NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, 5 June 2004 —
News reports suggest US troops will deploy to Saudi Arabia to “save” Saudi oil fields from “Al-Qaeda” attacks. And because “Al-Qaeda” militants killed an American there last Saturday.
Others died, too. Arabs, Indians, Italians, Filipinos, South Africans, Sri Lankans, Swedes, Egyptians, British....
But don’t forget that American. His presence in Saudi Arabia makes whatever happened there an attack on America, on democracy, on goodness, on...freedom.
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America’s news is so self-obsessed that if nuclear holocaust struck the Middle East today, America’s headlines would proclaim: “Nuclear Holocaust Strikes Middle East: American Killed.”
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Neocon News differs from professional, truth-based news reporting, last seen moments after the first plane struck the World Trade Center. Real news was not9 /11’s first casualty. But real news did die, somewhere between Afghanistan and Iraq.
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http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=46283&d=5&m=6&y=2004