Half a Story
We ran this AP story:
But of course we didn't run this context, because the AP glossed over it in the very last paragraph, and of course the story gets trimmed for space well before that.
And, of course, with no mention of anything about the Army medic that Khadr's is said to have killed.
Attorneys representing an 18-year-old Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay — accused of killing an American soldier — claimed he was tortured by U.S. interrogators Wednesday, while his weeping mother pleaded for his release.
But of course we didn't run this context, because the AP glossed over it in the very last paragraph, and of course the story gets trimmed for space well before that.
Following Khadr’s capture, his sister said the death of Sgt. 1st Class Christopher J. Speer was no "big deal". His mother, who said she would rather see her sons at al-Qaeda training camps than "be on drugs or having some homosexual relation" in Canada, insulted some Canadians.
Yesterday, Mrs. Khadr let her lawyer do the talking by reading a statement that asked "every Canadian mother and father to help me get justice for my son and bring him home."
Reporters wanted to know why Canadians should care about her son’s plight in consideration of her family’s open disdain for the West and their close ties to terrorism.
And, of course, with no mention of anything about the Army medic that Khadr's is said to have killed.
He applied a tourniquet to one child and bandaged the other, they said. Then he stopped a passing military truck to take the wounded children to a U.S. Army field hospital.
Speer saved those children, his colleagues said.
