The lead story on all major UK news websites—BBC , Guardian, The Independent—details the murder by a US bomb of 47 Afghan civilians, including 39 women and children, at a wedding party Sunday, after being mistaken for Taliban. Meanwhile, the NYT, WaPost, and LA Times ignore the story. Why?
The Times will run a story a day about the resurgent Taliban but won’t give front page coverage to 39 dead women and children? Civilian death is major rallying and recruitment cause for the Taliban. This should be front page news.
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July 15th, 2008 at 11:02 am
[...] 47 mostly women and children. The base was less than a kilometer from the bomb site. (I noted here that the entire UK press was covering that story as the US media ignored it.) “Insurgents have [...]