Washington Post: Busted Again for Biased Reporting

Pakistanis Say Airstrike Killed Al Qaeda Figures

By Kamran Khan and Griff Witte
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, January 19, 2006; Page A16

KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 19 -- A senior al Qaeda operative and a son-in-law of the group's deputy leader, Ayman Zawahiri, were among those killed in a U.S. airstrike in an area along the Afghan border last week, Pakistani sources said Thursday.

"Our intelligence agencies have received new information that has confirmed the death of several senior al Qaeda operatives in Bajur Friday morning," a Pakistani federal minister said on condition of anonymity. "We'll soon go on the record with an official statement, but some confirmations are awaited."

A senior Pakistani intelligence official who also spoke on condition of anonymity said Pakistan had received convincing reports Wednesday confirming that at least three al Qaeda operatives were killed, including Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, who uses the alias Abu Khabab al-Masri. The United States has posted a $5 million bounty for the reputed training camp leader and expert in explosives and poisons.

The intelligence official also said Abdul Rahman Maghribi, the son-in-law of Zawahiri, was killed. Maghribi was believed to have been al Qaeda's chief of propaganda for the region. A key operative in Afghanistan's Konar province, Abu Ubayida Misri, also died, the official said.

U.S. military sources declined to comment on the identities of the victims of Friday's attack, which was carried out by the CIA using a Predator drone and killed at least 13 people, including women and children.

If the Post and its reporters had any integrity and any self-respect they would apologize for their effort to smear the White House in their report of the 15th. You will notice, however the complete absence of any mention or even oblique reference to their previous article. It's as if they expect us to simply forget their pitiful, slanted, report. The Post is suffering from a declining readership, and this kind of ethical failure is directly responsible to a large part of that decline. I guess they expect congratulations for even reporting this new information. Even in reporting a direct contradiction to their report of the 15th, they can't help closing with a parting shot.

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