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Dear readers: U.S. media are carrying out a vicious media blitz about the woman who allegedly bombed one of the Amman, Jordan hotels.
Please send them letters of protest without delay. Below are two sample letters which we have already sent. You can use one of these.
Here are some addresses to which these should be sent:
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RE: Alleged female bomber's video shown on CNN/FOX/MSNBC on November 13 and 14.
Dear Producer
Are we now going to have "confessions of enemies of the state" on our media which we used to think belonged only to the darkest days of Stalin's USSR?
Your presentation of the alleged woman bomber from Amman, Jordan, raises serious questions of journalistic ethics, human rights and international law.
You obviously have no evidence that the woman you exhibited is the alleged bomber. In that case you have given yourself the liberty to accept a Jordanian propaganda video as fact. It might be a complete fake.
In case she is the actual bomber, she is a prisoner of war or an alleged terrorist. In any case she is a prisoner. Why should she be brought on TV? It's against the rules of war. You have always expressed shock at American POWs and captives being brought on video or TV by their captors. Now you are violating your own principles.
If her "confession" was made under torture, it would mean that you have no compunction about bringing tortured prisoners to your screen. The woman was obviously parroting the horror story she had been ordered to repeat, to put herself in the worst possible light.
You did not remind your audience that the video was not your production but a Jordanian propaganda instrument which you reproduced without critical comment. Thus you are endorsing the murderous tyranny of King Abdullah of Jordan and all the crimes he has committed against his own people.
Try to report honestly on the Amman bombing. The whole world knows by now that the bombing targeted a top level meeting of U.S.-Israeli-Jordanian intelligence organizations. Till now you have not mentioned the name of the top intelligence officer who was killed in the bombing although he has been mentioned by name 3000 miles away in Pakistani newspapers. You are lagging far behind "third world" news agencies.
You owe your readers an apology for reproducing a propaganda video without any qualifying comments. I won't be surprised if the video was quickly contrived by Israeli intelligence. You have previously shown videos produced by Israelis of Palestinian children "suicide bombers" in their custody.
Sincerely
Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
Associate Professor of English
410-638-5965
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Dear Producer"
With western tourism being Jordan's biggest money maker, it would stand to reason that King Abdullah would want to give the impression that Jordan is on top of the hotel suicide bombings. However, obvious questions loom and apparently rules of ethics have been shelved---not only by Jordan, but by the American media, as well.
I am not surprised on Jordan's part. What I find distressing is the American media's rush to air Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi?s confession. I can't help wondering if this confession was coerced. Given the reported treatment of those detained in Middle Eastern countries, this would be my first suspicion. How is it that Jordan was able to target this woman so quickly? She was purported to be dressed in festive attire as was everyone around her.
Further, American media surely must notice how quickly these acts lead to a roundup of suspects. Aren't they just a tiny bit skeptical? To the contrary, the American media seem eager to discard the very conventions of journalism and fair treatment that they would want accorded to their own citizens. They would not want an American detainee paraded before television cameras to spout what may very well be a coerced confession.
The disgraced Bernard Kerik, former New York City police commissioner, asserts that the bombing was a clear demonstration of Zarqawi's hatred not for Americans, but for his own people.
Could his statements, as well as the American media's complicity with the Jordanian government's rush to air this woman?s confession, serve the same motives? Calm westerners down and get them back to the Hyatt, the Radisson, and the Best Western to spend their western dollars, as quickly as possible.
Sincerely,
Karen English
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