Monday, April 25, 2011

Morning Media Newsfeed 04.25.11

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WikiLeaks Discloses New Details On Whereabouts Of al-Qaeda Leaders On 9/11 (Washington Post)
On Sept. 11, 2001, the core of al-Qaeda was concentrated in a single city: Karachi, Pakistan. CNET / Privacy Inc.: A new classified data dump from WikiLeaks shines new light on the evidence, sometimes lacking, against the people that the U.S. government has held and is holding at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba. NYT: A trove of more than 700 classified military documents provides new and detailed accounts of the men who have done time at Guantánamo Bay and offers new insight into the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there. NYT: Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda bin Qumu was a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, judged "a probable member of al-Qaeda" by the analysts there. They concluded in a newly disclosed 2005 assessment that his release would represent a "medium to high risk, as he is likely to pose a threat to the United States, its interests, and allies." Today, Qumu, 51, is a notable figure in the Libyan rebels' fight to oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, reportedly a leader of a ragtag band of fighters known as the Darnah Brigade for his birthplace, this shabby port town of 100,000 people in northeast Libya. NYT: Said Mohammed Alam Shah, a 24-year-old Afghan who had lost a leg as a teenager, told interrogators at Guantánamo Bay that he had been conscripted by the Taliban as a driver before being detained in 2001. He had been caught, he said, as he tried to "rescue his younger brother from the Taliban." So in 2004, Shah was sent back to Afghanistan -- where he promptly revealed himself to be Abdullah Mehsud, a Pakistan-born militant, and began plotting mayhem.

At Last, Couric Is Expected To Say She's Leaving CBS (NYT / Media Decoder)
This week, Katie Couric is planning to acknowledge one of the worst-kept secrets in television: that she is leaving the CBS Evening News after five years. Then, as soon as she returns from London, where she will be anchoring the network's coverage of the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton Friday, CBS will announce her successor during the first week of May. Newsweek: Couric kept having a dark fantasy that one of the New York City buses with her face splashed along the side would run her over, completing her demise.

War, In Life And Death (NYT)
Tim Hetherington was a war photographer in every regard. Tall, brutally handsome, and modest, he had a British accent plucked from a Graham Greene novel and the body fat of a Diet Coke. Salon.com: Last Wednesday, my best friend, photographer Chris Hondros, died in a rocket-propelled grenade blast along with Hetherington, the acclaimed director of the Oscar-nominated film Restrepo. A week earlier, I had been in Libya with him. I was there only because Chris asked me to go. Newsweek: We depend on them for truth, for glimpses into human vileness, even as we cut their jobs and cut their space and treat their work as if it's the most disposable part of the ever-shrinking media. When photojournalists Hetherington and Hondros were killed last week in Libya, it made you furious. Newsweek: Tina Brown: The deaths of brave and brilliant photojournalists Hondros and Hetherington ripped the hearts of all those who care about bearing witness to the truth.
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