Wednesday
...with advance apologies to a certain nameless Reuters reporter who occasionally posts his own articles to the Samizdata.
This little gem was pointed out to us by Mathew Drachenberg on the hilarious satirical U Thant.com site (recommended). As you might know, Reuters have been heavily criticised for refusing to call Al Qaeda 'terrorists':
NEWSFLASH! 12:00PM 11/20/01
Reuters Journalists Die in Taliban Ambush
Reuters reports that "so-called murderers" may have "in the opinion of some Westerners, killed" individuals that "Reuters claims were journalists." Witnesses say that the journalists had no warning of the impending irony before the terrorists shot them.










