Sun Sets
NY Daily News: The Sun Sets on the New York Sun. Founded six years ago as a conservative alternative to the New York Times, the Sun has fallen victim to the credit crunch, never made a profit and can’t raise the money it needs to keep going.
Too Bad. Eli Lake and others at The Sun have done a great job on al Qaeda, Iran and their enablers among our own pols and media. Hopefully Eli will keep doing it elsewhere. Lake’s latest, Bin Laden’s son makes return to Pakistan, suggests an interesting al-Qaeda move and discusses Iranian-al-Qaeda cooperation in Iraq and elsewhere. (heads up, Obama).
Osama bin Laden’s son and heir apparent, Sa’ad bin Laden, has returned to Pakistan from his safe haven in Iran, according to messages posted on a Qaeda jihad Web forum known as al-Hesbah.
An organization that tracks and translates discussions on such forums, the SITE Institute, provided its subscribers with a summary of messages describing what it said was an escape by Sa’ad bin Laden from an Iranian prison. American counterterrorism officials, however, have considered him to be under a permissive version of house arrest since the American invasion of Afghanistan, in 2001.
The move of Sa’ad bin Laden to Pakistan tracks with the movements of other senior jihadists to the country since Al Qaeda re-established a safe haven in the 10,500-square-mile area that comprises the provinces along the border with Afghanistan.
It also could signal a new phase of Iran’s relationship with Al Qaeda. For the last year, public messages from the terrorist organization’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, have accused Iran of collaborating with America in fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq. Leaders of the Iraqi tribal uprising against Al Qaeda, however, have said Iran has collaborated with their foes.
Here’s Eli Lake’s archive at The Sun going back to June.
Down memory lane, Sunlight, Lake reflected and reflected upon here and elsewhere:
WaPo to Congress: Stop Being Stupid, You Morons
Another Mass Gift to the World includes a link to a Sun editorial on Barney Frank’s accession that is kind of interetsing in retrospect
What higher praise than the impotent, semi-literate opprobrium of the Nutsroots Pennysaver?
Atlas Shrugs’ Pamela interviews Eli Lake in January 2007. What about Iran? Six-minute encyclopedic current events rant follows. (”I hope this isn’t too technical, Pamela.” “My people love technical … Eli, you know that you rock my world … You rock, bayby!”) YouTube. Atlas Shrugs on the bad news here.
Here Lake, running contra to expectations, does some triangulation as he tries to figure out what an Obama counter-terrorism policies and practices would look like. No Jimmy Carter, concludes Lake, in The New Republic of all places. And here he is, via Ragged Thots, offering a conservative defense of the NYT’s NSA wiretap reporting in 2006.
Topics: al qaeda, deep thot, hated Crusaders, media
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:27 pm on Monday, September 29, 2008
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