Thursday, April 27, 2006

Another Case of Blame the Messenger

BellSouth - NEWS:

"CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Jazeera's Cairo bureau chief was released on $1,745 bail Thursday and charged with propagating lies with his reporting on this week's Sinai resort bombings, the pan-Arab satellite channel reported.

Hussein Abdel Ghani was detained on Wednesday evening in Dahab, the Sinai resort struck by three bombs on Monday that killed 21 people and wounded another 85.

He was transported to the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, questioned by state security prosecutors and accused of 'propagating false news that can disturb national security and cause chaos,' Al-Jazeera said."

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