CAN’T KEEP HIM AWAY: Andrew Sullivan, ostensibly on vacation, weighs in on the BBC’s coverage of the arrest–in Baghdad–of Abu Abbas, the mastermind behind the Achille Lauro hijacking.
The version of the BBC article now online seems much toned down from the Reuters-ish equivocation that oozed out from the original draft of just a few hours ago. I’m actually surprised the BBC rewrote it that quickly, but I wonder if anybody has saved their first version.
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