Me entero a través de Relapsed Catholic de que:
“With all of the reporters covering the story, however, it appears that no one did any research into the background of the Hassan family, or made any attempts to verify the young man’s story. If they had, they might have been compelled to ask some very basic — but extremely important questions…”
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“…research and investigation into Dr. Redha Hassan found that he was arrested by the FBI in 1985 for forging 2000 Iraqi passports and military I.D. cards and seeking to forge 2,000 more….”
Todos los periódicos concentrados en decir “qué chico más bueno que se ve a hacer acciones humanitarias y es musulmán”, pero resulta que se padre fue arrestado por el FBI en 1985 por falsificar 2000 pasaportes iraquíes y tarjetas militares y buscaba falsificar 2000 más.
Sin embargo, sobre el asunto tiene más información Michelle Malkin. A través de su blog nos enteramos de que:
His excuse for facilitating his son’s trip into a war zone was that if he didn’t let him go, it would have left an emotional scar. What a sensitive father, willing to risk his son’s being cut ear to ear just to save him from disappointment.
O sea le deja ir a un sitio extremadamente peligroso no vaya a ser que al chico se le produjera una “herida emocional”.
Cuando se detuvo al Dr Hassan, se detuvo a más meimbros de su familia:
The doctor’s capture happened in Fort Lauderdale, but the covert web of Hassan’s cohorts stretched across the world. Also arrested were two of Hassan’s brothers, Nouri and Ali, and a “pro-Khomeini” activist named Salah Jawad Schubber.
Pero sin duda lo mejor es que el chico ha concedido una entrevista para la MSNBC y esto es lo que dijo:
[…]In it, he basically admitted that his father knew about his travel plans and offered that, while in Lebanon, he’d visited the offices of the Islamist group Hezbollah, which has carried out countless terrorist acts.
“With each group of persons I immersed myself, I changed my persona,” he told interviewer Rita Cosby. “When I was with Christians, I told them that I was a Lebanese Christian, an American Christian, and my name was Jason.
“And when I met with the Hezbollah leader… I told [him] that I work for a school newspaper and that I wanted to show Americans that Hezbollah is, in fact, a good organization that’s fighting for the Shiite people in Lebanon.”
So the kid’s a chameleon and, apparently, a born liar. I wonder what role he was playing while immersed with Rita Cosby. Oh yeah, it was the idealistic rich American boy who played hooky from school to promote democracy.
Lo que es lo mismo: que el padre parecía conocer sus proyectos de viaje y que cambiaba su personalidadsegún con quién estaba: si estaba con cristianos, era un cristiano americano, “de nombre Jason”, pero si estaba con el líder de Hizbolá -cómo consiguió hablar con el íder, ejem- decía “que trabajaba para un periódico escolar y que quería mostrar a los americnaos que Hizbolá es, en realidad, una buena organización que está luchando por la gente chiíta del Líbano”.
Lo que no estoy tan segura es de que haya que considerarlo como un potencial agente de la CIA. No creo que fuera nada fiable…