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May 9, 2011
Osama's Death & The New York Times' Man in Libya
Moshe Phillips
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New York Times reporter Kareem Fahim has spent several weeks now in Libya
reporting on the civil war there from Benghazi. He contributed to the May 3
article " <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/middleeast/03arab.html>
In Arab World, Bin Laden's Confused Legacy" and depicted Libyan reaction to
Osama Bin Laden's death. The remarkable thing is that Fahim could not find a
single Libyan who would defend Bin Laden or attack America.
This is particularly amazing when it is recalled that Admiral James
Stavridis, NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, while testifying before
the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in late March reported
that there was significant al-Qaeda activity among the rebel groups in
Libya.
Fahim is a full-time Times reporter based in New York that the Times sent to
Libya to cover the conflict there. A quick review of Fahim's history
provides all the evidence needed to prove that he is not an objective
journalist but has very radical views on the War on Terror and related
issues. Did Fahim ignore anti-American/pro-al Qaeda remarks from Libyan
radicals on purpose?
Fahim previously attacked the Patriot Act and charged anti-terrorist
agencies in the U.S. with "racial profiling" in an article titled "Profiles
in Racism" in Amnesty International's Amnesty Magazine in the Winter 2003
edition. In the Amnesty
<http://www.amnestyusa.org/amnestynow/racial_profiling.html> article Fahim
drew an incomprehensible comparison between "driving while black" and post
September 11th anti-terrorism security measures.
Earlier in his career Fahim wrote for The Village Voice weekly tabloid. The
Voice's radical editorial stance on civil liberties, terrorism and Israel
related issues is well documented.
Just weeks after the 9/11 attacks, in
<http://www.villagevoice.com/content/printVersion/167409/> an article titled
"The Emir and His Lieutenant" about Al Qaeda, Fahim referred to the
terrorist organization simply as an "extremist group." Fahim's writings
include apologies for the terrorist network, such as the statement that "Bin
Laden and al-Zawahiri have seized on the desperation of the Arab world." He
also quoted a New York University professor who stated the following bit of
garbage: "The Islamists present a utopian vision."
But there are other questions about Fahim's background.
In 2000 <http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/494/people.htm> Fahim held a
position at the Cairo based weekly newspaper Al-Ahram.
<http://www.slate.com/id/2110126> Slate.com reported in 2004 that "Egypt's
Al Ahram Weekly (is) the English-language version of the regime's own media
organ." Fahim also wrote about Mubarak's downfall for The Times.
<http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/494/in4.htm> Even here, he demonstrated
his bias, treating the selection of Dick Cheney as George W. Bush's running
mate as a "summer surprise" that went against "the logic of positive
image-making." Fahim's biases are transparent.
Fahim is entitled to his opinions and he should not be blocked from a career
as a news reporter because of those opinions. However, the editors at The
New York Times have a responsibility to make sure the line between opinion
and news reporting remains definite if they chose to employ a radical like
Fahim.
<http://familysecuritymatters.org/> FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributor
Moshe Phillips is the president of the Philadelphia Chapter of Americans for
a Safe Israel / AFSI. The chapter's website is at:
<http://www.phillyafsi.com/> www.phillyafsi.com. Moshe's blog can be found
at <http://phillyafsi.blogtownhall.com/> http://phillyafsi.blogtownhall.com
and Moshe tweets at <http://twitter.com/MoshePhillips>
http://twitter.com/MoshePhillips.
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