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To: frankw1900 who wrote (38833)	4/10/2004 11:29:49 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793799

Ranting Profs - EMBEDDED By Cori Dauber One other thing that's changed in the last week: for the last year the military has been almost begging reporters to take available embed slots. Fox News has occasionally taken them up on it, and so have local outlets, in Iraq specifically to cover the hometown unit. But with a few exceptions that's been about it. Now that there's widespread fighting again, those slots seem to be going like hot cakes. Will this improve the quality of reporting after this is over? No way to know. Does it tell us something about the priorities of the media in Iraq? Sure. They really aren't that interested in the day-to-day activities of the US military unless they're engaged in open combat.

To: frankw1900 who wrote (38833)	4/10/2004 5:09:37 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793799

Outrage of the Day Canada paid for the mother and brother of an Al Qaeda terrorist leader to be flown from Pakistan to Toronto. Business class. Khadr mother, brother arrive in Canada. Maha Elsamnah Khadr and her 14-year-old son Karim landed at Pearson International Airport from Pakistan. Wearing a white veil covering most of her face, Maha Elsamnah said “I have no connections to al-Qaeda.” The Canadian government granted emergency passports to the two so Karim could receive medical treatment. ... Karim was paralysed in a shootout with Pakistani troops during a raid against an al-Qaeda stronghold along the Afghanistan border in the fall of 2003. His father, suspected al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Said Khadr, was killed in the raid. That’s not even the worst of it. The Khadr family has lost several passports. And Canada kept sending new ones. The elder Khadr’s widow and daughter have told CBC News they supported Ahmed Said and see him as a martyr. They have been trying for months to get Canadian travel documents so they could return to Canada. Ottawa has been reluctant to grant their requests because the Khadr family has lost several passports. Conservative foreign affairs critic Stockwell Day expressed outrage that Ottawa issued the emergency passports to Khadr family members. “They’ve been involved with the worst terrorist killer ... of innocent people around the world, which is Osama bin Laden and now we’re putting them in business class, bringing them here to Canada for the whole world to see,” he said.

To: frankw1900 who wrote (38833)	4/10/2004 5:51:09 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793799

Looks like you had better keep your mouth shut about those Al Qaeda relatives coming to Canada. PunditFilter - Champions of free speech, achtung! Canada continues down the road of voluntary totalitarianism with its new bill that makes it a crime "communicate statements in any public place" that "wilfully promote hatred against any identifiable group," including gays. It is expected to be signed this week by the Senate. So what exactly is considered hatred against an identifiable group? Moral disagreement? Public discourse on the dangers of such-and-such a group or their activities? Religious sermons derived from holy texts?