Thursday, January 13, 2005

No bias here, just keep moving along.....

According to a news article by AFP a tragedy occurred in the Gaza Strip. This is not in question. Now let's say you had two versions of events.

This one:

"The vehicle was speeding towards the force, seemingly about to carry out some form of attack," added the (Israeli - ed.) source. "The IDF (army) opened fire and the vehicle veered off the road and crashed.

"They were were specifically deterrent warning shots fired at open field and not at the car."


And this one:

However Mahmud al-Asali, director of the Beith Lahiya hospital, said that Hassuna died of fatal gunshot injuries.

"He was shot in the right eye and the bullet exited from the back of the brain. There were no scratches to show that he had been in an accident," he told AFP.

His wife sustained a bullet wound in the hand while the second passenger was slighly injured by a gunshot wound to the leg, Asali added.


Keeping in mind both of these accounts and without any comment that the reporter was able to verify either one, you as the AFP editor choose to go with:

PALESTINIAN SHOT DEAD IN GAZA WHILE DRIVING PREGNANT WIFE TO HOSPITAL

And did I mention this from an Australian account of the incident which is nearly identical to the AFP report except for a minor detail?

Some reports say the woman is not his wife but is his neighbour.

I don't mean to be skeptical here, but could the dead man have been declared a "martyr" so as not to have been known as an adulterer or helper of an unmarried pregnant woman? Just curious.




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