Today was the 5th anniversary of the USS Cole attack - did you notice?
Most likely not. The media glosses over, hell, forgets that which won’t bring down the Bush administration (these days).
Yet here we are - 5 years later.
Malkin writes of this extensively.
Too many of us were blind in 2000 — unable or unwilling or simply too uninterested to connect such blood-stained dots as al Qaeda’s 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings, the 1998 African embassy bombings, and the attack on the Cole. After Sept. 11, 2001, all of our eyes should have been pried wide open to the evils of Muslim extremism that exist among us in both organized and freelance form.
The watchdogs in the national press, however, insist on clouding our vision.
Since 9/11, I’ve reported on the media’s reluctance to highlight the convicted Washington, D.C.-area snipers’ Islamist proclivities and journalists’ refusal to call Egyptian gunman Hesham Hadayet’s acts of murder at the Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002, “terrorism.”
Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes noted how quickly the media sought to whitewash the bloody bus-hijacking by Croatian illegal alien Damir Igric a month after 9/11. Although the incident “echoed similar attacks by Palestinians on Israeli buses,” Pipes observed, the “media attributed the violence to post-traumatic stress syndrome.”
National Guardsman Ryan Anderson (a.k.a. Amir Talhah), a Muslim convert who allegedly attempted to pass sensitive military information to al Qaeda over the Internet, rated barely a blip on the media radar screen.
Similarly, press accounts have downplayed the disruption of terrorist cells on American soil: The Lackawanna Six were just nice Muslim boys led astray. The Virginia Jihad Network was just a group of weekend paintball enthusiasts. Those indicted imams in Lodi, Calif., are just misunderstood “moderates.” Terror suspects deported on immigration charges are just victims of discrimination.
Now, many of my readers wonder why the MSM won’t touch the strange and troubling story of the University of Oklahoma bomber, Joel Henry Hinrichs III…
Speaking of the media ignoring stuff…….. Jack Kelly asks:
“A tree near the detonation site exhibits numerous small round holes that look like those that would be made by a ball bearing or a nailhead, both of which are routinely used by Middle Eastern terrorist bombers,” said Tapscott, who works for the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. The holes were only on the side of the tree facing the bench where Hinrichs was seated.
The FBI found more explosives in the apartment Hinrichs shared with a Pakistani student, Fazil Cheema. The apartment is a couple of blocks from the mosque where “20th hijacker” Zacarias Moussaoui worshipped when he was attending flight school in Norman.
The FBI also reportedly found Islamist literature and a ticket to Algeria in the apartment, but journalists can’t confirm this, because the FBI has had the search warrant sealed, something not typically done in cases of suspected suicide.
The FBI found 13 plastic bottles in Hinrichs’ car.
Well, there you are. 5 years ago, Muslim punks in Yemen attacked a US Man o’ War. We did little. Fast forward to the modern day - a Muslim punk offs himself by accident outside a stadium with 80k people inside, and we do next to nothing that anyone tell.
We. Never. Learn. Nor. Remember.
EDIT: The Counterterrorism Blog has more info on the fool at OU.