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The Truth About Terrorism – Features

Experts fuel sensationalism

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By Moulana Ebrahim Bham

(source:Independent Newspapers)

The "terror plot" made front-page news. Iraqi authorities had arrested a Saudi citizen, Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani, for planned attacks against the Danish and Dutch teams at the World Cup.

Last week, when the US announced the arrest of Qahtani – who was by then wearing an orange prisoner jumpsuit – a military spokesman referred all questions to the Iraqi government. Soon, al-Qaeda and the description of a "militant" dominated the headlines. Qahtani’s issue was apparently still with the publication of controversial cartoons of Prophet Muhammad which appeared in the Dutch and Danish media in 2006.

When at least two bombs go off every day in Iraq, it seems amazing that security agencies failing to contain the insurgency in the beleaguered country were able to stump "a terror plot" targeting South Africa – thousands of kilometres away. But the reports were carried widely.

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Icty prosecutor to hold a press conference after Karadzic transfer

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The prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia will hold a press conference today following the transfer of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

Serge Brammertz would address journalists at the tribunal’s offices. Brammertz, who succeeded Carla Del Ponte as prosecutor at the beginning of the year, has rarely faced the media.

The 63-year-old Karadzic, arrested in Belgrade on Jul 21, was transferred to the tribunal’s detention unit in The Hague this morning to face charges over atrocities committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, which claimed 100,000 lives.

He faces charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, notably for the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995.

MRN-AFP

 

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