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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (28821)	5/7/2002 10:02:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Neat post from Glenn Reynold's Instapundit. Sounds like the NY Times really got an earful about this one. I know I got an HonestReporting email fuming about it: THE POWER OF THE BENSKYSPHERE: Yesterday, Alex Bensky wrote: "I wonder if you saw the front page of today's Times. I'm sure it is sheer coincidence that the photograph illustrating the article on yesterday's pro-Israel parade happened to have a large pro-Palestinian poster in the foreground. Just luck of the draw, I suppose." Today, the New York Times issued this correction: An article yesterday about a parade in Manhattan marking Israel's 54th anniversary reported that 100,000 people had registered to march and hundreds of thousands more lined Fifth Avenue in support. The article also said that anti-Israel protesters numbered in the hundreds. A front-page photograph, however, showed the parade in the background, with anti-Israel protesters prominent in the foreground, holding a placard that read, "End Israeli Occupation of Palestine." Inside the newspaper, a photo of a pro-Israel marcher was outweighed by a larger picture of protesters, one waving a sign that likened Zionism to Nazism. Although the editors' intent in each case was to note the presence of opposing sides, the effect was disproportionate. In fairness the total picture presentation should have better reflected The Times's reporting on the scope of the event, including the disparity in the turnouts. Coincidence? Er, almost certainly, actually. But it's still cool. instapundit.blogspot.com

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (28821)	5/15/2002 6:22:02 PM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 281500

Not to mention ETA... Spanish Officials: Attack Thwarted Wed May 15, 9:29 AM ET By JEROME SOCOLOVSKY, Associated Press Writer story.news.yahoo.com MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spanish law enforcement authorities said Wednesday they thwarted a major terrorist attack planned for a summit of Latin American and European leaders. Two suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA who were arrested Tuesday had stashed nearly 440 pounds of explosives, along with detonators, automatic weapons and false license plates an apartment in the center of the capital, said Madrid regional governor Francisco Javier Ansuategui. "It was a real arsenal," Ansuategui told a news conference with the heads of the National Police and Civil Guard. "These two persons didn't want to scare," he said. "They wanted to kill and to kill with all its consequences" during the summit of more than 40 leaders from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, which begins Friday. Ansuategui said the explosives were found in an apartment on Piamonte Street, near the National and Supreme Courts. Another 88-pound charge was discovered in the outskirts of the capital in a stolen car linked to the detainees. The official conceded that a third person involved in the preparations had escaped arrest, vowing that Spanish law enforcement authorities "will not rest until they detain this person and all those who have participated in the activities of this command." During the two-day summit, 33 leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to ask for increased aid and trade to help them overcome political instability and economic difficulties in their region. The Madrid municipality has said more than 1,000 police will patrol the capital to provide security for the meeting. On Wednesday, Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was the first of the leaders to meet in Madrid with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, whose country holds the EU presidency. Earlier, police in the Basque region detained six people accused of collaborating with ETA in a second day of crackdowns against the group. ETA — classified as a terrorist group by Spain, the EU, and the United States — has been fighting since the late 1960s to carve an independent Basque state out of lands straddling northern Spain and southwest France. Its campaign of bombings and shootings has left more than 800 people dead.