thinkprogress.org — Reports that al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri has been killed are "unconfirmed and part of a misinformation campaign," ABC News reports. Also, there were very similar suspicious circumstances at the time of the last reports on al-Masri being seriously injured.
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markcicconeMay 1, 2007
Olbermann's report "The Nexus of Politics and Terror" highlights the Bush administration's history of using disinformation campaigns to shift attention from controversies or scandals on their part<a class="user" href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/08/14/olbermann-the-nexus-of-politics-and-terror/">http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/08/14/olbermann-the-nexus-of-politics-and-terror/</a>
leviathan777May 1, 2007
No big surprise. Even that stooge from DHS, Tom Ridge, admitted after leaving that terrorist alerts had been trumped up to fit the Bush/Rove needs for throwing a monkey wrench into a problematic news cycle.In other words, all those terrorist alerts that seemed to come exactly whenever the administration was trying to sell fear or distract attention from a negative news story? Yeah, largely bulls**t. Probably a story there, but half the time it was either a) old news, and wasn't newsworthy when it happened or b) somewhere between exaggerated and premature.Who knows how many real terrorist investigations and real campaigns against Al Qaeda these fools have sacrificed in the name of P.R.