Useful Fools

BBS Reports the death of terrorist Abu Abbas as:

Abbas: Palestinian Throwback

Throwback? I guess this means that Palestinians have abandoned terror? No, it means that they just target Israelis now.

BBC has a clear agenda in this article: to discredit the idea that Saddam had been harboring international terrorists. In all but the BBC’s alternate universe, of course, Abbas was an international terrorist. Hence they had to mangle principles of clear writing to avoid labeling him a terrorist.

His capture in Baghdad in April 2003 was used by the United States as evidence that Iraq had been harboring international terrorists, and his detention an example to others in the post-11 September, post-Saddam climate.

Turning a blind eye to anyone who has a record like his - and his group did murder an elderly, disabled man - was not an option for a US administration.
It would have been much easier to say “Turning a blind eye to this terrorist.” They also fail to mention that the “elderly, disabled man” was murdered because he was a Jew, instead quoting Abbas’ excuse that “he was inciting and provoking other passengers”
He came from a different era.
Really?
But he was not quite the big catch in the the[sic] Americans were seeking for their “war on terror”.
This is an attack on the US war on terror, otherwise unrelated to the story. Note the scare quotes. As an aside, note the poor editing.
He ended up in Baghdad because there was nowhere else for this aging militant or terrorist leader to go.
Well, at least they proved they can spell “terrorist”, but which is it, BBC: “militant” or “terrorist?” Political correctness forced this strained construction.

Another Palestinian, Abu Nidal, the most famous in his day for acts of extremist violence and a man who rejected any settlement with Israel, also ended up in Baghdad.

The proper appellation is terrorist, you BBC twits!