Don’t Deprive Sleep, Beat Instead!
The Reuters News story from Sunday, April 12 reporting on the U.S. Navy’s rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, “U.S. Navy rescues captain, kills Somali pirates”, was written by Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Guled.
Reuters also wanted us to know that additional reporting was provided by David Morgan and Randall Mikkelsen in Washington, Abdi Sheikh and Ibrahim Mohamed in Mogadishu, Jack Kimball, Celestine Achieng and Njuwa Maina in Mombasa, Andrew Cawthorne and Abdiaziz Hassan in Nairobi.
Other contributors to the dispatch were noted as “Writing by Paul Eckert; Editing by Chris Wilson”
Not knowing which of these geniuses was responsible for the following paragraph in the story, I’m going to hold them all responsible:
So far, pirates have generally treated hostages well, sometimes roasting goat meat for them and even passing phones round so they can call loved ones. The worst violence reported has been the occasional beating and no hostages are known to have been killed by pirates. (End of excerpt noting the kindness of the pirates.)
Maybe Reuters would have been less critical of President Bush over the years if in 2003 at Guantanamo we beat three terrorists with critical information on planned terrorists attacks against America instead of pouring a little water in their face and depriving them of a little sleep.
The Reuters News story from Sunday, April 12 reporting on the U.S. Navy’s rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, “U.S. Navy rescues captain, kills Somali pirates”, was written by Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Guled.
Reuters also wanted us to know that additional reporting was provided by David Morgan and Randall Mikkelsen in Washington, Abdi Sheikh and Ibrahim Mohamed in Mogadishu, Jack Kimball, Celestine Achieng and Njuwa Maina in Mombasa, Andrew Cawthorne and Abdiaziz Hassan in Nairobi.
Other contributors to the dispatch were noted as “Writing by Paul Eckert; Editing by Chris Wilson”
Not knowing which of these geniuses was responsible for the following paragraph in the story, I’m going to hold them all responsible:
So far, pirates have generally treated hostages well, sometimes roasting goat meat for them and even passing phones round so they can call loved ones. The worst violence reported has been the occasional beating and no hostages are known to have been killed by pirates. (End of excerpt noting the kindness of the pirates.)
Maybe Reuters would have been less critical of President Bush over the years if in 2003 at Guantanamo we beat three terrorists with critical information on planned terrorists attacks against America instead of pouring a little water in their face and depriving them of a little sleep.
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