2/14/2002 11:25:59 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

The role of journalist and of the editor (who is the final filter) requires such strong suspicions to be very carefully ascribed: Hmmm... I can hardly see how a journalist, who is generally supposed to report the news, not analyze it, could know more than the combined intelligence resources of the national government, who are in the process of actually responding to the events, as well as the collection of evidence pertaining to it. And that was my point. None of us would have suspected it was an American terrorist who had committed the OK bombing. And as I recall, it may have been a journalist report that made us clue in to the date (the anniversary of Waco) being indicator that this was not Islamic terrorism. But even with the date being the same, it could be coincidence, or a ruse aimed at trying to deflect responsibility.. You just don't know in those early hours of the event, when everyone is focusing on whether this is a lone event, or the first in a series of expected attacks (similar to the posture we took after 9/11)... And on top of that, people are mainly focusing on coordinating relief efforts, and securing their own facilities, more than conclusively focusing on who did it. Finally, like a stopped clock being right twice a day, some analysts and/or journalists might find themselves coming to the proper conclusions about such an event just because they have been promoting such an eventuality taking place eventually. Guys who focus on domestic terrorist groups, specifically white supremists, and who have warned us that an attack of this size is imminent, suddenly catch the spotlight for having been right, despite the fact that every other time they have been wrong. Kinda like Elaine Garzarelli(sic) always being touted as the one who foresaw the 1987 stock market crash... Or David Tice... etc, etc... Hawk