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Jihad Journalism: Detroit News' Fabricated Terrorism "Reporting"
From Dhimmi Watch:"Former Terrorism Suspect is Deported: Moroccan . . . Was Forced to Leave," screamed a sympathetic headline in Gannett's Detroit News, last week. Problem is, the deportation of alleged Detroit terror cell member Ahmed Hannan never happened. Hannan is still here. And other details in the apocryphal article by Detroit News reporter David Shepardson were also wrong or made-up. The May 3, 2005 article claimed that Hannan—who planned to blow up U.S. tourist sites and a U.S. Air Force Base in Turkey—was deported two weeks before the article ran. Yet, he's still here. The article also reported that Hannan's teeth were knocked out in a jailhouse fight, "last month." But the fight happened on February 10, 2005, three months ago. Had Shepardson done the least amount of real reporting —ie., fact-checking with the jail and the federal government, in whose custody Hannan remains—he would have discovered the truth. But Shepardson relied exclusively on alleged terrorist Hannan's lawyer, Jim Thomas, for the entire story, and never checked a thing. (By the way, the sob-story Detroit News headline about Hannan being "Forced to Leave"? Hannan pled guilty to a federal crime. Should he be allowed to stay?) Why is David Shepardson's phony story cause for concern? Because Shepardson is The Detroit News' primary reporter on the domestic War on Islamic Terror, in the heart of Islamic America. He is the News' primary reporter on Federal law enforcement, the Justice Department, and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit. His stories get picked up and run all over America via the Gannett News Service wire. Posted by: 3dc 2005-05-17 |
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