Last year the Guardian ran an editorial by Saad al-Faqih and identified him merely as “a leading exiled Saudi dissident and director of the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia.” As this post at Harry’s Place revealed, al-Faqih is known to have purchased one of the satellite phones used in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing in Nairobi. He is on a UN list of known al-Qaeda associates. The Guardian failed to inform its readers of this.
Fast forward to today. The Washington Post runs an op-ed by Mousa Abu Marzook of Hamas, appealing to the world community for support of a new Palestinian gov’t. Here’s the bio at the end of the piece:
The writer is deputy political bureau chief of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). He has a U.S. doctorate in engineering and was indicted in the United States in 2004 as a co-conspirator on racketeering and money-laundering charges in connection with activities on behalf of Hamas dating to the early 1990s, before the organization was placed on the list of terrorist groups. He was deported to Jordan in 1997.
That’s how it’s done.
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