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To: rrufff who wrote (8768)	3/21/2004 11:53:48 PM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 20773

Terrorists apologize for mistakenly killing an Arab student. They thought had killed an innocent Israeli student. The Arab family is angry at the terrorists but the terror leader was quoted as saying basically "that's ok, we give the victim the title of martyr...." smh.com.au

To: rrufff who wrote (8768)	3/23/2004 5:43:21 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Re: Excellent expose - it's amazing what one can do with a computer and little "cut and paste" What's your problem? "Cut-&-paste" is standard practice among US media, after all.... Top US journalist fabricated reports By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 21 March 2004 USA Today, the vibrantly coloured "national" American newspaper, has revealed that its most famous correspondent fabricated stories in dispatches he sent from around the world. The news will likely further undermine an industry still dealing with the almost laughable saga of the lying journalist Jayson Blair, who resigned last year from the New York Times. USA Today said Jack Kelley, 43, had faked details in at least eight major foreign stories, including a piece for which he was short-listed for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. One of the most shocking lies involved a Cuban refugee Mr Kelley claimed to have photographed shortly before she drowned while trying to escape. The woman was recently discovered alive and well and living in the US. "We're all devastated by Jack's betrayal of the public trust and our trust," said the paper's editor, Karen Jurgensen. In a front-page story on Friday, USA Today revealed that Mr Kelley's deceit was perhaps more sweeping and substantial than that of Mr Blair, who fabricated stories while at home in his Brooklyn flat. USA Today said its three-month investigation "strongly contradicted" Mr Kelley's claims that he spent a night with Egyptian terrorists in 1997, visited a suspected terrorist crossing point on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in 2002, or went on a high-speed hunt for Osama bin Laden in 2003. It also said large portions of one of his most famous stories - an eyewitness account of a suicide bombing that helped make him a 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist - were untrue. Mr Kelley resigned from the newspaper in January. news.independent.co.uk