I mentioned this observation from The Belmont Club earlier, in reference to the two NYT reporters who were “captured” and released – he now has three such stories that suggest a special forces unit is targeting western journalists in a disinformation campaign. Not coalition special forces – someone elses’.
A team from a writer or newspaper respected by conservatives is captured on the road. The journalists are taken to a picturesque location where they are first greeted with hostility, then granted surprising liberty. A sense of shared danger bonds them with their captors. Scenes are provided to lend color. Due to a surprising coincidence, the captured journalists stumble on information every Western intelligence agency wants to know. The preparations to defend the Golden Mosque, the fate of the missing German counterterrorism agents. Then, as quickly as they were captured, they are released. Not for them is the long and slow incarceration of Terry Waite, but a hearty goodbye, encumbered only by the promise that they will tell the world the truth, on their word as Americans or Englishmen.
Justifiable homicide
Why do people live in America when they hate it so much?