Aug. 2, 2006: MSM mendacity by omission

The link above is to the video.

What the?, Stephen Taylor, Jul. 27, 06
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000638.html

[....] According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (CSS), senior UNRWA employee Nahed Rashid Ahmed Attalah confessed to using his official U.N. vehicle to bypass security and smuggle arms, explosives, and terrorists to and from attacks. He was in charge of distributing food supplies to Palestinian refugees. Nidal 'Abd al-Fataah 'Abdallah Nizal, a Hamas activist, worked as an UNRWA ambulance driver and admitted he had used an emergency vehicle to transport munitions to terrorists.

The ambulances-for-terrorists scandal -- with video , article by Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review June 2, 2004, video from Reuters shot May 11, 2004 Jewish World Review
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle
/malkin_ambulances_for_terrorists.php3

[....] AccessMiddleEast.org, a nonprofit global news monitoring service, posted the video (shot by a Reuters TV cameraman) on its Web site .... To date, Access Middle East managing director Richard Bardenstein in Israel informs me, not a single U.S. television news station has expressed interest in showing the footage to American viewers.

Why should we care? Because since 1950, the U.S. has provided UNRWA with $2.5 billion in taxpayer subsidies — about one-third of the relief agency's total budget. And because instead of investigating this latest black eye-inducing scandal, the U.N. is [....]

U.N. vehicles aren't the only ones being used by terrorists. An intensive care ambulance carrying the acronym of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) was used to deliver an explosive belt found underneath a stretcher on which a sick child was lying in spring 2002. Female suicide bomber Wafa Idris, who blew herself up in a January 2002 attack in Jerusalem, was a medical secretary for the PRCS. Her recruiter was an ambulance driver for the same organization. PRCS receives financial support from governments and organizations around the world, including the American Red Cross and International Committee of the Red Cross. [....]

To view the video that the networks refuse to run
e.tln0.com/ame/archives/reuters_UN_amblulances_11_may_04.wmv

See also, Stop terrorists' vehicle of choice, by Alan M. Dershowitz
jewishworldreview.com/0304/dershowitz_terror_ambulances.php3