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Tim McVeigh killed 167 people in Oklahoma City but his name was "Tim," not "Nidal" so ...
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10 June, 2002
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in New York and
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in Jerusalem
Ted Turner, the billionaire
founder of CNN, accuses Israel
today of engaging in “terror-
ism” against the Palestinians,
in comments that threaten to
lead to a further decline in the
news network’s already poor
relations with the Jewish state.
“Aren’t the Israelis and the
Palestinians both terrorising
each other?” says Mr Turner,
who is vice-chairman of AOL
Time Warner, which owns
CNN, in an exclusive interview
with the Guardian.
“The Palestinians are fight-
ing with human suicide
bombers, that’s all they have.
The Israelis ... they've got one
of the most powerful military
machines in the world. The
in in Washington
A TOP Vatican official accused ‘the
American media of persecuting the
Roman Catholic Church over paedophile
priests yesterday, but even as he did so a
Washington Post survey laid bare the
extent of the scandal.
“The US media appears to act with a
fury that reminds me at times of Diocle-
tian and Nero and more recently of Sta-
lin and Hitler,” said Cardinal Oscar
Rodriguez Maradiaga, a Honduran who
is widely tipped as a possible successor
to Pope John Paul.
Most American press coverage of the
recent paedophile scandal was “obvi-
ously and openly anti-Catholic,” he told
the Italian magazine, Trente Giorni, and
accused The New York Times, the Wash-
ington Post, the Boston Globe and Ted
Turner, the founder of CNN, of hound-
ing the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Maradiaga suggested that the
American media were motivated by a
desire to attack the Catholic Church
because it opposes abortion, capital pun-
ishment and euthanasia while support-
ing a Palestinian homeland.
The Post, meanwhile, released an
important survey showing that the num-
ber of priests accused of sex abuse was
much higher than previously disclosed.
It found that 218 Catholic priests from
defrocked.
At least 850 priests have been accused
of sexual misconduct with minors since
the 1960s.
The Post, which said that the actual
figures could be much higher, compiled
the survey by contacting each of Ameri-
ca’s 178 Catholic dioceses. It said that the
Church itself had made no real effort to
conduct a similar survey in order to find
Palestinians have nothing. So
who are the terrorists? I would
make a case that both sides are
involved in terrorism.”
His remarks were last night
condemned by Arie] Sharon’s
government, which called
them “stupid”. Andrea Levin,
director of the American pro-
Israeli media watchdog Cam-
era, said the comments were a
“reprehensible” attempt to
“blur the line between perpe-
trator and victim”.
In his first British interview
since the September 11 attacks,
Mr Turner — who broke phil-
anthropic records in 1997 when
he donated $1bn to the UN —
argues that poverty and des-
peration are the root cause of
Palestinian suicide bombings.
But Daniel Seaman, a
spokesman for the Israeli gov-
ernment, said: “My only advice
to Ted Turner is if people
The
CNN founder accuses Israel of terror
assume you are stupid, it is
just best to keep your mouth
shut rather than open your
mouth and confirm everyone
in that view.”
Mr Turner also admits that
he was wrong to call the Sep-
tember 11 hijackers “brave” ina
speech in Rhode Island that
sparked outrage. “I made an
unfortunate choice of words,”
he says, adding that his owner-
ship of the Atlanta Braves base-
ball team meant the word was
never far from his mind. “Look,
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read them off the teleprompter,
you know. I wing it.”
Mr Turner is moved to tears
at one point in the interview
by the “depressing” combina-
tion of conflicts like that in
the Middle East and the state
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