American Press Corps Again Misses The Target In C.I.A. Bombing Investigation | NewsReal Blog

American Press Corps Again Misses The Target In C.I.A. Bombing Investigation | NewsReal Blog: "I just can not stay away from the story of the December 30 suicide bombing at a C.I.A. base in Khost, Afghanistan, which killed seven American C.I.A. agents, injured six others, and killed al-Balawi’s “handler” Sharif Ali bin-Zeid, a Captain in the Jordanian intelligence service. Maybe there’s still some police detective left in me, even nearly eight years after retirement.

The bomber, Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi (photo above from AP file), was a physician and known Jordanian al-Qaeda operative, recruited by the Jordanian government to assist in the C.I.A.’s hunt for Usama din-Laden’s number one henchman, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The six questions a competent criminal or journalistic investigation should answer are Who, What, When, Where, How and Why. There has been considerable media follow-up to the particulars of where, and how this attack happened, and who did it. We know it happened on December 30, 2009.

But once again, ladies and gentlemen, our Press Corps has abjectly and through willful ignorance missed the big target painted on the side of the barn. What continues to be absent from news coverage of this story is any journalistic curiosity, investigation, understanding or explanation of the underlying motivation, the Why, for attacks like the bombing in Khost. The glaring media omission of one word has been pointed out innumerable times in the writings of Mark Steyn, Hugh Fitzgerald, and Frank Gaffney. I am going to point it out again. The Why that never gets covered is the word Islam."