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2 questions about the yousef op-ed

Just before I wrote about an op-ed in today's NYT by Ahmed Yousef. The op-ed raises two questions.

1) Last year, when the Washington Post ran an op-ed by Ismail Haniyeh, Meryl Yourish correctly deduced that someone else likely wrote the op-ed for him. A news report later confirmed that Haniyeh did, indeed, have American help. So who helped his advisor write the op-ed today?

2) While searching for something else, I came across the same essay at the Guardian. The NYT, however, requires that all submissions - whether op-eds or letters to the editor be exclusive. So did Yousef (or his ghostwriter) violate the policy of the Times? Or did the Times re-publish the work intentionally? If it did, why doesn't it acknowledge that it originally came from the Guardian?

hamas, media.

Posted by SoccerDad at June 20, 2007 8:06 AM